Should I wait for 4080 RTX?

[MS-DOS]

I have a 1660 super with a 3950x so it is a bottleneck, however im ok since I barely play videogames and when I play I have more fun playing Duke 3d and Doom 2 user maps than modern games but I like VR sim racing so my current GPU is not optimal.

 

The problem is the prices are insane. So my question is if I should wait another year and see what happens or assume we are stuck with current prices.

[RollinLower]

2 minutes ago, MS-DOS said:

I have a 1660 super with a 3950x so it is a bottleneck, however im ok since I barely play videogames and when I play I have more fun playing Duke 3d and Doom 2 user maps than modern games but I like VR sim racing so my current GPU is not optimal.

 

The problem is the prices are insane. So my question is if I should wait another year and see what happens or assume we are stuck with current prices.

most industry officials claim the chip shortage is going to last atleast a year, probably 2. and even then, chances are the 4090 is going to be a 2000 dollar card anyway.

[WereCat]

every graphics card is a bottleneck of you use settings high enough... the question is whether you can live with it with the preformance it offers until your dreamed rtx 4080.

If yes, wait. If not, don't. 

[Eighjan]

17 minutes ago, MS-DOS said:

I have a 1660 super with a 3950x so it is a bottleneck, however im ok since I barely play videogames and when I play I have more fun playing Duke 3d and Doom 2 user maps than modern games but I like VR sim racing so my current GPU is not optimal.

 

The problem is the prices are insane. So my question is if I should wait another year and see what happens or assume we are stuck with current prices.

The main problem with the demand for newer cards is that some portion of it is unrealistically grounded.

Soooo many people seems to want newer cards for JUST that reason - they're new.

If you blind tested the exact same machine with various graphics cards & asked people what's the minimum they're happy with, many would choose a system with a lesser card than what is current w/o realising.

Gamers should be more readily tailoring their games to the hardware... and NOT the other way round.

 

I can't see that anyone with a 20-series card realistically "needs" a 30-series; same with the AMD equivalents.

 

@MS-DOS - are you running a 1660 Super because that's all you can get?

Have you got ANY other graphics cards that are higher spec. than a 1660S... or did you pre-empt the 30-series & sell a perfectly good card to get money?

Edited June 16, 2021 by Eighjan

[MS-DOS]

On 6/16/2021 at 3:53 PM, Eighjan said:

The main problem with the demand for newer cards is that some portion of it is unrealistically grounded.

Soooo many people seems to want newer cards for JUST that reason - they're new.

If you blind tested the exact same machine with various graphics cards & asked people what's the minimum they're happy with, many would choose a system with a lesser card than what is current w/o realising.

Gamers should be more readily tailoring their games to the hardware... and NOT the other way round.

 

I can't see that anyone with a 20-series card realistically "needs" a 30-series; same with the AMD equivalents.

 

@MS-DOS - are you running a 1660 Super because that's all you can get?

Have you got ANY other graphics cards that are higher spec. than a 1660S... or did you pre-empt the 30-series & sell a perfectly good card to get money?

I could have gone for a more expensive card but I went for a 1660 Super as a intermediate card because I wouldn't need more horsepower for the time being.

I was waiting for new VR headsets with higher res and apparently sim racing is finally legit with the G2 or the Vive Pro 2 resolutions, because with previous headsets people always claimed you couldn't clearly see in the distance but it's getting better.