The Power of GeForce RTX 2080: A Game-Changer for Mobile Creators

As I delved into testing the performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 on two different laptops, one from Dell and another from Acer, I was struck by its incredible capabilities. The first test involved playing back full-resolution 8K video clips on both machines, which revealed a significant difference in performance between them. On the Acer laptop, the GPU effortlessly handled the demanding task of rendering 8K footage, while on the Dell laptop, it struggled to keep up, with the graphics card unable to render even half-resolution video.

The results were impressive, and I was able to play back full-resolution 8K video without any issues. However, when I tried to do the same test on the GeForce GTX 1050 TI in the Dell laptop, I was met with a different story altogether. The GPU could not handle even half-resolution video, and it took me a while to figure out that there was a drop-down box where I could tell it to play back at quarter resolution, 1/8 resolution, or 1/16 resolution. This feature allowed the GPU to render the footage in smaller resolutions, which made the test much more manageable.

What's also worth noting is how well the GeForce RTX 2080 performs when editing and rendering video. I took a 15-minute and 30-second clip of 4K ProRes 422 footage and ran it through both laptops. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the Dell laptop took around 9 minutes and 7 seconds to render, which is almost in real-time. However, when I did the same test with the GeForce RTX 2080 on the Acer laptop, it saved a little more time and came out at around 8 minutes and 26 seconds.

In both cases, the GeForce RTX 2080 performed significantly better than the GTX 1080 Ti. This is not surprising, given the fact that the RTX 2080 is a more powerful GPU with newer technology. The results are impressive, but it's worth noting that these tests were done on laptops, and the actual performance may vary depending on the specific use case.

The implications of this test are significant for mobile creators who need to work with high-resolution footage on the go. With the GeForce RTX 2080, they can now do so without worrying about the power and flexibility it provides. This is especially important for creatives who work in intensive workflows, such as video editing, color grading, and visual effects.

I'm also excited to see NVIDIA's commitment to developing computing technology for creatives. Gaming has long been a popular industry that gets a lot of attention, but the creative side has been relatively neglected. This partnership between NVIDIA and Acer is an excellent step in addressing this gap, and I believe it will have a significant impact on the industry.

Overall, my experience with the GeForce RTX 2080 has left me impressed and excited about its capabilities. Whether you're a mobile creator or just someone who wants to play demanding games on their laptop, this GPU is definitely worth considering. With its power and flexibility, it's sure to revolutionize the way we work and play on our laptops.

As I concluded my tests, I couldn't help but think about what other possibilities this technology holds for creators. With the GeForce RTX 2080, the sky's the limit – and I'm excited to see where this technology takes us in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm gonna warn it this video could get a little geeky we live in very interesting times these days over the last couple years the trend and not only still photography but also in video has been resolution we have still cameras now capable of producing extremely high-resolution images things like the Sony a7r 3 now the Sony a7r 4 we've got the Panasonic SR one there's been medium format cameras such as Hasselblad and Fuji film which have been producing 50 megapixel cameras Fuji film now has a hundred megapixel camera and then phase one actually have a medium format sensor that does 150 megapixels I remember when we make the move from sd to HD that seemed like a big deal well since then we've had 4k now we have 6k and 8k workflows and with higher megapixels and more resolution comes a lot more data and how efficient are our computers at handling this and how does that affect the speed of our workflow and many of you know if you watch my channel that I have had several setups over the last year that I've been trying to figure out for me what works for a mobile setup I can't be chained to a desk top all the time mainly because I travel way too much and I need to be able to be productive and get work done when I'm out a couple months ago I did a video for Nvidia where I built an eg PU right after I did that video nvidia made an announcement for their nvidia studio for creators which really caught my attention essentially what they're doing is they're partnering with software and hardware manufacturers with some new GPUs that they're putting in to laptops and so right now we have the GeForce r-tx 2080 and NVIDIA sent me one to check out and I've done some testing this week and I want to share the results with you because I'm kind of impressed with what it will do this video is also sponsored by Nvidia who are also gracious enough to send me the Acer laptop that we're going to be using for this demo which is actually pretty nice this is the Acer concept d7 which is one of the Nvidia studio laptops and it features the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2080 with max-q designs so I do want to point out however not just any laptop can be considered an invidious studio laptop Nvidia actually have requirements on what can be considered and the concept d7 not only meets but exceeds most of these requirements and so first of all the display is absolutely beautiful this is a 4k display it's going to give you much more detail much resolute then an F HD or 1080p display this is definitely my preference this monitor also works in an Adobe RGB color space typically monitors will run in srgb the difference is is that Adobe RGB gives you a much wider gamut so you're going to have a wider range of colors represented this is really important when you're doing critical imaging work this monitor is also Pantone color system validated and has a Delta II of less than 2 I have to say this is one of the most color accurate laptop monitors I've ever seen for the testing here that I'm going to do I'm going to be using my dell which is actually not very unrespected they're very comparable the biggest difference being the graphics card so both computers actually have 32 gigabytes of memory they're using Intel i7 processors and they have one terabyte SSD cards both laptops are also set up with the latest Nvidia studio drivers if you download the GeForce experience app this allows you to select whether you want your system optimized for the gaming drivers or the studio drivers and in this case both of them are set to studio so the biggest difference is that the Dell uses the older NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with max Q design which honestly is not a bad GPU it is actually very solid the difference being the RT X series is optimized for ray-tracing graphics in high-end gaming things like 8k video so I really am interested to see what the performance difference is going to be between these two computers now I will say this these are not scientific tests I am NOT one who's really interested in formal benchmarking methods I want to know well there's two things for one for me I want to know is this something that I'm actually noticing a difference within two I'm not interested in fractions of a difference I'm actually interested in noticeable differences so let's go ahead and get started the first thing you're gonna notice is in Adobe Lightroom if you're using the newest version the first time you open it a little window pops up that basically explains what's going on with GPU acceleration and this is actually kind of key because Adobe is one of the partners that is working with Nvidia for putting more into what the graphics processor is actually doing so this is going to be interesting to see if we can see a real difference now the first test that I did these are all files that were shot on a Fuji film GFX 100 that I'm working on a review for for you guys I did a lot of shooting on that these are 100mm pixal files and one of the things that you're gonna notice is then when you are editing these and when you're zooming in and out you're going into such a high resolution sometimes the first time you zoom in it's gonna give you that little loading sign and you're gonna see the wheel spinning this is not a scientific test but I did notice that on the Dell computer with the geforce gtx 1050 TI you're looking at about seven or eight seconds before it renders into full resolution and there is a noticeable difference when you're on the GeForce r-tx twenty eighty and it's about half of that it's about four or five seconds at the very longest it depends on what image you're opening and what kind of detail is involved but that's a big difference and you're going to notice a performance boost when you're just editing images in your regular workflow now adobe has a feature called enhance image details now this is a feature that is not turned on by default so when you bring images into Lightroom it doesn't apply it the reason that is is because it's a little intensive on the graphics processing and can take a while if you're bringing in a lot of images so if this is something you want to apply you do it on an image by image basis you can also do them in sets or batch them but essentially what it does is when you have a raw image from a camera so we're not talking about JPEGs we're talking about RAW images which is what we're looking at here a raw image literally is raw data and it's up to the software to interpret that data and so what it's going to do is it's going to actually write a new file it's going to be a dmg file it's going to apply some algorithms for debayering that adobe has which is essentially going to give you better image detail and so this is something like I mentioned and it's a little bit more heavy on the processing into things so what I did is I took the same image on both computers and I copied it over a couple times so I had basically four images that are the same and what I did is I batch applied them to both Lightroom on my Dell and Lightroom on the Acer to see what the processing difference was going to be this was actually very surprising so over on the geforce gtx 1050 TI's is on the dell it took just shy of four minutes to render for 100 megapixel images and when you take this over to the Acer which has the GeForce r-tx 2080 these same four images just took 41 seconds so that is a huge difference and I think if that's something that you wanted to batch apply to a lot of images you can see that we only for in this case but let's say you did them to a hundred your time to actually process them is going to grow exponentially but I think the time that you're gonna save between processors is also going to save exponentially and so that was kind of the biggest surprise for me is how long that took versus how long it took with the new processor which was absolutely incredible I think the other thing is we moved down the road and Adobe starts adapting its software to cards that can essentially handle more on the graphics layer I think this is only gonna get better now the next thing I want to look at are some video examples what you're seeing here are some clips that were taken on a red helium these were shot in 8k and they are playing back at full resolution this is raw video by the way they're not compressed and this is all being done on a laptop which I think it's pretty insane I'm using red digital cinema here which is pretty much taking full advantage of the GeForce r-tx 2080 because it has more cuda cores and so these clips as well as the editing software are all available for a free download on Red's website I don't actually own a red so I downloaded stuff from their website to do this testing with so I'll put those links in the show description if you want to try those out on your own system but what's interesting is when you're looking at this now I did the same test same software same clips over on the geforce gtx 1050 TI in the dell and it's a different story in fact you can't even come close to playing back full resolution there is a drop-down box where you can tell it to play back at half resolution quarter resolution 1/8 resolution or 1/16 resolution some of those do work the way you can kind of see this working on the slower laptop in this case is you can see there's a little loading bar and basically what this is doing is it's showing you what is being rendered on the GPU as its getting ready to play it and so as long as you're rendering fast enough to playback you can play up to whatever resolution that we'll have and unfortunately it's nowhere near 8k on my dell machine but over on the Acer you can see that it plays back flawlessly and when you take this into an editor like Premiere Pro it performs exceptionally well also I remember it wasn't too long ago when you were working with Premiere Pro in 4k and the more you would throw at it in terms of layers of text or color Corrections or lots or anything that it would really slow the performance down dramatically and there was a lot of rendering to be done in premiere and with the GeForce r-tx 2080 it is a pretty smooth experience and this is 8k video I don't typically work at 8k at work in 4k and my workflow and so the results are really impressive and it I'd keep having to pinch myself and realize I'm doing this on a laptop like this is what I would expect out of a really beefed up desktop but these machines really are impressive I also wanted to test export times and rendering to see if there was any big difference there as well now I took all of the 8k clips from the read website and this entire clip is only 39 seconds long and so I ran this through both machines as well now what's interesting on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the Dell this took about 5 minutes and 27 seconds to render out and on the GeForce r-tx 28 he over on the Acer it took 4 minutes in 30 seconds so it saved about a minute but first of all you've got to remember this is 8k footage we're talking about here and when you multiply this up well above 39 seconds of footage so when you have a clip that's 15 minutes long 20 minutes long maybe even a 2 hour film you're going to again it's going to also go up exponentially but what you're going to save is going to happen exponentially as well and so you know it depends on if a K is something in your workflow it really isn't something in my day to day so let's run another test that's something that's a lot more practical and so this is 4k footage so I took a 15 minute and 30 second clip which is actually a final render in pro res 422 of a video that I put in this channel a few weeks ago it's 15 minutes in 30 seconds long and so on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti this took nine minutes and seven seconds which honestly isn't bad I mean that's faster than real time I'm pretty happy with that when I ran it through the GeForce r-tx 2080 saved a little more time and came out at about 8 minutes and 26 seconds where is all this leading to well in every example that I've showed you the GeForce r-tx 2018 showed a significant performance boost now is this worth the technology for you to get into something like this well probably depends person to personal what your needs are where I think this stuff really shines or it's gonna make a big difference is when you are trying to work let's say laptop and you're in something that's a pretty intensive workflow so you're working with six k8k high megapixel images and you want to be able to have that kind of power and flexibility in a mobile setup I think it is incredible what I'm really excited to see as well is invidious commitment to this partnership of developing computing technology for creatives and I think that's something that there's definitely an opportunity there I think that gaming is obviously one of the popular industries that gets a lot of attention but it haven't seen in the creative side in a while and I think this is an excellent step in that direction so I would love to know what you guys think drop me a comment below I'll catch you on the next video until then laterI'm gonna warn it this video could get a little geeky we live in very interesting times these days over the last couple years the trend and not only still photography but also in video has been resolution we have still cameras now capable of producing extremely high-resolution images things like the Sony a7r 3 now the Sony a7r 4 we've got the Panasonic SR one there's been medium format cameras such as Hasselblad and Fuji film which have been producing 50 megapixel cameras Fuji film now has a hundred megapixel camera and then phase one actually have a medium format sensor that does 150 megapixels I remember when we make the move from sd to HD that seemed like a big deal well since then we've had 4k now we have 6k and 8k workflows and with higher megapixels and more resolution comes a lot more data and how efficient are our computers at handling this and how does that affect the speed of our workflow and many of you know if you watch my channel that I have had several setups over the last year that I've been trying to figure out for me what works for a mobile setup I can't be chained to a desk top all the time mainly because I travel way too much and I need to be able to be productive and get work done when I'm out a couple months ago I did a video for Nvidia where I built an eg PU right after I did that video nvidia made an announcement for their nvidia studio for creators which really caught my attention essentially what they're doing is they're partnering with software and hardware manufacturers with some new GPUs that they're putting in to laptops and so right now we have the GeForce r-tx 2080 and NVIDIA sent me one to check out and I've done some testing this week and I want to share the results with you because I'm kind of impressed with what it will do this video is also sponsored by Nvidia who are also gracious enough to send me the Acer laptop that we're going to be using for this demo which is actually pretty nice this is the Acer concept d7 which is one of the Nvidia studio laptops and it features the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2080 with max-q designs so I do want to point out however not just any laptop can be considered an invidious studio laptop Nvidia actually have requirements on what can be considered and the concept d7 not only meets but exceeds most of these requirements and so first of all the display is absolutely beautiful this is a 4k display it's going to give you much more detail much resolute then an F HD or 1080p display this is definitely my preference this monitor also works in an Adobe RGB color space typically monitors will run in srgb the difference is is that Adobe RGB gives you a much wider gamut so you're going to have a wider range of colors represented this is really important when you're doing critical imaging work this monitor is also Pantone color system validated and has a Delta II of less than 2 I have to say this is one of the most color accurate laptop monitors I've ever seen for the testing here that I'm going to do I'm going to be using my dell which is actually not very unrespected they're very comparable the biggest difference being the graphics card so both computers actually have 32 gigabytes of memory they're using Intel i7 processors and they have one terabyte SSD cards both laptops are also set up with the latest Nvidia studio drivers if you download the GeForce experience app this allows you to select whether you want your system optimized for the gaming drivers or the studio drivers and in this case both of them are set to studio so the biggest difference is that the Dell uses the older NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with max Q design which honestly is not a bad GPU it is actually very solid the difference being the RT X series is optimized for ray-tracing graphics in high-end gaming things like 8k video so I really am interested to see what the performance difference is going to be between these two computers now I will say this these are not scientific tests I am NOT one who's really interested in formal benchmarking methods I want to know well there's two things for one for me I want to know is this something that I'm actually noticing a difference within two I'm not interested in fractions of a difference I'm actually interested in noticeable differences so let's go ahead and get started the first thing you're gonna notice is in Adobe Lightroom if you're using the newest version the first time you open it a little window pops up that basically explains what's going on with GPU acceleration and this is actually kind of key because Adobe is one of the partners that is working with Nvidia for putting more into what the graphics processor is actually doing so this is going to be interesting to see if we can see a real difference now the first test that I did these are all files that were shot on a Fuji film GFX 100 that I'm working on a review for for you guys I did a lot of shooting on that these are 100mm pixal files and one of the things that you're gonna notice is then when you are editing these and when you're zooming in and out you're going into such a high resolution sometimes the first time you zoom in it's gonna give you that little loading sign and you're gonna see the wheel spinning this is not a scientific test but I did notice that on the Dell computer with the geforce gtx 1050 TI you're looking at about seven or eight seconds before it renders into full resolution and there is a noticeable difference when you're on the GeForce r-tx twenty eighty and it's about half of that it's about four or five seconds at the very longest it depends on what image you're opening and what kind of detail is involved but that's a big difference and you're going to notice a performance boost when you're just editing images in your regular workflow now adobe has a feature called enhance image details now this is a feature that is not turned on by default so when you bring images into Lightroom it doesn't apply it the reason that is is because it's a little intensive on the graphics processing and can take a while if you're bringing in a lot of images so if this is something you want to apply you do it on an image by image basis you can also do them in sets or batch them but essentially what it does is when you have a raw image from a camera so we're not talking about JPEGs we're talking about RAW images which is what we're looking at here a raw image literally is raw data and it's up to the software to interpret that data and so what it's going to do is it's going to actually write a new file it's going to be a dmg file it's going to apply some algorithms for debayering that adobe has which is essentially going to give you better image detail and so this is something like I mentioned and it's a little bit more heavy on the processing into things so what I did is I took the same image on both computers and I copied it over a couple times so I had basically four images that are the same and what I did is I batch applied them to both Lightroom on my Dell and Lightroom on the Acer to see what the processing difference was going to be this was actually very surprising so over on the geforce gtx 1050 TI's is on the dell it took just shy of four minutes to render for 100 megapixel images and when you take this over to the Acer which has the GeForce r-tx 2080 these same four images just took 41 seconds so that is a huge difference and I think if that's something that you wanted to batch apply to a lot of images you can see that we only for in this case but let's say you did them to a hundred your time to actually process them is going to grow exponentially but I think the time that you're gonna save between processors is also going to save exponentially and so that was kind of the biggest surprise for me is how long that took versus how long it took with the new processor which was absolutely incredible I think the other thing is we moved down the road and Adobe starts adapting its software to cards that can essentially handle more on the graphics layer I think this is only gonna get better now the next thing I want to look at are some video examples what you're seeing here are some clips that were taken on a red helium these were shot in 8k and they are playing back at full resolution this is raw video by the way they're not compressed and this is all being done on a laptop which I think it's pretty insane I'm using red digital cinema here which is pretty much taking full advantage of the GeForce r-tx 2080 because it has more cuda cores and so these clips as well as the editing software are all available for a free download on Red's website I don't actually own a red so I downloaded stuff from their website to do this testing with so I'll put those links in the show description if you want to try those out on your own system but what's interesting is when you're looking at this now I did the same test same software same clips over on the geforce gtx 1050 TI in the dell and it's a different story in fact you can't even come close to playing back full resolution there is a drop-down box where you can tell it to play back at half resolution quarter resolution 1/8 resolution or 1/16 resolution some of those do work the way you can kind of see this working on the slower laptop in this case is you can see there's a little loading bar and basically what this is doing is it's showing you what is being rendered on the GPU as its getting ready to play it and so as long as you're rendering fast enough to playback you can play up to whatever resolution that we'll have and unfortunately it's nowhere near 8k on my dell machine but over on the Acer you can see that it plays back flawlessly and when you take this into an editor like Premiere Pro it performs exceptionally well also I remember it wasn't too long ago when you were working with Premiere Pro in 4k and the more you would throw at it in terms of layers of text or color Corrections or lots or anything that it would really slow the performance down dramatically and there was a lot of rendering to be done in premiere and with the GeForce r-tx 2080 it is a pretty smooth experience and this is 8k video I don't typically work at 8k at work in 4k and my workflow and so the results are really impressive and it I'd keep having to pinch myself and realize I'm doing this on a laptop like this is what I would expect out of a really beefed up desktop but these machines really are impressive I also wanted to test export times and rendering to see if there was any big difference there as well now I took all of the 8k clips from the read website and this entire clip is only 39 seconds long and so I ran this through both machines as well now what's interesting on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the Dell this took about 5 minutes and 27 seconds to render out and on the GeForce r-tx 28 he over on the Acer it took 4 minutes in 30 seconds so it saved about a minute but first of all you've got to remember this is 8k footage we're talking about here and when you multiply this up well above 39 seconds of footage so when you have a clip that's 15 minutes long 20 minutes long maybe even a 2 hour film you're going to again it's going to also go up exponentially but what you're going to save is going to happen exponentially as well and so you know it depends on if a K is something in your workflow it really isn't something in my day to day so let's run another test that's something that's a lot more practical and so this is 4k footage so I took a 15 minute and 30 second clip which is actually a final render in pro res 422 of a video that I put in this channel a few weeks ago it's 15 minutes in 30 seconds long and so on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti this took nine minutes and seven seconds which honestly isn't bad I mean that's faster than real time I'm pretty happy with that when I ran it through the GeForce r-tx 2080 saved a little more time and came out at about 8 minutes and 26 seconds where is all this leading to well in every example that I've showed you the GeForce r-tx 2018 showed a significant performance boost now is this worth the technology for you to get into something like this well probably depends person to personal what your needs are where I think this stuff really shines or it's gonna make a big difference is when you are trying to work let's say laptop and you're in something that's a pretty intensive workflow so you're working with six k8k high megapixel images and you want to be able to have that kind of power and flexibility in a mobile setup I think it is incredible what I'm really excited to see as well is invidious commitment to this partnership of developing computing technology for creatives and I think that's something that there's definitely an opportunity there I think that gaming is obviously one of the popular industries that gets a lot of attention but it haven't seen in the creative side in a while and I think this is an excellent step in that direction so I would love to know what you guys think drop me a comment below I'll catch you on the next video until then later\n"