Yeah what kind of crazy person would spring for a card that expensive? That’s just crazy…
Shoves 3090 under the table
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If it’s like the RX 6000 series, it’ll take a massive nose dive in Ray tracing and not even be competitive with nVidia’s offering
Good CPUs, but at this point, distant second on GPUs.
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Depends on how much you value raytracing really. My main machine has an RTX 3080 Ti, but I have another with a Sapphire 6900XT and outside of raytracing they’re both excellent cards.
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If I can turn it on with minimal loss I do. nVidia also has DLSS that AMD still has yet to even touch, meaning even less performance loss when turning on ray tracing.
6000 series vs 3000 series, AMD is 3 years late.
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I paid for the whole 3090, I’m gonna use the whole 3090.
Really though, I don’t care that much. In most games it’s not even a significant difference.
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Yeah it’s all personal preference. I’m not really into upscaling since I play slower stuff for the most part and prefer native resolution where possible, so that set of features is moot to me.
Yeah this has been my findings as well.
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Playing 4k games, DLSS really kicks in.
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I can believe that, which is why I’m sticking to 2560x1440 until 4k has become the new 2560x1440.
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Cant wait to play 7d2d on it
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What’s funny is that someone will buy that for WoW and make some ridiculous claim about “how good it looks with this card!”
lol
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The xx90s are futureproof for at least half a decade (realistically much longer). The only game I play that comes remotely close to using my 3090 is Satisfactory and Icarus with the 24gb of vram on 1440p.
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Yep crypto mining and covid shortages and mass inflation in general, though now that ethereum is proof of stake, it makes GPU mining almost worthless. Though NVIDIA probably will take awhile to lower prices and milk the profit long as they can im sure of it.
Honestly give it 6 months and prices will be maybe 1k for a 4090
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Yeah, we all saw what happened with the 3000 series.
After 6 months, everything had doubled in price.
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I won’t be able to upgrade without making changes to my rig. I have an Alienware, and Dell uses their own card designs to fit into the smaller chassis they use for towers. Any gpu not designed by Dell is too big for the case.
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Never buy pre-builts unless the vendor uses off the shelf standardized parts.
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I just had one built for me recently because I was having so much trouble getting a card on my own.
Try CLXgaming when you’re ready. I got my rig with a Ryzen 7 and a 3070 TI and I came in around 3 grand.
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yeah but mining was still decent. ROI is less now.
and holy crap 3080s crazy price dropping might have to hit that up. Close to what i paid for my 2080
I completely agree. I couldn’t find a reasonably priced 3080/3090 so made sacrifices and bought an Alienware. Also, it was going to ship within a week and everywhere else was a few months out. With that said, I advise everyone to completely avoid Alienware. I bought two at the same time, and both were blue screening out of the box. One of them had to be returned because it was completely useless.
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Alienware is overpriced your essentially paying for the name… Though its been a few years you used to be able to buy just as good of hardware and DYI it for half the price not sure if its still the same
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They’re just back to where they were on launch from what I’m seeing.
There’s also some crazy stuff still, like a Asus TUF 3090 is the same price as Gigabyte OC Vision 3080Ti.