Is the RTX 3090 a rip off for £1,400?

[chaparral]

what this shows is just how much Nvidia has been ripping of consumers with their 2080Ti pricing.

LOL and the price of the new 2080ti upgrade replacement 3090 GPU is £400 dearer then what the 2080ti price was

And people thought the 2080ti price was high

 

[chaparral]

Anyone who spends over £500 on a single GPU is a muppet in my eyes.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

ASUS Strix 2080Ti owner

There fixed it for you lol.

 

[scubes]

[QUOTE="The Old School Gamer, post: 33929498, member: 2118742080ti owner never looked back!

There fixed it for you lol. [/QUOTE]

 

[The Old School Gamer]

1080ti owner and it's just clear blue upgrade skies ahead, should notice a difference ah.
I tell you that 1080ti was the best £550 I spent over two years ago.

LOL sorry going to stop teasing you guys now, it's just to easy lol.
It's your cash buy whatever the hell you like as far as I am concerned.

Without a doubt in my mind, yes it's a rip off.

Don't get me wrong it is an amazingly powerful graphics card, it certainly gets the job done and then some.
But it's not a card I would ever buy for myself as it offers little value for money.
Like 2080ti owners are experiencing right now, your going to lose big money on it if it's not sold at the right time.

Some people don't care though.
They just want the best.
So price nor value is of any concern.

 

[dits]

LOL and the price of the new 2080ti upgrade replacement 3090 GPU is £400 dearer then what the 2080ti price was

And people thought the 2080ti price was high

the 3080 is direct replacement for the 2080Ti costing nearly half the price
while the 3090 is effectively a cheaper repacement for the £2500 RTX Titan

 

[Raiden85]

I certainly wouldn't class the 3080 as a 2080 Ti replacement as it has less VRAM for a start. If they do a 3080 Ti then yes but until that happens the 3090 is the only proper replacement.

And I have no doubt they'll do an Ampere Titan at some point with even more VRAM.

 

[Greebo]

the 3080 is direct replacement for the 2080Ti costing nearly half the price
while the 3090 is effectively a cheaper repacement for the £2500 RTX Titan

Its kind of not though. If the 3080 turns out to be only 20% faster and then doesnt overclock as high as the 2080ti so anybody coming from a 2100Mhz 2080ti might only see less than 10% upgrade and on top of that the replacement card has less memory then its not really a replacement.

Equally the 3090 is still a cut down core so not a full "proper" Titan although it should offer better perfromanc gains than the 2080ti did over the 1080ti but now it costs £400 more so thats a painful upgrade.

What is missing (and due to the 2gb memory chips not being ready) is the 3080ti with 95%+ of the cores of the 3090 and with 16GB or 20Gb ram giving us around 98% of the perfromance of the 3090 for a price under £1000.

Now that would be a decent replacement.

 

[torwak]

Guys, what's your opinion about 3090 vs 3080 performance comparison (or assumptions)? Do you think 3090 price is justifiable over 3080?

 

[Woodsta888]

Anyone who spends over £500 on a single GPU is a muppet in my eyes.

The manufacturers costs hasn't risen that much over the past 15 years to warrant it.

Or, just wealthier than thou

 

[Greebo]

Guys, what's your opinion about 3090 vs 3080 performance comparison (or assumptions)? Do you think 3090 price is justifiable over 3080?

Depends on the final results.

We currently dont know the following:

1. How the on paper the increases in spec relate to actual game performance
2. Do the 3090s boost much higher than the 3080
3. Do the 3090s overclock much higher still

But even if all of them go in favour of the 3090, its never going to be enough to say the extra performance is worth the extra money. It never is with tech.

That last extra 20% of performance probably costs you 50% always.

 

[torwak]

That last extra 20% of performance probably costs you 50% always.

Thank you. I am afraid 3090 owners will have the same fate like 2080Ti owners after 2 years.

That's the reason why I can't fully commit on 3090. However, it's time to upgrade my EVGA 1080Ti (which I use for last 3 years).

 

[SimonV6]

Thank you. I am afraid 3090 owners will have the same fate like 2080Ti owners after 2 years.

That's the reason why I can't fully commit on 3090. However, it's time to upgrade my EVGA 1080Ti (which I use for last 3 years).

"Fate"! my 2080ti cost me £1000 two years ago and had two years of great performance, had i been a smoker i would have spent 7x that and fuc*ed up lungs, I know which i would rather have
I only feel 2080ti owners will be ****** if they just bought one, but then why would anyone buy a 2080ti when a new GPU is almost out?

So NO, I don't feel ****** off with my Fate? with my 2080ti, it has been a great buy and at only cost me £1.60 per day, cheaper than most things

will pop in my kids PC once i buy a new one, so not selling it either

 

[Raiden85]

Exactly, I don't smoke or drink and gaming is a hobby that I will get many thousands of hours of entertainment for another 2yrs roughly. Works out damn cheap compared to drinking so 1x 3090 it is.

Bought my two cards in 2018 and not a single regret, if you bought them in the last few months then that's your fault as you would have had tons of warnings of a new generation of cards.

 

[Rezident]

Guys, what's your opinion about 3090 vs 3080 performance comparison (or assumptions)? Do you think 3090 price is justifiable over 3080?

Depends, but at least with a 3090 you will not need an upgrade for a long time. But I can see that 10Gb vram limit on the 380 being an issue sooner than you think in new games.

 

[sandys]

Thank you. I am afraid 3090 owners will have the same fate like 2080Ti owners after 2 years.

That's the reason why I can't fully commit on 3090. However, it's time to upgrade my EVGA 1080Ti (which I use for last 3 years).

3090 is not that bad, 2x1080Tis cost me that much and gave me great performance in the early days smashing 4k perf, I sold a 1080Ti early when 2080 was about to come out as I didn't want to left with two cards worth peanuts, 20x0 was a bit disappointing though and 1080 prices held firm as there was nothing in the midrange to compete with that gen such that I wish I held on to my other 1080, as 2080 was not enough performance for the price.

Depends, but at least with a 3090 you will not need an upgrade for a long time. But I can see that 10Gb vram limit on the 380 being an issue sooner than you think on new games.

Yup, the only reason I couldn't commit to a 3090 card right off the bat is purely because I want to see what competition brings be it an alternate from AMD or the rumored Ti variants with more VRAM that might be a better step to hold on to for the next few years.

 

[GAC]

professional level card at professional level card prices, who knew

 

[JohnG7]

It is a lot less than last gens pro card.

 

[Outcasst]

Guys, what's your opinion about 3090 vs 3080 performance comparison (or assumptions)? Do you think 3090 price is justifiable over 3080?

For gaming alone? Probably not worth the extra at all. But I can see people who will actually make use of the VRAM in professional applications will probably say it's a bargain.

 

[Nasher]

For gaming the 3090 is a waste of money. Even a 3070 is more than enough.

Buy people will buy it like they did the 2080ti, never make use of it's performance, then it'll be replaced by something cheaper in a couple of years and they will be mugs all over again.