I’ll Get an RTX GPU—Eventually
And honestly, it will be just for the ray tracing
RAY TRACING IS ALREADY influencing the future of hardware and game development, in both the PC and the console sphere. The next version of the PlayStation could use a scaled-down version of a Navi 20 GPU, which supports ray tracing. The list of ray tracing-compatible games is slowly growing, and higher resolution monitors make them look even more beautiful—if you don’t mind the performance hit.
But even though ray tracing is the current driving force in tech, I’m still happily attached to my GTX 1080 Ti for many reasons, none of which is surprising. I could have bought an RTX card when I built my rig a few months ago, but aside from spending hundreds of extra dollars, the GTX 1080 Ti is not all that different performance-wise from the RTX 2070. Sure, the 1080 Ti is last-gen hardware and no longer being made, but I get way over 60fps at 1080p on ultra. I’ve also yet to be convinced to upgrade to a higher-resolution screen, so tell me why I need an RTX card.
I don’t, but I’ll upgrade at the end of 2019 most likely. It has nothing to do with price or what monitor I have, or upgrading my Ryzen 7 2700X to one of the Ryzen 3000 CPUs for that extra boost in processing power. (I’m a Ryzen fangirl, through and through.) It’s the future release of two games that will make me upgrade: Atomic
Heart and Vampire: The Masquerade—
Bloodlines2 . Both are ray tracingcompatible, and even if they weren’t, they are still the two games I’m most looking forward to playing in the next year. I’m willing to upgrade my GPU just for those games because I’m that excited for them.