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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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They clearly read the forums! Glad those who justify outrageous pricing are in such a minority.
The nvidia charts show doom eternal, red dead and borderlands, they do not support DLSS or RT.
Imagine having recently bought a 2080ti at over a grand.
going to be some twitching from people who have suckered someone on eBay.
LOL... did you watch the same reveal as the rest of us?
Upgrade your case.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/7466...12-pin-pcie-cable-for-geforce-rtx-30/amp.html
Maybe 3090 but it looked like it was in the side of the 3070 too if you look again, and if an adapter is bundled then the specs could still say 2x 8 pin
Talking about the charts on this page:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3080/
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Daaaayum, watched live as it launched and tried to read the thread up to date and it was growing faster than I could read it.
The 3080 @ £649 is going to sell like mad, that's an extremely reasonable price for that kind of hardware. The 3090 looks absolutely killer, and I could easily afford the £1400 price point but I'm just not sure it's worth it for what is probably ~20% more performance. I feel like the jump from GTX1080 is already going to be more than sufficient.
It was interesting to see Jensen mention improvements on moving memory to/from vRAM with RTX IO. Pleased that this somewhat validates what I was saying 100 odd pages back. He said almost word for word what I was saying, that games have grown to 100's of GB of installed assets, dwarfing available vRAM, and that shuffling data in and out of vRAM from disk has become the predominant way of solving this problem. This RTX IO is going to be their answer to whatever equivalent the next gen consoles are doing with their super fast 5.5GB/sec SSDs.
All I can say is that looking back on my decision to go with a RAID 0 setup of 2x Samsung 512Gb 970 Pros might actually pay off in the future when the next gen games start to make use of it. And their decision to stick to 10Gb for the 3080 makes a lot of sense. Now that vRAM is much more about what you need for rendering right now, rather than a lazy cache a greater amount of that vRAM is spent servicing the current/next frame and we can focus more on targeting vRAM usage at merely whatever GPU can cope with.
Definitely picking up at least the 3080 but going to mull over a 3090, likely dependent on price gouging and availability too, if we see that go much over £1500 I'd probably bail. And as always, worth waiting to see real rasterization benchmarks of these cards before completing the purchase, just to be safe!
The 3080 @ £649 is going to sell like mad, that's an extremely reasonable price for that kind of hardware. The 3090 looks absolutely killer, and I could easily afford the £1400 price point but I'm just not sure it's worth it for what is probably ~20% more performance. I feel like the jump from GTX1080 is already going to be more than sufficient.
It was interesting to see Jensen mention improvements on moving memory to/from vRAM with RTX IO. Pleased that this somewhat validates what I was saying 100 odd pages back. He said almost word for word what I was saying, that games have grown to 100's of GB of installed assets, dwarfing available vRAM, and that shuffling data in and out of vRAM from disk has become the predominant way of solving this problem. This RTX IO is going to be their answer to whatever equivalent the next gen consoles are doing with their super fast 5.5GB/sec SSDs.
All I can say is that looking back on my decision to go with a RAID 0 setup of 2x Samsung 512Gb 970 Pros might actually pay off in the future when the next gen games start to make use of it. And their decision to stick to 10Gb for the 3080 makes a lot of sense. Now that vRAM is much more about what you need for rendering right now, rather than a lazy cache a greater amount of that vRAM is spent servicing the current/next frame and we can focus more on targeting vRAM usage at merely whatever GPU can cope with.
Definitely picking up at least the 3080 but going to mull over a 3090, likely dependent on price gouging and availability too, if we see that go much over £1500 I'd probably bail. And as always, worth waiting to see real rasterization benchmarks of these cards before completing the purchase, just to be safe!
Yes and or you may get much better value/performance per £/$ from AMD. Competition rarely raises prices.
3070 is well fast enough.
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What? This generation literally just released.
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3080 looks a sensible size too, they have dimensions on the site its a tiny bit smaller than the 1080ti I have now, so guess can continue to use my Ncase M1, happy with that, price is good after real world reviews I am all in may even go founders this time.
Length 11.2" (285 mm)
Width 4.4" (112 mm)
Height 2-Slot
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3080/
Length 11.2" (285 mm)
Width 4.4" (112 mm)
Height 2-Slot
https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3080/
I actually caved and bought a 2070S for £475 a few months ago, against my better judgement.
Lucky for me the transaction failed and I came to my senses!
Phew, I'd be regretting that now, looking at the 3080 for £650.
Lucky for me the transaction failed and I came to my senses!
Phew, I'd be regretting that now, looking at the 3080 for £650.
If the 3070 matches 2080Ti then definitely the 3070 if price is a concern.
My 2080Ti doesn’t have much issue with 1440p 144hz one reason I’m a little reluctant to upgrade as I’d ideally need a new monitor
.I think the best bet is to get a 3080 and if more gpu is needed sell it and use the money towards better one in future as it'll still work out cheaper than buying a 3090 outright these will probably hold value for some time