Wellcome home!

In Blender, rendering a complex scene I designed for my son went from 104 to 40 seconds. In World of Tanks, I went from 70 fps to above 200. That’s what I call an upgrade from my trustworthy GTX960!
And I didn’t even overclock the thing, there’s more to get from the card if it ever becomes necessary.

Now, why did I buy an RTX card while no game uses that technology besides Battlefield V and everybody says it is not worth the money?
Unreal Engine supports Nvidia with this technology and I thought I couldn’t afford to pass on what could be the next graphics revolution at the beginning of a development cycle, Althea 3 being scheduled for er… quite some time if I only ever manage to get the ball rolling for so long!

I could have bought a 2060 RTX card though, cheaper, but the 2060 only sports 6Go RAM while the 2070 and 2080 have 8Go. It doesn’t look much, but with all the rage in shader development I didn’t want the card to bottleneck because of the onboard RAM and some current games use up to 6 gigs already.

So I ordered a Gigabyte Gaming Z 2070 RTX from Amazon France for 420€: it was such a bargain!
In fact, it wasn’t a bargain, it was a scam, my ordered got cancelled and I had to wait a whole week to get my money back: never ever buy expensive stuff from the Amazon marketplace!
So, I was about to buy a 2060 because the 550€+ that 2070s cost are a bit much when I went and browsed Amazon Deutschland and saw they had this KFA2 card at 499€.
I bought it immediately, considering a decent 2060 is 390€ it was quite a price hike but I thought it was worth it for 15% performance increase, 33% more RAM and – which is important when working with graphics software – 2304 CUDA cores instead of 1920.

The day after I bought it, the card was listing for 590€, the RTX cards prices are all over the place, it’s insane at the moment.

The card is huge, it takes 3 slots in my tower and barely fits in my ATX case, but the installation was smooth as silk and I even have nice RGB lighting, all is well!