Did nvidia only make like five 2080 TI cards?

I don't know really. But the more I see, the more it seems as though the 2080 series is an experiment for GigaRays tech, rather than a substantial upgrade.

So going by average FPS is 42fps more worth $1400 with tax/shipping? Especially when I have a Gsync monitor? That's a very tough pill to swallow, even for a framerate freak like me because Tomb Raider looks and plays absolutely beautiful and smooth at an average 62fps on a Gsync monitor. Although ideally when playing online in a more competitive manner more is of course always going to be better. With some reduced settings that still look good I can pull off the max 150fps in Unreal Tournament online. Think I'm kinda answering my own question, heh.

If the regular regular 2080 was at the performance of the 2080TI or the TI was the price of the regular 2080 I would probably make the jump but damned that price is so hard to justify coming from where I am currently. If I was building from scratch, then none of this confusion would matter, lol.

I've got a RTX 2080 FE, so if you have any questions ... I've got all three of the newer Tomb Raider games, and the two Wolfenstein ones, as well as Doom, some of the Hitman games, and the Metro games. Plus others. of course.

Upgrading wasn't a brain teaser for me as I was coming from a GTX 1070 FE, the bump in performance is noticeable. I wasn't going to look to save $150 by going for a new GTX 1080 Ti instead. I had the cash earmarked, and while being able to bank 150 bucks by sticking with a bargain price for solid older tech has its charm, I had my mind made up to go with the better power efficiency, and the promise of the new features.

The DLSS looks really promising, it's just a matter of nVidia doing the heavy lifting of using its compute facilities to pre-render a game so it can be downsampled from crazy high resolution and run through the tensor cores to be upsampled to 2160p from 1440p (or 1440p from 1080p). Not very dependent on the developer getting it right, like ray tracing does, though we're seeing some promise even there with the latest Battlefield 5 patch, and the hints of what upcoming games can do. Then there's variable shading mumbo-jumbo these new transistors are handling with the latest Wolfenstein game. That game doesn't need the performance boost, but it will be swell to see it used in very demanding games down the road.

Dude in the last vid is right... None of the 20xx series is worth it (given the really good price/performance ratio the 1080 Ti, especially if you find one on sale), except perhaps the 2080 Ti for the people with very deep pockets who don't care about the money. That's the best theory I've heard yet. i.e. Nvidia wants to sell the 10xx series to the mainstream PC gamer, so they priced the 20xx such that only the extreme hardcore PC enthusiasts would go for it. Thereby, improving sales of the overstocked 10xx series and move it out of their inventory.

Come on dudes, hook me up, lol, want my Paypal or what!?!?

He could do like the big corporations sometimes do and say that 10 cents of every dollar goes to charity. i.e. Every $1 you contribute saves the lives of kittens. Think of the kittens.