Which GPU would you choose?

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I’m just curious to see peoples opinions… I don’t care about price, I care about performance. And just because something is a new ‘version’ doesn’t always mean its better.

I’m at a crossing point where I have an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super, could upgrade to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.

Am I honestly going to see a huge difference?

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For what? WoW? What resolution? What refresh?

2070s is still plenty powerful even for 4k non RTX in WoW.

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i’ve just keep what you got it’s an awesome card

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Being completely honest. I don’t consider that enough of an upgrade for WoW. I have a GTX 1070 and I’m not in a hurry to upgrade.

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What Sal just said, GPU is only part of the overall game performance

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Unless you really want ray-tracing, your 2070 Super will last you a while longer for sure.

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It really depends on what you’ll be using the card for:

  • The kind of games you’ll be playing, if anything else besides WoW (are the games graphically demanding or are they’re CPU or GPU based?).

  • The graphic settings you’ll be playing at (resolution, ray-tracing, etc)

  • If you do anything productivity related.

I currently use a 1070 and the main reasons I want to upgrade to a 3080 is for ray-tracing, some 3D productivity software like Blender, and that I’m actually hitting the GPU utilization cap for some of my games.

Also keep in mind that although the better card will perform better looking at the numbers, you may not necessarily feel or see the improvement because the FPS is happening with a range that the smoothness won’t feel any smoother - the point of dimishing returns. You’ll be looking more towards future-proofing here.

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Thanks. That is good to know.

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Here is the most honest answer you will get.

The card you have is honestly a great card. If money matters to you keep your current card. If money truly is no object? Then know the 3080 is not a one generational jump it’s a 2-3 generational jump. The leap in technology in the 3080 is normally something that you don’t see until two 2-3 generations later.

With that said will you notice much of a difference in WoW? No. Not unless you are gaming at 4K.

However if you were planning on playing Shadowlands with RTX on at with everything completely Max settings then yes you would notice a difference. Especially in raids.

Disclaimer: I dont know what CPU you have. In wow? That tends to be the most important factor. Motherboards can up your performance too. 3 things normally are a factor in gaming. and I listed them in order of importance.
- CPU
- GPU
- RAM
- Motherboard

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I’m waiting for RTX 3080. Stock nowhere to be found. Saw Zotac Trinity a few times but the board quality is one of the worst. I could buy it but I didn’t.

I only upgrade from GTX 1080 TI for Ray Tracing performance on 1440p. RTX 3070 is meh…

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I had to get a 3070 + 3950x for a workstation (long story) and tested out WoW. At 4K max settings I was getting between 43 and 60fps at 4K with ray tracing (vsync + gsync). I barely notice a different from RT to the point where I’m sticking with my 1080 TI for gaming. I was considering a Radeon 6900 XT and/or 3090 but for WoW it’d be a waste.

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Managed to score Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC. Yeah, I have to agree WoW underutilize very powerful cards. Need speedy CPU to reduce the bottleneck.

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Just turn on RTX then if you want to utilize it more

Otherwise, be happy you playing WoW will have fans be like, idling or something and using no power.

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I did. The performance hit is a lot with RTX on. This is the primary reason why I picked 3080 instead of 3070 for 1440p. I got plenty of performance on GTX 1080 Ti if I’m not bothered with ray tracing.

Now, if I could get my hands on 5900X stock…

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Ray Tracing is like any new tech. It’s really cool, but it takes a few generations of hardware and software to make it worthwhile. Until it’s viable for the mainstream, it’s just not going to have the support. It’s the whole chicken and egg thing. Engineers push a new tech to sell products with the hope that software developers will see that there’s an established base to make the tech worth integrating. In turn, it sells more hardware, which generates more developers to create software tools, etc.

I’m just hopeful that eventually all this parallelization will be fully utilized and not just a gimmick to sell more hardware.

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Raytracing has been around for decades. I think you mean real-time raytracing is new.

RTX 3K series got screwed with 8nm (10nm actually). The 7nm A100s have the proper cache you’d need for ray tracing on Nvidia cards.

Wait til the next gen. We might finally have photorealism at this rate.

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