I have a good buddy whom I did a build for last March 2019. He bought an EVGA 2080 SC Ultra for $840 from Microcenter at the time. We built him a nice rig for around $2200. $3000 with his Alienware ultrawide. Guess how good that gpu investment is looking today in June 2020 just fifteen months later?
That's fine if you're happy buying an expensive (Turing) card and replacing it every two years. But most consumers see these types of purchasing decisions much differently. When most people buy an expensive graphics card they don't even want to THINK about having to replace it for at least the next 4 years. In this last (Turing) case, spending $800+ didn't even buy owners any extra longevity.
Did you happen to look into the used marked for a 1080 Ti before buying that? I know it was slim pickings after 2018 though. The 2080 SC is obviously a
little better with rasterization and had the added benefit of ray tracing (and now the new image sharpening and integer scaling features that are only on the RTX cards), but $840 is still crazy for what you're getting. In November 2018 I got a really good, used EVGA 1080 Ti for $500 and it's been great since. I chose to go that route since I already had a 1080 in one of my PCs and the normal 2080 was an abysmally bad upgrade for the price. The 2080 Ti to me was just a stop-gap until the
real next-gen cards actually hit, which appears to be Ampere.
Even though the 2080 Ti was way overpriced, I won't hesitate to pick up the Ampere version for up to $1,200 and it should last at least five years in my main gaming PC, and a few years more when that becomes my secondary.
If this is to be trusted then NV will be forced to release 3090 with 3080 as they would want to keep the power crown.
Works for me, I want the highest tier day 1, no more staggered bullshit releases.
Do they always intentionally stagger it just to force people to buy the release cards at launch, only to go "Aha, gotcha!" a few months later? I always assumed it was more of a manufacturing issue than anything. Get the cards out that more people are likely to buy, and then start producing the high end enthusiast version. Day one flagship is what I would want too. Otherwise I'm going to gamble and use Step-Up, buying whatever the best card is at release (get one in November that is), and then hoping the next card is out within ninety days.
Did you see also see the discussion about control rtx? Or metro rtx? I played control to completion and the visual layer that rts adds is very significant to the overall experience, same for metro exodus
I have Exodus, but have been waiting to play it. Also will grab Control after I get a new card. Would rather play at 1440p with ray tracing, without it ever going below 60fps, and higher if possible.
Yeah, I'm going on a limb here and saying that EVERYONE WILL BE FINE with that. Two years is a very long time in PC upgrades. Turing wasn't "short lived" at all. And it won't suddenly turn into trash with the launch of either Ampere or RDNA2. In fact, it will still be pretty much the only h/w currently available capable of running next gen engines with next gen features.
Yeah, no. Unless you are always chasing the bleeding edge, it's really not. More like three years is when it's time to start looking for an upgrade if you were using a mid-high end card and are no longer getting what you consider acceptable performance. I have never done a two year cycle, aside from the outlier when I went right from a launch 5850 to a launch GTX 580. Otherwise, there has never been a need for me to upgrade any sooner. This was also during a period though where most of the better GPUs would eat 1080p for breakfast and were also very competent at 1440p. Since going 4K, there's been a slight paradigm shift where GPUs were all lagging behind. Look at any random upgrade survey outside of the extreme enthusiast bubble, and most will post 3-5 years, with a select few saying two.