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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Twinz said:
If they buy a graphics card as a status symbol, maybe.

The $700 price point went almost nowhere with Turing. Instead, Turing charged $1200 dollars for performance that should have come in around that $700

I don't care what they call it. I don't care what "tier" it is put in. I don't care if it's called "midrange" by the masses.

I only care about two things:

1) How fast is it?

2) How much does it cost?

It's a graphics card, not a hair piece.
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You don't care about it being a cut down card with only 10gb vram in a 2020 "flagship" card with quite obviously the 12gb and 16gb ti cards hiding away in another of Jensons cupboards? They'll obviously launch in a few months which would arguably have a lot more longetivity than these?

My point was, yes some people might be unhappy with a 3080 purchase come a few months diwn the road when the inevitable 3080ti is launched with way more VRAM.
 
I’m cancelling my 10700K upgrade. I think these cards justify PCEI4. Have to wait to see what AMD and Intel does by Xmas.
 
xraycat87 said:
Is it worth buying a NvMe drive for games or won't I see much difference between that and my current 3.5hdd via sata3. Purely for lag, load times.

Not sure I get a 1tb for games when I have 5.5tb laying around on a usb3 drive and 1tb on a normal hdd ready.

More worried I'll max my 16gb ram with the 3080
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You need at least one SSD. If you already have one but it's slower, then fine, no rush right now because the paradigm change mandating NVMe hasn't actually happened yet, and until it does you have time for those drives to come down in price further. If you have no SSD at all then might as well go for an NVMe, and absolutely do it.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
You don't care about it being a cut down card with only 10gb vram in a 2020 "flagship" card with quite obviously the 12gb and 16gb ti cards hiding away in another of Jensons cupboards?
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I actually want manufactures to continually roll out better products that offer more performance for my money. That's kind of their job. (Which Nvidia didn't do all that well with Turing, but seems to have delivered with Ampere)

And "Cut down card"?

I would run a bag of dog $h!t with electrodes sticking out of it if the price was right and it could run my driving sims in VR the way the 3080 looks like it can.
 
Poneros said:
You need at least one SSD. If you already have one but it's slower, then fine, no rush right now because the paradigm change mandating NVMe hasn't actually happened yet, and until it does you have time for those drives to come down in price further. If you have no SSD at all then might as well go for an NVMe, and absolutely do it.
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My boot drive is a pretty high spec NvMe drive, think it's like 3000/2400mbs or something crazy. Stuck the witcher on it and it loads so quick. Stuck witcher on a normal drive, isn't as slow as I thought. Just don't wanna smack 95 on another drive if games aren't utilising storage like consoles claim to be.
 
I was actually going to go for a 3090 to pair it with my LG CX 48" OLED but i am having second thoughts now and i am thinking the 3080 should have more than enough grunt to run games at 4K comfortably, it does not have to be 100% locked at 4K 120HZ for me.

It only has to last me until the next gen Nvidia cards are released
 
Twinz said:
If that's how Nvidia plays it with the NDA's, I guess I'll just miss the first wave.
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Same for every gpu launch really, i remember the Vega launch, the ocuk site was reporting cards in stock that had already sold out and that was a source of confusion for people not getting dispatch notices.
 
ik9000 said:
GTX280 was when the pound was strong, literally the peak before the crash and reams of quantitative easing devalued the pound to its current lows. Even normalised for inflation you still have a point, but it's not quite as clear cut. GTX480 replaced it and was £350-400 IIRC.
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Fair point, in terms of dollar price it wasn't quite such a bargain, but I guess from a pure value proposition to me as a UK buyer, mid-high end cards are less appealing now than they were in years gone by, it seems nowadays if you are not spending £350+ you are really scraping around and compromising.
Yes you have to consider inflation, yes you have to consider maybe modern cards might have a longer lifespan rather than being upgraded every 18-24 months or whatever, but still i find myself struggling to justify the cost

Following the GTX280 I bought the following:

Jan 2011: GTX470 - £144
Nov 2012: HD7950 - £205
Jan 2017: RX480 - £146 (bear in mind the pound had tanked to under $1.25 by this point following the Brexit vote)

So that was less than £500 for three graphics cards that lasted me over 7.5 years, admittedly the GTX470 was being phased out so some good deals on. I'm conscious I may not be the target market for some of the high end stuff but what used to be the midrange price segment of £150-250 always used to tempt me two generations down the line if good deals became available. I don't even know what you'd buy for that sort of money these days and feel you were getting a decent upgrade, Vega seems to be EOL and RTX2060 priced above that, which leaves what a 1660S? Not really going to bet people out of bed in the morning from what I can see
 
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On NV Reddit but some random poster not NV.
 
xraycat87 said:
My boot drive is a pretty high spec NvMe drive, think it's like 3000/2400mbs or something crazy. Stuck the witcher on it and it loads so quick. Stuck witcher on a normal drive, isn't as slow as I thought. Just don't wanna smack 95 on another drive if games aren't utilising storage like consoles claim to be.
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If you have enough space on it for at least a game that might need to be on an SSD, then you're fine. You can join me in the wait for newer more affordable high-speed high storage NVMe SSDs. :)
 
ik9000 said:
is that 470 price correct? I paid £175 for my GTX460 and I think the standard ones were £145.
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There was a dip right after launch where the GTX470 price dropped down for a couple of weeks or so. I can't remember why now. Mine were like £160 each or something. IIRC they were like £240 on launch or something.
 
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