Despite the RRP of £1050 for the 12Gb 3080Ti, it looks like this is still ~£2000 everywhere, so I'm casting around for alternatives.
I'm kinda okay with the ~£1100 price tags, but since my 6Gb GTX only cost £230 in 2019, I'm loathed to spend even £500 in 2022 for a graphics card with less than 10Gb RAM and no video encoding acceleration.
The only other card that comes close is the Radeon 6800XT and seems to be available for ~£1100... but then I'd lose out on CUDA cores for video encoding - the admittedly old software I use only seems to offer CUDA support and certainly all the initial reviews were pretty scathing about the ray tracing performance on the Radeon card - if I'm spending that much on a card, I'm expecting to be able to enable all the eye-candy at 1440P ~175Hz!
So my main questions are:
Do any video encoding apps have an AMD equivalent to CUDA acceleration?
Has the ray tracing performance on them improved much since the release reviews?
And more generally....
What are people's experiences of these cards?
Any other alternatives to put in the mix?
I'm guessing these are available and still at semi-sensible prices as people are in the same position as me: struggling to justify the £1000-ish price tag for a card with no CUDA support, DLSS and limited ray-tracing, despite the high raster-performance and 16Gb DDR6?
I'm kinda okay with the ~£1100 price tags, but since my 6Gb GTX only cost £230 in 2019, I'm loathed to spend even £500 in 2022 for a graphics card with less than 10Gb RAM and no video encoding acceleration.
The only other card that comes close is the Radeon 6800XT and seems to be available for ~£1100... but then I'd lose out on CUDA cores for video encoding - the admittedly old software I use only seems to offer CUDA support and certainly all the initial reviews were pretty scathing about the ray tracing performance on the Radeon card - if I'm spending that much on a card, I'm expecting to be able to enable all the eye-candy at 1440P ~175Hz!
So my main questions are:
Do any video encoding apps have an AMD equivalent to CUDA acceleration?
Has the ray tracing performance on them improved much since the release reviews?
And more generally....
What are people's experiences of these cards?
Any other alternatives to put in the mix?
I'm guessing these are available and still at semi-sensible prices as people are in the same position as me: struggling to justify the £1000-ish price tag for a card with no CUDA support, DLSS and limited ray-tracing, despite the high raster-performance and 16Gb DDR6?