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Nvidia should do a buyback scheme for 2080ti owners

hobib_ali said:
I know what I'm gonna do, I'm not gonna sell my 2080ti because even if I got 500 I'd spend 200 on a card to get me by, so not worth it

I'm gonna get the 3090 because it's the next step up, I don't think the 3080 will have a significant improvement over the 2080ti

Jensen Huang nvidia founder: 3090 is a ferocious beast, a BFGPU

£1250 for a 2080ti and spending £1500 on the 3090 is a acceptable upgrade.

But if nvidia did do a buyback then that would be awesome and I bet everyone will take advantage of that.
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Lol wtf, so you post wishing Nvidia would give you some cash back after basically making your overpriced card irrelevant overnight, get laughed at, so decide to give Nvidia even more money than you paid last time??

Hahaha you need help mate, this thread needs to be reviewed next gen when the 4070 beats the 3090 and you come back again asking for another trade in system lmao.

Your cracked
 
DarrenM343 said:
Well, I think I paid £749 for a 2080 on release. That was two years ago. For months I did loads of gaming & for 2 years enjoyed checking our the new RT abilities.
Can't please everyone. NV make a big jump in performance without bumping the price like many expected and it then dissatisfies some buyers of last gen. This is just tech. However, while my £749 GPU is worth a packet of crisps now, half eaten :), the way I see it is the next GPu will be a nice leap forward and if only going for the more mid-range of the gen, better value for money.
A discount for previous customers would be great but not something I trhink NV would or should do. That scheme would likely have to be paid for somehow, by of course the end customer.

NV's cycle is around 2 years so buyers should be warry of when they buy. Chances are, the closer you get to 2 years period, the more likely a new generation of GPU is going to be released that's better, and cheaper.
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Price of custom cards went up, stayed at £700+ for quite a few months even for the cheaper cards. FE buyers actually had the best deal, I suspect the same will happen again.
 
MissChief said:
Why would you need two cards when 3080 does 4k60fps even with Ray Tracing?
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With DLSS, which is what Nvidia claimed. In games without DLSS it won't be doing that. Hell, even in the Borderlands 3 demo that Digital Foundry did it was only just above 60fps at 4K, and that doesn't even have RTX features.

/edit/ Wrong maths.
 
Aretak said:
With DLSS, which is what Nvidia claimed. In games without DLSS it won't be doing that. Hell, even in the Borderlands 3 demo that Digital Foundry did it was well below 60fps at 4K. It was achieving around 52fps average at 4K, based on the fact that it was 82% faster than the 2080 figure of 34fps that they gave. And Borderlands 3 isn't even a game with RTX features.
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So buy a single 3090 and forget SLI?
 
CuriousTomCat said:
The 2080ti stayed top dog for longer than the 1080ti and 780ti did. So should they qualify for free upgrades as well?

I wonder if I'll get a free upgrade for my Vega 56 :rolleyes:
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I don't get it either, also like buying 1 gpu every 2 /3 years makes you a loyal customer lol. All logic out the window just because the prices are somewhat back to non gouging rates.

You also should not buy a GPU if your next upgrade relies on the resale value of said GPU.
 
The RTX 3090 is not a gaming card, its a compute card. Jensen made that pretty clear in the video when referring to the RTX 3080 as the flagship gaming card. People who have bought a RTX 2080Ti and are now considering going out and buying a RTX 3090 are insane, that's £2,700+ on graphics cards in 2 years.

The 2080Ti was never a good enough upgrade over a 1080Ti in the first place, it was what, a 30% upgrade for an increase of 70% in price? No thanks.

The new RTX 3080 on the other hand looks compelling, especially for those with lower rung 10 series cards and 980Ti owners. As always, we need to wait for third party benchmarks and reviews, particularly Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed.

TechSpot said:
Based on our new data, the RTX 2080 Ti was 33% faster than the 1080 Ti at 1440p on average. That’s a 10% increase over what we saw two years ago at launch, albeit with a larger sample of games, many of which were older titles, even at that time.

At 4K the gap between the two has grown to 35%. Even at 1080p where we were at times CPU limited, the margin was still 26%, very similar to what was seen in the previous test.
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https://www.techspot.com/review/2088-geforce-2080ti-vs-1080ti-vs-980ti/
 
hobib_ali said:
Like a upgrade scheme, hand in the card pay £500 and get the 3000 series cards

a lot of companies do that.
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Do they? A trade in on your old car maybe but you'll get below market value if you want more money sell it privately (unless its a complete banger with a flat tyre that you were happy with the minimum hundred quid which... I may have accepted in the past)

Smart people will have flogged their 2080ti before yesterday's announcements cards that were on sale for £949 a year ago were going for £1200 only the day before yesterday could have got most of that back after a year's use, not bad.
 
Fellow 2080ti owner here and I don't think this is a good idea. We all knew they were overpriced for what they were, but we wanted the best at the time.
 
Wegason said:
The RTX 3090 is not a gaming card, its a compute card. Jensen made that pretty clear in the video when referring to the RTX 3080 as the flagship gaming card.
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A cynic might suggest that this line of marketing is simply to sidestep any criticism of their top card costing so much. People seem to have bought into the "oh it's a Titan-equivalent so that's okay" line of thinking hook, line and sinker, yet Nvidia are allowing non-reference models with the word 'gaming' plastered all over them. I don't recall that ever happening with a Titan.
 
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