# New Nvidia graphic cards and EVE Online **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 20, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441 "2018-08-20T20:00:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![P3ps1\_Max](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/p3ps1_max/32/390560_2.png) [@P3ps1\_Max](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/P3ps1_Max)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/22 "2018-08-21T21:41:15Z")
Want upgrades and the client isn’t 64bit as of yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ima\_Wreckyou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ima_wreckyou/32/235531_2.png) [@Ima\_Wreckyou](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ima_Wreckyou)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/23 "2018-08-21T21:53:46Z")
Next card will be AMD since Nvidia still doesn’t manage to deliver open source drivers. ---
**Author:** ![Chainsaw\_Plankton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/chainsaw_plankton/32/256180_2.png) [@Chainsaw\_Plankton](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Chainsaw_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/24 "2018-08-21T23:36:25Z")
> [@Ralph\_King-Griffin](#): > > One of Eve’s charms has always been that it will run on just about anything north of a fancy abacus. in potato mode sure. But in everything’s pretty mode well you need some nicer hardware. > [@Mr\_Epeen](#): > > [Trinity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMjjUr6zIQ) was the only major graphics update and probably the last. The way this game is losing players, I’m not sure alienating even more of their base by using time and money better spent on game play fixes would be the way to go. they’ve made a bunch of graphics updates since then. New models/textures on a lot of things, as well as switching to PBR probably the main things that come to mind. [EVE Online News - Updates, blogs, events, patch notes & more](https://updates.eveonline.com/tag/graphics/) and with abyssal deadspace they just updated their recommend system specs. Seems rather than one big graphics updates they are releasing small updates frequently to keep eve looking great. ---
**Author:** ![Trader\_Hansen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/trader_hansen/32/174440_2.png) [@Trader\_Hansen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Trader_Hansen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/25 "2018-08-22T12:14:18Z")
New RTX cards are 99% marketing. Sure, they’ll bump performance over 10-series by a small percentage, but not anything like the nVidia marketing droids are claiming. And the raytracing support won’t be very good since raytracing is _hard_ to do in real time (ergo why we’ve been stuck with raster for the last 20 years). You’ll see a few games introduce some token raytracing support, but that will be about the extent of it for many years (and RTX generations) to come. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Pervert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/old_pervert/32/149708_2.png) [@Old\_Pervert](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Old_Pervert)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/26 "2018-08-23T22:10:55Z")
CCP should partner with MSI or someone… get an Eve-branded GPU with a rifter-shaped heat sink and a bunch of LEDs on it. Probably cost a metric fucktonne. But it’d be cool as ■■■■. ---
**Author:** ![Ralph\_King-Griffin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ralph_king-griffin/32/252855_2.png) [@Ralph\_King-Griffin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ralph_King-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/27 "2018-08-23T22:23:18Z")
> [@Trader\_Hansen](#): > > New RTX cards are 99% marketing. well good going there sparky, very astute observation when thats _literally_ all they have relesed. as i said earlier , wait for the the standardised benchmarks. then you can have at it all you like ---
**Author:** ![March\_rabbit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/march_rabbit/32/453160_2.png) [@March\_rabbit](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/March_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/28 "2018-08-23T22:40:52Z")
At some point i was playing on LTE connection. Even spent half of my monthly limit on EvE update 😁 Was pretty playable. ---
**Author:** ![Nalia\_White](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nalia_white/32/28245_2.png) [@Nalia\_White](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nalia_White)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/29 "2018-08-24T07:32:30Z")
lol now we are even on hardware preorders??? what a corporate world we live in 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nana\_Skalski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nana_skalski/32/489985_2.png) [@Nana\_Skalski](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nana_Skalski)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/30 "2018-08-24T12:53:24Z")
Imagin Tetris game with ray tracing on RTX 2080 Ti. 😍 ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_Moe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fluffy_moe/32/11132_2.png) [@Fluffy\_Moe](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Fluffy_Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/31 "2018-08-24T13:03:03Z")
I seriously hope they raise the game reqs a ton to be on par with more modern titles. This actually might put a bit of a dent in botting since runnign 10-20-30-40-50 clients per machine will become much less efficient and more difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Radical\_Posture](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/radical_posture/32/276404_2.png) [@Radical\_Posture](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Radical_Posture)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/32 "2018-08-24T13:51:03Z")
(and you really **had** to buy the last iPhone, didn’t you ?). Funny you said that because I actually left Apple this year. ---
**Author:** ![Remiel\_Pollard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/remiel_pollard/32/242272_2.png) [@Remiel\_Pollard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Remiel_Pollard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/33 "2018-08-24T14:08:39Z")
I’m playing on 4G LTE myself. No ping or lag issues, 30M download speed, unlimited data. Wifi used to be bad, but people don’t realise how good it’s gotten. I’ll be upgrading to fibre soon (infrastructure’s being installed in my area by end of September) but for now, the wireless is decent, and only $80 a month for unlimited data. ---
**Author:** ![Wander\_Prian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wander_prian/32/394208_2.png) [@Wander\_Prian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wander_Prian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/34 "2018-08-24T14:11:10Z")
> [@Rexxar\_Santaro](#): > > Now they mentioning the CUDA cores, which is a new technology Nvidia has been using CUDA-cores in their cards for several generations already. It’s the RT- and Tensor -cores that are new. ---
**Author:** ![Rexxar\_Santaro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rexxar_santaro/32/420075_2.png) [@Rexxar\_Santaro](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rexxar_Santaro)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/35 "2018-08-24T20:11:57Z")
> [@Wander\_Prian](#): > > Nvidia has been using CUDA-cores in their cards for several generations already. It’s the RT- and Tensor -cores that are new. Yes. So, this new core is supposed to control much more CUDA cores as other resources also through multithreading. That’s what its doing. I can be wrong, but it looks like to that Intel Core 2 Duo architecture, well, you now what it means. True multicore architecture was implemented with i3, i5 an i7 series. Intel prepares a new none server CPU generation now, they wanna pass 8 cores up to 16, 32… ---
**Author:** ![Wander\_Prian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wander_prian/32/394208_2.png) [@Wander\_Prian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wander_Prian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/36 "2018-08-24T20:36:58Z")
Yes, you are wrong. Each of the cores is specialized. RT for raytracing. Tensor for deep learning/ AI. CUDA is still responsible for the normal rastering-calculations. This isn’t some simple update of a previous version. This is a total rethinking of how graphics-cards function ---
**Author:** ![Ralph\_King-Griffin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ralph_king-griffin/32/252855_2.png) [@Ralph\_King-Griffin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ralph_King-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/37 "2018-08-24T21:01:21Z")
And yet, we still don’t know how good at being a horse it is. ---
**Author:** ![Wander\_Prian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wander_prian/32/394208_2.png) [@Wander\_Prian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wander_Prian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/38 "2018-08-24T21:50:57Z")
Yeahh, the best thing you can do with these is wait to see the benchmarks and then wait some more for the drivers to mature enough to actually be usefull, so maybe get a 2180 or 2280 -cards. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-nvidia-graphic-cards-and-eve-online/99441/39 "2018-11-22T21:50:57Z")
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