The Nvidia 2000-series graphics cards aren't set to release until September 20, but in the meantime we are seeing endless speculation and hyperbole from all quarters, most notably Nvidia itself. Draw whatever conclusions you like about what that means for Nvidia's confidence in the new cards and how they'll perform when they're released -- we don't think they'll be quite as good as many expect -- but according to Nvidia at least, they're going to be great.
On a recent episode of Hot Hardware's Geeks podcast, Nvidia's PR lead, Tom Petersen said that we can expect to see performance gains over the last-generation Pascal hardware by as much as 40 percent in some gaming settings.
"We did share some data that showed a bunch of games and you’ll see the [performance] roughly somewhere between 35 to 45 percent better at roughly the same generation," he said. "So, 1080 Ti to 2080 Ti and of course that’s going to vary based on the game and based on the setting."
That would indeed be impressive -- although as WCCFTech points out, it would still mean lower bang for buck than the 10-series when it debuted -- but it does seem to cut through some of the marketing nonsense that Nvidia put out there with its earlier graphs and tables. They suggested that some games would perform more than twice as well under Turing than they did Pascal.
Nvidia will need big performance to make people want the new cards though. At several hundred dollars more than the 10-series counterparts which are more readily available and still very capable in games, and only a handful of games that will support DLSS and ray tracing in the near future, we don't expect sales to be too hot.
