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RTX 20XX to RTX 30XX is it worth it?
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I'm still debating whether to go from my 2070 Super to a 3080. It's a massive jump, I've definitely gotten my 'fun' out of the 2070s (Doom Eternal, Resi 3 were the highlights), and Cyberpunk 2077 on a 3080 is going to be amazing. However... it's £650, and in reality it's more like £750 because I feel like I have to upgrade my RAM to make the most use of it.
I don't know. It's a bit of a dilemma tbh.
I don't know. It's a bit of a dilemma tbh.
I am upgrading so I can take advantage of a 240hz 1080p monitor. It is ultimately what you are looking for -- for me, it's all about framerate.
I can sell my 2080TI to a buddy for 500, mabey sell it for more online. Would you guys think it would be worth it for the 3080? I want RTX on an ultra wide and Im not sure how good the 2080TI is at that. I'm pretty new to PC gaming just building a rig in may haha but I'm now getting a new Xbox and it looks like a ps5 either so I got gaming budget.
Would I be good with my 8700k (not overclocked by me), 16gb of DDR4 3200 RAM playing on a 1440p moniotr if I manage to get a 3080 (that'll replace my current 1080ti)? I also have a !be quiet Dark Pro 4 that sits on top of the cpu for cooling. Only thing I'm really worried about is my PSU, which is a 650w Gold Plus EVGA. I just wanna play Cyberpunk/Cod maxed out with RTX stuff on at a great frammerate on my monitor.
not a huge leap to me. especially given what was paid. most TI owners are going to sit an ride out their cards. even some 2080 owners are saying this.
in my opinion, 3090 is a leap. and if a 3090ti existed that would be where i aim.
I don't see a need to upgrade if you're happy with your card (FOMO?) I would not upgrade from a 2080 SUPER. The card is not obsolete and the RTX features are coming. I think you could game on that card just find for the next 2 to 3 years.
That said. Stay out of the 30XX threads. They will not help with FOMO and probably lead to purchases not needed.
Nothing wrong if you just want the 30XX card though.
That said. Stay out of the 30XX threads. They will not help with FOMO and probably lead to purchases not needed.
Nothing wrong if you just want the 30XX card though.
Using a RTX 2080 and while I do have a nice OLED TV I'm mostly PC gaming on my 1440p/144 Hz monitor, so I think I should still be ok with 1440p/60p. I don't feel the immediate need to upgrade. OTOH I don't expect the RTX 4080 to be as big of an upgrade over the RTX 3080 as the latter is over the RTX 2080...
I think anyone still rocking a 900 or 1000 series GPU should go get a 3000 series card. Even a 3070 would be a massive upgrade for those peeps.
I'm not sure about upgrading from a 2000 card yet though. I think it's always best to upgrade every other generation.
I'm not sure about upgrading from a 2000 card yet though. I think it's always best to upgrade every other generation.
I have a 2070 super and I'm going to try to get a 3080 but if I can't buy one at launch then I'm okay with waiting.
Not worth upgrading my 2070 super. I like to "double" my performance with upgrades, so it'll be a while. Went AMD 7850 to GTX 970, to now a RTX 2070 super.
It's not like they are going to stop selling games...I don't feel the need to get everything on release. Can go back and play all the stuff I missed with the next upgrade.
It's not like they are going to stop selling games...I don't feel the need to get everything on release. Can go back and play all the stuff I missed with the next upgrade.
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This is what I normally do, I upgrade every other generation. But that supposed 2x performance leap is tugging at my wallet...hnnngggggggg
Not gonna happen when they have the 390 out which would make a 3080ti meaninless.
As a 2080ti owner, not really. 3080 isn't a massive jump, and the 3090 is only 20% more than that for more than double the price. So... I'm waiting.
This is where I'm at with my 1080ti/8700k setup. I just don't know if getting a 3080 will work with my EVGA 650w Gold Plus PSU.
As much as I want to upgrade my 1070 ti, the most taxing game I own is total warhammer 2, and it's a cpu intensive game rather than a gpu one. I'm just going to wait at this point.
GTX670-8GB to RTX3070-8GB worth it? Kinda thinking wait for the 3070Ti to get a worthwhile performance bump and 16GB ;)
As a 2080ti owner, I'm personally planning to wait until some other part upgrades I want are available (Samsung 980 Evo, some... non-disappointing/sad new CPU would be great, as unlikely as that seems, maybe some better RAM). I'm going to need to do a motherboard and PSU upgrade anyway, so I might as well go whole-hog on it.
I think of it in terms of what it'd cost me in the long run to be at the absolute top of PC gaming all the time forever, meaning upgrading every year or two. That's...really, really not worth it, in my eyes. The diminishing returns kick in really hard in terms of what you're getting vs what you're spending.
I guess it'd be fun being one of those wackos that goes from top end card to top end card, but that shit was crazy talk to me even when prices were a lot lower than they are now.
I guess it'd be fun being one of those wackos that goes from top end card to top end card, but that shit was crazy talk to me even when prices were a lot lower than they are now.
The 3090 is the titan equivalent this time around I believe, they've also released xx80ti variants that compete in performance with the corresponding titan each gen
I have a 2080 Ti. I'd love a new card but honestly, I'm still getting excellent performance at 1440 ultrawide. Might sit this out, might go crazy with a 3090 if I continue to get overtime like I am now.
2070 Super owner, which I picked up August 2019. I thought about upgrading but...it just isn't worth it for me right now. In the next year, the two biggest PC games I want to play that are announced are Cyberpunk and Halo Infinite. $700 for two games isn't worth it for me. (I also plan on picking up a PS5 this year so will play cross gen titles on that for the next year)
Will most likely upgrade again with the 4xxx series. I feel like we are still 2-3 years away from true next gen games anyway, so by the time they start coming out, I'll be thankful I held out for the 4xxx series.
Will most likely upgrade again with the 4xxx series. I feel like we are still 2-3 years away from true next gen games anyway, so by the time they start coming out, I'll be thankful I held out for the 4xxx series.
I mean it depends on how fast rt takes off , a up to 90% increase is kinda crazy.
This is a really good post. Honestly it will last you up until 2022-2023 easy depending on your perf targets. For me, I'm all about 1080p gaming. The 2080 super is a great GPU for that. And I'm set for a few years. When I want to rebuild or buy a new rig in 3-4 years, that makes sense (will probably buy/build new because my i79700K will be useless (hyperbole) by then)
I'm running a 2070 and have a 1440p monitor (with no plans to upgrade monitors any time soon) so I'm wondering myself if i should upgrade. It seems like if I forgo turning on ray tracing in any games then I'll get quite a bit of mileage out of this card but I like ray tracing and considering the performance hit 2070 takes using ray tracing in current ray traced enabled games... I'm really wondering what I'll be able to get out of this card going forward.
Same boat I am in. A 3080 should hit 1440p 144hz or 4K 60fps in most current games. Over the next 3-5 years it should be fine even for the biggest games as long as they support DLSS.
EDIT: Plus Ray tracing performance isn't quite adequate.
It will be a small upgrade in non RTX games, but it's a gap that can easily be closed by overclocking.
Im thinking of waiting until 4XXX cards because of HDMI 2.1 moniters and that the 2xxx cards should hold their own till then. As right now i got a place holder 24 inch 1080P.
I have a 2080 as well and I'm definitely waiting for a price drop . Feel like I can hold off till black Friday and get one at my local microcenter. If there is no sale then I wait more . Honestly there isn't a game on the horizon that I'm interested in that I think will push ,y current card . Come to think of it , I'm not interested in any game on the horizon...this sucks!!
What a waste of money. Should you upgrade from this $900+ CDN card to the new shinier one when you know it'll play everything under the sun for the next couple years? Might as well burn the cash what a waste don't do it
When looking at a chart like this, it's hard to deny that the 30 series cards will be absolute monsters in terms of performance. But as a consumer that has a solid high-end card from the current generation of GPUs, is that hefty price tag worth the upgrade?
I'm currently running a 2080, and I was straight up under the impression that my 2080 can hold it down for the next couple years no problem. Then the 2080 Ti was announced, followed by the 2080 Super, and I felt like my purchase went to waste right out the gate because these incremental upgrades offered better performance for relatively the same price.
Obviously we still need to wait for official benchmarks for the reference cards and then the partner cards, but from what we've seen so far, is it worth holding on to a 20 series card? Or just bite the bullet at jump into these next-gen cards?
Surely the issue is also combined with "can my monitor actually deliver?" what the card is actually able to deliver - if there is a 32'' or Ultrawide out there that has 4K + HDR + 144-165Mhz refresh I dont see it coming out anytime soon.
What I mean is, for those of us who are looking at the 3080 or 3090 (i'm in the latter camp coming from a 2080ti which has been great) - what screen would make sense to pair with it?? I cant think of anything on the market right now...
What I mean is, for those of us who are looking at the 3080 or 3090 (i'm in the latter camp coming from a 2080ti which has been great) - what screen would make sense to pair with it?? I cant think of anything on the market right now...
I have a 2070 Super paired with a i7 6700K, and already I reckon my CPU is probably bottlenecking this system. So I don't have any appetite to do a GPU upgrade at this point when I'm probably not going to get much benefit.
I think for me, the next upgrade is going to be a CPU, motherboard and PCIe 4.0 NVMe next year, then in 2022 I'll grab the best GPU I can get for around £600.
I'm glad that PC GPUs have already surpassed the new consoles and that with these new 3000 series GPUs Nvidia and MS have also addressed the I/O issue that was on the horizon, but I think my current PC can handle anything I throw at it for the time being. I don't see any multiplatform game for next-gen consoles taxing my current PC at 1080p, at least not for a couple of years.
I think for me, the next upgrade is going to be a CPU, motherboard and PCIe 4.0 NVMe next year, then in 2022 I'll grab the best GPU I can get for around £600.
I'm glad that PC GPUs have already surpassed the new consoles and that with these new 3000 series GPUs Nvidia and MS have also addressed the I/O issue that was on the horizon, but I think my current PC can handle anything I throw at it for the time being. I don't see any multiplatform game for next-gen consoles taxing my current PC at 1080p, at least not for a couple of years.
I have a 2070 super on a system I brought about a month ago (which wasn't mainly justified for gaming), so not for me. My main gaming system will be PS5, but I think with DLSS my system should hang for quite a while with next gen consoles at 1440p. So it would be the gen after this one.
Seems like upgrading every other generation may be the way to go. Especially since GPU generations go by so much faster than console generations. The 20 series cards have hardly been challenged yet in terms of gaming performance, with there being only a small handful of games that support ray tracing or DLSS.
You really need to see some independent reviews/benchmarks before you could make a a good call. If the performance increase is as good as nvidia graphs make it look and also performs similarly in games not cherry picked it would be a bigger upgrade than the 2080ti was over the 1080ti at release. It just not good nvidia are holding the review embargo till release day, because if you wait to see/watch/read some reviews your not going to get a card then.
If DLSS becomes more widespread, honestly a 20 series card should be able to play modern games at 4K/60 (DLSS up from 1080p) without too much fuss.
You could wait for 30 series Supers or 40 series even.
You could wait for 30 series Supers or 40 series even.
The 2080ti is about 40% faster than the 2080, and the 3080 is 40-60% faster than that. I wouldn't call that small... and I don't see how a 2080ti can overclock to that at all (especially as the 3080 could overclock, too).
If you have a 2080, probably not.
If one gen, I think you sort of need to go up a tier and a gen to really make it worthwhile.
A 2060 to a 3070 is probably worth it.
A 2080 to 3080 probably not. 3080ti or 3080 Super maybe. Otherwise wait for RTX 4000 series.
If one gen, I think you sort of need to go up a tier and a gen to really make it worthwhile.
A 2060 to a 3070 is probably worth it.
A 2080 to 3080 probably not. 3080ti or 3080 Super maybe. Otherwise wait for RTX 4000 series.