They call it ‘fine wine’ – the concept of a PC component still delivering impressive performance years on from its release. Nvidia’s Turing architecture – the RTX 20 series cards – weren’t exactly well regarded at launch back in 2018 but with the RTX 2080 Ti, I’d say we’re looking at fine wine at its best. Its performance today battles it out with the recently released RTX 5060, it has more memory than the new Nvidia offering and its outputs don’t decline on PCIe gen 3-based PCs… because it is a PCIe gen 3 card. Despite its seven year vintage, it’s still a card that outperforms the current generation consoles and even taps into some (though not all) of Nvidia’s latest neural rendering technologies. This is indeed fine wine, but fine wine with a chaser, if you like.
