This is a sane normal person outlook.
Any GPU I'm buying I won't be replacing for it's life, probably 8 years same as my PC cycle. I don't get the upgrade yearly craze to get 15% fps in a game, we must have a lot of esports champions on here.
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Your current GPU buying strategy
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Any GPU I'm buying I won't be replacing for it's life, probably 8 years same as my PC cycle. I don't get the upgrade yearly craze to get 15% fps in a game, we must have a lot of esports champions on here.
My strategy until my last upgrade was always to buy when the latest generation had just released and then pickup a good deal on the previous generation's cards (upgrade history for the last 10 years Geforce 670, R9 290, Vega 56, all just after the new shiny had just been released).
The last few years knocked that idea well and truly on the head. But I luckily managed to get hold of FE 3060ti to go into a new build in January (although RRP still the most expensive card i've ever bought). Now looking to hopefully get a decent deal on a 6800/XT for less than <£500 around Black Friday...it's getting close....
Edit to add - not that there's anything wrong with the 3060ti, just i've more machines in the house that could do with an upgrade.
The last few years knocked that idea well and truly on the head. But I luckily managed to get hold of FE 3060ti to go into a new build in January (although RRP still the most expensive card i've ever bought). Now looking to hopefully get a decent deal on a 6800/XT for less than <£500 around Black Friday...it's getting close....
Edit to add - not that there's anything wrong with the 3060ti, just i've more machines in the house that could do with an upgrade.
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Wait until both teams full stacks are out, but probably not going to buy until Q3 next year, 6700xt still has has tons of life left in it.
My outlook is if the card I have no longer satisfies in the stuff I do.
By satisfy I mean runs games at max generally. Then I see what options are available. up to 2070 Super I had not spent more than £500 on a GPU ever before, so the 3080 Ti FE was a marked shift, but I only said yes to it as I found a buyer for the 2070 at £460, so just added the difference which meant I wasn't that far away from the overall input into the new card anyway.
Unlikely this will remain the case for the next upgrade if the 50 series is what I go for as am skipping 40 series because I am using brain smarts.
By satisfy I mean runs games at max generally. Then I see what options are available. up to 2070 Super I had not spent more than £500 on a GPU ever before, so the 3080 Ti FE was a marked shift, but I only said yes to it as I found a buyer for the 2070 at £460, so just added the difference which meant I wasn't that far away from the overall input into the new card anyway.
Unlikely this will remain the case for the next upgrade if the 50 series is what I go for as am skipping 40 series because I am using brain smarts.
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I'm lucky that my screen has 2.1 though it's just as well since both the display ports don't appear to work.
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GTX 1070 (2016) > RTX 3080 (2020) > RTX 5090 (2024)
Nah. I upgrade relatively often and it does not cost much. You just need to wait for opportunities to present itself. Like you telling me it is not a good deal spending £185 upgrading from a 3070 to a 3080 Ti? That is around 50% upgrade in both performance and vram.
So according to techpower up the 4090 is 77% faster than a 3080. a little short of your 2x estimate.
Also the performance increase is pretty normal. The 3090 is 85% faster than a 2080, or 57% faster than a 2080ti.
People have whipped themselves into a frenzy thinking this is an unprecedented level of performance increase when it is nothing too special
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The 3080 was 65% faster than a 2080 for less money, the 4080 only looks around 35-40% faster for near double the cost, for a 2 node jump this is absolutely shocking.
Personally? No. I like my warranties
I like my warranty also. I have over 2 years warranty on it, which is more than what I had on the 3070 I sold
The original owner is a reputable user on here so I am not worried. Besides, how often do graphics cards break? Not often in my experience.
Not often. I snapped 3 tiny little MLCs off the back of an A2000 when installing into a case it had no right to fit in. I sort of badly soldered 2 back, and the 3rd escaped to France and is now running a bistro in Lac.
The card runs perfectly.
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Only about 40% of the 4090 have self-combusted so far!
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Looking at all the performance graphs with RT on and 4k. Looks like double to me on all but FC6 That's the resolution I use and I want RT on, why wouldn't you when they've also enhanced RT performance?
Where you get 77% from anyway? 1080 & 1440p resolutions are all CPU bound anyway so not allowing full performance of the 4090 and would skew the result down as the 4090 wont be fully utilized - so was that an overall game average across all resolutions? Post link. Even then 77% not too special!?
What card you got? 970? Bet you thought that had 4GB of RAM when you bought it.
Techpower up FE review 4k RT on
Control
3080 - 32fps
4090 - 68fps
CP2077
3080 - 17fps
4090 - 42fps
Deathloop
3080 - 48fps
4090- 121 fps
F1 2022
3080 - 36
4090 - 85
FC6
64
96
Metro exodus
53
116
Resident Evil
75
175
Watch DOgs Legion
37
75
I agree with the silly money part. You pays your money you makes your choice. 'tis only money - can't take it with you.
I've had 2 failures in my lifetime.I like my warranty also. I have over 2 years warranty on it, which is more than what I had on the 3070 I sold
The original owner is a reputable user on here so I am not worried. Besides, how often do graphics cards break? Not often in my experience.
7800 GT and 4890 (had 2 in CF).
So I've always used the warranty. Imo I wouldn't even purchase these new cards bar Zotac for 5 year warranty, especially when the outlay is now 4 figures.
Everyone buys different I guess, but that is my take on it. I've also had a 1k PC monitor literally catch FIRE within a year (LG), so warranties are definitely useful!
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Yep 77% is a pretty normal uplift. Nothing special.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Specs
NVIDIA GA102, 1710 MHz, 8704 Cores, 272 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 10240 MB GDDR6X, 1188 MHz, 320 bit
What card you got? 970? Bet you thought that had 4GB of RAM when you bought it.
What does that have to do with this discussion? Or was that just a pathetic attempt to have a dig at me for running an old card?
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Indeed. In my case I will have sold the card before warranty is over so makes no difference to me. Only way I get screwed is if in the next year or two the card breaks and on top of that the original owner decides not to help. Both occurring at the same time are pretty slim imo, but obviously can happen which is a risk I am will to take. Especially for performance people were paying almost three times as much not so long ago