Any reason to upgrade? (2080 Super)

omucron · January 22

I've had the EVGA (RIP) RTX 2080 Super XC Ultra Gaming in my rig since ~2019, and it's been great and problem free - hours long of 2D and VR, video and photo editing, basically anything I put it through it did extremely well.

The rest of my system is pretty anemic considering what's come out in the past 4 years, was planning on upgrading the CPU and related bits, so I was wondering if it would be worth upgrading the GPU as well?

I know there are much faster cards out, but being a PCIe 3.0 card I'm thinking there would be a significant boost alongside the higher CUDA core and dedicated RAM.

Alongside that, more technologies that newer GPUs include that I hear about in passing would be nice-to-haves.

I haven't paid much attention to the industry so bear with me, all I really know is card prices have gone up and people really aren't jazzed about the price:performance ratio anymore.

(I don't really have a budget, just trying to see if it's worth even considering looking at anything)

Takumidesh · January 22

8 minutes ago, omucron said:

it's been great and problem free - hours long of 2D and VR, video and photo editing, basically anything I put it through it did extremely well.

Seems like you have your answer here, why upgrade if your workload doesn't require it.

omucron · January 22

6 minutes ago, Takumidesh said:

Seems like you have your answer here, why upgrade if your workload doesn't require it.

Yeah, for my use case now, I haven't done anything past it because the rest of my system doesn't really keep up. Not really looking to upgrade now and then less than a year need a GPU upgrade because it quickly becomes the bottleneck.