How many 2080Ti owners will reward Nvidia?

[fs123]

I was just curious how many of the recent 2080Ti owners will reward Nvidia by upgrading to the 3080 or 3090 after they just demolished their gpu resale value? I personally would be seriously miffed.

 

[d_brennen]

Do you get upset that there is new sandwiches in the shop the day after buying one?

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

Do you get upset that there is new sandwiches in the shop the day after buying one?

Do you eat your GPUs?

 

[HACO]

I was just curious how many of the recent 2080Ti owners will reward Nvidia by upgrading to the 3080 or 3090 after they just demolished their gpu resale value? I personally would be seriously miffed.

So you'd have preferred if Nvidia released slower cards? It's not exactly a secret that new products will be released at some point, and they might be a lot better than existing ones. If you buy a super high end product at the end of its release cycle, you're carrying a risk. That's the case for literally every consumer electronics device out there.

Reminds me of the people who get mad that new houses get built, because they worry it might diminish the value of their own properties. "NOBODY SHOULD PAY LESS AND HAVE MORE THAN I DO, ONLY I DESERVE A GOOD DEAL"

 

[d_brennen]

Do you eat your GPUs?

They way some people go on you'd think a few here did.

It's telling that people feel slighted by progress. Does no one remember the old days? Every 6 months/year your get better stuff for less money. Doesn't make the kit you have stop working

 

[benjii]

People were obviously ok with the price when they bought it and they got their use out of it. New hardware will always come and it will always devalue your existing hardware. Yes this is a more extreme example of that, but Nvidia don't guarantee your resale value, that's a risk you accept when you buy hardware and plan to resell it later.

 

[HACO]

They way some people go on you'd think a few here did.

It's telling that people feel slighted by progress. Does no one remember the old days? Every 6 months/year your get better stuff for less money. Doesn't make the kit you have stop working

Yeah.

I have the 7700K (the last mainstream flagship CPU which had 4 cores), Intel went to 6 and then 8 and 10 because of AMD. So now my 7700K is worth a lot less than I paid for it, should I be mad? No! I'm thrilled because I love progress. If AMD had never recovered and Intel was still giving us 4c/8t CPUs for £350, would I be better off? No, everyone else would just be worse off. And that's an absurd thing to desire.

 

[jimferno]

I don't understand this mentality at all. You buy a product like a graphics card based on your budget, usage and performance. If you bought within the last three months you knew a new generation of cards was on the horizon and you either didn't care or were comfortable buying a 2080Ti knowing that it will serve you well, for your usage for the foreseeable.

You're all being suckered in by the fear of missing out, there's always something new around the corner, you can't always have the bestest and most newest. Chasing it is expensive and pointless but you're all conditioned to want it, no need it..

I'd wager now isn't the right time to buy a GPU either as the Nvidia lineup looks to obviously have gaps where "Super" variants are going to fit in and we're yet to see what AMD are going to bring to the table and if that will cause any shift in pricing.

In short, buy when there's a meaningful performance boost then forget all about the hardware until you start to struggle in the games/applications you play and use.

 

[darket]

I was just curious how many of the recent 2080Ti owners will reward Nvidia by upgrading to the 3080 or 3090 after they just demolished their gpu resale value? I personally would be seriously miffed.

I'll tell you why this doesn't make sense. I've rocked a Titan XP since release. It was devalued by the release of the 1080ti , it was devalued by the release of the 20 series and now its pretty worthless. Thing is i'm still happy with its performance. NO ONE makes you buy the latest bleeding edge tech. Just because something is faster that doesn't mean you need it.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

The problem was the initial price it was never worth it in the first place. So some people just got hit with a large dose of reality.
If you can afford a £1k gpu the last thing you should be worried about is it's resale value

 

[Unisol Magic]

I'll tell you why this doesn't make sense. I've rocked a Titan XP since release. It was devalued by the release of the 1080ti , it was devalued by the release of the 20 series and now its pretty worthless. Thing is i'm still happy with its performance. NO ONE makes you buy the latest bleeding edge tech. Just because something is faster that doesn't mean you need it.

My Titan XP’s are also serving me well (even more so in the few SLI games I play)

I won’t be upgrading until the performance seems notably bad. I hope Cyberpunk isn’t ‘that’ game.

 

[Martini1991]

So you'd have preferred if Nvidia released slower cards? It's not exactly a secret that new products will be released at some point, and they might be a lot better than existing ones. If you buy a super high end product at the end of its release cycle, you're carrying a risk. That's the case for literally every consumer electronics device out there.

Reminds me of the people who get mad that new houses get built, because they worry it might diminish the value of their own properties. "NOBODY SHOULD PAY LESS AND HAVE MORE THAN I DO, ONLY I DESERVE A GOOD DEAL"

God I'd love to know which country you live in where new builds cost less?

 

[pugheaven]

Do you get upset that there is new sandwiches in the shop the day after buying one?

Quality

 

[Kronos]

I for one am tempted by the 3070, I currently have a 2080ti but will hold off until I am sure that it is a reasonable upgrade.
There are loads of posts here on the subject of the new cards but for and oldie like myself they are a tad to technical.

 

[Stanners]

Poor attempt at trolling