Both the 3070 and 3080 are quite a bit cheaper than I feared. The 3090 is a definite no-go for me, and I assume most people. Will have to see how the suggested price translates to local markets but the 3080 looks interesting. And I definitely want a HDMI 2.1 card. Might wait to see what AMD is up to, but I am not that convinced they can reallyo miles above this...
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AMD will price the high-end RDNA2 parts at whatever it takes to be competitive, but NVIDIA has to be very confident they have nothing to challenge the 3090.
You want HDMI 2.1 to play 4K at 120 FPS ? Otherwise I read that it is rather a technology for the future which is not really useful currently.
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Point taken in memory bandwidth but the ampere is 8nm Samsung not 7nm so I am convinced The TSMC part would be significantly lower power for the same performance.
I also think you are mistaken on power draw. I don't think they would say it was a 350w part for the fun of it. My 1080ti is a 250w part and overclocke I reckon I run close it it. With all my stuff on my pc I think a 650w GPU even a good quality one would be too light for that rig with a few hard disks and HOTAS, VR etc
Don't get me wrong I am happy with the reveal it looks a nice step up but I think this could be like the gtx 480fermi. Decent card but Hot and hungry and iirc that was replaced fairly quickly with a more refined 500 series card (which was the one I bought)
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You want HDMI 2.1 to play 4K at 120 FPS ? Otherwise I read that it is rather a technology for the future which is not really useful currently.
Exactly. I can already do it with 4:2:0 chroma sub-sampling but I want to do it properly.
Impressive, but the computer will have to be high-end also to keep pace ?
Not really in many cases. My wimpy 9400F runs at <50% in most games while my 2070S is at 100%.
I am going to replace my overclocked 5020k next upgrade as I don't want to bottleneck. Definitely looking to AMD for CPU and depending on bignavi maybe GPU too. Will be my 1st non NV card since ATI 9800 era (that card came with a key for half-life 2 a year or more before HL2 launchedOn my 4770K, I can hardly imagine a 3090 card.
I am surprised on the price of both the 3080 and the 3070, I reckon Nvidia are going to shift a lot of them.
I wonder if that is agressive pre-emptive pricing against Big Navi because if the performance of those cards is a good as quoted, that actually seems like pretty good value. The price of the 3080 FE (£649) is only slightly more than I paid for my 980Ti back in 2015.
Whilst I am itching to buy a new card I will hang fire to see what Big Navi brings, there is the possibilty their cards may have more VRAM at a similar price/performance to 3070/3080 . I dont think they will be able to touch the 3090 although I would love to be proved wrong.
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I'm waiting for Big Navi information too - I don't expect AMD to take the performance crown, but strongly suspect that they will get closer to the top this time (than they did with the 5700XT).
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Without an actual comparison this is impossible to assess, especially across manufacturers. There is no standard for measuring node feature size across foundries, and each foundry has at least two or three different processes/densities per node.
Pascal was on TSMC
The 3070 and 3080 are only slightly less expensive than I was expecting, while the 3090 is slightly more. Since I was heavily leaning toward a 3080 before, I'm pretty dead set on it now, if I go with NVIDIA.
I do hope the prices are reflective of something NVIDIA knows about RDNA2 that we do not, but they could be trying to undercut AMD right out of the gate, or be taking a long term strategy to undercut AMD's profits. NVIDIA is doing extremely well and can afford to take lower margins than they'd prefer on the volume parts.
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If the trend set by the last few generations holds, not until the day before they go on sale.
Impressive, but the computer will have to be high-end also to keep pace ?
Well, kinda. To get the most out of them you should have a decent system.
4770k is starting to show its age. I'm about to switch out my 4790k I've had for 6 years(!).
I'm not going high end though. A Ryzen 3700X, X570 chipset mobo for the new PCIE4 lanes, 32GB 3600mhz ram, and two high speed PCIE4 SSDs.
These cards are also the first to take advantage of the higher speed PCIE4 lanes, so even more reason to upgrade
Looks like there are a couple of preliminary reviews/tests around:
www.eurogamer.net
Hands-on with RTX 3080 - is this really Nvidia's biggest leap in gen-on-gen performance?
It's a time of change, of transition. With the arrival of the next generation consoles, the scale, scope and ambition o…
www.eurogamer.net
Looks like there are a couple of preliminary reviews/tests around:
Hands-on with RTX 3080 - is this really Nvidia's biggest leap in gen-on-gen performance?
It's a time of change, of transition. With the arrival of the next generation consoles, the scale, scope and ambition o…
Wow. That's quite a leap in performance.
