Upgrade time...

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 17:01

As title folks... currently got a 2080 RTX and wanting to go for something faster to keep up with monitor refresh rate for Gsync.

Is the 2080 Ti still the go to card at the moment or does AMD have an offering these days?

Or have I heard right there is the 3000 coming out soon?

Thanks in advance.

(How much could I expect to get for a 2080?)

chaparral · 19 Apr 2020 at 17:04

Cavallino said:
Or have I heard right there is the 3000 coming out soon?

People were saying it coming out soon in December 2019

Nick1881 · 19 Apr 2020 at 17:10

I read an article earlier that mentioned a Sept 20 release. I don't think it was anything official though, seems it's any ones guess.

Zeebedy · 19 Apr 2020 at 17:51

As much as I would love to see the 3000 series in Sep, as im looking to updgrade when out, I highly doubt it with all this ******** going on!

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:11

Ah ok. Thanks folks.
So in the meantime, I guess the 2080 Ti is still the best bet?

CuriousTomCat · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:22

Wow the 2080 was a bargain then. Obsolete already.

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:30

Just checking benchmarks. Doesn't seem to be a huge difference between the both? Perhaps 15fps on average at 4k? What are your thoughts?

KungFuSpaghetti · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:41

Cavallino said:
Just checking benchmarks. Doesn't seem to be a huge difference between the both? Perhaps 15fps on average at 4k? What are your thoughts?

Thoughts are, waste your money how you see fit. If you're happy to spend over a grand for unimpressive gains then go for it.

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:43

Yes that does seem to be the case , bit of a stupid question not researched in the first place before asking. Thanks for confirming my thoughts though folks.

KungFuSpaghetti · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:53

If you want a meaningful upgrade wait until the new cards arrive, hopefully they won't be let down like the 20 series!

willhub · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:56

If you don't mind wasting money and can afford the hit, just buy the fanciest 2080Ti you can find, but it'd make more sense to wait on the release of a 3000 series with the 2080.

chaparral · 19 Apr 2020 at 19:06

Cavallino said:
Just checking benchmarks. Doesn't seem to be a huge difference between the both? Perhaps 15fps on average at 4k? What are your thoughts?

If you're playing at 4k why did you not buy the 2080ti instead of the 2080 in the first place ?

heatonpkmassive · 19 Apr 2020 at 19:15

I wouldn't bother.

sideways14a · 19 Apr 2020 at 19:55

Ridiculously poor improvement in performance for enormous removal of notes from wallet.

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 19:59

willhub said:
If you don't mind wasting money and can afford the hit, just buy the fanciest 2080Ti you can find, but it'd make more sense to wait on the release of a 3000 series with the 2080.

Well I dont mind wasting money on a meaning upgrade which it seems a 2080 vanilla to TI doesnt seem to be.... as you said and others have advised, wait for the 3000. Thanks bud.

chaparral said:
If you're playing at 4k why did you not buy the 2080ti instead of the 2080 in the first place ?

Sorry let me clarify, Im not quite at 4k, but rather 3440 x 1440 widescreen.
At the time I couldnt swallow £1 to £1.2k for the Ti, so went for the vanilla.
Now I can afford, but alas, the performance increase for another 500-600 quid doesnt seem to be worth it from what I can read.

heatonpkmassive said:
I wouldn't bother.

sideways14a said:
Ridiculously poor improvement in performance for enormous removal of notes from wallet.

Yep. Message received and understood. Will be holding out for now. Cheers.

CuriousTomCat · 19 Apr 2020 at 20:44

Cavallino said:
not quite at 4k, but rather 3440 x 1440 widescreen.

0.75% of users on Steam have the same resolution as you which equates to over 100,000 people - I doubt they all have performance problems.

Perhaps your setting the wrong graphics options in your games.

Poneros · 19 Apr 2020 at 21:36

On the bright side - the new cards promise to deliver some very, very exciting performance over Turing.

Just gotta wait 6 months.

Cavallino · 19 Apr 2020 at 21:50

Yep I can wait

I was just thinking about getting a higher refresh rate monitor recently and wanted to make sure I got enough GPU power to match the refresh.

heatonpkmassive · 19 Apr 2020 at 22:41

Cavallino said:
Yep. Message received and understood. Will be holding out for now. Cheers.

Wise move fella. For the dollar it'd cost for the performance uplift it would bring, it's not worth it at this stage. Best waiting for a REAL performance uplift which the new cards are rumoured to be bringing, although we've heard that before.

P.B · 19 Apr 2020 at 22:57

I'm running that res at the minute, Which I've just upgraded from a titan xp that was bios modded and water cooled so could trade blows with a 2080.

I'm currently about to water cool the 2080ti and remove the power limit on it, I was in same boat as you just getting 144hz 3440 screen and my other card would struggle in certain cases but now it doesn't with just an over clock the 2080ti.

I was waiting for the 3080ti or 3090 but with covid I can't see it being this year or not till the last part. So I thought I would be worth the loss as I'll be spending a lot of time gaming whilst on lock down and social distancing. When it's all over I'm sure the last thing I'll wanna do is sit in and play games so I'm happy to take the loss now I know it's not a wise choice but I wont be spending my money on going out of for the foreseeable future.