Once upon a time i was really into competitive overclocking/benchamarking and such, these days i couldn’t give a damn, my 7700 and GTX 1080 is still kicking along ok for now, my settings are very low when compared to my laptop which has a 4060, but i’ll be holding out for late in the 5000 series, or early 6000 series if possible.
Once i upgrade, it’ll be treated the same as my phone, replace when it can no longer do the job it’s designed to do 
This is probably what I’ll end up doing as well. Either that or buy one of the 4080 supers that are apparently better than a 5080 before they’re all sold out.
Just wait a couple months and buy one.
The 5090 was only paper launched, it is horrendously supply constrained, with insanely high demand. On top of an MSRP of $2000 US (or $3200 AUD), it’s making for some very expensive GPUs.
This is not true, the 5080 is about 7-13% better than the 4080, which is not enough to make it better than the 4090. and is a disappointing generational uplift.
you could say that about the 20 and 40 series.
With the exception of the 4060/4060 TI, the 40 series wasn’t really disappointing in terms of performance vs the 30 series, that perception came from it not being enough of an uplift to justify the increased prices.
If the 4080 had the same MSRP of the 3080 of $700, it would be viewed very favorably.
thats why it was disappointing. for that price you expect more.
Well if this is anything to go by: https://www.club386.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-vs-geforce-rtx-4080-super/
I’d have to agree. So whilst the 5080 may indeed be more powerful on paper, it isn’t worth it. Not by a long shot. Extremely marginal gains for a massively overinflated price tag, plus more heat generation and power consumption.
I’m just highlighting the difference between low generational performance uplift (RTX 20 series, Intel 11 series, Zen 5 non-x3d), vs noticeable generational performance gains, but disappointing pricing (RTX 40 series).
The 50 series will eventually come down in price, we just have to wait for more units to be available from TSMC, and for the board partner factories to return to work after Chinese New Year.
I think we might be hitting a wall with performance. That’s why GPU makers are resorting to extremely expensive processes to try to get a significant jump in performance to justify an upgrade - at least to people with a big enough wallet.
im sorry, but your mistaken.
“The NVIDIA RTX 5080 offers a modest 14% performance improvement over the RTX 4080, with more significant gains (up to 70%) for users upgrading from older GPUs like the RTX 3080.”
Source: ht tps://www.geeky-gadgets.com/nvidia-rtx-5080-performance-analysis/
I’m no IT nerd but you don’t need a $6000 graphic card to play WoW.
But…but what if I want to ride N’zoth off into the sunset while firing entire Dalaran cities at people?
We are certainly starting to reach the upper limits of how big a single GPU die can be (at least with current manufacturing technology).
This is true, the game runs pretty well on medium settings using an Apple IGP.
Then you might see more benefit to a 9800x3d to be paired with the 1080TI.
Then you’re going to be broke and feel miserable while doing that.
I’m guessing you accidentally quoted the wrong person, because i said nothing about that, you’re going to have to try again
i’m sorry
No worries!
weren’t you the genius who couldn’t adequately understand the chart of egg prices? why should anyone take your econ takes seriously?