3070, 2080ti or RX series?

[EmptySoul]

I am currently on a 1060 and until recently that has been fine for what I needed, yes in the last year it has not be fantastic but with a 1080 60hz monitor it did the job.

 

I now have a 1440p 144hz monitor and with the 1060 my games need to run at medium settings at best. I want to upgrade my graphics card ASAP but have a budget of about £500. about $650.  That gets me a basic RTX 3070.. when we can get them. But I have been looking at the reviews and in game benchmarks the 3070 is comparable to the 2080ti... I would also like to watercool my graphics card but purely for aesthetic reasons.. I know that I could use that money to bump up to a better graphics card but I don't need a 3080. A 3070 or 2080ti will play all my games in 1440p and still get between 110-130 fps.

 

So my question... do I wait to get a 3070... even though it will be the lower end ones, and I don't think they will make a water block for it but that's just a guess. or do I get a preowned 2080ti which will serve my needs perfectly and I can get a water block for it... or should I get AMDs equivalent as my monitor is free sync not Gsync?

[LeDetructor]

5 minutes ago, EmptySoul said:

I am currently on a 1060 and until recently that has been fine for what I needed, yes in the last year it has not be fantastic but with a 1080 60hz monitor it did the job.

 

I now have a 1440p 144hz monitor and with the 1060 my games need to run at medium settings at best. I want to upgrade my graphics card ASAP but have a budget of about £500. about $650.  That gets me a basic RTX 3070.. when we can get them. But I have been looking at the reviews and in game benchmarks the 3070 is comparable to the 2080ti... I would also like to watercool my graphics card but purely for aesthetic reasons.. I know that I could use that money to bump up to a better graphics card but I don't need a 3080. A 3070 or 2080ti will play all my games in 1440p and still get between 110-130 fps.

 

So my question... do I wait to get a 3070... even though it will be the lower end ones, and I don't think they will make a water block for it but that's just a guess. or do I get a preowned 2080ti which will serve my needs perfectly and I can get a water block for it... or should I get AMDs equivalent as my monitor is free sync not Gsync?

AMD's equivalent is the Rx 6800 it cost like 80$ more,so i would say go for a 3070.The 2080 ti is faster in some cases but the 3070 has the new generation tensor and RT cores

[xg32]

1 hour ago, EmptySoul said:

I am currently on a 1060 and until recently that has been fine for what I needed, yes in the last year it has not be fantastic but with a 1080 60hz monitor it did the job.

 

I now have a 1440p 144hz monitor and with the 1060 my games need to run at medium settings at best. I want to upgrade my graphics card ASAP but have a budget of about £500. about $650.  That gets me a basic RTX 3070.. when we can get them. But I have been looking at the reviews and in game benchmarks the 3070 is comparable to the 2080ti... I would also like to watercool my graphics card but purely for aesthetic reasons.. I know that I could use that money to bump up to a better graphics card but I don't need a 3080. A 3070 or 2080ti will play all my games in 1440p and still get between 110-130 fps.

 

So my question... do I wait to get a 3070... even though it will be the lower end ones, and I don't think they will make a water block for it but that's just a guess. or do I get a preowned 2080ti which will serve my needs perfectly and I can get a water block for it... or should I get AMDs equivalent as my monitor is free sync not Gsync?

rx 6800 oc is rumored to be faster than a 3080, personally i'm no longer looking at any current nvidia cards.

[Mateyyy]

48 minutes ago, xg32 said:

rx 6800 oc is rumored to be faster than a 3080, personally i'm no longer looking at any current nvidia cards.

Now where did that one come from?

The 6800XT was roughly on par with the 3080 in AMD's own benchmarks, not the 6800.

 

Reviews should be coming out in a little over a week, so if you're interested in RDNA2, wait until then.

[xg32]

4 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Now where did that one come from?

The 6800XT was roughly on par with the 3080 in AMD's own benchmarks, not the 6800.

 

Reviews should be coming out in a little over a week, so if you're interested in RDNA2, wait until then.

there were "leaked" oc benches, obviously take it with a grain of salt, but i am expecting the 5800 max oc to beat out the 3080 max oc.

[BTGbullseye]

1 hour ago, Mateyyy said:

Now where did that one come from?

The 6800XT was roughly on par with the 3080 in AMD's own benchmarks, not the 6800.

The 6800XT was at bare stock, without S.A.M.. Leaked benchmarks of OCed cards have shown that the RX 6000 series has a LOT of OC headroom compared to Nvidia, and at about identical power draws to the 3080/3090, the 6800 and 6800XT should be on-par, with the 6900XT significantly ahead of the 3090 OC at a still lower power draw.

[Mateyyy]

15 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

The 6800XT was at bare stock, without S.A.M.. Leaked benchmarks of OCed cards have shown that the RX 6000 series has a LOT of OC headroom compared to Nvidia, and at about identical power draws to the 3080/3090, the 6800 and 6800XT should be on-par, with the 6900XT significantly ahead of the 3090 OC at a still lower power draw.

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

 

I'm really not a fan of using S.A.M. in benchmarks, since not everyone will be pairing these new GPUs with Ryzen 5000 CPUs on B550/X570, and we also don't know how well and reliably it will work in the real world. That, and people comparing AMD directly to Nvidia w/ DLSS - it's just as unfair/misleading.

[BTGbullseye]

4 hours ago, Mateyyy said:

I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Indeed.

4 hours ago, Mateyyy said:

I'm really not a fan of using S.A.M. in benchmarks, since not everyone will be pairing these new GPUs with Ryzen 5000 CPUs on B550/X570, and we also don't know how well and reliably it will work in the real world. That, and people comparing AMD directly to Nvidia w/ DLSS - it's just as unfair/misleading.

Well, it's not good when that the ONLY way you're testing, but if it's available as a feature, it should be tested, even if the competition has no equivalent. (and placed in the charts with the benchmarking that took place with the feature disabled)