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Poll: 4090 now or wait?

Buy the 4090 now or wait?

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Is there anything coming out on PC in the next 6mths or so that you are desperately wanting to play, that demands 4090 levels of power?

Apart from specialist multi monitor set ups for racing & flight simulators, I'll be damned if I can think of any PC game due in that time frame that does require a 4090, then get one, if its a GPU itch you desperately need to scratch.

Otherwise spending the best part of £2K for a bunch of crappy console ports, or just replaying games you've already played through but at higher resolution & detail, seems like the best way to throw that £2K down the drain, IMO.
 
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Cooper said:
Is there anything coming out on PC in the next 6mths or so that you are desperately wanting to play, that demands 4090 levels of power?

Apart from specialist multi monitor set ups for racing & flight simulators, I'll be damned if I can think of any PC game due in that time frame that does require a 4090, then get one, if its a GPU itch you desperately need to scratch.

Otherwise spending the best part of £2K for a bunch of crappy console ports, or just replaying games you've already played through but at higher resolution & detail, seems like the best way to throw that £2K down the drain, IMO.
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Gaming in VR with high resolution VR headsets is also a use of a 4090.
 
I'm just waiting for RDNA3 and seeing what the prices will be, if it's close to the 4090 on raster performance that's what i will be going for as long as the price is attractive too.
 
Waiting out this generation, yes it's upgrade over my current 3090 but the cost and the risk involved in running one is not for me.
 
The use case for a 4090 is for those who want to run their games at 4K native at 120fps or can do the same with 1440p at 240fps without the need for any dlss and the cpu will still very limited in 1440p and to some degree even 4k depending on the game . If you are not after that sort of performance then a 4090 is not for you. Using Mw2 as an example i am getting 152fps native where a 3090 will do 79fps native , as i run both a 4K/120 screen and a 1440p/240 then for me the 4090 was a perfect upgrade and have no regrets but as i put above as we are so close to AMD release might as well at least wait to see what they have to offer :)
 
I'm waiting either till this time next year or the 5 series with a full system rebuild sometime in 2024.

Can't exactly upgrade right now due to numerous personal stuff that is taking up time and money, I'm fine with my 3090 for a good while. :)
 
eeii said:
3rd of November will be worth the wait one way or the other.
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Lets hope Lisa Su (Red Team AMD) will be singing this to the Green Team Nvidia soon as this is all getting ridiculous now.... from pricing to Nvidia thinking they can get away with anything now and the never ending naming games of GPUs and even after admitting the 4080 12GB was confusing to customers they then went out and released a 3060 with 8GB and of course had one with 12GB...

They are really taking the micky now and total disrespect for their customers. So proving the 4080 12GB was confusing was just a way to cover up they got caught red handed with their games to deliberately confuse their customers and sell them a product that is misleading performance wise.

I really hope AMD has something this time that beats them at a price people can't refuse to put Nvidia back in their place..
 
eeii said:
3rd of November will be worth the wait one way or the other.
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Whilst I'm sure the new AMD cards will be very good, I have absolutely zero faith in AMD's ability to deliver cards in any sort of meaningful quantity, especially to the UK market, until well into Q2 2023.

So, whilst people keep saying the 3rd of November...its not really.
 
Cooper said:
Whilst I'm sure the new AMD cards will be very good, I have absolutely zero faith in AMD's ability to deliver cards in any sort of meaningful quantity, especially to the UK market, until well into Q2 2023.

So, whilst people keep saying the 3rd of November...its not really.
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3rd November is to announce the new cards that you wont be able to buy till a random number generator picks out the "in the shops to buy" date.
 
PermaChanged said:
As a 3080 owner gaming at 3440x1440 I plan to wait for 50XX series - I don't believe I'll see true benefit from upgrading.
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Same here.

I'll wait until the 5 series comes out, or whichever GPU has the new path tracing.
 
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