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3090 Worth it Over the 3080??
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Yes, the OP is dead wrong. The Rtx 3080 is an insane card, I paid around £730 for mine (like rrp)and it is neck and neck in performance with the 3090 at 1080p and 4k. However, the 3090 cost £1500 plus (more than double the price for 5 to 10% performance boost)
But the rtx 3080 has made me happy. RDR2 maxed out at 4k 120hz. This game is the best looking game I have played for for long time! It looks totally amazing. Totally different game at 4k than 1080p. Well worth it.
The RRP of a 3090 is £1399, not £1500. 15% + is hardly neck and neck. The 3080 is a decent card, especially for 1080p and 1440p. But if you want to game at 4k, A 3090 is the way to go.
The average performance difference at 4K across 18 reviews is 15.7% in favour of the 3090, and at 4K with Ray Tracing is 19.7%.
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Yes, the OP is dead wrong. The Rtx 3080 is an insane card, I paid around £730 for mine (like rrp)and it is neck and neck in performance with the 3090 at 1080p and 4k. However, the 3090 cost £1500 plus (more than double the price for 5 to 10% performance boost)
But the rtx 3080 has made me happy. RDR2 maxed out at 4k 120hz. This game is the best looking game I have played for for long time! It looks totally amazing. Totally different game at 4k than 1080p. Well worth it.
post any gaming or synthetic benchmark with your 3080 you like and I'll give you a thousand pounds if my 3090 only beats it by 5%
Ok then an FE RTX 3080 would then be £650 and an FE RTX 3090 is £1400 but still, the 3090 is over double the cost of the 3080 for 4% to 10% performance increase ( although some 3090 owners will claim 15% because they have already bought the card).
The fact is 99% if those games benchmarked are already running above 60fps in 4k so you would not even enjoy the tiny performance difference of the 3090 card that costs more than double the price.
You could buy TWO 3080s for the cost of one 3090,and still have £100 left over. With the 3080 you can still play 4k 60fps. The 3090 is a rotten deal.
Red Dead Redemption 2. The difference is not much, do the math. Where is my £1,000. Kind regards?
https://youtu.be/s2Gf6fi3rlk
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I said you, are you Jarrod's tech? Give me YOUR benchmark and I'll put against MY card. Not someone else's
As for the video you provided anyway... thats a 17% difference, I did the math
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I said you, are you Jarrod's tech? Give me YOUR benchmark and I'll put against MY card. Not someone else's
As for the video you provided anyway... thats a 17% difference
OP , He said at 1080p, An RTX 3090 is like 8% faster than a RTX 3080 on average, in gaming.
My RDR2 does 80fps max settings at 4k. However, we are using different, cpu, Ram, motherboards so Jared's benchmarks are more suitable to compare.
So the 3090 is faster only by little, like 17% on average at 4k and 8% at 1080p. It's up to you if you want to give the 1k.
Some confusion there, but cleared up.
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You certainly could.. in unicorn land!
Well, quite.
A 3090 is infinitely faster than the 3080 that you can't buy.
I'd have bought a 3080 if I could buy one, but I see no reason to be disappointed with the value proposition of my 3090FE - the extra ~13% I get for my use case (3x1440p sim racing) is quite useful when you're already GPU limited pushing more pixels than 4K.
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Mike.. exactly my sentiments. Plus I have three months worth of mining on the 3090FE already made £600 back making it to date an £800 (nicely subsidised) card...
You certainly could.. in unicorn land!
I understand it's hard to get hold of these cards, but just comparing the cost relative to the other. OcUk are still selling them although be it a harsh waiting list.
But you could literally buy either 3 x 3070s and have £50 change or 2 x 3080 and have £100 change.
You could have mined on 3x 3070s or 2x 3080s. Those cards can mine also.
I'm glad you are enjoying your card and not saying this to put you off, just calling a spade a spade. I'm sure you would enjoy your card as it looks like a nice card.
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Why would you want multiple of any of them cards when only the 3090 can do SLI? (or mining)
Its legit statements we have presented that the 3080 is not only >10% weaker in most games but you also cant get hold of them.. you will find a nice proportion of the 3090 owners would have bought one if they were available. So instead of retro troll posts stating captain obvious "twice the price", its worth it to some on here not having to beseech to the multiple telegram alert type bots just to get hold of a 30 series card.
Like I have presented, those that are inclined to mine to obtain some reimbursement pocket money may be the ones laughing last when the card pays for itself in less than a year (which is pretty good ROI ask any miner).
Its legit statements we have presented that the 3080 is not only >10% weaker in most games but you also cant get hold of them.. you will find a nice proportion of the 3090 owners would have bought one if they were available. So instead of retro troll posts stating captain obvious "twice the price", its worth it to some on here not having to beseech to the multiple telegram alert type bots just to get hold of a 30 series card.
Like I have presented, those that are inclined to mine to obtain some reimbursement pocket money may be the ones laughing last when the card pays for itself in less than a year (which is pretty good ROI ask any miner).
Yeah we believe £600 profit was mined lol, I can smell the bs from here.
I'm pointing this out , so folks are aware of the utter waste of money and poor value the 3090 card presents which is clear. Obviously if you bought one, you would defend it to your last breath. You can also mine with the 3080 and 3070 or even build multiple mining systems so your point just is too weak.
If you had an 8k monitor , I would understand the SLi thing. But everyone knows that SLi is getting less support now.
Let me correct you there, SLI as we know it .. meaning SLI driver profiles is not getting less support BUT IS DEAD SINCE 1st Jan this year for all cards and 3000 series never got SLI profiles. Welcome to 2020's it is now NVlink and mGPU.
I have a 5120 x 1440p 49" 120Hz (basically 1 million pixels less than 4K) screen and dual 3090s , mostly for work but do game on it and have tried some of the games it supports with dual 3090s, eg. RDR2 at full ultra settings on will not hit a stable/locked 120 FPS for my 120Hz monitor but looks amazing. Try that on your 3080 Ultra settings all maxed out..
Shadow of the tomb raider fully maxed out is stunning too even with its not so great ray tracing features. I need to stick some results up on the benchmark threads and 3090 owners thread, when I finally have time.
I'm hoping MSF2020 finally gets the DX12 features and allows the use of more than one card. Then watch how many people jump onto multi card setups when MSF2020 gets the feature.
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Lol you do realise that it is very easy for 3090 owners to resell their cards for a profit right now? If the 3080 was really so close I suspect many 3090 owners would do this. But the reallity is, 19.7% performance increase at 4k in modern games with RT, add to this the fact that the 3080 only has 10gb vram vs the 24gb of the 3090. Oh and the 3090 runs cooler abd quieter.
The cards are in different leagues. To call the 3090 a waste is a joke.
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I said you, are you Jarrod's tech? Give me YOUR benchmark and I'll put against MY card. Not someone else's
As for the video you provided anyway... that's a 17% difference, I did the math
Benchmark percentages LOL
86fps vs 103 fps - You can keep your 17 FPS that you'd never notice gaming - and I'll keep my £700.
Yes the 3090's are the fastest card, but they are no way worth it even at 4k for what you'd actually feel gaming. Measure it yes, 'feel it' - er nah.
The cost of being unable to wait for 3080's to become available is £700. 100% extra cost for 15% performance increase. And I'd have done the same.
MAy aswell put that much towards a pilots license.
Let me correct you there, SLI as we know it .. meaning SLI driver profiles is not getting less support BUT IS DEAD SINCE 1st Jan this year for all cards and 3000 series never got SLI profiles. Welcome to 2020's it is now NVlink and mGPU.
I have a 5120 x 1440p 49" 120Hz (basically 1 million pixels less than 4K) screen and dual 3090s , mostly for work but do game on it and have tried some of the games it supports with dual 3090s, eg. RDR2 at full ultra settings on will not hit a stable/locked 120 FPS for my 120Hz monitor but looks amazing. Try that on your 3080 Ultra settings all maxed out..
Shadow of the tomb raider fully maxed out is stunning too even with its not so great ray tracing features. I need to stick some results up on the benchmark threads and 3090 owners thread, when I finally have time.
I'm hoping MSF2020 finally gets the DX12 features and allows the use of more than one card. Then watch how many people jump onto multi card setups when MSF2020 gets the feature.
Glad to hear your enjoying gaming on your setup.
Don't for get I paid like £730 for my 3080 and play RDR2 full maxed out settings. I lock most of my games to 60fps all max out settings as it is too fast above that. So it is buttery smooth with G Sync on as well.
I guess your two 3090s cost you in excess of £3000 ?
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Just looked at your other posts lol. Nice trolling, you not gone back to school this week then?
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Sarge, we get it. You love your 3080.
But you like calling a spade a spade, the 3090 is a better card. And none of the above owners regret getting one, they have a use case for doing so and in the case of those who are mining with them, aren't paying 1400 quid if they're mining cash back.
Your card is great, it's better than mine. But if you're mining 600 quid back because you bought a 3090, you're getting equal if not better value over the lifetime of the card than paying 730 quid for a 3080 and not mining with it. Because cash aside, the 3090 will stay relevant for longer.
But you like calling a spade a spade, the 3090 is a better card. And none of the above owners regret getting one, they have a use case for doing so and in the case of those who are mining with them, aren't paying 1400 quid if they're mining cash back.
Your card is great, it's better than mine. But if you're mining 600 quid back because you bought a 3090, you're getting equal if not better value over the lifetime of the card than paying 730 quid for a 3080 and not mining with it. Because cash aside, the 3090 will stay relevant for longer.