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Poll: Poll: Will you be buying a 2080Ti/2080/2070?
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Fair point. I do think it will be faster than a Titan V personally, but not by much. You could easily skip it and wait until 7nm.
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Yeah man maybe ill wait for the 3080ti tbh.
What's 0.3% of your disposable income if you are a pc/gaming enthusiast (and you could even keep the 1080ti in case the 2080ti didn't live up to expectation)?
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Then don't buy from them. Me? I will because of their great support, and I've 'experienced' some poor support from other companies quite a bit over the years. Can't really put a price on when you need some good help imo, but that's just my opinion.
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TL;DR - One big moan.
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Don't think they're talking about disposable income, but savings etc. Disposable income is what you have left over each month or year after all yours costs are removed (mortgage, all bills, food, pension savings etc). If someone has £40k a year disaposable income, a Ti would be about 2.75% of that. Based on the average wage however, a Ti is probably more like 10% disposable income for many, if not more.
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Just worked that out for me. If I saved every penny I had left after all expenses every month for a year, a 2080Ti would be about 18% of me yearly disposable. shocking.
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Yeah, it then comes down whether you can justify it or not. On the plus side however you know it should retain a decent amount of value and should be good for a few years. Although I joke about the 10 series (now being old), they're still able to hold their own if folks don't intend to play the new games with the RTX features for a while.Just worked that out for me. If I saved every penny I had left after all expenses every month for a year, a 2080Ti would be about 18% of me yearly disposable. shocking.
The best positioned people at the moment are those with 10 series who are happy with what they've got, ie, no temptation to upgrade anyway
. They're probably the ones not moaning too much about pricing and can save up for the generation after this. Given the cost at the moment and also the decent performance of older cards , skipping a generation is not a bad plan. NV is of course relying on/hoping that people want the performance bump and new RTX features.Yeah it was a pretty dull statement if I'm honest. If I could afford 300 of a replacement for something, I wouldn't even be thinking about if it was good value. It falls straight into impulse purchase if I have that kind of disposable cash. It would be like deliberating over if I should buy that new kit kat bar because it's 50p more than usual. If I fancied it, iI' buy it. Who cares if it was **** lol
Just thinking, that with a few weeks / days now to product being shipped NVidia MUST have fully developed drivers to support the product they are selling, so where are they? Unless they are so concerned about performance that they don't want any early leaks on benchmarks getting out then what other possible reason could there be?
I can remember the 'controversy' when the 980Ti was launched and wasn't much faster than the 780Ti, and people then were making excuses such as it's all about driver development. So, pay your money and cross your fingers there will be an improvement !
Is there some issue with the RTX range that NVidia don't want potential buyers to know about ?
I can remember the 'controversy' when the 980Ti was launched and wasn't much faster than the 780Ti, and people then were making excuses such as it's all about driver development. So, pay your money and cross your fingers there will be an improvement !
Is there some issue with the RTX range that NVidia don't want potential buyers to know about ?
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To be fair to Nvidia, I think reading many comments even here give them reasons to be a bit cagey about the release. It's a big step forward in a few ways but many are going to probably judge them on FPS only, comparing to previous gen in older games. I think they're just taking more time and that they're still working on optimisations.
I sometimes work with companies in an "agile" environment. Software releases can be done on a weekly basis. They still have three weeks before these cards hit customers so could have another three cylces of development of the drivers if they need to.
I've actually cancelled my pre-order now and going to wait until next year and see where things stand then (including pricing, possible higher tier cards). I beleive in the GPU's though, I decided with a delivery date in of late October I'm probably not going to be doing an awful lot of gaming after that for a while. My current GPU is also serving me well and not going to be picking up any new games for a while either. I want to catch up with my backlog of older games. Been gaming a lot over the last few weekends and enjoying the "old gen" 70 Ti
. Just hope it handles Mafia 3 okay - one of the games in my backlog that might be a bit more challenging.
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@JediFragger Get an EVGA though, Mr. S. The only good customer support, the remainder are rather poor and a hassle to deal with if need be.
Depending on the need for tomb raider and metro, the 2080 looks okay-ish (fearing my 1080 isn't up to the task) but the difference between it and Ti in pixel pipelines, TU & RT cores is atrocious, making the Ti the ideal specced card. I'm very unsure if I want to splurge that money for a card with 7nm so close by. Let's await reviews. Besides, I always look at how many games I want a GPU for and 2 is not enough reason for buying to me.
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If you have £300k in savings but no monthly disposable income, how many 2080ti's can you afford?
Also do you think someone who can £300k of disposable income a year would think twice about a 2080ti or not have a Titan?
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The way I see it is that those who can easily afford a Ti now can do so when the 3080 Ti comes, whereas those who have to buy a new one consciously (me) likely have to pick one or the other. Just the way it is.
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I thought Gigabyte were supposed to be the best for support in th UK? There was a chart somewhere which had all that info on it, I know EVGA are very good in the states but don't you have to post it back to Germany or something if you in the UK?