INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 is finally a real, tangible GPU and with six times the power of Pascal-based GTX GPUs, it's a beast
apples-to-apples comparisons when it comes to products from different companies
taking them into the lab later this year.That being said, from their design, to their projected performance, to how much that performance
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 in the silicon.DesignRight off the bat, the designs of these two graphics card are drastically different: The AMD
Radeon RX Vega 64 uses a traditional, air-based cooling mechanism with a single fan drawing cool air in and driving it out the rear vents
while the RTX 2080, uses a dual-fan approach which involves a heat sink in the process of dispersing hot air
here on Nvidia in producing an official liquid-cooled version of the RX Vega 64, whereas Nvidia has yet to publicly discuss any such option
the RTX 2080 pulls ahead with the capability to house a USB-C port in addition to the usual DisplayPort and HDMI ports
important, because USB-C is poised to become the de facto official connection for virtual reality (VR) hardware and applications in the near
The RTX 2080 is ready for this next phase in simplifying VR, and the RX Vega 64 is not.Here's what the stock AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 looks
like.PerformanceOf course, we have yet to run any benchmarks on the RTX 2080 because of how fresh-off-the-presses this card is
However, we can compare the two graphics cards on paper using their ratings for various basic performance metrics.Before we tackle the RTX
RX Vega 64 GPU itself contains 4,096 stream processors and houses 8GB of High-Bandwidth Memory 2 (HBM2) video RAM that can process up to
484.3 gigabytes of data per second, or GB/s, with a speed of 1.89 gigabits per second, or Gbps.Now, the RTX 2080 runs at a base clock speed
However, the CUDA cores are more versatile than the stream processors, able to carry out a wider variety of compute tasks, whereas stream
processors are more specialized for efficiency.Back to more meaningful comparisons, the RTX 2080 also has 8GB of video memory, but on the
This memory actually has marginally less bandwidth than the RX Vega 64, able to process up to 448GB/s, but at an exponentially higher speed
the end, judging by processor and memory speed alone, as well as power draw, the RTX 2080 looks to be a clear winner here
manufacturers, like Gigabyte and Asus, are still selling the card for far more than that on account of increased demand from cryptocurrency
implied cost of these graphics cards, judged largely by their power draw
cost, if your system isn't properly equipped for the job.The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 next to last generation's Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080.Which
real-time ray tracing for more realistic lighting and shadows in games
That fact alone, not to mention the price, makes this versus bout a difficult one.Sure, on paper, the RTX 2080 wins in almost every regard
However, if you simply want to be able to game at 1080p or even 1440p resolutions with the settings all the way cranked up, the RX Vega 64
is by far a more cost-effective way there.So, even in 2018, the classic dichotomy between Nvidia and AMD graphics cards remains: splurge for
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