Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti G-Sync HDR performance – A revolutionary upgrade over Pascal

Perhaps one of the most under-reported improvements found in Nvidia’s Turing architecture is its use of a “Native HDR Display Pipeline”, which is designed to increase Turing’s performance when running HDR content. Simply put, Pascal was not designed with HDR in mind, delivering sub-par performance levels when running games with HDR enabled, especially when used in conjunction with G-Sync. 
  
Hardware Unboxed has dived a little deeper into Turing’s HDR performance, playing several popular games in SDR mode, with HDR enabled and with both G-Sync and HDR enabled. Sadly, we do not have a G-Sync HDR display in-house to verify these results at this time. 

With Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti, it was discovered that the performance impact of enabling HDR and G-Sync HDR was minimal, so low in fact that it would be impossible to notice in-game. Moving back to Nvidia’s Pascal-based Titan X (Pascal), Hardware Unboxed found that enabling HDR caused a notable drop to both average and minimum framerates. In Star Wars Battlefront II, enabling HDR and G-Sync resulted in a 12% decrease in average framerate, with larger drops being possible in other games. Please watch Hardware Unboxed’s video to see benchmark results for other games with G-Sync and HDR enabled.