NVidia GeForce RTX 40x0 cards - x2 the power consumption, x2 the performance

guess amd and intel arent gonna be beating each other up with deep sales anytime soon

something weird going on with zen 4 line, this website benchmarks figured out games run faster with half the cores in a 7950x disabled. Something to do with half the cores run faster and interconnect speeds mean its better just disabling half your CPU


i'm thinking more and more the ideal PC to build out in the next 6 months is a 5950x3d and a cheap 30xx GPU ($500-600), that should be close to top end performance for at least a year or two and by then CPUs should be better and we'll probably get a decent 4070 ti. Plus you can get cheaper DDR4 memory and splurge on 64gb (or more) and get a big ass nvme drive or two.

i think thats gonna be my plan, it really is time to retire my 5 year old 1080ti and 6700k.

Yea... here's what I'm currently running:

So does anyone have a 4090 yet? I thought $1600 was retarded, but it seems the only ones listed on Amazon are $2500.

No fucking way. I'll play console games the rest of my life in that case.

Just find it hard to justify a 3080ti or 3090ti at $1200ish, with the 4090 so much better listed at $1600

..double post.

Tide27 said:

So does anyone have a 4090 yet? I thought $1600 was retarded, but it seems the only ones listed on Amazon are $2500.

No fucking way. I'll play console games the rest of my life in that case.

Just find it hard to justify a 3080ti or 3090ti at $1200ish, with the 4090 so much better listed at $1600

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I think most of us are waiting to see what AMD has to offer before we drop that much cash.

I would wait, for the 3.0 ATX Power supply's.. it seems those cables that PS makers are using are just putting the card in flat 600w mode..

Also maybe a AIO Cooler will be avail by then.. so the card can actually be used without buying a whole new case, or hacking you're current case apart.. rofl

Tide27 said:

So does anyone have a 4090 yet? I thought $1600 was retarded, but it seems the only ones listed on Amazon are $2500.

No fucking way. I'll play console games the rest of my life in that case.

Just find it hard to justify a 3080ti or 3090ti at $1200ish, with the 4090 so much better listed at $1600

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I mean we've linked 3090ti's around here for like 899. But I mean, of course, if you're not in a rush - wait.

Tide27 said:

So does anyone have a 4090 yet? I thought $1600 was retarded, but it seems the only ones listed on Amazon are $2500.

No fucking way. I'll play console games the rest of my life in that case.

Just find it hard to justify a 3080ti or 3090ti at $1200ish, with the 4090 so much better listed at $1600

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I don't see the point until some actual good games come out that need the power, plus I love SFF cases so that's going to be a no for me dawg unless I watercool it.

I have not bought and don't plan on buying one for awhile.. I'm just making points that it would probably be better too wait right now.. then getting it now.

In the camp of "games have to improve" to drive demand.

I am only interested in the FE or a pre-blocked gpu. Bestbuy was kind of a dumpster fire on release so didn’t grab anything. Motherboards are extremely pricey right now as well so I’m not included yet to move from my z690 Xtreme to anything else. I wanted all AMD but all the boards are over priced aside from Asrock.

I ordered a new system. Be here in around two weeks I think.

Going from

32gb ddr4 ram, i7 6700k, 1080

to

32gb ddr5 ram, i9 12900, 4090

Figured I'd do some benchmarks before and after. Any regular ones I should try (free)?