I’ve never bought a FE, so I think it’ll be an ASUS (or maybe I’ll try something else this time?)… 
Last 4 cards have been ASUS… 
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But that’s exactly what happens when You wait a long time with upgrading?
I went from an Xeon X5680/PCIe RAID card with 4xSSD’s in RAID0/24GB DDR3 RAM/1080Ti to 9900K/16GB 4GHz RAM (later upgraded to 32)/2080Ti.
Had to replace everything but the DVD-RAM drive (which is never used) and RAID+SSDs (later replaced with 2TB NVMe)…
the 3080 has 28 billion, you’re under estimating the 3090 I’m reading 34.5 billion from days past. The 28 billion figure for 3080 is directly from nvidia.com blog. Man, it’s a rollercoaster because I agree. We do have to be careful with marketing terms… but transistors are transistors, and with a better process too. PHEW
everything I’m seeing still points towards completely absurd cards in terms of power. it makes sense when they gave up so much real estate in the 2000 series to add rt and tensor
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For the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians (replace .dk with .se or .no):
https://www.komplett.dk/product/1168359/hardware/pc-komponenter/grafikkort/asus-geforce-rtx-3090-tuf-gaming
https://www.komplett.dk/product/1168126/hardware/pc-komponenter/grafikkort/gainward-geforce-rtx3090-phoenix
https://www.komplett.dk/product/1168127/hardware/pc-komponenter/grafikkort/palit-geforce-rtx3090-gamingpro
yeah every fiber of my being wants to stick with standards for compatibility and performance
can’t really go wrong with intel/nvidia
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About 33 billion transistors for the RTX 3090 might be right if 28 billion is correct for the 3080, based on CUDA core count. Still, some of the information from days past, has already been invalidated.
Another 17% still doesn’t get over the threshold of outright doubling the hardware of the RTX 2080 Ti.
I would still be a lot happier to see VR multi-GPU.
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i may have to. the reason why i’m im still on a 4790 is that every year i look to see if upgrading is worth it
and every year it turns out that some new advancement comes out that makes the gpu the bottleneck
first 4k, then rtx.
all benchmarks prove that my 4790 is enough.
The only way upgrading my CPU makes a difference is if im running 1080p but then we are talking the difference between 120fp and 240fps
i stop caring after 90.
its possible that the 3090 would pair well enough for the 4790 for the moment unless Jensen is right and the GPU is no longer the bottleneck.
But even then that would give me an upgrade path later for more performance.
At the end of the day, when I finally toss the 4790 I want it to make a difference to gaming.
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I ugraded form 4770k to a i9 9900k ( with the 2080 ti ) and did ger 30 fps more in every game . 4770k was a huge bottleneck ! With 3090 it simply wont work at all . you will get 50% performance of your 3090 which would be STUPID !
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I’m trying to figure out the 3080 vs 3090 for my 5k+. Mainly into sim racing and confused about the impact of VRAM. Sim’s like ACC and AMS2 don’t run well on my 1080 ti at all and was looking for an upgrade that would make them playable in VR. Just a hard pill to swallow going for the 3090 with such a decrease in performance value.
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Wait for AIB gpus. There will be 20GB 3080s, but not founders edition or reference cards. There is no reason to spend that much money on a card imo, unless you’re okay with losing a grand every 2 years. They devalue too fast, just my personal opinion. Hopefully 20GB 3080s are well below 1,000 dollars.
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Yeah I mean a 20gb 3080 would probably be around $900-1000 if/when it comes out. I guess it makes sense waiting for that, but with VR its hard not to want that extra bit of performance even if its stupid expensive.
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I missed this. Could you link please? Do we know what timescale?
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Seconded. The vendors pre-bin cards, which means faster devaluation of whatever isn’t the absolute best in terms of ‘factory overclock’ and ‘maximum power target’. Plus, you might be playing the lottery with any stock card. Thus, why I bought the ‘EVGA RTX 2080 Ti FTW3’. It’s not like I could care less about the cute marketing buzzwords.
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I stand corrected, super sorry!! Was just leak info reposted by guru3d, but they posted it today oddly (kopite7kimi posted this many days ago). Considering the leaks have been slightly wrong, we’ll have to just play the waiting game. Regardless, I’ve found the founders GPUs to be disappointing. Usually hot as hell, but the swag meter is definitely maxed out on those designs.
Bandwidth can’t make up for missing memory, but do consider the 3080 will have superior memory bandwidth to the 2080ti.
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Think I might just go for EVGA 3080 10GB. They have that upgrade program so if a 20GB or Ti version comes any time soon I don’t have to be stuck with regrets.
3080 should compare very favourably with 1080Ti as it stands, and it sounds like people are already able to have a nice experience with 2080Ti and 8kx
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GN coverage:
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yeah that pretty much why i still have my 6700k, most things I use it for won’t benefit from more cores (to make it worth the upgrade) and the 500mhz i’d possibly get out of later cpu’s is not really worth it either.
this gen it’s either lower clocked ryzen or pci-e gen 3 on intel. I think i’ll see what the ryzen 4000 stull will look like in a few months but it’s more likely i’ll end up with whatever comes after the 10900k
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I reckon AMD will take the single thread performance crown outright for CPU with the next Ryzen gen .
More like two or three generations, and then only if Intel doesn’t give up and outsource their chips to third party fabs. A big part of the reason AMD is getting faster than Intel is because Intel’s CPU business is no longer the single driving factor being chip fabrication, and the competition is inevitably getting better for it.
Nvidia Q&A: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/iko4u7/geforce_rtx_30series_community_qa_submit_your/
Preorder when? : no preorders for RTX Founders Edition, (per comment no EVGA preorders either)
Will PCIe 3.0 bottleneck the RTX 3090?: typically less than a few percent going from a x16 PCIE 4.0 to x16 PCIE 3.0.
Can’t see any more answers yet
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