MedicGarou

Just doing a follow up to see if anyone has gotten a card.

Probably what I will do. I'm like most people and waiting on a new construction of a PC with the only piece missing being the GPU and we know how hard it is to find Nvidia cards. I'm just hoping that maybe I will have a slight chance of obtaining one.

I'm planning on trying to obtain a 6900 xt when they launch if the performance will be on par or close to the 3090 as they claim. My question is this, since the other cards will be releasing on the 18th there will of course be reviews. This should give us a comparison against the 3080 and 3070 but the reviews should also give us a pretty good inkling of what to expect when compared to the 3090 correct ?

I still have no idea how to find one to pre-order... nobody is offering it other than EVGA's queue list

The TLDR was that was kind of my thinking. The longer version would be... I have an i7 9700k Asus Z390 mobo and RTX 2070 super and was looking to purchase a 3080 or 3090. IF I were to go with the 6900 xt for 999 and a Ryzen 5950x for 799 I'm at $1800 which is the retail price for the ROG Strix 3090 and with a good mobo I'd be at ~$2000 but I would actually come out ahead as I have a buyer for my mobo/cpu/gpu I'd be replacing. The way it would work out my actual out of pocket would be less than a retail 3090 and it would be a screamer of a system.

What do you think the chances that AMD will do a pre-order for the cards prior to the December release date ?

Yes, absolutely this x 100, I should have included that, Thanks !! Don't pay more than retail prices. It's not worth a premium

Or the day after the Big Navi press conference ?? That's what I'm expecting to be honest....

And makes them look bad. Had they sold out to real people and had trouble refilling stock it would have been much less of a PR nightmare that the launch was. When a company that prides themselves on cyber security has 99% of their available stock taken by bots and scalped for 3 times the price it's not only the scalpers that end up looking bad, people are furious at Nvidia.

I would think it will be at the 9 am EST And 6 am PST like the 3080 and 3090. Nvidia claim that they are working on their website to make it more likely for real people to get a card but I'm very skeptical that will actually happen.

So I have an Asus ROG Strix 2070 Super and when playing COD MW I noticed that while running at 1440p 165hz in certain maps I would go from a solid 120 fps down to as low as 15 to 20. After doing some searching it turned out to be ray tracing that was the culprit. Turned it off and gained 10fps solid. Have you tried turning ray tracing off ?

Personally I avoided Radeon when I built my system just due to all of the complaints and horror stories that I read about the drivers. As 191x7 previously posted however that seems to have all been fixed and I agree that ray tracing will have to be a "we'll see" on those cards. Best option is really to keep checking daily for a 30?0 card and if you can score one before the 28th press conference, jump on it. If you're unable to find one before then take all info and make your decision at that time. Only way to have a win/win. Nvidia is apparently redoing their website so the 3070 launch is much more real-person friendly (we will see, I'm still skeptical) and there's probably a good chance the scalpers with bots will try their best to snatch up all the new Radeon cards as well. This is both a great and a horrible time to want to upgrade a graphics card.

How did you preorder ??

Frank Azor was his name, here's the tweet response. Andre Elijah @AndreElijah · Sep 24 Welp... not being able to pick up a 3090 today means my work is going to be fucked for the next little bit. Can they at least release a new Quadro so I can get my work done? $10 says AMD will be a paper launch too Frank Azor @AzorFrank · Sep 24 I look forward to taking your $10

The head of one of the AMD departments, can't remember his name, eluded to the fact that they won't have the same issues with stock that Nvidia did in a tweet a few weeks ago. Let me see if I can locate it

I'm a self confessed Asus fanboy. I've never had a single product from them that has disappointed me

And not only that I could see a whole revamp of NVIDIA's website to have a queue based ordering system like EVGA has in place now just before the announcement. These companies are playing chicken with each other and we are caught in the middle

Has anyone had luck yet getting an EVGA card with their new ordering system for the 3000 series cards ?

They've done a whole lot of double speak on this whole launch. At this point I'm going to go a little bit conspiracy theorist here and say that after the 28th when AMD has their Big Navi event and announces a release date a huge number of 3000 series cards will magically appear in stock.

I will admit I have never owned an AMD card but have good friends who have owned them and had a horrible time with AMD drivers. I guess for the most part that has been fixed and they are pretty stable now but the issues they have and the things I've read online ..again no personal experience.. but it made me uneasy enough to not want an AMD card.. just my personal thinking on it, I'm going to stay with a 3080/3090

Been around since 1988 and as far as I know a pretty solid company while not being one of the big players in the US they are apparently very popular in Asia

HOW !? LOL

The fact that it does look like a beast is what has me thinking about an upgrade now. Of course I then worry about when will they release AM5 BUT I'm thinking an R9 5900x 3090 combo should have me good to go for at least a month or two before something comes out to completely obliterate it (sarcasm).. But in all seriousness I've been an Intel guy for years and have been thinking of switching and the news today makes it very tempting.

Oh absolutely. As I said I am not hurting for a new system. Just have someone that would buy what I have and take a big chunk out of a new one and lets be honest, what's more fun than building a new system

Let me preface this with the fact that I do not "need" a new PC. Currently I have an i7 9700k with an RTX 2070 Super and I'm thinking after todays info on building a new system with an AMD 5800x or 5900x and an RTX 3080/90 (whichever I get first) Since this would be my first AMD build, my question is, I use the PC primarily for gaming and looking at all of the powerpoints from today's presentation they show 1080p performance which is greater than the 10900k. What would be a reasonable performance gain I would get going from the system I have to the one I would like to build