i just paid £400 for a 2060 super (new). Like I said it's on its way back. Whether or not the 3000 series come in at a desirable price/thermals it does seem clear it's not worth paying that for EOL 2000 series now for the time being.
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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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Yeah the vram is what gets me, going back to PC gaming I'd rather have the headroom. Never played games beyond 60 fps so lets gooooooo
I assume that means the partner cards will have their own pricing... I can't see Nvidia changing their price on the day.. I think...
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Looks like the force was with you this time...lol
It was more a moose of goodwill than the force (Thanks @CAT-THE-FIFTH), but their advice was wise. It's also the gamble buying gifts for someone else that they might see things differently to you. Double reason for the return I guess!
All we need now is another mining boom
coal mining. We need the employment. Besides, all those people in confined spaces, breathing stale air. What could possibly go wrong...
they'll wait until you've installed it and registered then email you the mailshot.
It's not been a secret for months now that the next gen cards would smash the current ones, it always happens when new consoles release. When it was clear lockdown was on the cards I realised that a stop gap card was needed to replace my 970 @ 1440p, given the complete and utter lack of RTX or DLSS at the time the 5700xt was a good buy and will serve well as a backup card until this all shakes out. I'm not an NVIDIA or AMD fan, just get whatever is most price performant at a point in time. The same holds true now btw, see what the benchmarks look like and see what the other team releases then figure out your budget. The 3xxx series do look great from a marketing perspective.
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The 2080Ti will go down in history as relative lemon.
£1200, barely 30% faster than a 1080Ti and then beaten by a sub-£500 card only two years later.
And yet people are asking for over £500-£600 or more on Ebay for a 2080Ti.
They aint worth no more than £400 tops.
£1200, barely 30% faster than a 1080Ti and then beaten by a sub-£500 card only two years later.
And yet people are asking for over £500-£600 or more on Ebay for a 2080Ti.
They aint worth no more than £400 tops.
yeah we're sitting tight now. My fear was newer series not supporting win7-64 drivers as that machine needs to dualboot 10 and 7 but sounds like they will (and the 2nd market/EOL sales will hopefully suffice even if it turns out they don't).
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Zotac warranty transferable?
Ohhh ocuk are back with evga! Cooler is horrendous that red stripe, gawd. Anyway the price is good and the cooler won't be on for long as will get blocked up.
650w good PSU will be ok.
I drew 900 watts once, peak from the wall with two volt modded extreme bios flashed 680 lightning editions and a suicide overclock run on a Q6700.
My 2080S setup when folding at home (way more intense than gaming) peaked at 518 watts from the wall.
So even adding a bit more TDP/TGP of the new cards say 70 watts you're still under 650.
Oh and blowing a bit of warm GPU air on your cpu air cooler isn't going to shatter the world!
Ohhh ocuk are back with evga! Cooler is horrendous that red stripe, gawd. Anyway the price is good and the cooler won't be on for long as will get blocked up.
650w good PSU will be ok.
I drew 900 watts once, peak from the wall with two volt modded extreme bios flashed 680 lightning editions and a suicide overclock run on a Q6700.
My 2080S setup when folding at home (way more intense than gaming) peaked at 518 watts from the wall.
So even adding a bit more TDP/TGP of the new cards say 70 watts you're still under 650.
Oh and blowing a bit of warm GPU air on your cpu air cooler isn't going to shatter the world!
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I'm not sure what to think on this.
One the one hand, we're seeing good performance improvement versus previous generation, like we used to get. The prices on the 3070/3080 look reasonable when compared to what the previous gen has been marketed at.
One the other hand, if you ignore what's happened to prices in the past couple of years the value proposition is much less appealing. The 3080 looks 'best value' but at £650 it is actually still very expensive by traditional standards. No cheaper than the 1080ti monster was at launch and doesn't compare well to yesteryear. 3070 looks like a 'cheap 2080ti/2080s' but those cards are arguably overpriced.
Maybe I'm just stuck in my ways but I can't bring myself to consider these sort of prices. I've been buying cards since the 90s and the most I've ever spent was £270 on a secondhand 1070ti two years ago [wow, didn't realise it was that long until I checked my mails!]. And that's included some decent stuff along the way, GTX280 for example was at the time the top Nvidia card but still came in under £250 brand new. I think 3080 would be a really nice upgrade (more of an upgrade than some of the other switches I've done) however I just feel like I would excitedly run a few benchmarks, crank up some settings and then a week later be sat there thinking "I've just spent £650 for what, a bit better performance when I don't even play modern games that often anyway".
One the one hand, we're seeing good performance improvement versus previous generation, like we used to get. The prices on the 3070/3080 look reasonable when compared to what the previous gen has been marketed at.
One the other hand, if you ignore what's happened to prices in the past couple of years the value proposition is much less appealing. The 3080 looks 'best value' but at £650 it is actually still very expensive by traditional standards. No cheaper than the 1080ti monster was at launch and doesn't compare well to yesteryear. 3070 looks like a 'cheap 2080ti/2080s' but those cards are arguably overpriced.
Maybe I'm just stuck in my ways but I can't bring myself to consider these sort of prices. I've been buying cards since the 90s and the most I've ever spent was £270 on a secondhand 1070ti two years ago [wow, didn't realise it was that long until I checked my mails!]. And that's included some decent stuff along the way, GTX280 for example was at the time the top Nvidia card but still came in under £250 brand new. I think 3080 would be a really nice upgrade (more of an upgrade than some of the other switches I've done) however I just feel like I would excitedly run a few benchmarks, crank up some settings and then a week later be sat there thinking "I've just spent £650 for what, a bit better performance when I don't even play modern games that often anyway".
At least it was faster and the fastest card has never been value for money.
2070 and 2080 were worse. Even the super variants weren't that much better.
I bet if Nvidia weren't so focused on RTX last gen, they could have had these FP+FP shaders back then utilising the die space better.
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Well I told you it was better to wait!
I feel the same,but remember it was the ATI HD4870 which caused Nvidia GTX200 series pricing to drop. TBF,its also prudent wait for both companies to launch their ranges,and then the price adjustments will happen.
Even Hardware Unboxed said people should ideally wait.