I mean, had the price been under $900 for 3xxx card, oh, a year ago, I might have bought one. At this point, with other things claiming my money (hello, $15,000 septic replacement, I’m talking to you!), and my system approaching three or four years old, it makes more sense to wait until I replace the whole kit and caboodle I think. Then I can probably get a fast 3xxx card much cheaper as part of a system, especially after the 4xxx versions come out.
Amazon too…
Inflation’s really confusing.
Newegg has the crappiest share function in their app….
3080 12GB $799
3090 Ti looks impressive performance-wise, but at a steep price and power draw.
So with all things said and done, the RTX 3090 Ti is indeed the fastest graphics card we’ve ever tested, but it comes at a steep price - power draw, space and your human currency units. As a value proposition, it barely registers, but the 3090 Ti does at least offer a frightening portend of the future: graphics cards that consume more power than entire mid-range systems and have a greater area than some motherboards - although they do run video games pretty well.
I wish Flight Simulator had a benchmark.
Also, I was disappointed to see there’s not much performance difference in the Ray-Tracing comparison.
Thrag
10505
So much this. My entire desire for computing power now is driven by MSFS 2020 performance, specifically in VR.
Yeah, it’s a little weird. There’s never been a game before where I felt “this is the only benchmark that matters”, but really, that’s the only benchmark that matters to me, because that’s the game that pushes both CPUs and GPUs hard, and it’s totally an awesome game that let’s you explore the entire fucking planet.
The free Star Citizen week suggested to me it might fall into a similar category. I never got far enough to see if it was doing enough to actually justify its performance though :)
But isn’t that the Gigabyte card that has the power connectors that sometimes break off?
Whaddaya want for $700 clams? Yooropean quality?
Yes it is. I’m sure they fixed it by now, though.
I wonder, did the Ukraine war and the increase of energy prices affected cryptomining, and therefore gpu prices?
The collapse of most cryptocurrencies was the biggest culprit. Not due to energy costs, but because the entire industry is a giant scam house of cards.
It’s too murky to tell, really. Competing pressures here.
First, sanctions mean GPUs aren’t being shipped to Russia, the only way to buy one is to smuggle it in. So more GPUs for everybody else.
Second, Russians have strictly limited means to buy anything outside the iron curtain other than cryptocurrency, so it has value in addition to its exchange rate to the Euro. If you want to pay for a VPN to watch Netflix, or read the real news, etc, you need cryptocurrency or someone outside the country to pay for it.
Third, cryptocurrency is tightly regulated in the Russian Federation, it can only be used as an investment vehicle and not as payment for goods/services, with all conversions from crypto to real money only permitted at banks. Assumedly to protect the ruble.
All that stuff contributed to crypto crashing, certainly, but the whole thing was a house of cards as woolen mentioned, backed by nothing, and rampant inflation and stock market crashes meant all the 22 year old kids with their life savings in dogecoin or whatever have to head back to their old homes manning the Wendy’s fryolator.
AMD confirms chiplets for Navi 3.
Funny thing, their own graph is more like 30% higher, not 50%
stusser
10517
Suggest ignoring bullshit marketing graphs and waiting on independent testing.
That said, chiplets on GPUs are hugely exciting.
KevinC
10518
Better than chiclets on GPUs, that’s for sure.
