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Best Bench: 174% Gigabyte(1458 37BB) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 128% Asus(1043 8667)

Poor: 128% Great: 174%

SPEED RANK: 26^th / 714

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Best Bench: 87% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 70% EVGA(3842 4995)

Poor: 70% Great: 87%

SPEED RANK: 90^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		156 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +97%		79 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	209 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +112%	98.6 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	208 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +81%	115 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	257 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +165%	97 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	211 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +116%	97.7 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	239 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +115%	111 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	308 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +133%	132 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	286 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +172%	105 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	240 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +124%	107 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	263 Fps	Much Better CSGO Fps. +34%	196 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	197 Fps	Much Better Fortnite Fps. +63%	121 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	137 Fps	Much Better PUBG Fps. +70%	81 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	140 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +75%	80 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	278 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +29%	215 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	139 Fps	Better Overwatch Fps. +21%	115 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	147 Fps	Much Better BF1 Fps. +50%	98 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	173 Fps	Hugely Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +111%	82 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	303 Fps	Better Minecraft Fps. +24%	244 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.54 %	Hugely higher market share. +184%	0.19 %
Value Value For Money	83.6 %	Hugely better value. +150%	33.5 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	72 %	Slightly more popular. +9%	66 %
Price Price (score)	$441	Cheaper. +21%	$560


Age Newest	67 Months	Much more recent. +37%	107 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	268 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +137%	113 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	184 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +89%	97.4 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	231 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +131%	100 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	163 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +85%	87.9 fps

“Build it, and they will come” must be NVIDIA’s thinking behind their latest consumer-focused GPU: the RTX 2080 Ti, which has been released alongside the RTX 2080. Following on from the Pascal architecture of the 1080 series, the 2080 series is based on a new Turing GPU architecture which features Tensor cores for AI (thereby potentially reducing GPU usage during machine learning workloads) and RT cores for ray tracing (rendering more realistic images). Unfortunately, there aren’t (m)any games that make use of these capabilities so the $1200 price tag on the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition is difficult to justify. The 2080 Ti also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. On paper the 2080 Ti has 4352 CUDA cores, a base/boost clock of 1350/1545 MHz, 11GB of GDRR6 memory and a memory bandwidth of 616GB/s. The upshot is that it has around a 30% faster effective speed than the 1080 Ti, which at 18 months old continues to offer comparable value for money and currently dominates the high-end gaming market. Professional users such as game developers or 4K gamers may find value in the 2080 Ti but for typical users (@1080p), prices need to drop substantially before the 2080 Ti has much chance of widespread adoption. ^{[Sep '18 GPUPro]}

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The new GTX 980 Ti shares the same board as the more expensive Titan-X but with various restrictions including a reduced number of CUDA cores (3072 to 2816, -8.3%). Although the 980 Ti has the same 384-bit memory bandwidth as the Titan-X it only has 6GB of GDDR5 vs. 12GB in the Titan-X. So far we only have one user benchmark from a pre-release unit of the GTX 980 Ti so the following benchmarks are provisional. Comparing the Titan-X and 980 Ti shows that the Ti only lags by around 8%, which is in line with the CUDA core counts on the two cards. On the other hand comparing the GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti shows that the Ti is around 16% faster. We don't have reliable prices for the GTX 980 Ti yet so a precise value rating isn't possible but as a card aimed at resolutions greater than 1080p it will struggle to match the GTX 970 for the vast majority of users. ^{[May '15 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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