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paulca:
So any gamers out there - here's a napkin, wipe up your drool - will know the 3000 series is launched and set to go on sale September 17th.

There are many sources out there with full specs, but it can be summed up that the entry level base card 3070 will out perform the latest flagship 2080Ti and costs £450.  The 3090 is double the performance of the 2080Ti.  There will be a LOT of very, very sad 2080Ti purchasers and a LOT of S/H GPU traders screaming in pain in a few weeks.

My present PC is only nearly 3 years old, but I have that itch again.  But then it starts...

The new GPU actually makes good use of the PCI-e V4 bus, so I need a new Motherboard.  The new Motherboard will support the latest 3rd gen Ryzen 3800X, so I need a new CPU.  The new CPU will support faster RAM and I'll need more anyway for DCS World and FS2020.. so I need new RAM 32Gb.

When I tried to make a "hand me down" deal with my brother, his case won't handle my stuff, now will his PSU and I was hoping to keep my cooling systems.  However it looking like for that deal go to through I'll end up handing down the case and PSU and maybe the cooling systems too.

So that's a whole new PC, except for drives and I'm sorely tempted to go for a 1Tb MVeM2 drive anyway.

I'm off to go window shopping, wish me luck.

That said, what is unfortunately likely to happen is... 3080 goes on sale at £650 and immediately sells out.  All the websites put their price up to £950 and they all sell out, then it will settle at £1400 for months before falling again.
ebclr:
"The new GPU actually makes good use of the PCI-e V4 bus"

You can use PCIe3 with imperceptible performance degradation, It's not necessary to change anything , you are forcing a point
paulca:

--- Quote from: ebclr on September 06, 2020, 01:34:27 pm ---You can use PCIe3 with imperceptible performance degradation, It's not necessary to change anything , you are forcing a point

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True.  I believe the utilisation of the 2000 series is 16x2.0 8x3.0, so even if the 3000 series doubles bandwidth capacity it will still only use 16x3.0 and maybe 8x4.0

And my rig is not CPU bound at all and probably wouldn't be with a 3000 series.

Although I have already tempted my brother with the hand me down. :(

... and NEW TOYS!
Ranayna:
It's all speculation anyway until reputable independent benchmarks turn up ;)

But i remember with some AMD GPUs that also can use PCIe 4, that there is actually a non significant performance increase in some circumstances. I think a couple of games performend around 10% faster with the GPU in a PCIe 4 slot than in a PCIe 3 Slot.
Additonally, if i understood it correctly, there will be a new feature that enables the GPU to pull texture data directly from a PCIe SSD. This will likely benefit from PCIe 4 as well, if you have an SSD that can utilize that, of course.

I will set up a new system late this year or early next year. I am essentially only waiting for the next Ryzen release. ;)
asmi:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 06, 2020, 07:54:33 pm ---It's all speculation anyway until reputable independent benchmarks turn up ;)

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NVidia themselves showed benchmarks done on i9 machine (so PCIE 3.0). If PCIE 4.0 would make a difference, don't you think they'd show it instead?
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