3080ti is extremely close, just with less RAM. Doesn’t matter for gaming.
I wouldn’t buy a 12GB 3080 or 3090 for gaming due to pricing. Best choices are the 10GB 3080 followed by the 3080ti.
On my Amazon, I see a rtx 3070 ti for 727€. That’s decent! edit: oh that’s still above msrp. That’s how warped my own views has become.
Ohh, according to Userbenchmarks the 3080 Ti is 80% faster than my 2080. Sooo tempting for the low-low price of $1.2k.
Don’t use userbenchmarks, it’s often wrong and can be highly misleading.
The 3080ti is roughly 60% faster than the 2080 at 1440p and 80% at 4k.
Damn, trying to remember what band sang that. Came out when I was a young teen, I think.
Steve Miller band. Fly like an eagle.
Stupid crypto bullshit. Just another MLM-like scam to separate the rubes from what little money they have.
@Tortilla Thanks, somehow I hadn’t picked up that it was the same band that did “Big Old Jet Airliner” (assuming that’s the actual name of the song).
Close. Just “Jet Airliner”.
I noticed the 6800XT is actually within $100 of MSRP (some 18 months after launch). I know RDNA3 is around the corner, but I just want a really good 1440p card, cause that’s what my monitor is, and I don’t plan on upgrading my CPU (3700X) anytime soon. Besides, the rumored pricing on the RDNA2 refresh is sounding ridiculous right now, and RDNA3 is likely going to be even higher.
There isn’t even a refresh of the 6800XT coming out. Apparently it’s the card that AMD doesn’t like because they’d rather just sell 6900XT and 6900XT refreshes and jack the price up a couple hundred bucks. And the 6800XT is a binned 6900XT, except TSMC yields are so good that they’re not binning a lot of those chips.
It does make me wonder about the expensive pricing being rumbled about Nvidia and AMD’s next gen. The economic landscape seems a lot different, and mining appears to be abating (for now). I’d say Intel would have an opening right now to undercut them, except they’re relying on TSMC too.
Fwiw, my 3070 rocks at 1440p
Even my 3060 (a 12GB variant) handles 1080p triple monitors (effectively 3k) surprisingly well, and DLSS should extend that lifetime if it becomes A Thing™ for mainstream titles.
My mobile 3060, on the other hand, has to be dropped to 720p to maintain high framerates in older games, which I assume would translate to playable framerates in newer games. Is there any hope for improvement in laptop GPU performance in the next gen, or is it basically a power/heat bottleneck at this point? I view gaming laptops more as portable desktops to be plugged in at LAN parties.
There are process shrinks coming up. We don’t know exactly what that’ll mean but there are bound to be efficiency gains. DLSS and equivalents will definitely be a thing too.
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Sigh… The 3090 Ti dropped to <$2K with the recent Nvidia price rationalization and the irrational sim pilot in me thought for just a moment about doing something really stupid.
But the 40x0 series is just months away, hopefully, and likely the 3090 Ti performance level will be at or below the 4080, just guessing given typical generational increases, so I shall suppress the stupidity. :) (Also, I can’t believe the past three years have gotten us from the fastest consumer cards being $800 to them being $2000. Insane.)
MSFS, the one game that leaves you dissatisfied with a 3080 10GB. (The 5280x1440 monitor doesn’t help matters…)
There could absolutely be efficiency gains, or Nvidia and AMD could immediately use them to push higher clockspeeds. Which they will.
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There’s not that much of a performance difference between a 3080 and a 3090 Ti really. Unless whatever sim you are playing happens to be one of the uncommon games that actually benefits from the insane 24GB of memory.
$840 or $810 for a 12GB 3080…
Wow. What passes for a “reasonable” price these days.
Most of the 10GB 3rd party versions were, what, $750-800 when they were released? The 3080 cards were always pricey.
Yep. There’s a reason I got a 3060Ti. I believe when they all came out that year, I think that was the price/performance champion.
But then prices went crazy and suddenly $800+ MSRP for a 3080 started looking really cheap.
