That seems like a mistake to me. The thing is: Supplies of the 30xxs will be very limited at first, especially the 3090 (according to rumors). I’m not about to sell my 2080, without a new video card on hand.
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It has HDMI 2.1 though which fulfills the bandwidth requirements.
I very nearly sold my 1080ti two weeks ago in anticipation. But then I realised it would be a massive pain to run without a dedicated graphics card for potentially a month +.
I trust you to have good information. 
Still, the issue is due to VR being held to single GPU, and in simulation cases single CPU core as well, resulting in the performance standard being a fully overclocked RTX 2080 Ti. Along with that standard comes a world of pain just trying to get things working adequately with Smart Smoothing on.
Just getting 50% better than a stock RTX 2080 Ti gets us almost nothing at all, but that is what a lot of benchmarks may focus on.
We need more like 100% better than a fully overclocked RTX 2080 Ti on a typical 3090. Or just to be allowed to use multi-GPU for VR, perhaps with the NVLINK bridge put to better use on consumer cards. Then, we can have a lot less pain and worry about VR things breaking due to minor performance losses.
It doesn’t help that GPU core performance seems to have stagnated for a while either, due to the cryptocurrency bust.
I understand NVIDIA is going more for the datacenter market now, and in many ways that is a good thing. However, VR is also a distinct use case from gaming, which needs to be adequately supported by things like multi-GPU, again perhaps with better NVLINK capabilities on consumer cards.
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I might be happy if this turned out to actually be efficient for VR, and specifically VR DCS World…
There’s a new generation of NVLink SLI only for the GeForce RTX 3090 – which has me excited beyond words. I’m going to write about that in the next day or two, as it is big news on its own.
Read more: These are the GAINWARD GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 Phoenix cards
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Look at this…
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3090 sli sounds hot, literally!
I would be ok with much, much, much worse, to get comfortable performance margins, if not to turn off Smart Smoothing.
Like I said, I think we should be able to burn 1.5kW on the GPU.
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If the 3090 price leaks and 3080 memory numbers are true, then the only remotely interesting cards in that lineup are imho the 3080 20 GB and the 3070 16 GB — which will be hold back for strategic reasons as it looks. Think I will definitely wait what AMD has to offer. And potentially keep my 1080 TI for one generation longer than anticipated. Particularly as anything broader than two slots means goodbye to my much adored toaster size ITX case.
Was looking forward to use more benefits from my 8kX and 4k OLED TV. But not at any price…
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You could watch the price on EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 cards on eBay and maybe grab one cheap in the next few weeks. Would be a nice upgrade from a 1080Ti.
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HDMI 2.1 would have been nice for the TV – but if the price is right…
But then he’d wouldn’t have skipped that generation and be stuck at it 
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I still have hopes for the 3070 16 GB at reasonable prices — essentially a 2080 TI with HDMI 2,1´and potentially better longevity because of RTX and more memory. But we‘ll see. If somebody is begging to get rid of their 2080 TI no matter the (low) cost, then I might be at help 
And then there is still AMD… I just fear that e.g. the RDNA2 DFR variant won‘t be supported by Pimax…
Leaked a few minutes ago on Twitter, 3090 twice as fast as the 2080TI!
Then came the small print, “in selected games” … a few sentences further: “with ray tracing”
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I’ll be selling my EVGA 2080 Ti FTW3 for a 3090 when they release. I added the Hybrid liquid cooling kit to it a few months ago. I’m an oldschool pc builder and take extremely good care of my equipment. Never overclocked, I just didn’t like the fan temperatures in my Phanteks Evolv case.
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Are they all 3 slot jobs , that will cause problems for me if I used my current system
love it , that’s what they did last launch quietly add " with ray tracing "at the end
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Just had a look, FTW3 seems to be triple slot in all cases that I could find. For 2080 TI the FE was still dual slot though…
The 3090 FE is definitely triple slot, 3080 I think also, no infos yet on 3070. For the latter I would assume that we‘ll see at least custom dual slot cards, TDP should allow that.
yeah haha iimagine that… my 8kx has arrived and …no video card
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