You know those guys who upgrade from a Ferrari 458 to a Ferrari 488? The 488 is unquestionably the better car, with improvements all over the board-- but is it truly worth the cost for just a one-generation leap?

I just joined that camp: I pre-ordered an upgrade from a GTX 1070 to an RTX 2080. Yeah, I'm leaping from 1920 CUDA cores to 2944, odds are the new card will be at least 60% faster, which is a pretty incredible leap. But is it really necessary?

In my defense-- and this is the entire reason I bought it-- the 2080 isn't just faster: it's a total paradigm changer, with the DLSS and ray tracing. The better Ferrari analogy would be upgrading from an Enzo to a LaFerrari: the latter isn't just a better car, it's practically from another planet.

And even that is understating things, because at the end of the day, the 2080 can literally do things that aren't even possible at all with the 1070. It's like going from a traditional automobile to a hovercar, or something along those lines.

And now, my eight year old daughter gets a 6.5 teraflop GPU for... Roblox. Talk about first-world territory.