Any reason to upgrade from a 980GTX yet? Last years models were still not really where I want the increase to be. Can we do 4k @ 60fps on pretty much all new games maxed out with these new cards? Are we there yet?
I still use a 1080p monitor but enjoy that downsampling and probably get a 4k TV one of these days and TV-out to it and would like to game in 4k.
The 2070 Super murders the 980GTX. So that's certainly an upgrade worth making. I sorta fell into the trap of the commentators and tech people that GPU's haven't evolved much but the difference between my 980 Ti and this 2070 Super is night and day and not
unlike other generational leaps. The card can do 4k quite well in some older games and without ray tracing even BFV is doable in 4k on a single 2070 Super.
According to Benchmarks:
Wolfenstein: The New Collusus - 4k Ultra @ 92fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 4k Ultra @ 45fps
GTAV - 4k Ultra @ 55fps
Forza Horizion 4 - 4k Ultra @ 63fps
Battlefield 4 - 4k Ultra @ 60fps
Most games get you in the range of 60fps on 4k.
With OC models you hit that 60 more stable. However, at 4k the CPU and engine also become important.
I'm still running on a 4790k actually and unlike what I expected at 1440p that isn't a bottleneck so far.
On 1440p everything runs at 100+ fps easily. The 2070 Super is equal to the RTX 2080 or slightly faster depending on the game and clocks.
If you want to hit everything at 60fps or higher on Ultra at 4k, the only option is the 2080 Ti or the Titan RTX.
At those resolutions the 2080 Super only gets you about 5fps more on average because the 2070S, 2080 and 2080S all use the same chip with a different configuration.
I'm not sure if that's changing in a year or so. Maybe if AMD releases a 5800XT next year Nvidia might do something about the pricing but I'm not seeing anything else on the horizon that will upend the status quo.
The next big thing is of course the RTX 3XXX series but who knows when those release.
On the console side I'm expecting more from Ryzen (great results on PC already in terms of performance at least) which should finally put the CPU's to use.
Because the Bulldozer and Piledriver cores used in the Xbox One and PS4 have always been garbage tier.
Ray tracing looks nice and I'm looking forward to Control as that seems to be build with Ray tracing in mind, as opposed to Ray tracing bolted on. However, the performance hit is huge so it will only be used sparingly I think.
