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Nvidia January GeForce event. 3080 Ti? RTX 3060?

As said elsewhere it'll be mobile Ampere.

Not sure why everyone is foaming at the mouth over the rumoured 3080Ti.

It'll only be 5-10% faster than a 3080.
The extra memory is pointless as all benchmarks have proven 10GB is enough.
The MSRP will be £999 so AIB cards will cost £1100+
You won't be able to buy it anyway :)

Whole thing smacks of nothing more than a marketing retort to the 16GB VRAM of the AMD cards.

This isn't like the 1080Ti where there was a sizeable performance gap between the 1080 and Titan for them to exploit.
Ampere is already pretty much flat-out, hence why 3090 is hardly any faster than 3080 and all AIB cards perform much the same, there's just no headroom.
Having three different cards all with roughly the same performance and zero availability sounds like a great idea, not.
 
To me the announcement is making me think I can't be bothered trying to get a 3080 now I might as well wait for a higher memory version which could be as close as a month.

But yes it does seem like NVIDIA are on a different planet, completely unaware of the frustrations of the average gamer right now who can't buy a darn thing. I know they know there are shortages but this is kinda rubbing in the salt. They are unlikely to be conservative with the prices though, since the idiot public have well demonstrated they are prepared to pay way over the top when they get excited.
 
pp111 said:
To me the announcement is making me think I can't be bothered trying to get a 3080 now I might as well wait for a higher memory version which could be as close as a month.

But yes it does seem like NVIDIA are on a different planet, completely unaware of the frustrations of the average gamer right now who can't buy a darn thing. I know they know there are shortages but this is kinda rubbing in the salt. They are unlikely to be conservative with the prices though, since the idiot public have well demonstrated they are prepared to pay way over the top when they get excited.
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They don't care. Is that not obvious? Their cards will sell whatever they do. They could literally kick puppies on camera, and people would still rush out and buy their cards! :p
 
Zernath said:
They don't care. Is that not obvious? Their cards will sell whatever they do. They could literally kick puppies on camera, and people would still rush out and buy their cards! :p
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Love the anatomy there haha but I agree, they could double the price every year and people will flood out to buy them and then complain at the price of stuff. I remember buying 2 980ti cards for just just over £1k and now you need that for 1 top end card
 
Vertigo1 said:
As said elsewhere it'll be mobile Ampere.

Not sure why everyone is foaming at the mouth over the rumoured 3080Ti.

It'll only be 5-10% faster than a 3080.
The extra memory is pointless as all benchmarks have proven 10GB is enough.
The MSRP will be £999 so AIB cards will cost £1100+
You won't be able to buy it anyway :)

Whole thing smacks of nothing more than a marketing retort to the 16GB VRAM of the AMD cards.

This isn't like the 1080Ti where there was a sizeable performance gap between the 1080 and Titan for them to exploit.
Ampere is already pretty much flat-out, hence why 3090 is hardly any faster than 3080 and all AIB cards perform much the same, there's just no headroom.
Having three different cards all with roughly the same performance and zero availability sounds like a great idea, not.
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cyberpunk just about uses 10gb of vram. based on that new games are going to top 10gb..that 20gb is going to be needed.
 
morta said:
cyberpunk just about uses 10gb of vram. based on that new games are going to top 10gb..that 20gb is going to be needed.
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CP never uses above 9GB for me and there's no indication it would use more if it was available.

By the time games need more than that, we'll be upgrading anyway. Trying to future-proof GPU purchases is a mug's game, just ask 2080Ti buyers :)
 
Vertigo1 said:
CP never uses above 9GB for me and there's no indication it would use more if it was available.

By the time games need more than that, we'll be upgrading anyway. Trying to future-proof GPU purchases is a mug's game, just ask 2080Ti buyers :)
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Lol :D
 
Vertigo1 said:
CP never uses above 9GB for me and there's no indication it would use more if it was available.

By the time games need more than that, we'll be upgrading anyway. Trying to future-proof GPU purchases is a mug's game, just ask 2080Ti buyers :)
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There's a memory leak for some people when playing a longer session, so that's why. In general it struggles to surpass 9 GB - which it should do because it's not like the extra vram can't be put to good use. Alas.

As for 2080 Ti buyers, I'd say they're sitting quite pretty having had top-tier performance for 2 years & now still being within spitting distance of a 3080 OC for OC, and clearly better than a 3070 in either scenario.
 
only for mug buyers. thats rubbish and you know it...2080ti buyers are still able to max there games out and have great performance...i never went for the jump beacuse i was on a 1080ti though.. but if i was on an older card i would have easily picked up a 2080ti.
 
The 3080 Ti is a very poor purchase even compared to 2080 Ti. At least that offered a sizable 20% improvement over 2080 for the premium. The 3080 Ti would be 10% faster and would be destoryed by 4080 within a year.
 
This would pretty much be identical to a 3090 in almost every situation surely, making the 3090 essentially redundant. The difference in bandwidth would be unlikely to translate in to huge performance differences...
 
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