New RTX Graphics cards might be out of reach for consumers... for now?
The new RTX Lineup from NVIDIA offers so many new features including the infamous "Real Time Ray Tracing" which allows the cards to create highly realistic lighting and shadow effects which make for stunning graphics in real time. But with all the specs and features aside these new cards have come out for pre-order with the Top Tier RTX 2080 TI sitting high and mighty on the $1700 AUD Price tag. For almost anybody this is way too much to spend on a graphics card, let alone pre-order without any performance benchmarks confirmed.
Just about everyone i know who knows anything about graphics cards is telling everyone to hold off from purchasing these new offerings and instead wait a for these cards to be fully released and then the GTX 1080 TI and other 10-series cards should drop a few hundred dollars in price making them a great bang for buck, and this is great advice if your looking for a great deal but that's obviously not what i'm going to talk about today.
The problem with waiting around for the 10 series to plummet in price and nabbing that is that you now have old tech, and this wouldn't bother most people, and it shouldn't, but with this new Ray Tracing feature that is currently exclusively on the RTX 2070, 2080, 2080 TI you might be thinking "it's only used in a few games and wont make that much of a difference" but that's were you'd be wrong. sure right now there is only 11 games that are going to support this feature, but with how incredible this feature can make games look there is going to be hundreds more as time goes on and cards get even more powerful, someday it will just be a part of every game and be common place in graphics cards.
Take this with a grain of salt, i'm not saying go pre-order now because this is an amazing thing to happen to games, it is but they obviously have inflated prices for the people who want to pre-order and cant wait, but what i would recommend that you wait for the other OEM cards to come out like MSI, ASUS and all the others as they are usually cheaper by a few hundred dollars cheaper and thats without the extra couple hundred price tag for pre-order, with all that in mind you could be saving up to $400, that suddenly makes these cards look a little more appetizing to consumers, just not right now.
all in all i could have said just wait for the OEM cards, but i wanted to put my reasoning in for doing so and some other details on why there worth the hefty price.
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~ Tyler Williamson
Just about everyone i know who knows anything about graphics cards is telling everyone to hold off from purchasing these new offerings and instead wait a for these cards to be fully released and then the GTX 1080 TI and other 10-series cards should drop a few hundred dollars in price making them a great bang for buck, and this is great advice if your looking for a great deal but that's obviously not what i'm going to talk about today.
The problem with waiting around for the 10 series to plummet in price and nabbing that is that you now have old tech, and this wouldn't bother most people, and it shouldn't, but with this new Ray Tracing feature that is currently exclusively on the RTX 2070, 2080, 2080 TI you might be thinking "it's only used in a few games and wont make that much of a difference" but that's were you'd be wrong. sure right now there is only 11 games that are going to support this feature, but with how incredible this feature can make games look there is going to be hundreds more as time goes on and cards get even more powerful, someday it will just be a part of every game and be common place in graphics cards.
Take this with a grain of salt, i'm not saying go pre-order now because this is an amazing thing to happen to games, it is but they obviously have inflated prices for the people who want to pre-order and cant wait, but what i would recommend that you wait for the other OEM cards to come out like MSI, ASUS and all the others as they are usually cheaper by a few hundred dollars cheaper and thats without the extra couple hundred price tag for pre-order, with all that in mind you could be saving up to $400, that suddenly makes these cards look a little more appetizing to consumers, just not right now.
all in all i could have said just wait for the OEM cards, but i wanted to put my reasoning in for doing so and some other details on why there worth the hefty price.
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