Oops! Well, this is why I don’t do this professionally! Fixed!
So a few % cost in performance seems to have saved you a few % in power, from your 1st few rows there. Not much to write home about. Thanks for investigating :)
I wonder if 4k makes a difference.
That’s possible - I would guess the spread would be a little bigger, but ultimately you need even more FPS in 4K gaming since I suspect staying over 60 min would be that much harder, especially in newer games that lack DLSS2 support. @Knightsaber tells me the FE cards might get better returns on reducing power, and I may have just “lost” the silicon lottery, so YMMV.
Not ‘lost’, just didn’t ‘win’. At least you didn’t get a randomly crashing card.
Try running No Man’s Sky in VR… :P
They’re saying Oct 29th for the 3070 now, which I think is later than planned but about when the AMD announcement is. The AMD thing is supposed to be the 28th, but I don’t know what that means for cards on sale.
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@Scotch_Lufkin do you own any VR goggles? If so, could you check out how the modern combat flight sims do with it?
Sorry, I don’t own any VR stuff. Nor any combat flight sims! Not for a lack of interest really, just haven’t gotten into VR (yet?) and flight sims, while a genre I think is really cool, isn’t one that I have done a lot with over the years. The last combat sim I played was either Tie Fighter or Gunship 2000. Or maybe Elite Dangerous, I suppose, that’s probably a bit more recent.
3070 compared to 2080 Ti (and 2070) according to nVidia. Better graph in the link.
Nice. I still wish the 70 line of cards was $100 cheaper, but that’s pretty impressive performance, depending on what they’re doing with their unlabeled Y-axis, of course.
Edit: Oh hey, the Y-axis is labeled on the actual image if I follow the link. You should have included it in your screenshot Alistair!
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I would qualify elite dangerous as a space combat sim.
Anyway, jump on in, the water’s warm. Sim’s these days are great, albeit few can make as great a game of it as the Good Old Microprose Sims of Yore. Still, the basic thrill of dancing among the clouds in a spitfire while fighting nazi’s in their obscenely efficient messerschmitts is unparalleled with current tech.
That 3080 should drive any headset perfectly, including the hi-rez HP reverb G2.
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FINALLY got an order in. Best Buy, Gigabyte 3080 OC, the 1800Mhz one, so it’s actually clocked really high. $750.
What a pain in the ass.
Supposed to arrive Oct 12. They’d better ship the damn thing.
I went to the Best Buy page and it loaded with an ‘Add To Cart’ button, but then it refreshed to ‘Out of Stock’. So I feel like I had a moral victory there.
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I had to try multiple times, and in the end pasting in this URL after adding to the cart did it.
https://www.bestbuy.com/checkout/r/fulfillment
Gigabyte isn’t my preference, would prefer EVGA or Asus, but it’s fine. Zotac is unacceptable and I wouldn’t be happy with MSI (although MSI is really fine too).
The card has a dual BIOS too, which I really like. No stress about messing up a flash. And a 4 year warranty. So I feel like I did OK.
I had a full out chance at an MSI the other day and didn’t take it.
I’m being picky, I guess.
Yay (seriously)! Hope you get it soonish!
Diego
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I passed on Zotacs multiple times and a MSI once myself, yep. Silly of me, the MSI is fine, but there’s just something about paying so much money for a plastic backplate that pisses me off.
EVGA, FE or nothing over here at my place. That’s just how it’s gonna be. :)
