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** NVIDIA RTX 30 SERIES NOW ONLINE AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (3090 / 3080 / 3070) **

You can see all 3070 models from various vendors and their true RRP by using the price slider on the Nvidia UK store (this is not an OCUK competitor, they only directly sell the FE which cannot be bought in retail stores). The Gigabyte Eagle non-oc version should be about £25 cheaper than the 3070 FE apparently. No cards have an rrp above £583 (Gaming X Trio) according to the slider...it'll be interesting to see how true that is come release day. If I don't manage to get a 3070 FE and AMD announce decent pricing later today I'll be risking it with Radeon drivers come December 10th I expect. It does seem a little less risky a proposition than it was in the past with the new gen consoles using RDNA2 and a good chunk of pc games being console ports these days.

For anyone with a G-Sync screen thinking they're stuck with Nvidia only there's a funky little app called "Custom Resolution Utility" you can use to enable Freesync very easily which seems to work. Can't test it fully without an AMD GPU of course, but its not broken anything in the meantime and I can now see "AMD Freesync supported" when I query my monitor EDID in windows.
 
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MrPils said:
You can see all 3070 models from various vendors and their true RRP by using the price slider on the Nvidia UK store (this is not an OCUK competitor, they only directly sell the FE which cannot be bought in retail stores). The Gigabyte Eagle non-oc version should be about £25 cheaper than the 3070 FE apparently. No cards have an rrp above £583 (Gaming X Trio) according to the slider...it'll be interesting to see how true that is come release day. If I don't manage to get a 3070 FE and AMD announce decent pricing later today I'll be risking it with Radeon drivers come December 10th I expect. It does seem a little less risky a proposition than it was in the past with the new gen consoles using RDNA2 and a good chunk of pc games being console ports these days.

For anyone with a G-Sync screen thinking they're stuck with Nvidia only there's a funky little app called "Custom Resolution Utility" you can use to enable Freesync very easily which seems to work. Can't test it fully without an AMD GPU of course, but its not broken anything in the meantime and I can now see "AMD Freesync supported" when I query my monitor EDID in windows.
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Thanks for that last tip, been searching for ages for a way
 
MrPils said:
For anyone with a G-Sync screen thinking they're stuck with Nvidia only there's a funky little app called "Custom Resolution Utility" you can use to enable Freesync very easily which seems to work. Can't test it fully without an AMD GPU of course, but its not broken anything in the meantime and I can now see "AMD Freesync supported" when I query my monitor EDID in windows.
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Unless something has changed recently that generally doesn't work - in most cases you will still get tearing or frame skipping type issues. Only a small number of monitor chipsets it does anything and even then it only works for exclusive mode fullscreen games.
 
Yep AMD killed it. Still stock levels to come though. Lets see what the next battle in the "war" brings with the 3070. This will be funny.
 
varkanoid said:
Yep AMD killed it. Still stock levels to come though. Lets see what the next battle in the "war" brings with the 3070. This will be funny.
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I see they played a card out of nVidia's book as well - pushed the cards as far as they could while power was below the Ampere cards then added Rage mode which pushes the performance up on top of that - so I'm guessing same/similar power use at similar performance level but they can sell it as better for power.

3070 though is a lame duck now - that spot is definitely going to become a battleground.
 
brigantium said:
I doubt there will be enough unless antibotting and restrictions to 1 per account are in place.
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Why? Demand for 3070s are going to be low at the silly prices they have got to when some are more money than what 3080s were supposed to be and AMD have smashed them out of the park we a cheaper and faster card. Hell for a lot of the prices up on ocuk for the 3070 you can buy a 6800XT which beats a 3080.
 
Greebo said:
for a lot of the prices up on ocuk for the 3070 you can buy a 6800XT which beats a 3080.
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Yeah - the AMD cards all have 16GB VRAM as well - though I'm less inspired by Infinity Cache I'm not sure that feature is going to work out as well in the longer run - but still.

nVidia is gonna have to populate that 3070ti slot and drop the prices on the 3070 - though I suspect still plenty of people who will buy it - possibly myself included depending on prices as I have some RTX dev stuff going on the side and my 1070 isn't cutting it.
 
Fact is that both consoles with run on the same tech, we already get crappy ported console games, nearly none is optimized truly for PC if not a selected few... if developers have to do nearly zero code to port then you get an optimized game. I think that will be different.

I am mostly fed up with Nvidia, they are dishonest company, they try to quite literally scam people, they are getting worst each generation and as I work for my salary I am also happy that now there is an alternative to support with my money than just buying something.

As said in another post a few minutes ago also 8gb vram is a total joke, Nvidia stopped being worthy with 10xx series, 20xx was a scam and we know that, 30xx seems less of scam because of glaringly bad 20xx is and was...yet is still a horrible value for money and a very dodgy way of market them, with models with extra Vram out sooner rather than later so people will be double dipped, purchasing twice the same card.
 
Greebo said:
Why? Demand for 3070s are going to be low at the silly prices they have got to when some are more money than what 3080s were supposed to be and AMD have smashed them out of the park we a cheaper and faster card. Hell for a lot of the prices up on ocuk for the 3070 you can buy a 6800XT which beats a 3080.
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But that's only true if the AMD cards actually come in at MSRP. If there is a massive demand the prices for the AMD cards will skyrocket too.
 
Rroff said:
Unless something has changed recently that generally doesn't work - in most cases you will still get tearing or frame skipping type issues. Only a small number of monitor chipsets it does anything and even then it only works for exclusive mode fullscreen games.
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Not done a thorough test by any means, but yoinked it into the other room and connected it to the Mrs RX480 Strix. With a frame cap in place of 98fps just the same as I use with G-Sync on my 1080ti and using fullscreen mode (I never play windowed anyway due to black screen issues with g-sync) my AOC 352UCG (100hz) seems to be behaving. No tearing or stuttering that I could see. I've not done a long test by any stretch, just fired up her two point hospital install (which sits at the frame rate cap) and left it running a save game for a while. Id need to try it for a few matches in valorant or pubg to be able to say it works perfectly. Its certainly encouraging though :)
 
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