Is it worth it to upgrade from a 1080ti to a 2080ti?

[TheMickeyMoose]

Is the upgrade worth it or would it be better to wait for the next cards at this point? I play at 1440p at 165hz, is the ray tracing stuff worth the money?

[Tiberius]

Worth is very subjective. If money is not a problem for you, then yes.

The first RTX-supported game that impress me is control. You really should check it out

[hawkeye]

Wait. Nvidia announced the rtx cards in September last year at a gaming conference in Germany, so they might announce some new cards like a 2080ti super in the near future, which might be better value.

As for ray-tracing, if the games that you play don't implement it then it isn't worth the money.

[Azza ☠]

The RTX 2080Ti is worthwhile as a single card which can do UltraHD 4K. So if you are considering upgrading to 4K with HDR and G-SYNC, such as the Acer Predator X27 or Asus ROG Swift PG27UQ monitor. So treat it as an upgrade path.

Consider it instead of purchasing another GTX 1080 Ti in SLI. RTX 2080 = 2x GTX 1080 in performance... so you might get a bit more out of games with the GTX 1080 Ti in SLI (but that will depend on the game). Also consider heat and noise levels, motherboard PCI-e slots available, plus your PSU (power supply unit) to support it.

A single GTX 1080Ti should already be fine for 1440p resolution as very high settings. If your monitor is a high-end one with G-SYNC, then it should already be butter smooth. You won't notice much of a difference.

ps: The GTX 1080Ti already has ray-tracing support, just update it's drivers. It's however software, rather than hardware based... so it's just the matter of performance between them (The RTX series can do it 3 to 10 times faster).

pss: HDR is a bigger leap forward than Ray tracing, when they are together it's a much better experience. HDR requires the monitor to support it. This adds a huge impact to deeper and more pure colours, ideal for horrors (dark blacks) and adventures (bright light rays).

[Kaihekoa]

Wait for ray tracing to mature unless you have nothing better to do with your money.

[Monk]

I have both cards and, I'd say it's not worth the upgrade, the 1080ti is still a beast.

Instead of replacing my 1080tis with a new pair of 2080ti's I used the cash to build a couch rig with a single 2080ti instead and, honestly, now having a couch rig and a main gaming setup is worth way more than the 30% gain I'd of got replacing the 1080ti's.

If you do go ahead though, stick with founders cards, the extra £400 I spent on a an evga ftw3 ultra really wasn't worth it this time.

[_I_]

1080ti should be ok for 1440p 144hz gaming
lower video settings, if you cant hit 144+fps its cpu limited

[ThatzYoAzz]

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

[Tiberius]

Publicado originalmente por ThatzYoAzz™:

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

https://youtu.be/e_vFCmv9KZ4

[Monk]

Publicado originalmente por ThatzYoAzz™:

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

We like high fps as the animation is far smoother and, yes, in highly competitive games it does indeed offer an advantage if the person is good enough to take advantage is another question.

Your friend won't be maxing out alot of new big games at 4k on a 2080 without alot of fps drops or sub 60fps and if you drop settings, you might as well drop resolution instead.

Yes 4k looks better than 1440p, however, the drop in fps is to big of a trade off as once you are used to higher fps (on a capable screen) then 60 does seem a bit janky at times and in a game where you are always moving around, 1440p doesn't look much worse than 4k, especially on the average size monitor.

[Ogami]

Publicado originalmente por ThatzYoAzz™:

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

Congratulations, this is now officially the dumbest post i ever read in the Hardware forum.
Clap* Clap* Clap*

A glowing achievement for sure.

[ThatzYoAzz]

by all means keep supporting the "master race" and keep it the great con that its become...frames sell computers not win games...that your precision mouse aiming that isnt meant for shooter games but menu's and point n click...yea of course taking advantage of mouse aiming is gonna need more frames BECAUSE U SPIN FASTER THAN IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE! DUH! ill take that honor as the "dumbest post" because it wont be till later that you realize how stupid you sounded...please enlighten me on all your expert years at gaming...ive put more time sleeping in my life than most of you got on video games...but please break it down for me...there are so many more people that can use a mouse for shooter games because its so sensitive...i guarantee u grab a controller and ill show u real aiming skill...not basically auto aim on a mouse then ramp up the speed of the frame rate so u can spin even faster and u call that skill...no wonder this world is screwed up...any REAL gamer will tell you shooting with a mouse makes it too easy and unrealistic...but i know because its a game u can do whatever you like to make it as easy as possible so u can all brag about your amazing skill...that only works under a very specific set of circumstances...Ive forgotten more about video games than the majority of you know...i bet if you played baseball you'd use steroids...anything for a competitive edge so u can brag about "your skill" that u only have when using certain things

[Monk]

Well, you've shown you don't know much.
The majority of competitive gamers use very low dpi and sensitivity, not high, so they don't spin round super fast unless they move their whole arm fast several times.

To that point a decent mouse is accurate and can track the fast and precise movements needed.

Controllers are the ones with auto aim as they lack the required precision of a mouse.

Higher fps on a capable monitor looks nicer than lower, that's a fact, animations are smoother, it's also proven that it does offer a competitive advantage, so, sure, people will use it the same was as in any competitive pass time people will use any legal advantage they can, then you get the few tools who cheat, be it drugs or hacks.

Of course you have slept for longer than most have played games, I mean, no ♥♥♥♥, you likely sleep 8 hours a day for every day you've been alive,, what a daft statement.

So far you have displayed a lack of knowledge about gaming or hardware, so you must of forgot.... Everything?

Edit.
No wonder you don't like high fps, you've never seen it using a 1080 at 4k.

[Autumn_]

Publicado originalmente por ThatzYoAzz:

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

For starters, you're just plain wrong.
The majoirty of people that want 2080tis want them for 4k60fps.

I used to be pretty decent at games back when I had my i3 and 750 build, better than most people in the games I played, I think it's safe to say 'I beat them with skill.'
But as soon as I upgraded my PC and got more 'frames' I got better, I didn't change resolution or graphics settings, I just got higher framerate, so I ask, if the framerate doesn't matter, how did I improve?

And the same thing happened again when I got my 144hz monitor, It's like, the more pictures displayed a second actually help! Who'd've thought?

And, I use a low sensitivity, 800DPI and 1-2 sensititivty in most of the games I play, so it's not 'spinning faster' either.

Okay, that's gotta be a troll right, controller > mouse. Aight' lmao.

And, your little story about your friend is, wait for it, personal preference.
If someone likes a higher resolution that doesn't mean that resolution is the be all, end all.

[Vulkan]

Publicado originalmente por Autumn:

Publicado originalmente por ThatzYoAzz:

oh thats right you guys think that "frames win games" is actually true...heres the truth...frames sells computers to stupid people who think speed is more important than resolution. As long as u have the required optimal frame rate for the resolution you're playing on...frames dont win games...it used to be SKILL won games...but now, it's fast hand eye coordination on a mouse with super high dpi setting turned all the way up! The only reason frames matters is so you idiots can spin around super fast like morons and not have your picture turn to crap because your spinning too fast for your monitor and graphics card to keep refreshin fast enough enough to keep up with the speed the of picture moving...

Before you self important twits come out of the wood work to brag about your 1080p at 144Hz or even 244Hz or 1440p or whatever...if what you think is true about frames winning games...why dont you load up your favorite games in 480p and set it to how ever many frames you think it would take to look better than 1080p at 60 or 144 or 244Hz.

I have a friend who had a 1080ti,playing 4K... it died he returned it and got a 2080 FTW or something because they had no other cards to honor his warranty with...he nows plays at 4k @60 on the most demanding games on ultra setting and he says 4K looks much better than 1440 or 1080p...

Keep your card or get a 2080 you can easily find it cheaper than a 1080ti and still plays great at any resolution

For starters, you're just plain wrong.
The majoirty of people that want 2080tis want them for 4k60fps.

I used to be pretty decent at games back when I had my i3 and 750 build, better than most people in the games I played, I think it's safe to say 'I beat them with skill.'
But as soon as I upgraded my PC and got more 'frames' I got better, I didn't change resolution or graphics settings, I just got higher framerate, so I ask, if the framerate doesn't matter, how did I improve?

And the same thing happened again when I got my 144hz monitor, It's like, the more pictures displayed a second actually help! Who'd've thought?

And, I use a low sensitivity, 800DPI and 1-2 sensititivty in most of the games I play, so it's not 'spinning faster' either.

Okay, that's gotta be a troll right, controller > mouse. Aight' lmao.

And, your little story about your friend is, wait for it, personal preference.
If someone likes a higher resolution that doesn't mean that resolution is the be all, end all.

This is the same person who thinks people who try-hard in games are basically compensating for lack of fulfillment in real life aswell as other rubbish . Just check their profile .

[Autumn_]

Publicado originalmente por SavageSoutherner:

Publicado originalmente por Autumn:

For starters, you're just plain wrong.
The majoirty of people that want 2080tis want them for 4k60fps.

I used to be pretty decent at games back when I had my i3 and 750 build, better than most people in the games I played, I think it's safe to say 'I beat them with skill.'
But as soon as I upgraded my PC and got more 'frames' I got better, I didn't change resolution or graphics settings, I just got higher framerate, so I ask, if the framerate doesn't matter, how did I improve?

And the same thing happened again when I got my 144hz monitor, It's like, the more pictures displayed a second actually help! Who'd've thought?

And, I use a low sensitivity, 800DPI and 1-2 sensititivty in most of the games I play, so it's not 'spinning faster' either.

Okay, that's gotta be a troll right, controller > mouse. Aight' lmao.

And, your little story about your friend is, wait for it, personal preference.
If someone likes a higher resolution that doesn't mean that resolution is the be all, end all.

This is the same person who thinks people who try-hard in games are basically compensating for lack of fulfillment in real life aswell as other rubbish . Just check their profile .

Jesus, it's all so clear now.