I haven't been keeping up the brisk moving GPU industry, but is there a good reason to upgrade from a 3080?
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Depends on the game you are playing & the settings. If no pressing urgency then waiting yields newer cards and/or better pricesI haven't been keeping up the brisk moving GPU industry, but is there a good reason to upgrade from a 3080?
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It's coming soon as it's being talked about in news releases. There are some other cards out though with insane amounts of RAM if you look outside of the consumer stuff. Then again it comes down to the chips as well.5000 series
BMW is UE5 Nvidia version with hardware LumenI'm assuming we'll be seeing more games with the UR5 engine?
I haven't been keeping up the brisk moving GPU industry, but is there a good reason to upgrade from a 3080?
Thanks!
Lowering the settings a notch or two is unlikely to yield much visual difference and will give better performance. I think HardwareUnboxed might have some recommendations for that...Ok, looks as if the 5 series is most likely to be introduced in Q4 or Q1 of next year. Assuming vendors will reduce the 4080 to ~ $700 - $800, will definitely pick one up to replace my 3080. May consider just building a new system to adopt the 7800X3D--my PCs are purely for gaming, nothing else. If not, may just wait until Fromsoft's new game before upgrading, and just have the PS5 Pro hold me over.
Am I missing anything?
Having had a 3080 prior to my current 4080 I would not recommend the incremental upgrade as you will still be unimpressed with it if trying to use max settings on BMW. Heck, even a 4090 will struggle with max settings on BMW. But it's like Crysis was back in the day - entirely pointless to try to max out other than as a tech demo.
In any case not worth buying a 4080 right now, so close to launch of 5070/RDNA 4/Battlemage. I expect the price of $500+ cards to crash in a few months when those cards launchI may just skip the 4080 altogether.
I'd probably stick with the 3080. Really solid card, particularly if you managed to snag it at MSRP before the mining boom and pandemic made everything ridiculous.
Since you've got a 12GB 3080, I don't see a need to upgrade, or more specifically I'd wait for the 5000 series to drop before upgrading at least. What CPU are you using since you mentioned a 7800X3D as a possibility? I noticed a huge upgrade in gaming performance on my 4090 when I went from a 7700X to the 7800X3D.I missed out on the initial GPUs & PS5s, because I just won't do business with scalpers under any circumstances. So, fortunately, a couple of years later when the Nvidia prices finally began to fall, I snagged a 12GB OC version on Newegg for ~$700 which included Doom Eternal & Ghostwire Tokyo.
I've been very happy with the card, and only ran into some issues with BMW. But, alas I've finished the game twice, and probably won't go into NG+ moving to other games instead.
My initial plan was the just get the PS5 Pro and do some console gaming (which I've missed) on my big TV until the time is ripe again for a new gen GPU.