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NVIDIA 4000 Series

chaparral said:
Really don’t know to buy a 4090 today :confused:
I keep going to my local computer shop picking one up and then putting it back down again and walking out :cry:
i really wanted one the asus 4090 strix but they only have the asus 4090 TUF & Gigabyte OC gaming cards in stock
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You are literally just paying for RGB and looks this time around. There is nothing to gain buying the more expensive models, that TUF will likely boost to the same frequency as the Strix. The TUF is a great card, well made and not a cheap parts PCB.
 
Gerard said:
Mad to think that a couple of years ago an 3080 was £649 for the FE, now we're virtually double that price for the same tier of card......If prices continue like this a lot of people are gonna be priced out, over a grand for a gpu that 2 years back cost £649 (if you were quick on the trigger). :(
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You fail to realise that £649 was a "fake" price - merely a marketing tool to generate interest. Supply of the FE was so low it was essentially a lottery. Nvidia clearly had plenty of chips because look at the glut of cards available now and Nvidia's own admission recently that they produced too many chips (just restricted sale of them to both consumers and AIB partners). The true market price of 3080 was c.£1200 for 22 months. Anyone who got a FE for £649 was merely lucky.

The truth of the matter is that Nvidia have not used this marketing trick this time around hence the 4080 16gb for £1269, which is really only a £70 (5%) increase over the true market price of the 3080
 
brostradamus said:
hey but there was this video that talked abt a hard constraint of 905 mv.. would request a revalidation
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I’m just going by what’s set in afterburner. Does the card stop itself going below 905mw?

Afterburner readouts suggest it is sticking to 865?
 
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Steedie said:
With the undervolt (2600MHz at 865mV), the GPU peaks at 260-270w in 3DMark, that's pretty mad for a 4090!
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I've just been doing some tests in portroyal figures below are

Clock/power(ma) PR Score total power (v)

2760/950 25117 602w
2805/975 25566 637w
2865/1000 25739 653w
2940/1025 25870 670w
2955/1050 25789 678w

I think behind 1025 it's power limited in gpuz it's a solid green at 1050ma.

I may try some lower clocks and see what the total system draw is then.

Is there really any advantage to such gains considering top and bottom results I can save nearly 80w for a 3% drop in performance.
 
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turbot1984 said:
Yes, 2 years before the RTX 2080 was $699 (and more), so the 3080 MSRP did seem low given the performance increase.
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Real progress is next-gen money going faster than last-gen money. Names and tiers are just part of marketing.

Turing money wasn't meaningfully faster than Pascal money so the 3080 just put us back on cadence with a ~30% uplift per generation at its price point. It was only impressive when compared to Turing because Turing was crap.
 
tyke_ said:
I fully respect your opinion and i do understand what you are saying, it's natural to think that. luckily i do have the funds to upgrade if i want but it was heavily dependent on if i thought i'd see a good performance increase in msfs, but like i said someone with the same setup as me apart from him having a newer cpu is not really getting anymore performance than me (actually, he gets about +10%).

i will have a read around on 4090 cpu bottlenecks, i'm always up for being educated on something. thanks.
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No worries. One thing for sure, you've got a huge performance increase to look forward to when you do decide to upgrade CPU :D
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
So that Gaming OC on ebay got no more bids in the last 2 hours and sold for £2100.00. That buyer could have potentially lost money on that sale depending on where they bought and by the time ebay takes their cut. Suck it scalpers! :cry: :cry:
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Ya I never understood that. Like people in the US selling these on Ebay... once you take the Ebay fee's into account, they are barely breaking even let alone making nice profit.
 
rumple9 said:
You fail to realise that £649 was a "fake" price - merely a marketing tool to generate interest. Supply of the FE was so low it was essentially a lottery. Nvidia clearly had plenty of chips because look at the glut of cards available now and Nvidia's own admission recently that they produced too many chips (just restricted sale of them to both consumers and AIB partners). The true market price of 3080 was c.£1200 for 22 months. Anyone who got a FE for £649 was merely lucky.

The truth of the matter is that Nvidia have not used this marketing trick this time around hence the 4080 16gb for £1269, which is really only a £70 (5%) increase over the true market price of the 3080
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I know way more people with a £650 3080 FE than any other 3080. Don't think I could name anyone who paid over £1000.
 
chaparral said:
Really don’t know to buy a 4090 today :confused:
I keep going to my local computer shop picking one up and then putting it back down again and walking out :cry:
i really wanted one the asus 4090 strix but they only have the asus 4090 TUF & Gigabyte OC gaming cards in stock
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Careful mate they might think you're a shop lifter :D:cry:
 
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