Wait or upgrade from gtx 1080 sli

[shafirpl]

So my situation is kinda unique, in a sense that I only play games 4-6 hours every weekend, and almost 0 on weekdays. And currently, most of the games I do play are ps4 exclusives or only available on consoles( like red dead redemption 2, horizon zero dawn, Spiderman, etc). Most of the pc titles I play are fairly old (like I am still playing Witcher 3, Far cry 5, GTA V and so on). I mostly game on 1440p on pc. I recently am upgrading so the rest of the config looks after the upgrade will look like this:

 

i9 9900k on Noctua NH D15 (upgrading from i7 6700k)

Gigabyte Z390 Aorous Pro Wifi

32 GB ram

970 pro-512gb as primary windows drive, 950 pro 256 GB as Linux boot drive, 1 TB 850 Evo, Mushkin reactor 1tb, 5 TB WD Black

 

So I was looking at benches and was going through the forum and it seems like rtx 2080 ti will definitely be an upgrade over gtx 1080 sli, but not by a wide margin. I do get 70-80+ fps in most games, and even 100+ in GTA V so they are perfectly playable. 

 

Since I don't game that much and gtx 1080 sli are almost on par with rtx 2080 ti, should I wait a year for rtx 3080 ti and upgrade then or should I upgrade now?

 

Thanks

[jones177]

In well optimized SLI games my 2080 ti is much slower that my old 1080 ti SLI setup.

 

I went with the 2080 ti for my games that are not optimized. 

 

At one point I ran one computer 1080 ti SLI and one 2080 ti but most of the new games migrated over to the 2080 ti computer.  I ended up getting a second 2080 ti.

 

I will go SLI/NVLink again when the 2080 ti replacement comes out and I am hoping that it will last longer that 1080 ti SLI did.

 

I gave my 1080 tis to my Son and since he is a 1440p multi monitor gamer it is working out better for Him.  

[SupaKomputa]

5 minutes ago, jones177 said:

In well optimized SLI games

We won't see that coming in the future, sadly. SLI is dead.

[SwiftXShadow]

16 minutes ago, jones177 said:

In well optimized SLI games my 2080 ti is much slower that my old 1080 ti SLI setup.

 

I went with the 2080 ti for my games that are not optimized. 

 

At one point I ran one computer 1080 ti SLI and one 2080 ti but most of the new games migrated over to the 2080 ti computer.  I ended up getting a second 2080 ti.

 

I will go SLI/NVLink again when the 2080 ti replacement comes out and I am hoping that it will last longer that 1080 ti SLI did.

 

I gave my 1080 tis to my Son and since he is a 1440p multi monitor gamer it is working out better for Him.  

must be nice being filthy rich

[jones177]

27 minutes ago, SwiftXShadow said:

must be nice being filthy rich

I am not rich.

 

I am retired and way before I retired I payed off my mortgage.

 

I retired from being a freelance 3D graphic artist so my computers up until now have paid for themselves.

I could have retired a few years back but I wanted to keep my hardware budget so I worked longer. You will see nice hardware in my sig for the foreseeable future. 

 

This site exists because someone decided to make money with their computers. You can too. The only one that can stop you is you.

 

 

[Mick Naughty]

Wouldn’t waste the money myself. Benchmarks speak for them selves. But the market is gonna be as good as it’s gonna get for selling used 10 series cards. 

 

I’d give it a try, though single cards are always a letdown