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Oh i did not expect it today!!!
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I wonder why the Witcher is such a powerful title for the 2080 Ti compared to every other title in the line up. Strange 🙂 Well performing card - hope to see it actually in sales and at a close price to the MSRP.
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AlmondMan:

the Witcher is such a powerful title for the 2080 Ti compared
Yeah, I re-did that test multiple times to verify the results but the Witcher is the one exception it seems. No clue just yet.
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WOW... I did not expect THAT. Because Nvidia said "same" as 2080Ti, so I fully expected 5-10% lower than that. AT LAUNCH at least. This is literally 2080 Ti performance or a tad higher.
asturur:

Oh i did not expect it today!!!
Me neither. whas going on
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Pleasantly surprised!
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I am also surprised to see this as well. Considering it is less than 2 days from launch. Very good performance. I am thinking of getting either a 3070 or a 3060 Ti.
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2080ti like performance is expected. Now lets see if anyone can find one.
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Here Witcher III is only barely faster on RTX 2080Ti. Hilbert: link removed let's not make this thread a spamfest of links please, thanks. Likely WIII is scene related.
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Hilbert Hagedoorn:

Yeah, I re-did that test multiple times to verify the results but the Witcher is the one exception it seems. No clue just yet.
Got to be bandwidth surely, with a 256bit bus it's about the only thing that makes sense. Good card though, if you can get one!
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Jagman:

Got to be bandwidth surely, with a 256bit bus it's about the only thing that makes sense. Good card though, if you can get one!
Also I think the vRAM buffer also plays a part in this as well because the 3070 has only 8GB vs 11GB for the 2080 Ti
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Jagman:

Got to be bandwidth surely, with a 256bit bus it's about the only thing that makes sense. Good card though, if you can get one!
Just odd if the Witcher 3 is the only title that is memory bandwidth sensitive.
Fender178:

Also I think the vRAM buffer also plays a part in this as well because the 3070 has only 8GB vs 11GB for the 2080 Ti
Let's not make those 8 vs 10 vs 20gb conspiracies the norm. How does that explain the lack of such massive gaps between other cards with lower amounts of vram? Further, Gamers Nexus made this https://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1949-witcher-3-texture-quality-comparison-vram-and-fps where you see no impact in performance based on texture quality, which would make some amount of sense that there would be a difference if it was performant impactful - certainly speedwise.
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DLSS is very promising. Hopefully the cards will be purchasable
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Actually Fender178 could have something there, a lot of textures to load up in Witcher maybe?
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Same memory config, same bandwidth as 2070 Super, but cca 35-40% faster. Should I be impressed, or does 2070S come with too much bandwidth?
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Dam, it did worse than the rtx 2080 in The witcher 3
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JOHN30011887:

Dam, it did worse than the rtx 2080 in The witcher 3
Considering Cyberpunk runs on the same engine thats a concern.
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Very nice for $500, but I have a feeling this one will be wrecked by the competition's offerings. In performance per price, the year-old 5700XT is already breathing into 3070's neck, and can be found today for about $400 (25% cheaper), while only being 30-35% slower (and same RAM size). Soooo... I'm not sure Nvidia did -enough- with this card, as it is probably not very hard for AMD to catch up to with with a new gaming-focused architecture (Hint Hint: Consoles)
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Yeah the 6800 with 12 or 16GB RAM would be more appealing, to me anyway.
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Performance wise, this card is good, basically the same as the 2080ti but the price is too high. A 70 series cards should be around 350€, 400€ max, more than 500€ for this is simply too much. Nvidia is pricing some of the GPUs too much, i just hope AMD can deliver with big Navi at reasonable prices. Also i´m glad Hilbert is advising people against scalpers but i wish he also critized hardware companies when they are pushing prices too high, like Nvidia has been doing in the last generations. Anyway, great review as always!