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10GB vram enough for the 3080? Discuss..
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Hold on, apparently £1400 3090s were a bad deal though even with mining profits taken into consideration.A bad deal? A card that made between £5-10 a day for the best part of a year.
Compared to a 3080FE the 3090FE was, the AIB/scalped 3090s were £2.5-3k though if you want to compare to aib scalped 3080 at £1200+
They used more power for just little extra hash rate + more heat and considering how much more they cost would take longer to ROI over the 3080
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Seem to know an awful lot about it fellas.. how many cards you have? 
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True we don't, we have had gibbo saying Asus alone outsold considerably more GPUs than NV sold FE's, add about another 10+ aibs, so maybe I was harsh with 95% maybe it was 90%.
There was zero 80 FE drops for almost 4 months, there was about 10 drops in 1 year.*
80 FE was on sale for less than a month over it's lifetime
I certainly couldn't point out any user in the forum that wants to spend ~£1200 over £650 can anyone else?
Therefore the question one should ask themselves is why does the aibs outnumber FE's, and what's the 4080 pricing got in common with 3080 aib pricing???
So back to the original point, £650 fantastic card that needs lowered settings occasionally to accomodate 10Gb vram.
If you paid £1200 you got absolutely mugged off.
*edit-Checked through FE PA, there's been four 3080 drops since 17th Dec 2021, just four.
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The 4080FE is in stock and has been for over 2 months solid now.
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So it is. I looked on my phone and didn't see that. I'm sitting down and refuse to stand, so I sit corrected. Still not sure I could stomach £1,200 though.
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You could say the same for anyone who paid inflated prices over the last couple of years on any of the models of cards and now even more so on the newer cards since you can't even offset costs with mining.
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Really don't feel Sony or MS need a pro version.
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Not like PC gamers need upgrades! I don't have a problem with Pro versions if they offer decent uplifts. Chances are you could get a series x and a pro version for less than a 4080.
Decided to try hogwarts out last night on the 4k oled and funnily it actually runs smoother at a locked 60 fps than it does at 120+ fps on my 175hz aw 
Probably down to frame pacing. Game stayed locked at 60 the whole time with dlss quality and high settings + RT off, couldn't see any texture issues either.
Games are starting to sacrifice visual quality overall (and not just talking about RT here), drop res. even further (which would be ok if they used a good implementation of FSR but most of the time, it is adaptive resolution/VRS or some kind of checkerboarding which pales in comparison to a good fsr implementation) in order to hit a locked 60.
I would be very tempted by a pro/refresh console if they can get settings back to more high preset with some RT performance equivalent to 3090ti @ 1440P (or preferably with FSR in all games for 4k) with a locked 60 fps for <£600
Probably down to frame pacing. Game stayed locked at 60 the whole time with dlss quality and high settings + RT off, couldn't see any texture issues either.Games are starting to sacrifice visual quality overall (and not just talking about RT here), drop res. even further (which would be ok if they used a good implementation of FSR but most of the time, it is adaptive resolution/VRS or some kind of checkerboarding which pales in comparison to a good fsr implementation) in order to hit a locked 60.
I would be very tempted by a pro/refresh console if they can get settings back to more high preset with some RT performance equivalent to 3090ti @ 1440P (or preferably with FSR in all games for 4k) with a locked 60 fps for <£600
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If you care that much, you wouldn't bother with a console to begin with.Decided to try hogwarts out last night on the 4k oled and funnily it actually runs smoother at a locked 60 fps than it does at 120+ fps on my 175hz aw
Games are starting to sacrifice visual quality overall (and not just talking about RT here), drop res. even further (which would be ok if they used a good implementation of FSR but most of the time, it is adaptive resolution/VRS or some kind of checkerboarding which pales in comparison to a good fsr implementation) in order to hit a locked 60.
I would be very tempted by a pro/refresh console if they can get settings back to more high preset with some RT performance equivalent to 3090ti @ 1440P (or preferably with FSR in all games for 4k) with a locked 60 fps for <£600
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Then WTF was the 3080 12gb? come on dude.....
It's not so much cost savings dude. It's longevity. They know if they designed it with more VRAM on it would last a lot longer at the high end.
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The bus width was different, cause as ive said you can't just add 2gb of ram. The 3080 10gb couldnt have 12gb,it would need to have 20. Or increase the bus which further drives up the cost.
Nvidia could have used a GA104 die, 256 bus and 16gb VRAM for a 3080 that was 20% slower but then would that have added to longevity?
No that was the 3070 but they put 8gb on it instead
At first glance I thought I agree with you as its sharper, but the high picture has the same issue I posted a couple of days back where the reflection is overpowering and looks like it is extending below the floor. Are both of these RT enabled? Is there a screenshot of that scene without RT?Lol, this just gets better and better, use high settings to achieve better graphics than ultra!
That's not RT but the "effects" option........
This game just seems badly made to me.
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That screenshot is without RT enabled
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