I'm sure he's seen the benchmarks out for the 4080/4090 with some games with RT on and how the 3080 10GB has half the frame rate now compared to even a 3080 12GB. That was the scam right there with the 10GB card sold as a flagship card (inbuilt planned obsolescence from day one...)
This is Nvidia we are talking about they always plan a way to cripple their last gen cards, was done with kepler and maxwell in more recent times that most remember well and then they found a way to cripple even Pascal by adding a new feature they knew gamers would want RT, ohh wait no RT on any card below a 2080.. This is Nvidia really and why I don't play into that game anymore and look at the so called well priced card and pull it apart to see why they priced it well and always with Nvidia it means by next gen it needs replacing or lowering your settings more.
Like I said at the time it was disgraceful they released a so called flagship in 2020 with 10GB VRAM and two generations before that their flagships had 11GB 1080ti and 2080ti.. The card should have come on day one with 12GB minimum but they couldn't and wouldn't sell you that for less than £1000 as we saw later with the 3080 12GB and £1200 for the 3080ti with again 12GB and even this card should have had 16GB.
I decided I'm out this gen even after many times having my finger on the 4090 buy button, no thanks not worth it and then today's 4080 release was even more comical, this generation will be remembered as worse than the 20 series fiasco with the 2080ti at silly prices and a 2080 that cost and performed the same as a 2 year old 1080ti and really cost more once out in the stores.
I will now wait till the 50 series comes out and see from there, so far this generation has even turned me right off after sitting down and really seeing the uplifts and the real pricing, it's a solid fail in my book now and thank god I didn't fall for the FOMO experience and clicked buy and then ending up with a card that has the potential to burn my home down too with that built-in Easter egg feature called Nvidia RF (Real Fire)
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I went out the other day and decided to update some of my audio hardware and spent that money I had put aside for the 4090 on these things and feel much better I did that and enjoying the new gear a lot more than any gpu would have made me enjoy. Also the audio gear doesn't magically loose half its value overnight too like gpus if you decide to sell them on. Meeh.. the whole pc hardware thing is really starting to annoy me and feeling like a big scam and we are now being sold many lies to make us justify the purchase from these companies now.. Come on the best one this time was DLSS3 with its fake frame generation.. if that doesn't say scam to you nothing ever will, Nvidia added that to make the FPS counters look like a massive increase when in reality all you had to do to get the real FPS was half it and there is your real world gains not fake gains, MSFS was the program that made me realise so much more that I don't need to update anything this time as the programs I use most of the time are still cpu bound and no gpu will help with that till we get much better cpus and platforms, so by then I will need to do a full new rebuild to see any benefits in what I use for entertainment and for my work..
The new 40 series should only be considered by people with gpus older than a 2080ti and with a good cpu in their current system or an easy cpu update. Otherwise it means a totally new rebuild to get some benefits from the 40 series and even a new monitor maybe needed with 4k or a ultra wide with a decent refresh rate, otherwise throwing money in the bin with these.
Another thing to consider is AMD GPU are just around the corner and looks like their top ( 7900XTX ) will surpass the 4080 performance in games but worse on RT and not sure about the encoding stuff on them...
