Upgrade to 2080 from my Asus Rog Strix 1080TI?

[stlwrx]

Hi All,

 

I have a chance to get an MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio 8GB for less than $720 with a special discount from best buy (%20 off coupon from management for bad experience). My buddy wants to buy my 1080ti for 750; so it would essentially be an even break. Would it be worth it in this situation? It would be paired to a i7-9700k and i game at 120hz 1440p.

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

Hi All,

 

I have a chance to get an MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio 8GB for less than $720 with a special discount from best buy (%20 off coupon from management for bad experience). My buddy wants to buy my 1080ti for 750; so it would essentially be an even break. Would it be worth it in this situation? It would be paired to a i7-9700k and i game at 120hz 1440p.

I wouldn't use Buddy and 1080Ti for $750 used in the same sentence.

 

Why not let him buy the 2080 for $720 and you keep the used 1080Ti?  Like said above, they're almost the same.

[TH3R34P3R]

jstudrawa is right here, i would buy the 2080 and sell it to him/her. 

[DVA]

3 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

I wouldn't use Buddy and 1080Ti for $750 used in the same sentence.

 

I got my 1080ti SC2 for $500 from a stranger. I know the 10 series is no longer in production, but damn $750 lol. The friend must be desperate and nervous from buying used online.

[stlwrx]

Just now, DVA said:

I got my 1080ti SC2 for $500 from a stranger. I know the 10 series is no longer in production, but damn $750 lol. The friend must be desperate and nervous from buying used online.

It's a price i took from ebay - they are going for 700-780 all day on ebay.

[DVA]

3 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

It's a price i took from ebay - they are going for 700-780 all day on ebay.

Are we looking on the same page? Or maybe we are talking different currencies. I just searched it and found a ton of cards going for $550-600

PNY, Gigabyte, EVGA. All the MSI/ASUS cards are the ones running that $700 tag. 

 

What brand is your 10 series?

[stlwrx]

1 minute ago, DVA said:

Are we looking on the same page? Or maybe we are talking different currencies. I just searched it and found a ton of cards going for $550-600

You just have to look man, people are willing to pay what they are willing to pay

[DVA]

I guess since you searched for ASUS, that answered my question lol. What @jstudrawa was saying was to not say you were selling it to a "buddy" with that $750 price tag lol. 

But I understand, you gotta get your money. 

[stlwrx]

Just now, DVA said:

I guess since you searched for ASUS, that answered my question lol. What @jstudrawa was saying was to not say you were selling it to a "buddy" with that $750 price tag lol. 

But I understand, you gotta get your money. 

if he was family or a super close friend than yea i would lower it - just a buddy from work who's in the process of building a PC right now. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

20 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

Hi All,

 My buddy wants to buy my 1080ti for 750;

it's not cool to fuck your friend over...this card isn't worth anywhere near that at this point.

[DVA]

8 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

if he was family or a super close friend than yea i would lower it - just a buddy from work who's in the process of building a PC right now. 

Yeah, I suppose that's fair...the card is only up in price due to the stopped production, not its actual value.  Welp. Either way it doesn't sound like you can go wrong. The cards will perform nearly identical. I suppose the difference is you'd have a newer card and maybe bragging rights as to owning a 20 series, maybe fiddle with some RT when it becomes available. 

 

Current benchmarks on average have the 1080ti performing slightly better than the 2080 overall, but it's literally nothing you would notice if you didn't benchmark it. 

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2080-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti/4026vs3918

[stlwrx]

3 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

it's not cool to fuck your friend over...this card isn't worth anywhere near that at this point.

Sorry you have a differing opinion. No one is getting "eff'd" over buddy lol. Hes spending what he as a consumer is willing to spend. Hes also getting a a used card that % 100 works and has never been mined with or OC'd. This is a technical post asking if its worth it no need for your white knighting. 

[stlwrx]

2 minutes ago, DVA said:

Yeah, I suppose that's fair... Welp. Either way it doesn't sound like you can go wrong. The cards will perform nearly identical. I suppose the difference is you'd have a newer card and maybe bragging rights as to owning a 20 series, maybe fiddle with some RT when it becomes available. 

 

Current benchmarks on average have the 1080ti performing slightly better than the 2080 overall, but it's literally nothing you would notice if you didn't benchmark it. 

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2080-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti/4026vs3918

That helps, thanks for the informative reply. 

[AngryBeaver]

Remember that the 1080ti has more Vram in the case of high res gaming.

[stlwrx]

1 minute ago, AngryBeaver said:

Remember that the 1080ti has more Vram in the case of high res gaming.

That's true..8gb vs 11gb..will this be very noticeable at 1440p? Are there any games out there that actually use close to 11GB vram?

[.Apex.]

3 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

if he was family or a super close friend than yea i would lower it - just a buddy from work who's in the process of building a PC right now. 

family or not, i think you're trying to take advantage of people who don't know any better, and even if other people are selling it for that much too, that doesn't mean that theyre any better, since you can get an RTX 2080 new for the same price and it even has a small performance advantage.

[AngryBeaver]

2 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

That's true..8gb vs 11gb..will this be very noticeable at 1440p? Are there any games out there that actually use close to 11GB vram?

Not at 1440p in most cases, but at 4k you can start getting over 8gb of vram usage.

[i_build_nanosuits]

10 minutes ago, stlwrx said:

That's true..8gb vs 11gb..will this be very noticeable at 1440p? Are there any games out there that actually use close to 11GB vram?

i played through call of duty WWII last month and it used over 10GB consistently at 1440p...but maybe it wasn't ''needed''

 

But anyways, if you overclock your 1080ti you'll get better performance than an overclocked 2080...personally i wouldn't trade my card for a 2080 as i know it performs better in benchmarks and in games at the overclock that i'm running it because i tested it against reviews when the 2080 came out and i'm faster across the board...and it has more memory.