Buying new GPU

[Stefan Kasev]

Hello guys! I am considering something and i will stop first here to ask you for little advice. Now i have Rtx 2080 ti with about 6 months warranty left, the card has been solid for those years, maybe the best one i had. But now i want to do a little performance upgrade i am playing on 1440p now and the card is good for fps games and other. I am considering to sell this card and get Rtx 3080 lhr 10gb because it is a little better in performance and the price is about 1500 euros where i live. The rtx 3080 ti seems too expensive. I want new fresh gpu with little gain over the rtx 2080 ti and is this worth it or not? 

[Pixelfie]

3080 would be great for 1440p, but not at that price. I recommend looking at AMD's offerings, they are often much better with price/performance. For example a 6800 XT is faster if SAM is enabled, and a 6900 XT is even better and often found for the same price as 3080. 

 

Some of their features are worse, but not much.

Streaming: their encoders aren't as good as Nvidia, but once set up correctly it can actually look pretty close. Even at 6000kbps. People say it sucks but they just don't use the right settings.

DLSS: AMD has FSR, and probably tomorrow or the day after they will add RSR which supports all games. It supports much more games, but quality is slightly worse than DLSS because it doesn't use AI.

Ray Tracing: Nvidia just performs better at this, but a 6900 XT is probably only slightly worse and not much games support it anyway.

 

Also you shouldn't pay 1500 for a 20% gain in performance.

[Stefan Kasev]

1 hour ago, Pixelfie said:

3080 would be great for 1440p, but not at that price. I recommend looking at AMD's offerings, they are often much better with price/performance. For example a 6800 XT is faster if SAM is enabled, and a 6900 XT is even better and often found for the same price as 3080. 

 

Some of their features are worse, but not much.

Streaming: their encoders aren't as good as Nvidia, but once set up correctly it can actually look pretty close. Even at 6000kbps. People say it sucks but they just don't use the right settings.

DLSS: AMD has FSR, and probably tomorrow or the day after they will add RSR which supports all games. It supports much more games, but quality is slightly worse than DLSS because it doesn't use AI.

Ray Tracing: Nvidia just performs better at this, but a 6900 XT is probably only slightly worse and not much games support it anyway.

 

Also you shouldn't pay 1500 for a 20% gain in performance.

The thing is my monitor is with freesync and i dont like amd gpus

a lot from experience so the nvidia will be the choice here for me. I will sell my rtx 2080 ti and give a little amount on top to get the rtx 3080 i guess. I dont know for how much to sell it tho. 

[jones177]

I did get a 3080 to replace a 2080 ti.

To me it was worth upgrading for HDMI 2.1 that allows my OLED TVs I use as monitors to run a 120hz. 

At stock the 3080 was about 10 frames faster than the 2080 ti in most games. 

I ended up using 3080 tis for gaming so I threw that score in as well.

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider scores are typical of the difference between GPUs using the same CPU. This is with an i9 9900k.

                  1440p

2080 ti       133fps

3080          144fps

3080 ti       154fps

 

The cards used were EVGA FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti,  ASUS ROG Strix White OC 3080 and EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti.

 

One of my EVGA FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti sold for $1,100 and the Stix 3080 cost $1,150. 

I am keeping one 2080 ti as a spare.

     

 

  

[Stefan Kasev]

40 minutes ago, jones177 said:

I did get a 3080 to replace a 2080 ti.

To me it was worth upgrading for HDMI 2.1 that allows my OLED TVs I use as monitors to run a 120hz. 

At stock the 3080 was about 10 frames faster than the 2080 ti in most games. 

I ended up using 3080 tis for gaming so I threw that score in as well.

 

Shadow of the Tomb Raider scores are typical of the difference between GPUs using the same CPU. This is with an i9 9900k.

                  1440p

2080 ti       133fps

3080          144fps

3080 ti       154fps

 

The cards used were EVGA FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti,  ASUS ROG Strix White OC 3080 and EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti.

 

One of my EVGA FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti sold for $1,100 and the Stix 3080 cost $1,150. 

I am keeping one 2080 ti as a spare.

     

 

  

I thought about the 3080 ti too and i think its more worth it but here i cant find it under 1800 euro. 

[jones177]

13 minutes ago, Stefan Kasev said:

I thought about the 3080 ti too and i think its more worth it but here i cant find it under 1800 euro. 

I would not be unhappy if I had gotten all 3080s for gaming. It was the my original plan.

My goal at launch was to get two 3090s and three 3080s that would replace 5 10 series cards. I ended up only being able to get one 3080 and one 3090 at MSRP.  The 3080 tis just came up first.