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When i can eventually buy a card

chili

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which should i look towards getting?

As above, about 18mths ago i build myself a new pc and made a switch from intel cpu and nvidia gpu to ryzen and amd gpu (rx 5700xt pulse) i have no complaints about either but the amd drivers are doing my head in so much so that i am going to go back to an nvidia gpu, hopefully b4 i die of old age. My question is in 2 parts
a. what is the nvidia equivalent of my card? would i be correct in saying 2070 ish?
b. what nvidia card should i be aiming for? 3080 3090 so many to consider

i understand there is little to no stock at the moment, i am merely looking at options

thanks
 
The 3060ti is a bit of an improvement on your card
Aim for what you can find in your budget and suits the resolution you game at.
 
It depends on your budget. I just got a strix 3090 and it is brilliant except at 8K lol they are bloody expensive though and I would say a 3080 would be the best updated card going from a 5700xt
 
DaBFG said:
It depends on your budget. I just got a strix 3090 and it is brilliant except at 8K lol they are bloody expensive though and I would say a 3080 would be the best updated card going from a 5700xt
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your 8K screen says you can afford 2 3090s
 
Depends really on what resolution you're gaming at, and do you want to use the PC for rendering or video editing etc.
A 3080 providing they ever fall back down to RRP is the best card you can buy in terms of price to performance. But if you are gaming at 1440p a 3070 is perfectly fine also.
But I don't think 3080 prices will drop below a £1000 till the end of 2021 at the earliest.
I bought a Founders Edition 3090 in early January for £1399 as I couldn't find a 3080 anywhere, I thought it was very expensive at the time, but now it seems like a relatively good deal by comparison.
The lucky few who secured a 3080 for RRP at launch must be laughing all the way to the bank right now

I'd say wait for a 3070 or 3080 personally depending on whether you want to game at 1440p or 4k, but be warned it could be years end before they even drop close to RRP.

As for AMD offerings the 6800xt is a great card, but AMD are way behind Nvidia in Ray Tracing and DLSS etc, so it's kinda hard to recommend those cards over the Ampere GPUs once they all return to their normal prices
 
mattp1986 said:
Depends really on what resolution you're gaming at, and do you want to use the PC for rendering or video editing etc.
A 3080 providing they ever fall back down to RRP is the best card you can buy in terms of price to performance. But if you are gaming at 1440p a 3070 is perfectly fine also.
But I don't think 3080 prices will drop below a £1000 till the end of 2021 at the earliest.
I bought a Founders Edition 3090 in early January for £1399 as I couldn't find a 3080 anywhere, I thought it was very expensive at the time, but now it seems like a relatively good deal by comparison.
The lucky few who secured a 3080 for RRP at launch must be laughing all the way to the bank right now

I'd say wait for a 3070 or 3080 personally depending on whether you want to game at 1440p or 4k, but be warned it could be years end before they even drop close to RRP.

As for AMD offerings the 6800xt is a great card, but AMD are way behind Nvidia in Ray Tracing and DLSS etc, so it's kinda hard to recommend those cards over the Ampere GPUs once they all return to their normal prices
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I'm laughing all the way in the queue. I wish.
 
cheers for the replies "whats doin my head in" i have yet to find a decent stable amd driver.
So i was looking last night at cards and i will wait for a 3080strix hopefully get one b4 my 65th birthday in 5 yrs time :) i did notice that these high end cards require 3 8pin cables do all 3 need to be independent or can you have 2 cables supplying the 3 plugs? mind you i will probably need a power supply.
 
dear OP, @chili theres been a stock drop of 6800's 6900s and 3090s, check the stockinformer. Out of what's dropped I would buy the 6900XT powercolor for £900.
 
chili said:
(rx 5700xt pulse) i have no complaints about either but the amd drivers are doing my head in so much so that i am going to go back to an nvidia gpu
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I wouldn't judge AMD's drivers on the 5700 XT, personally. My suspicion is that there are uncorrectable hardware errata with RDNA1 that cause it to be such a nightmare. I've never had as many problems in my life with a graphics card as I did with the 5700 XT. Just a constant stream of black screens, bugs, fan control problems and various other problems (a slew of emulators don't work properly with RDNA1, for example). I've owned plenty of other AMD cards and I have to think back more than a decade to find one that caused me any grief apart from the 5700 XT. I haven't seen any reports of RDNA2 being so flakey and broken either.
 
mattp1986 said:
Depends really on what resolution you're gaming at, and do you want to use the PC for rendering or video editing etc.
A 3080 providing they ever fall back down to RRP is the best card you can buy in terms of price to performance. But if you are gaming at 1440p a 3070 is perfectly fine also.
But I don't think 3080 prices will drop below a £1000 till the end of 2021 at the earliest.
I bought a Founders Edition 3090 in early January for £1399 as I couldn't find a 3080 anywhere, I thought it was very expensive at the time, but now it seems like a relatively good deal by comparison.
The lucky few who secured a 3080 for RRP at launch must be laughing all the way to the bank right now

I'd say wait for a 3070 or 3080 personally depending on whether you want to game at 1440p or 4k, but be warned it could be years end before they even drop close to RRP.

As for AMD offerings the 6800xt is a great card, but AMD are way behind Nvidia in Ray Tracing and DLSS etc, so it's kinda hard to recommend those cards over the Ampere GPUs once they all return to their normal prices
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cex will buy the rtx 3090 founders edition for £1700 cash that sort of shows the market we are in
 
Aretak said:
I wouldn't judge AMD's drivers on the 5700 XT, personally. My suspicion is that there are uncorrectable hardware errata with RDNA1 that cause it to be such a nightmare. I've never had as many problems in my life with a graphics card as I did with the 5700 XT. Just a constant stream of black screens, bugs, fan control problems and various other problems (a slew of emulators don't work properly with RDNA1, for example). I've owned plenty of other AMD cards and I have to think back more than a decade to find one that caused me any grief apart from the 5700 XT. I haven't seen any reports of RDNA2 being so flakey and broken either.
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I can second this. I had loads of issues with the 5700XT, and ended up having to stick with an 18 month old driver as it was the only stable one I could find ("stable" being relative). I've since upgraded to a 6800 (in December) and not had a single issue so far.
 
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