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Anyone moved to a 3080ti from a 3080? or 3080 to a 3090?

I know its not what you asked but I'm planning on hopefully returning my 6800XT and going with a 3080Ti, mainly to get that little extra power at 4K and have DLSS + FSR option (especially since lot of games I wanna play this year/next have DLSS and RTX), if I had a 3080 already tho I don't think I would bother, especially if you paid £7-800 for it near launch
 
I upgraded from a 3080fe to a 3090fe. Purely as I was able to trade the 3080fe to CeX for more than the cost of the 3090...
Outside of benchmarks, Id be hard pushed to tell the difference.
In GTA V at 3840x1600, it was I think a 19% improvement. But in most cases I think its been less.
In 3dmark timespy, I think overall it was like +9% overall score and like +11-12% in FPS on the tests.
After a thermal pad change, the 3090fe is much quieter than my 3080fe was. (I never changed pads on that... so maybe would have been similar result if I had?)
It runs much cooler too (usually no higher than 65 on the core... compared to touching 80 on the 3080.)

I would never have purchased a 3090 where it not for the insane trade in price on my 3080.
So unless you are able to get the 3080ti or 3090 for either cost negative change like I did, or for a very small cost, I wouldn't bother. Even £150-200 to change is probably at the limit of 'worth it' without other factors. (Like the 3080Ti you are upgrading to being much quieter, or fitting your build better in some way)

Sadly both my cards coil-whine. I had hoped the 3090 might not...
 
I upgraded from a 3080 to a 3090 (since a pawn shop was paying silly amounts of money for 3080s which covered me for a 3090 at zero cost) and I couldn't tell you the difference outside of benchmarks and Quake 2 RTX (from about 70fps to 90-100, so the extra smoothness was noticeable on a 144hz screen), other, than that not really, only noticeable difference is my 3090 having no coil whine but that would be a lottery . 3090 for 1.5k is a blatant rip off and I would advice no one to buy one, I would look instead for a 3080 FE for MSRP or for a 6800XT on the low 800s
 
Yeah made the upgrade, partly as sold a 3080FE (not planned to but offered crazy amount) to make 3090FE buy cheap as chips anyways.

I game with it on a 4k OLED which can do 120hz, so the extra uplift in performance is nice. Normally at 4k the extra cores can scale a bit more and most titles I compared it to at the time I played saw an uplift of 10%-20% (though some can see less). However its one of those things at the same time, with G-Sync, turn off the FPS counter and most would not notice that uplift really aside from few gaming spots.

From a strict price to performance perspective and if it was MSRP, not worth it at all of course and 3080FE / 6800 / 6800XT sit in the sweet spot.
 
I moved from a 3080FE to a 3090FE. I mainly play Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 in VR and the difference was marked. Much less stuttering and an overall smoother experience. I think the extra VRAM really helped in this instance as msfs is a VRAM hog.
 
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The uplift in performance is around 15% from 3080 to 3090 and a 3080Ti is near as makes no difference the same as a 3090.

As PeteZ says, at ANY resolution you'd not 'feel' or see the difference - it's measurable, but look at any game benchmarks and decide if you'd be able to tell the difference in fps when gaming.

THose that swapped out theirs at pawn shops or whatever were very canny indeed. WIsh I'd done that.

So to upgrade for free is a no brainer.

PAying double for 15% increase (maybe 20% in some games) - nah.

Some say that VRAM runs out but I play a wide range of games and never noticed an issue. SO I guess those that do pay double, can measure that they get more frames as much as they can measure a 3080 runs out of VRAM, enough to convince some. Will you notice/feel either? No.
 
I went from a zotac 3090 to a 3080ti fe just recently for 2 reasons. First reason was i wasnt that happy with the zotac, its one of poorest performing 3090s in benchmarks. Its power limit is locked and despite following several guides it just would not flash so i could properly overclock it. With the 3080ti fe overclocking was easy, i get about 1000 extra with it in timespy.

Second reason was financial. I sold the 3090 on ebay, i bought it at xmas for msrp (this was when prices werent inflated) and got my money back even though its 8 months old. So now i have a new card, i have a little extra gpu performance and saved about £500. Slight downer is the ti has slight coil whine under heavy load. Its not bad, i did think about returning it but its hardly audible above the fans, if i returned it now i'd have no gpu. The 3090 had no coil whine.
 
tyke_ said:
I went from a zotac 3090 to a 3080ti fe just recently for 2 reasons. First reason was i wasnt that happy with the zotac, its one of poorest performing 3090s in benchmarks. Its power limit is locked and despite following several guides it just would not flash so i could properly overclock it. With the 3080ti fe overclocking was easy, i get about 1000 extra with it in timespy.

Second reason was financial. I sold the 3090 on ebay, i bought it at xmas for msrp (this was when prices werent inflated) and got my money back even though its 8 months old. So now i have a new card, i have a little extra gpu performance and saved about £500. Slight downer is the ti has slight coil whine under heavy load. Its not bad, i did think about returning it but its hardly audible above the fans, if i returned it now i'd have no gpu. The 3090 had no coil whine.
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I hate the coil-whine lottery. :(
I keep entertaining silly ideas of buying yet another card to try get away from my whine... sense prevails though. (so far...)
 
I have a 3080 at the moment but would never go to the ti as there is little difference I would go 3090 for the vram.
 
I went from a 3080 FE to a 3080 TI FE. Wouldn't say I notice a difference, because it's such a small gap. I do feel better having an extra 20% VRAM for future titles. I only did it because it was a free upgrade + £50 cash in my pocket, effectively making my 3080 TI FE cost of ownership £600. I got lucky there. Definitely not worth upgrading unless you find a miner or something to overpay on the 3080 and manage to bag a 'free' or cheap upgrade.
 
I’ve gone from 3070 to 3080ti after moving up to 4K and can certainly see I nice FPS jump for most titles. Would say I’m able to crank everything up to max and keeps above 80fps which with gsync is good enough for me.

I’m most impressed with DLSS though as I can now have my cake and eat it with those that support it.
 
I'm about to pull the trigger on a 3080 Ti, replacing a 3080 (basically a 1:1 trade since the 3080 is non-LHR). I figure since I'm playing on a 3440x1440 120hz monitor I should get a better experience in some games where the 3080 wasn't hitting >60fps e.g. CP2077, Metro, Control, Flight Simulator, RDR2.

I was considering moving to a 6900xt, but may be moving to 4k shortly (where the larger bus on 3080 shines), and the better RT is perhaps somewhat beneficial.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
No wonder I'm struggling to buy an FE card if I'm competing against existing customers who have already bought one :(
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Or, you could read that the other way. If people are able to net not only 1, but multiple FE cards... maybe those are the easiest ones to get? Ill admit, I never intended to get an FE. I was after an AIB, either MSI or ASUS, but never was fast enough on the alerts.

Far too many people seem to moan about not being able to get a card, while doing next to nothing to up there chances.

If you setup alerts, either via Discord, Twitter or Telegram you should be able to net an FE card fairly easily. For my first card, I managed it on the 3rd set of alerts after setting them up. For the 2nd card it was harder due to there additional checks, but still managed it on the 3rd try.

Its a lot easier on desktop, but not impossible on mobile either. I work from home, so it was easy to act when an alert dropped.

Get setup, you will get one. Just google for "FE Part Alerts" and you should find a myriad of ways to get alerted.

Good luck!
 
Recently went from a 3090 suprim to an Asus Strix LC 3080ti. Purely for the fact that the 3090 mem was wasted on me, the extra temps I wasn't getting on with so I was constantly undervolting the gpu to reduce temps. So I thought to myself what's the point in owning the 3090. The Strix LC ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to gaming/temps/noise etc. She's a keeper!
 
spartapee said:
Recently went from a 3090 suprim to an Asus Strix LC 3080ti. Purely for the fact that the 3090 mem was wasted on me, the extra temps I wasn't getting on with so I was constantly undervolting the gpu to reduce temps. So I thought to myself what's the point in owning the 3090. The Strix LC ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to gaming/temps/noise etc. She's a keeper!
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And? Hows the Strix compare to the Suprim for noise?

The Suprim X has been my unicorn this GPU cycle... Never fast enough to buy it when I got a stock alert.
I was after it mainly as very few reports of it coil-whining, and apparently its the quietest card stock.
 
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And? Hows the Strix compare to the Suprim for noise?

The Suprim X has been my unicorn this GPU cycle... Never fast enough to buy it when I got a stock alert.
I was after it mainly as very few reports of it coil-whining, and apparently its the quietest card stock.
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Yes mine never coil whined at all which was great. Very good binned silicon too. I’ve tried a 3090fe in the past and that was coil whine heaven.

However I found undervolting/reducing performance on the gpu just to reduce temps and fan noise seemed backwards to me, kinda pointless having a top end card to undervolt it…just my opinion. Plus all I need a gpu for is to game, I don’t do anything else with it so the mem was wasted on me.

The LC strix for me personally is better suited for my build and requirements.
 
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