With the expected performance numbers we have seen and the leaked prices, waiting for AMD's offerings is my current plan. If the leaks hold true, what they are offering just isn't that tempting at the prices they are rumored to be charging.
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With the expected performance numbers we have seen and the leaked prices, waiting for AMD's offerings is my current plan. If the leaks hold true, what they are offering just isn't that tempting at the prices they are rumored to be charging.
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At that point in 2016 when I bought my first gsync monitor, freesync had the potential to be supported by both but there was no sign Nvidia would actually be generous enough to support it and they didn't for another 3 years, to be fair. In the meanwhile I've had years of being able to use adaptive sync tech on the only type of monitor I could with an Nvidia gpu.
Buying freesync now is a no brainer. It definitely wasn't back then.
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TBF,even if Nvidia were to have decent offerings,if AMD is going to have their releases so soon after,I would still wait and see what they have to offer. At least that way,you know you made the best choice!
We will need to see how AMD and Nvidia prices this generation. It might be worth looking at AMD and a new monitor if they do price competitively(and that monitor would work with Nvidia GPUs too).
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I agree but with no timeline, people will get impatient. If AMD have any sense they would immediately announce when their products will be launched/available as soon as NVidia's event is over.
Might want to check those pricings.... £400 is for "parts only" , "spares or repairs" or faulty cards. On Ebay working 2080tis are about £700/750 and they are selling on MM for about £650-700
Actually I may have exaggerated my framerates in Control a 4K Ultra with RT..
So, 15fps might be doable with an RTX 3090
That's not how it works.
andnif with everything you've got enables it's basically path tracing - the fact it even runs is amazing - that's about 10 times more demanding of a scene than anything AMD has pulled off so far
We were talking about 1080Ti's.
So much that.
Can't believe people already bought new PSUs tbh. Or sold their 2080Ti.
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TBF,we know they are out this year,and lots of rumours say at least by November. Its still summer,so realistically for the sake of an extra month or two,when people can keep their GPUs for a few years,it doesn't seem much of a wait.
Unless your system is going to go absolutely kaput,I don't understand why people can't wait anymore to evaluate all the options they have.
Im selling my 2080ti for 800 pounds, got the buyer locked in
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This just isn't accurate though, there was 5 pages of discussion about this. You can't load Gbs of additional assets into vRAM (fill your game with additional high resolution textures, higher detailed models, etc) and keep your frame rate the same, when you do, you create more work for the GPU and the frame rate goes down, and eventually it becomes too low to be playable. The reason you wont see vRAM limitations at launch is because any game that can come even close to filling 10Gb of vRAM which from benchmarks and real world measurements so far has proven to be FS2020, your frame rate is completely and utterly unplayable.
Yes future games will demand more vRAM but they'll also have higher demands on the GPU itself and there's no point in having say 16Gb of vRAM on a card if the GPU is going to choke when you're using only 10, it's just a waste and a way to make the card much more expensive with no actual benefit. And we have benchmarks of games that do actually use >10gb and that's what we see even on a RTX Titan. Looking at lists of all the top games today and their vRAM usage most are around 5Gb or less, a handful go above that but dont get close to using all 8Gb of modern cards. 10 is going to be completely fine.
I honestly don't think my 1080Ti can actually *use* all 11gb of RAM. I just don't think the GPU and bus can move that much data quickly enough.
We need some sort of metric that compares GPU "power" and Vram bandwidth, to find the cutoff point for capacity.
We all (instinctively) know there's a point where the GPU can't use an infinite amount of vram, but I don't think I've seen a reliable way to calculate where that point is from one card to another.
We need some sort of metric that compares GPU "power" and Vram bandwidth, to find the cutoff point for capacity.
We all (instinctively) know there's a point where the GPU can't use an infinite amount of vram, but I don't think I've seen a reliable way to calculate where that point is from one card to another.
Crysis was a graphics demo masquerading as a game. It may have been amazing to look at but it wasn't representative of gaming in general at the time and thus benchmarks were merely a curiosity (i.e. the infamous 'can it run Crysis') rather than actually useful to any degree.
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Try some modded games,with ENBs and run them at 4K with 4K and higher resolution assets.
Why wouldn't you sell your 2080 Ti? If you know the value of the card is going to insta-drop when they announce the 3080 for £200-400 less than a 2080 Ti which is faster, has the most update support and smashes Turing in it's only trump card - RTX.
Sell 2080 Ti now at £700... or wait a day for that brand new car level depreciation.
Sell 2080 Ti now at £700... or wait a day for that brand new car level depreciation.
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So i am checking prices and the rm1000i is only a tenner more than the rm850i, that's how crappy prices are now i guess. Not sure what's best choice for the money now tbh
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