This is the biggest factor. The masses want decent and simple, more expensive too won't cut it. PC gaming is looking like returning to a more niche hobby unless something dramatic happens to make it more affordable.
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Is anyone planning to buy a RTX 3070 TI (8GB GDDR6X VRAM)?
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This is the biggest factor. The masses want decent and simple, more expensive too won't cut it. PC gaming is looking like returning to a more niche hobby unless something dramatic happens to make it more affordable.
Tricks? Hell of a sacrifice though, RT looks lovely.
I can't see the 3070ti performance being much different than the 6800, (apart from ray tracing and dlss, which hopefully fsr will combat to some point) so wouldn't pay the AIB launch prices which are claimed. At this point we are getting closer and closer to the AMD 7000 series which is supposed to have better hardware support for FSR and ray tracing so I will not pay 3 x the worth of a card which may plummet in value next year when 7000 series is out
Playing with any unlocked streaming option, or adding extra cache to games. f.ex. in Fallen Order you can unlock console commands (via unreal unlocker) and play with the streaming options and that helps quite a bit with stutter. There's a fair few games like that.
The only RT sacrifice that happens that I care about is in Cyberpunk, the rest work fine as is. 8 GB would be negatively felt a lot more often for me. If anything Ansel would've mattered more to me than that extra RT power.
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IF (and that's a big if) I can get one for somewhere close to MSRP, is under 315mm (smallish case) and has at least 3xDP & 2xHDMI ports then I will absolutely get one. I currently have a 1080 and whilst it's still performing admirably it's the oldest part in the my build and I've been longing for a reasonably priced 70/80 but baulk at the prices at the moment.
They have used double capacity memory modules on some of chips before - they did it with the 550Ti - if they'd stuck to gddr6. Assuming of course no performance penalty. They did something similar on the 660Ti, but it looks more like a botch job than what they did with the 550Ti tbh. Either way, I'm not sure if gddr6x currently has the memory module sizes to do it - it was mentioned in Anands 3090 review.
A 16gb 3070ti priced right would have been a great GPU . But given the current situation that would never be possible at anything close to reasonable.
I'll be interested in seeing some benchmarks Vs the 3070 at 4k in the games where the 3070 struggles so we can see if the gddr6x actually combats the lower capacity.
I'll be interested in seeing some benchmarks Vs the 3070 at 4k in the games where the 3070 struggles so we can see if the gddr6x actually combats the lower capacity.
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So at the moment I have 3 screens on my desk, I've purchased a sim rig and that's a 4th screen, and finally I'm thinking about a stream PC via HDMI out to a capture card so I'd like the option if I get that far.
It's quite a bit less powerful (estimated to be 20-21% slower on Techpowerup vs the 3080), the memory bandwidth is just 33% higher than the RTX 3070, with same VRAM capacity. The RTX 3080 uses a different GPU die to the RTX 3070/3070 TI, has a significantly larger GPU die and consumes much more power.
I wonder if the TI versions of the RTX 3070 and 3080 will (mostly) replace the non TI versions, in terms of the amount produced by Nvidia (FE) and AIBs? Nvidia will sell them anyway even at a higher price, so it kind of makes sense.
They could have made the RTX 3070 TI a cut down version of the RTX 3080 GPU die, would've been a lot more interesting then, with the same 10GB of VRAM, as the 3080. I think the GA102 die yields are probably lower than the GA104 yields though...
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I have 5 ports in use also, but not at the same time.
3 screens used simultaneously
1 for Oculus
1 for TV
It's nice not having to move the PC out and mess about with the cables.
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This.
As someone who snagged a Series X I've been very impressed with the performance to date, although I want to see some exclusives that can really show off the system. As a lifelong PC gamer it seems to me that the industry has really shown its true colours during the last year. And as for the 2070 / 2080 ti Nvidia has made it further clear just how little respect they have for the average gamer who wants a decent product at a decent price.
Nvidia is marketing the RTX 3080 TI as "The New Gaming Flagship"... So, it looks like the RTX 3090 will be side-lined by Nvidia, no surprises there. This actually makes sense, because the 3080 TI will beat /match the best AMD graphics card, the 6900XT.
We can predict this because the RTX 3080 and 6900XT are already so close in performance (except for ray tracing).
The RTX 3070 TI (Founders Edition) is priced at £529 (RRP). This is actually a reasonable price (if you can buy one), I probably would've paid an extra £50 to get this, instead of a RTX 3070, if it had been available, although the TDP is quite high at 290w.
But no big deal really, as the same VRAM amount.
We can predict this because the RTX 3080 and 6900XT are already so close in performance (except for ray tracing).
The RTX 3070 TI (Founders Edition) is priced at £529 (RRP). This is actually a reasonable price (if you can buy one), I probably would've paid an extra £50 to get this, instead of a RTX 3070, if it had been available, although the TDP is quite high at 290w.
But no big deal really, as the same VRAM amount.
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Nvidia have always claimed that the 3090 isn't a gaming card. They were calling the 3080 the "gaming flagship" back at Ampere's launch. I assume they declined to comment when asked why they then allowed partners to make custom models covered in gaming branding, if the 3090 really is a Titan-class card.