4000 series v 3000 series

[DRUNK_CANADIAN]

What are all your folks thoughts on the performance improvements.... do they justify the jump up in cost>?

[Steven Silverheart]

I love my new 4090. However, it seems its performing a little bad in some games and incredible well in some. I hope it's a drivers issue.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Almost double performance for aprox the same TDP?Ive got mine last weekend and this is the first time Im able to play AAA games with ultra settings and 60FPS on 5120x2160
Was it worth it the two grand? Hells yeah. But XX90 cards are for enthusiasts who are willing to go all the way for the best performance possible. Running my 4090 with a 850W PSU and a 5800X3D with a little undervolt and its using aprox the same amount of power like my 6900XTXH.

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But what do you mean with jump in cost? I remember when it was impossible to put your hands on a 3090TI under 2500 bucks a year ago so its the same story all over again. ^^
Still burning for November, 3th. I dont think that AMD will beat the 4090 this time but it seems that theyve improved big time with RT.

[Tiberius]

3xxx has better performance/price currently

[Bad 💀 Motha]

DDU the gpu drivers and wipe out vulkan and GFE with is as well. Go back to 511.xx

[Rod]

Only one we know of is 4090. Terrible value in a year it will be worth £900 like the 3090ti is now. You lose all that in one year poof gone! And worse... how and who do you resell a 600w super wide GPU to?


Think about it, Whos gonna have the case and psu for a used 4090? People who can afford that will not be buyibg used cards the card is totally messed up for the resale market. And with a 3yr warranty you want that card off your hands in 24months. So in 24months you need that buyer lol after they all bought the 3000 series. Thats what made me realize.... Im gonna force myself to be sensible and buy a new 4090 for £900 next year lol.

[Strawberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

still on 10xx series see no reason to upgrade

[Χάρης]

Originally posted by DRUNK_CANADIAN:

What are all your folks thoughts on the performance improvements.... do they justify the jump up in cost>?

4000 are definitely faster but wait for driver updates and new GPU versions. There has been a lotta posts about the melting pins.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Originally posted by Rodders:

Only one we know of is 4090. Terrible value in a year it will be worth £900 like the 3090ti is now. You lose all that in one year poof gone! And worse... how and who do you resell a 600w super wide GPU to?


Think about it, Whos gonna have the case and psu for a used 4090? People who can afford that will not be buyibg used cards the card is totally messed up for the resale market. And with a 3yr warranty you want that card off your hands in 24months. So in 24months you need that buyer lol after they all bought the 3000 series. Thats what made me realize.... Im gonna force myself to be sensible and buy a new 4090 for £900 next year lol.

You don't need to sell your RTX 4090 after a year.
It's an asset.

You can use the GPU for 5 years, playing 1440p high-fps gaming, in peace.

[UserNotFound]

The thing about nVidia is this, you lose that good driver support over time as nVidia tend to focus on newer cards with newer features. Look at DLSS for example, RTX 2000/3000 series cards fully support DLSS 1.x to 2.x, but then along comes the RTX 4000 series which does DLSS3 and the previous two gen cards are left out in the cold. nVidia themselves have admitted that DLSS3 could prolly work with the previous two gen cards, but it would take time and effort to optimize the drivers, and performance with DLSS3 may not be good.

But the point is, IF it can be done, why not put out a couple of drivers to enable DLSS3 for RTX 2k/3k series cards and let your customers decide. They closed the door on it because it'd affect sales of the RTX 4k series cards if they were to do it, after all, they wanna sell truckloads of their RTX4k cards and DLSS3 is the main selling point.

Like my GTX 1080, which is still a good gaming card, it would really struggle in games, but for games with FSR support, it manages quite nicely. You'd want them, nVidia, to help with full support for games for years to come.

And Cloud Boy, no GPU is an asset, they don't hold their value over time, the crazy high prices back when Crypto mining was a thing, plus supply chain disruptions, plus lockdowns are now in our rearview mirrors. In five years' time, the RTX 4090 would be seen as how the GTX 1080 Ti is seen today, it was an awesome card in its heyday, now it's a useful card to have, and gets the job done, and that's about the size of it, Bubba.

[Lord Flashheart]

Originally posted by DRUNK_CANADIAN:

What are all your folks thoughts on the performance improvements.... do they justify the jump up in cost>?

Just upgraded from a GTX 1080 ti to an RTX 3080.
As for the 4000 series, cards are very very big (so need new case), maybe catch fire and super stupidly expensive. Changing a case of more a hassle than the money paying for another.

The GTX 1080 ti lasted a while due to upscaling. I had high hopes for XeSS but was very disappointing, so decided to upgrade.
The card was a bit lower priced on some special so got it. The RTX 3080 ti again would have caused case issues - or at least one for a decent price.

My next purchase - an upgrade for a 3440x1440p monitor 120 Hz gsync to a 144Hz 10 bit freesync - same resolution. That is when I save my pennies.
I only went for nvidia this time as I have a gsync monitor. Maybe the last nvidia card I buy as the prices/size/fire risk/power consumption for the 4000 ones are stupid.
Mt next GPU purchase will be a freesync compatible one. It means a choice of three companies.

I would have waited for the RTX 4080 12GB prices/performance benchmarks but was cancelled.

So RTX 4000 - no thanks - not interested. RTX 3000 - ok for now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

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[THE LORD]

Is the 4090 a fire hazard? Pretty sure even a small apartment is worth more than a few thousand dollars.

[Pocahawtness]

People are hyped up and paying too much for them, as per usual. The prices should be lower. When they are rrp then they are good value, but the raster performance is about 50-80% not the 100% people are quoting. They also need to sort out the fire issue with the adaptor cables.

[mtono]

i would always buy newest technology. i am just used to it.
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[Andrius227]

In sticking with my rtx3090 for now. I was tempted by the 4090, but the whole melting cables thing made me not want it anymore. And its quite expensive too. I will just save up for a 4080ti or 4090ti instead.