NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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Brahma
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I'm going to build a shrine for my 1080ti. This bad boy stopped me from buying this generation of cards. And has been top end for 3 years now?
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Tuco
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Yeah I needed to buy a new card when the 20x0 came out and all the articles warning of that motivated me to but a used 1080ti instead. No regrets.
I'm thinking of buying a 3080 when this comes out.
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The cycle of graphics cards articles:
Six months until release... “Next card is going to blow everything away, hold out for the next gen. Gaming will be changed forever”
Card releases, all articles “It’s here, the card we have all been waiting for, buy the fuck out of it.”
Six months pass, sales droop, “Next card is going to blow everything away, hold out for the next gen. Gaming will be changed forever.”
Brahma
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Tuco
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Yeah computing tech journalism is all hype.
Meanwhile you go to communities like this one and it's a bunch of old dudes shrugging at Moore's Law and saying it's probably smart to skip generations.
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Grim1
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One of my 980s finally gave up the ghost so picked up a 2080 rtx. Great card, runs everything I play at 1440 and nvidia surround much better than the 980's in sli. But don't really use the rtx, most of the games I play don't support it. Those that do, the card struggles in rtx at the resolutions I like to play.
Super version came out about a month after I bought it. Doh. But that's fine. Card is really just there to keep my rig up to date for another year, then build a new one.
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I mean a lot of the tech journalism is for enthusiasts(who will buy the new cards every year anyway regardless) or people who are clueless and just looking to see what's the best at that point in time(which is always the most recent stuff).
There's a bunch of youtubers that do reviews that aren't as glowing. I remember when I checked last year, that long haired guy that does a lot of reviews had quite a lot of stuff to say about the 2080ti, like how it was stupid expensive and not really that good and RTX was a gimmick and how it was super expensive. He was pretty clear about it being only for people who cared about having the best card and it wasn't really worth the price at all and so on. I saw that echoed a few times when I was looking to buy one and looking into reviews.
But I'm sure his previews were more hype because nvidia was hyping it up too, so for this type of shit you need to wait for reviews that come out after they have the cards. Currently it's pointless it's just fucking rumors but even after nvidia announces theorical specs it'll be pointless until you get hands on reviews.
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Intrinsic
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It is definitely still a thing it just isn't a thing mostly. Single cards perform well enough to hit most of your benchmarks you're gaming at. The last time I used it, right before my 980TI, support had gone up since the old days. But after the 980TI I never had a reason to. Nothing really required it. That I was doing anyways.
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I've seen a variety of 5120x1440 but none for x2160 - I don't think there will be any gaming ones available until the newer hdmi/dp standards are more common - 4k@10bit@120hz is already more bandwidth than either dp1.4 or hdmi 2.0 can handle.
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These need to hurry up and come out so I can put my 980ti to rest and move past 1080p.
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