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Yes.

How many players on Brighton were in the quarter finals at the World Cup? Mourinho is the big problem at Man U.

Nvidia Shares RTX 2080 Test Results: 35 - 125% Faster Than GTX 1080 "The only way for performance to increase using DLSS is if Nvidia’s baseline was established with some form of anti-aliasing applied at 3840x2160. By turning AA off and using DLSS instead, the company achieves similar image quality, but benefits greatly from hardware acceleration to improve performance. Thus, in those six games, Nvidia demonstrates one big boost over Pascal from undisclosed Turing architectural enhancements, and a second speed-up from turning AA off and DLSS on. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, for instance, appears to get a ~35 percent boost from Turing's tweaks, plus another ~50 percent after switching from AA to DLSS. In the other four games, improvements to the Turing architecture are wholly responsible for gains ranging between ~40 percent and ~60 percent. Without question, those are hand-picked results. We’re not expecting to average 50%-higher frame rates across our benchmark suite. However, enthusiasts who previously speculated that Turing wouldn’t be much faster than Pascal due to its relatively lower CUDA core count weren’t taking underlying architecture into account. There’s more going on under the hood than the specification sheet suggests."

I really hope those are real. You know what they say about a fool and his money... I really would like a new video card... And these might count as "tangible improvements"?

I googled a benchmark -- must be the difference between a 1070 and a 980TI for that one... https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/wolfenstein_ii_the_new_colossus_pc_graphics_analysis_benchmark_review,5.html

I've had good success getting 25% discounts on pre-orders for a lot of my games -- which convinces me to buy up front. But, there are still a lot that I wait to buy at a Steam/Black Friday sale...

I'll go back and check, but my memory is that with Watch Dogs 2 and AC:O I was solidly in the mid-50s to low 60s @1440p. (Deus Ex had crappy frame rates.) But I'm getting significantly higher than 60 fps on Forza, Wolfenstein, Doom, etc. I'll be playing Watch Dogs 2 tonight, so I can double check.

Really? What aren't you getting 1080p60? I'm mostly getting 1440p60+ with a GTX-1070.

I would love for them to do Morocco.

1080Ti for $526 1070 for $296

Why You Shouldn’t Buy Nvidia’s RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards (Yet) "If you already have a 10-series card that's adequate, it may make sense to skip this card generation entirely and see what kind of ray tracing and Tensor Core support is like come time for the 30-series line. By that time, it will also be clear what kind of a response AMD is going to muster to battle Nvidia's Turing juggernaut. Intel might have something serious to say about high-end gaming by that time as well. "

The public goods game and the prisoner's dilemma are actually related. I don't believe the decision to buy a 20-series card is an "iterated game". And I also don't believe that the majority of gamers are striving for (or believe in) the "greater good" of ray tracing. Regardless, I don't believe there are external reward or punishment systems, here. If this was a giant Kickstarter, with a commitment of millions of buyers required to sign up (and essentially collude), then I would agree with you. No one is "banding together" here. Ray tracing is clearly capable of higher IQ than current techniques. It is, however, much more computationally expensive. I don't know where the "break-point" in technology that makes it worthwhile. Has it happened already with the GeForce 20-series cards? Or, is it even possible? I don't know. I would have to defer to hardware/software engineers who understand the intricacies of both types of rendering to speak to that.

Why Are Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs So Expensive? "Analyst Jon Peddie suggests that the cost may just be a result of what it takes to make this kind of hardware. “Simple cost-of-goods… “ he told Tom’s Hardware over email. “These giant (and they are really big) chips cost a lot to make and test, and the huge amount of memory is expensive plus the cooling systems - just [cost of goods]. There's no rip off here, no conspiracy.” But it could also be for a variety of other reasons. Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD, suggested it could be due to inventory or availability. “I think they are likely trying to price these as very premium products,” Baker said. “Certainly if there is a significant amount of series 10 cards floating around they would want to at least draw that down somewhat.” Baker also suggested that they can use the high pricing for a gradual release as the company better understands demand: “The market for cards has been so crazy the last couple of years, between the explosion in interest in gaming, the cryptomining bubble and the upgrade in quality and demand that they would be doing themselves a disservice to come out at lower prices,” he said. Lastly, he theorizes that high prices could be a way to protect against limited inventories after the launch."

De Gea and Pogba are clearly both "world class". They have, what, 9 players who played in the quarter finals of the world cup. A team with that much talent shouldn't be losing to Brighton.

Assassin's Creed will take a year off in 2019 I wonder what Ubi's big holiday game will be next year? Watch dogs?

NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 Benchmarks Coming Soon, Cards Already in The Hands of a Lucky Few "Word has reached us that reviewers returning from Gamescom are going to be able to start testing the new toys straight away. NVIDIA’s reviewer’s briefing is taking place tomorrow where the company is expected to hand over a working driver to reviewers, so it’s likely they could begin running benchmarks no later than this weekend. It’s still not clear when exactly the NDA will lift and reviews are allowed to go live, but with a working driver benchmarks are bound to start leaking online. Even though full reviews may be a week or two off, you can expect to get a very a good idea of how the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 perform much sooner. As always, stay tuned for more."

Economic theory suggests people act in their own self interest, and make purchases that increase their utility. As a classic prisoner's dilemma, game theory suggests that the majority people don't act in the way you suggest. If I had a way of influencing the collective and somehow convincing a critical mass of people to, as a group, make a different choice, then perhaps it would be rational to spend money in this way. Decisions the collective makes, can influence the future. Each individuals decision has an extremely small marginal impact, that makes them, individually, virtually irrelevant. Given that my choices don't influence the collective, I recognize that they have a negligible impact on future development gains. Given the high marginal cost of making this purchase, it is in my rational best interest to make a choice based on my expected short-term marginal gains. If I somehow could collude with several million other people to make an irrational decision, that would be different. But, I don't know how to do that. Operating under the assumption that ray tracing is the panacea for game graphics before it can be demonstrated, in real games, is a reach. You obviously have a lot more confidence in ray tracing's viability than I do. Does ray tracing have the potential to produce better results than rasterization? Yes, but I don't know how significant they are in real world games. When can those better results be done without unacceptable reductions in frame rate and resolution? I have no idea. Maybe today. Maybe 3 years from now. Maybe 50 years from now. Maybe never.

My vote in an election is essentially free, a 2080TI costs $1,200. That's not a particularly good analogy. 1. My decision to buy a card (or not buy a card) has no practical effect on encouraging behavior from anyone 2. Long term results don't mean anything on my short term decision. I can but a card later, once those benefits become evident I don't know if the architectural decision on GeForce 20-Series cards are a good decision, or a disastrous diversion. I've been hearing about ray tracing for 30-years (and had a friend playing with it in high school -- and I've been out of high school for a long time). I remember this from that era: The only way I know if these are the right architectural decisions and are worthy of my hard earned $$$, are whether my experiences are better TODAY. When the software is there, there is a rationale decision to be made about buying hardware. These aren't consoles where, in the past at least, you could justify the purchase in knowing that there would be 5-7 years of fixed hardware. Graphics cards are on an 18-month generation upgrade cadence. In a similar way, I actually believe that VR is the future -- but I thank god I haven't bought a headset, because there isn't enough good software to justify a purchase. It would be sitting in the corner of my office gathering dust. And when I do buy the hardware, I know that it will be significantly better than I would have otherwise bought. I spend too much money in a frivolous manner on stuff that actually makes a difference to me. $1,200 is a big number, but not ridiculous, I just spent $500 for a one day outing for the family to ride roller coasters. But I won't spend money to encourage NVidia to randomly innovate -- unless those innovations bring me tangible gaming benefits. If in a month, these cards are setting the world on fire with "OMG AWESOME" graphics, I'll be first in line to buy one. But to be honest, I really don't expect that to happen.

Manchester United iin 2018: Bring us Zidane!

Hands on: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review "Early verdict Whether you’re a PC gamer who was waiting in the wings for a more powerful graphics card or you truly believe in Nvidia’s vision of a ray traced future, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is already looking like the world’s most powerful graphics card in the world regardless. That said, you shouldn’t automatically jump on the pre-order button. We still have a plenty of unanswered questions about power consumption, when we’ll actually see the lower-priced versions and their shortcomings, new multi-card SLI compatibility and, of course, benchmarking them. Be sure to keep your eyes locked to TechRadar, as it won’t be long before we fully review this new heir to rule the kingdom of graphics cards. Nvidia Turing could really shake things up in the world of the best graphics cards"

As a Canadian who is currently lucky enough to be earning $USD . I can only say. Pray for higher oil prices.

I am willing to pay the cost for things that provide a tangible benefit for my gaming experience. What benefits would I get from these cards? If it results in marginally better shadows, at the cost of significantly lower framerate and resolution -- that's something I can't support. But, I'll wait for the hands-on reviews to see how it performs on games. Fact: Nvidia won't change any of their decisions if I (alone) decide to not buy a video card. Not one single developer will decide to make (or not make) software decisions based on me buying a video card. Other people buying cards is completely independent of me buying a video card. Therefore, my choice to buying a video card has no influence on the future of "ray tracing". The only rational decision (economically speaking) on whether to upgrade my card is whether the RTX-20 series provides tangible benefits to my gaming experience. It is not simply true that we should support cards that lean into ray tracing. If we learn that these cards somehow provide much better performance, than I expect, on "rasterized" games. Or the ray traced games look significantly better than the SotTR demo indicated. Or, whatever, we should all go out and buy these cards, However, if a 2080 performs only marginally better than a 2-year old 1080, and costs hundreds more, it doesn't make much sense for anyone to buy one before there is software available that justifies the experience.

There are lots of great deal on 10-series cards right now. I saw a 1080Ti on amazon for $530 this morning. A 1070 works very well at 1440p on current games.