So which RTX 30 series are you thinking about buying?

[Pocahawtness]

The 3070 seems amazing, with a reported performance higher than a 2080ti.
The 3080 is almost DOUBLE the 2080ti.
The 3090 needs a nuclear power station to run it!
So I am interested what people's initial thoughts are. Are you thinking about getting one? Which one?

[Wisman]

I'm hoping the RTX 3060 would be a decent price.

[Lord Flashheart]

None atm. have a Gtx 1080 ti. It hard to justify an upgrade. As for ray tracing....meh.

I am maybe buying MS flight simulator 2020. It seems can get over 30 fps i seems with my GPU in ultra settings. Some frame drops below 30 are apparently due to poor optimisation. For those 'pretty games' high frame rates are not so important.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

the 300-400$ equivalent in local currency philippines.
we have 12% value added tax plus profit of reseller so more likely the mid to lower tier.

[plat]

Most likely the 3070. I'd like an upgrade I can actually perceive, over my current GTX 1080. Although the reveal price of 499 USD sounds great, I was already prepared to pay for an RTX 2080 Super so not expecting actual retail pricing to be "low" like that.

I just hope supply keeps up with demand.

[🍕🍟🍔 🍕🍟🍔]

i am thinking about getting the 3080 but im skeptical about the 10 gbs of vram because if you play doom eternal at 1440p max settings you use 7 gbs of vram so in this case the 3090 would be better but its almost double the price so at this point idk

[Tiberius]

waiting for that 3080 with 20gb VRAM or 3090 revision

[Mamba out]

currently rocking with 1070ti, i think i'll wait for 3070ti, gonna see if it actually can get close to 3080 performance wise (I love the middle grounds with ti and supers- a little less money with more overclock can do the job)

[Autumn_]

Anything better than my 970 lmao.

[(N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★]

Well I have two 1080TIs right now and skipped the 20 series for this reason.

I didnt expect them to do something so off the wall with the 3090 but looks like I'll be doing that along with updating my i7 7700k.

Honestly I might as well keep my current setup as a backup rig and just get a whole new setup since my motherboard is a bit dated (Maximus 7)

Well, thanks to this thread I went out and already ordered a whole new rig since mine was getting kinda dated. After everything was said and done I spent around $2,700 to include a case and a very much overkill 1000w powersupply. I didn't even get to cooling yet as I want to see what kind of clearance I'll have with the new motherboard cause last time I had an issue with RAM and a damn heatsink over the CPU that restricted my use of having 4 RAM cause of needless 'heatsinks' on top of the RAM I bought that I didn't think would be an issue since that was the norm back when I bought them.

[Andrius227]

I'm considering all 3.

3070, if it really is faster than 2080ti, would be great. And it's so bloody cheap that i could replace it in a few months if i wished. Looks nice too.

3090 is obviously the most powerfull, and the most expensive. And it's got the beefiest 3 slot cooler which should be more than enough to cool it. And with 24gb of vram, it should last a few years, at least. Also looks nice.

3080 is a weird one. It is powerfull, uses almost as much power as the 3090 (320w vs 350w), but it's cooler is only 2 slots thick and is almost as small as the 3070. Which seems like it may not be quite enough. I want my gpus to be silent and ice cold. And the 3rd party versions are all ugly, plastic, flashy abominations, which i would be ashamed to show to anyone older than 12.

[Obsessive Power]

If anything it would be a 3070. But I won't be doing it yet, it's a bit too soon for me. I only bought my 2080 in back in January. Far too early to buy a new GPU for me. But it looks to be a pretty neat card.

The 3080 though is something else. The DF video I watched yesterday was pretty convincing of its capabilities. There is a much larger leap from 2080 to 3080 than from the previous generation.

[Masque]

This one, probably. Otherwise I'll wait for a 3070 Super, which is likely, and will likely also have the GDDR6X RAM upgrade.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-ampere-geforce-rtx-3070-ti-spotted-with-16gb-gddr6-vram-confirmed-by-lenovo/

I just hope I have enough room in my case. May have to wait until third parties make shorter versions of the 3070.

[XxzodazZ]

Messaggio originale di ｢C❤️A｣ Pocahawtness:

The 3070 seems amazing, with a reported performance higher than a 2080ti.
The 3080 is almost DOUBLE the 2080ti.
The 3090 needs a nuclear power station to run it!
So I am interested what people's initial thoughts are. Are you thinking about getting one? Which one? :golden:

3080 best price/performance in my opinion.The 3070 is still prob the best all around Gpu for a larger majority tho

[Masque]

I wish there was a place I could find a list of games that list 1080 TI as MINIMUM requirements.

On March 17, 2021, the 1080 TI will be four years old.

How many games have that as a required minimum (for 1080p)? Three games, maybe?

Someone asked in Off Topic: when will most games list the 3090 as a minimum requirement?

I'm guessing it'll be a long, long time. I think the 3000 series will future-proof gaming for at least a decade, on the GPU front. Granted, we may need petabyte drives for all the textures (sarcasm, but not a whole lot of sarcasm).

[plat]

Messaggio originale di N-95 Masque of Clavicus Vile:

I just hope I have enough room in my case. May have to wait until third parties make shorter versions of the 3070.

Similar concern until recently, with all this new info. This article has a picture of all three together about mid-way down the page. The 3070 depicted, I mean: it looks like it would be no problem in a current mid tower case. On the other hand, that 3090...whew!

https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-rtx-3080-gpu-ampere-163044861.html