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| Ranayna:
Of course the 3090 will be more powerful. But looking at what the 3080 already can do, the 3090 seems unreasonable ;) It will for sure not deliver double the performance of the 3080. Even the 3080 is not all that reasonable if you are still on full hd or don't want to use a VR headset. The cards are apparently sold out anyway at the moment, like they always are right after launch. Prices need to settle down as well, and i have no urgent need to upgrade, so i will wait for bechmarks of the 3070 in a month. |
| asmi:
NVidia cards almost always sell above MSRP, so don't hold your hopes high that prices will go down any time soon. I think 3090 is more geared for professional applications, as 24GB of VRAM is a massive overkill for any games. I plan to get a 3080 once the market settles down a bit. I had a chance to pick up AIB version yesterday at the local store, but I decided to wait a little as I will also need to upgrade the rest of my system as I still use i7-3930K which is now like 8 years old. It's a HEDT CPU, so it's got 4 DDR3 memory channels, which allows it to be competitive with modern dual channel DDR4 as far as bandwidth is concerned. The problem is HEDT systems are super-expensive now (waaaay higher than what there were back when I was buying my current system), so I will have to either buy a mass-market platform and be prepared to refresh it in a few years' time, or wait for more interesting HEDT solutions to arrive. |
| hans:
I also think that the RTX3090 is unreasonable for gaming, although I'm sure some people will impulse-buy them seeing how inflated prices are on Ebay right now. The 3090 "only" has 21% more CUDA cores than the 3080, and has to work under a similar TDP (some AIB cards have the same cooler design for 3080 and 3090). With that being said, 24GB VRAM is really nice for compute, and maybe in future better than 10GB when running 4K games, but rightv now it seems pointless for gaming. I got lucky and was able to order a 3080 card, and it will come in tomorrow together with a new case and PSU. Now I will just have to figure out how to either get the latest NVIDIA drivers for Manjaro, and/or setup PCI-e passthrough for a Windows gaming VM I'd like to try out. I read on Phoronix that the 455.23.04 driver is necessary, but I'm only on the 450 branch so far. |
| Ranayna:
This time i might actually get an original nVidia Founders Edition ;) Those are reasonably priced and the cooler seems to be quite good, if maybe a little loud. Since, if i am getting a 3080, i will reduce it's power a bit anyway, it would not make much sense to get a custom design, since most of the time those are addionally overclocked, driving the price up. Only if the price is comparable to the FE, or the custom is significantly more silent i will consider one. |
| hans:
I got my RTX3080 from Gigabyte (Gaming OC version). Wow what a beast of a card! Not surprising since it's a 3 cooler design though.. I get about 5x performance compared to my GTX970 in Unigine Heaven 1440p Ultra. Maybe the 970 was begging for more VRAM or whatever, but that's a huge jump for playing games at these resolutions. It's so big that I even feel that it's a bit overkill :-// But whatever, I like overkill considering I also run a Ryzen 9 and several TB of SSD storage. :-/O Anyhow, this card doesn't seem to run too hit (65C at 70% fan speed). With 100% fans, the card can cool down even further by about 10 - 14C, so that's still some decent margin left I think. Unfortunately there is a small amount of coil whine.. but I'm running it on an open bench right now, so perhaps not surprising. I did hear/read this weekend that the GDDR6X modules on the FE card are getting very hot (105C or something, case spec is 100C). Not sure how hot they get on AIB cards. For some reason I'm not surprised, because most memory modules I see marketed for gaming/enthiousiasts are getting somewhat beaten up (e.g. DOCP/XMP profiles for DDRx RAM) |
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