3080 or Big Navi?

[evo4ever86]

Hello all.

I've just sold my 2080 for £500 (currently running onboard gpu now lol) and a spare 8700K for £200 for an upgrade to a 3080, but I've been hearing the flagship Big Navi is faster than the 3080 is this true? Should I save the money I've risen and wait for Navi? Cheers guys.

 

[evo4ever86]

28th is when your questions should be answered, since nobody but AMD knows currently

I've gotta wait either way anyway cos all of the 3080 cards are out of stock lol.

 

[evo4ever86]

You can't buy a RTX 3080 unless you get unbelievably lucky with F5 on a competitor website, or you preorder to get it in a several weeks or months time. Wait for the announcement on big Navi in 2 days.

As for "will it be faster?" On the benchmarks that have been 'leaked', it won in most tests, but lost on benchmark that emphasises Ray tracing, so who knows for sure. Best off waiting till independent reviews and testing.

Agreed.

 

[evo4ever86]

Tbh I'm more inclined to go with the 3080 as I'm Nvidia biased lol, but I think availability will play a role here too

 

[evo4ever86]

For me it's a case of availability.

If Big Navi is available ( I mean actually ready to ship, rather than ready to pre order ) I will buy one.

Even if the performance is worse, and the price is not great value, if cards are available I will probably buy. I suspect the Big Navi release will free up various 3080 Pre orders!!! I have a pre order in for 3080, but will likely order a Navi too, and see which wins

wow u must have money to burn!

 

[evo4ever86]

wait 2080 NOT Ti for 500 ?? WTF

Well £499 to be exact. Dont get me wrong it took me weeks to move it and plenty of msgs saying "its not worth it" loi