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Future-proofing your GPU.

Joxeon said:
The 3080 I bought over 3 years ago still can't be beat with any of the new stuff for £649 or less so I'd consider that a futureproofed purchase, can't imagine we'll be saying the same about any of the current gen stuff from AMD or Nvidia in 3 years time.

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I picked up a brand new 4070 Ti for £575 (after cashback) and after selling my 3080 Ti it worked out £95 for the upgrade.

After trying DLSS 3 I can say it has been well worth it. It is a lot better than I expected. Fake frames FTW I say :cry:

Apart from that I get a card that is new with 3 years warranty. At least 10% faster. It consumes around 100W less and generates less noise.

Did not think I would bother with ada due to the silly pricing but for a small fee to get all the above I could not pass up. Certainly better than paying for Geforce Now to get access to DLSS 3 @Nexus18 :p

Will enjoy it until the 5070 is out and will likely grab that :D
 
TNA said:
I picked up a brand new 4070 Ti for £575 (after cashback) and after selling my 3080 Ti it worked out £95 for the upgrade.

After trying DLSS 3 I can say it has been well worth it. It is a lot better than I expected. Fake frames FTW I say :cry:

Apart from that I get a card that is new with 3 years warranty. At least 10% faster. It consumes around 100W less and generates less noise.

Did not think I would bother with ada due to the silly pricing but for a small fee to get all the above I could not pass up. Certainly better than paying for Geforce Now to get access to DLSS 3 @Nexus18 :p

Will enjoy it until the 5070 is out and will likely grab that :D
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You mean to say you "upgraded" but still have the same 12gb vram, oh dear oh dear...... :D
 
TNA said:
I picked up a brand new 4070 Ti for £575 (after cashback) and after selling my 3080 Ti it worked out £95 for the upgrade.

After trying DLSS 3 I can say it has been well worth it. It is a lot better than I expected. Fake frames FTW I say :cry:

Apart from that I get a card that is new with 3 years warranty. At least 10% faster. It consumes around 100W less and generates less noise.

Did not think I would bother with ada due to the silly pricing but for a small fee to get all the above I could not pass up. Certainly better than paying for Geforce Now to get access to DLSS 3 @Nexus18 :p

Will enjoy it until the 5070 is out and will likely grab that :D
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Was that the horrible 2 fan ventus model that had the pricing error the other day?
 
Joxeon said:
Was that the horrible 2 fan ventus model that had the pricing error the other day?
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Yep. That one. You say horrible, but I would rather that than the best 3 fan monster 3080 Ti out there. Runs cool and quiet and I have yet to undervolt it which I will.
 
Most importantly tna though, you have got essentially 3090ti perf and more for a considerable chunk cheaper as we always stated before ;) The smart way to do this GPU game :p iirc, wasn't there an easy rider shuffle or something for this? :D
 
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Nexus18 said:
You mean to say you "upgraded" but still have the same 12gb vram, oh dear oh dear...... :D
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Indeed. Don't even see the issue. I have still yet to run out and there are no games on my radar the next 12 months or so that makes me think I will.

I will likely be upgrading to a 5070 or something like that anyway and those will have 16gb minimum. Non issue, for me anyway.

Nexus18 said:
Most importantly tna though, you have got essentially 3090ti perf and more for a considerable chunk cheaper as we always stated before ;) The smart way to do this GPU game :p iirc, wasn't there an easy rider shuffle or something for this? :D
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Exactly. Been saying it for years. But people kept banging on about vram and how important that it was and it was worth paying £750 or whatever it was over the 3080 for it.

Here I am with roughly 3090 Ti performance with a card that runs much more efficiently and can do fake frames. Oh and yes, DLSS 3 from the few games I tried it on so far has been so much better than I expected. 3090 can't do it and is missing out. I would rather DLSS 3 than 24GB vram right now and I mean that.
 
TNA said:
Yep. That one. You say horrible, but I would rather that than the best 3 fan monster 3080 Ti out there. Runs cool and quiet and I have yet to undervolt it which I will.
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I saw that one but decided against it as I never really liked the ventus 3080 model and being only 13% faster than a 3080 going by the most recent HW unboxed review it was barely worth it.
 
tommybhoy said:
Great deal, but who's reminding him it's only got 192bit?:p
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Well aware. End result is all that matters. Plus I will only upgrade next gen again anyway :D


Joxeon said:
I saw that one but decided against it as I never really liked the ventus 3080 model and being only 13% faster than a 3080 going by the most recent HW unboxed review it was barely worth it.
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Lol. It is more than that. I am seeing 10% better than my 3080 Ti.

Also no point looking at 4K native results where the card performs it's worst, unless that is how you primarily game? I always use DLSS when available. So even if I am using DLDSR to up my res to 5160x2160 it still ends up at 3440x1440 after DLSS Quality is applied.

Regardless. £95 got me a brand spanking new card with 3 years warranty. DLSS 3 which so far seems very good. Much better efficiency and a card that is less noisy.

What's not to like? You saying it's a bad move? :D
 
TNA said:
What's not to like? You saying it's a bad move? :D
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I’m just saying that coming from a 3080 I wouldn’t have bothered, for me it would have been £175 for a 13% gain which coupled with having to sell the old card wasn’t worth the hassle.
 
Joxeon said:
I’m just saying that coming from a 3080 I wouldn’t have bothered, for me it would have been £175 for a 13% gain which coupled with having to sell the old card wasn’t worth the hassle.
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Still sticking to the 13% argument without addressing what I said I see. Nice.

Your not even acknowleding DLSS 3 as something worthwhile.

Here is something more realistic imo.

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That is a 21.18% increase by the way and the gap is bigger at lower resolutions. I mean if you are using 1440p with DLSS Quality you are essentially using 1080P where the gap is even wider :D

Oh and let's not mention the extra vram :cry:
 
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