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So what do you buy now?

Tom|Nbk said:
So with many people set on upgrading and setting money aside for the 2080/2070 myself included....

Now what?

After the initial conference we are now seeing masses boycotting and choosing to use the money for other parts or things.

I’m going to use the money I would have spent upgrading from the 1080 and get a PS4 Pro ready for Red Dead Redemption 2, I think I’ll pick one up tomorrow. :D
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Seems a wise choice
 
I'm waiting on a very good PS4 Pro, then I'll pick up all the PS4 exclusives not on PC.

Still got an eye on the 20xx series but I'm willing to wait and see how it compares to the 1080tis.
 
I have an Vega 64, 1080 and 1070 in my 3 PC's. They are staying where they are!

Nvidia can go do one with them crazy ass prices. Acting like are the selling Apple products.
 
Gonna wait until the new games come out during the next couple of months to see if I need more GPU power but I doubt I will need to do anything.

I have a Vega 56 and a Samsung HG70 and this combo produces a beautiful gaming experience with Freesync, quantum dot and sometimes HDR.
 
Having left overclocking on 3dmark a few years back and with games on the PC not being that demanding my 970 was still ok and I decided to miss out the last series of cards from nvidia etc because of that. However now an upgrade would be good for Far Cry 5 and some old games I could not max out and future proof me for 2019/20. So I was keen to see specs and price of the 2070. I run on an excellent, but old fashioned style, 30 inch Dell 16:10 2560x1600 so not pushing insane pixels. The 2070 seems to be going to be about £500 or so. This seems to be a lot compared to the current 1080 that has more cores, same memory amount and far bigger base CPU speed out of the box. Currently these are running at £440 or so.

The new card has GDDR6 of course, but to me, moving from a 970, the amount seems more important, up from 4 ( sorry, 3.5 ;) ) to 8. I maybe wrong though. I will be checking 1080 performance v 2070 when the testing begins with much interest. The funny thing was that I never thought I would even look at 1000 series once this latest series came out, but due to my specific requirements I am. I wonder how many other 970 owners are reconsidering as well?

Roll on the reviews. If Ray tracing can make my mother in law look less than the dragon in 3dmark2001 then I am all up for it.
 
Have a PS4 Pro. Will buy for sure a PS5 - this will be my primary gaming rig from now on.

If Navi is a good perf for <£300, then Navi also. If Zen2 is good perf at <£200, then that also.

So the PS5 is a dead cert; the PC upgrades (AMD GPU+CPU) will depend on perf/$.

Either way PC won't be getting up upgrade until late 2019, and PS5 not until 2020.
 
JediFragger said:
£500ish feels about right looking at the new card pricing, at least til the 2070 comes out (if it matches it).
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Yep, I agree. It's just that if the need cards don't offer much of a performance increase (ray tracing aside) then punters may look more to the old gen... Half the price for minimal fps loss would look attractive. Thing is, £300 less for minimal fps loss may also look attractive...
 
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