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3090 at reduced price

VortexA1

VortexA1

VortexA1

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Hi, I have a 3070 which the price is tanking.
Do I sell it now before it drops even more?

I already have issues with the 8gb vram

I can get a 3090 with warranty for 800odd with 24gb vram.i gather it'll hold its price better than 3080 ti with more ram than the ti.i plan to keep the 3090 for at least a few years.

Minus off 3070 sell price of maybe £350 it'll cost me just under £500

Good idea? Or wait lol.

I see the 4080 12gb will with estimates be same framerates roughly as 3090 for about a £1000....? But 3090 more vram.
 
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Many are flushing the toilet over 4080 12GB, with good reason imo. But in your situation, against the 3090, I'm not so sure. What resolution are you running? What games are you into? What games are you looking forward to, do you stream, etc...
 
There is no rush its so late in the cycle we are now into a new gen so I would wait to see what 3rd Nov says and base it from there.
 
Wucked said:
Many are flushing the toilet over 4080 12GB, with good reason imo. But in your situation, against the 3090, I'm not so sure. What resolution are you running? What games are you into? What games are you looking forward to, do you stream, etc...
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Well even resident evil 2 remake I'm quite limited with the vram, I turn up lighting etc and it hits my vram,I find it frustrating.

I run at 1440p but I love Ray tracing . Metro Exodus enhanced i can use dlss but it makes the image go a bit fuzzy and i love turning up the graphics and I'm thinking I keep the card a good few years and haven't got to bother with vram problems.
 
JediFragger said:
I was lucky I got my 6900XT s/h for just over 500 and it's a cracking cracking card, but the guy obviously seems like he sides with the green team (ie the ripoff ****s :D )
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Hahaha.
I personally think Ray tracing when done well really adds to a games atmosphere, and amd a bit behind nvidia there.:)
 
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VortexA1 said:
Well even resident evil 2 remake I'm quite limited with the vram, I turn up lighting etc and it hits my vram,I find it frustrating.

I run at 1440p but I love Ray tracing . Metro Exodus enhanced i can use dlss but it makes the image go a bit fuzzy and i love turning up the graphics and I'm thinking I keep the card a good few years and haven't got to bother with vram problems.
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Well, then it's a gamble. Will devs revisit and update to DLSS 3, and is that good enough...? No one knows, yet. I'd wait a while and take a look at the smorgasbord of reviews there will be in a few months. Your 3070 is plenty strong enough @ 1440 for now.
 
VortexA1 said:
Well even resident evil 2 remake I'm quite limited with the vram, I turn up lighting etc and it hits my vram,I find it frustrating.

I run at 1440p but I love Ray tracing . Metro Exodus enhanced i can use dlss but it makes the image go a bit fuzzy and i love turning up the graphics and I'm thinking I keep the card a good few years and haven't got to bother with vram problems.
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What does your heart tell you to do ?
 
VortexA1 said:
My heart says "go for it".

My brain not so sure ...
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I think your brain is right on this one.

You already have a card that's at least adequate for your use. It's only about 6 weeks until AMD release their next gen, which will probably have some effect on the market. Now is a bad time to buy a top end graphics card. The 4080 12GB (which is a 4070 clumsily relabelled as a 4080 to fool people who don't know better) is probably the worst value for money for any existing graphics card. If you're going to spend so much on a graphics card, the 4080 16GB (the actual 4080) would be a better buy. EDIT: There's probably also the issue of the PSU, since the 4000 series is designed for an ATX3.0 compliant PSU and the adaptors for older standards are suboptimal. It probably won't matter unless you have a 4090. Probably.

How daft would you feel if in ~6 weeks AMD release a card that's better for what you want than a 4070 4080 suckers edition 12GB and is £200 cheaper? Or their new top end card with 24GB that's as powerful as a 4090 at the same price as the real 4080? Even if you won't buy AMD for some reason, if that sort of thing happens it will probably force nvidia to drop prices. Which they will probably be doing anyway, since the 4000 prices are inflated to avoid competing with the current oversupply of 3000 series. We don't know what AMD's prices will be and we don't really know the performance of any of either of the new series of cards. AMD's not saying and Nvidia's cherry-picked slides are very obviously misleading, so much so that they might be considered lies and are less reliable than claims from leakers.

Since you have a functioning card that's at least adequate for your use, why not wait until you have the relevant information on which to make a decision?
 
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