Some benchmarks are needed to see how much better the GTX cards can do on the lower end but they're supposedly significantly better than the 1080ti.
One disappointment for me though, is the VRAM. I was expecting more, and goodness knows Iclone is insanely VRAM hungry.

I don't know what advantage this new RTX card will offer the filmaker. Okay, if you play games, it will give you global illumination in real time (though frame rate may suffer). But iClone already has global illumination (though it may weight on the resources and take a little time to render).

Maybe I'm mistaken, but is it worth it for a filmaker to spend $999 on a nVidia GTX 1080ti just to save a few minutes rendering time?


My latest movie THE GOLDEN MAN, and a few others: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIl1EqVCKitZzLqaNnLK0BA

I don't know what advantage this new RTX card will offer the filmaker.

See my previous post for the pipeline speed for creating your set , maybe reflections are not important for you but  have a look of what Raytrace give for real reflection in realtime :

I for one will be treating myself to a RTX 2080 ti for crimbo and I'll be having it early. All the arguements for and against these new cards are  the same ones people had when the 10 series cards came out. What is a reality is that cpu speed isn't following moores law anymore so the emphisis now is on graphics cards. It's a far easier solution to change out a graphics card than build a new computer. A £1000 price tag is a lot of money but for me, being able to raytrace a frame in realtime is mind blowing considering my first ever raytraced render on an Amiga using an app called  Imagine, took 3 days and was 640x512. Hopefully it wont be too long before Reallusion supports RTX.

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@TheOldBuffer - It will be really interesting to see what sort of performance differences you see with the new card, especially with regard to iClone.  Please do a couple of before/after benchmarks, especially using a file we all share, such as the "Loft" project.

I currently have a GTX 1080 on an aging-but-adequate CPU.  I will attempty to control and feelings of jealosy.  Looking at the low level in my piggy bank will probably keep any buying impulses in check for a while.

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@justaviking

Regarding the "haters" on youtube of RTX technology , If you don't use raytracing there will be no really huge differences of the "10" series.
So that's mean the app or the game MUST use the RTX algorythm to have Raytracing in realtime. 

An example of benchmark with "traditionnal" render. Not really a big difference. It starts at 1:30

Even without tapping into the new features, it will be interesting to see what sort of performance an RTX 2080Ti brings to iClone rendering.

In addition to RTX, the "DLSS"  will be very interrsting, too.  I wonder what it will take for that to have an impact in iClone rendering.

Menawhile, if you haven't already watched it. go back a couple of posts and watch that "Battlefield V" RTX demo.  It is only six minutes long, not a 1-hour keynote speech, and is awesome!

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Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

Menawhile, if you haven't already watched it. go back a couple of posts and watch that "Battlefield" RTX demo

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For now there will be no improvement with Iclone render because Iclone doesn't support RTX. But I certainly will buy it because UDK 4 and UNITY 
will support it very soon . I don't know about Blender 2.8 

Right now, neither iClone nor iRay support the ray-tracing and DLSS features of the RTX.  However, it's very likely they will in the future.  They will need to be patched to make use of the features.  Currently, the RTX will just make iClone and iRay render a little faster by sheer horsepower.

- Keith