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Gerard said:
Sort of, though sometimes on paper tflops doesn't = game performance so reviews are a better bet.
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Possibly so. However, I can't see it being as revolutionary as he likes to suggest tbh.

What game even really needs a 2080Ti right now? what one can't be played on anything less? none. Sure, MSFS is terrible but that is because it continually phones home. It's easy to boost performance on that by reducing some of the real world stats.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
The marketing is weird, but honestly it's the VRAM amounts that put me off, it's almost planned obsolesence. The 3070 is "faster than a 2080Ti" but comes with almost a third less VRAM.
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I agree, it is clever. I am hoping their HBCC works properly. Plus I know I will just sell it before the next gen stuff so minimise loss and end up with more VRAMN next gen.
 
XeNoNF50 said:
These two things don't sound equivalent. If you buy the xbox and sell PC your outlay is zero. If you buy a 3080 your outlay is the cost of the xbox. Why would you not just keep your PC and buy the xbox? That would be the equivalent alternative option surely?
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I don't have a GPU anymore, I sold my 2070S about 2 months ago for 426 quid in the expectations the prices would tank
 
TNA said:
Clever marketing man, clever marketing. I have always said it, their marketing is on another level to AMD.
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Very clever marketing in that the 3080 is the "flagship" gaming card and the 3090 "aimed" at content creators and other "power users". At least this time around though the 3080 is a bit more card for your money than the likes of the 980 and 1080, etc. though the VRAM amount kind of belies that a bit.
 
My question is whether PCI-e 4 is going to have a noticeable impact, because that wasn't addressed at all during the keynote.

Is it better to go for a 3080 over a 3090 and use the price difference to fund a decent CPU/mobo upgrade or is the PCI-e 3 'bottleneck' negligible? The 3090 seems overkill for anything less than 4k as the big selling point is the masses of extra VRAM rather than performance per £. Frankly I'm disinterested in nVidia's cherry picked performance stats and would rather wait for the embargo to lift, but I doubt this will be before the cards are available for sale.
 
Rroff said:
Very clever marketing in that the 3080 is the "flagship" gaming card and the 3090 "aimed" at content creators and other "power users". At least this time around though the 3080 is a bit more card for your money than the likes of the 980 and 1080, etc. though the VRAM amount kind of belies that a bit.
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People that fall for that "marketing" would have to be totally clueless of previous launches, a ti version is a certainty and the gap in price between 3080 and 3090 confirms it. Probably a 16 gig ti card come Jan\Feb.
 
Rossuk89 said:
Curious why you say that?

2080Ti is 10%-20% faster than a 2080. 3070 faster than a 2080Ti, say 10%. So 3070 could be 20% - 30% faster than a 2080 maybe? For £469. That does seem like a decent upgrade perhaps.
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I think he meant the second hand prices ;)
 
TNA said:
I agree, it is clever. I am hoping their HBCC works properly. Plus I know I will just sell it before the next gen stuff so minimise loss and end up with more VRAMN next gen.
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I expect once competition arrives (provided it is actually competitive) they will release Ti/Super/OP/BBQ versions of each with more VRAM. It would make sense.
 
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