<story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&amp;#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).&lt;p&gt;Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are gaming GPUs being announced at a games conference to an audience of gamers and games journalists. The focus of Huang&amp;#x27;s talk was how accelerated ray tracing will improve the graphical fidelity of games.&lt;p&gt;GPU compute is a spin-off from gaming. Gamers remain the primary market. They generate the volume that allows Nvidia to sell a supercomputer on a card for under $1000. If you want a professional product, Nvidia are more than happy to sell you a Tesla or a Quadro at a professional price point.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&amp;#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).&lt;p&gt;Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?&lt;p&gt;1080s are ~$450, will now be $799.
1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m going off the top hits on Newegg)</text></comment>