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Norion on 07 September 2020
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Captain_Yuri said:
Norion said:

Right I should wait for those before thinking it over. I'll try to avoid thinking about the decision much until the reviews. My monitor is the PG279Q so 1440p/144hz and I'll probably solely use it until the mid 2020's and then pick up a 4k/144hz monitor and make the 279Q a secondary monitor. The 1080 Ti will still perform well for another couple years but DLSS is so amazing it suddenly feels way more behind since even the 3060 could end up significantly outperforming it in games with that feature. Suddenly feeling a lot more behind feels a bit bad but it's nothing compared to the excitement over how amazing this leap is! The fact that 4k 100+ FPS seems to be viable now is very cool!

The one thing to be aware of is that there is potentially another solution coming from Microsoft called Direct ML. If that becomes a thing and has universal compatibility, your 1080 Ti could potentially have a solution similar to DLSS, just with a slight performance hit. But we won't know until November assuming they even announce it loll. But yea, DLSS is pretty excellent and will only get better from here.

I did not know that might help older GPU's since I assumed it was only gonna be for the new Xbox. If that does happen that'll be great for pascal owners who want to wait longer before upgrading. Something that I wonder about DLSS is its potential to become a double-edged sword for Nvidia. When it becomes advanced enough to the point that even low end cards are easily capable of 4k 100+ FPS then a lot of people could stop buying the higher end cards due to being satisfied with that. That would be incredible for consumers but I imagine Nvidia wouldn't want the sales of their higher end stuff to decline. Either way I'm really looking forward to seeing how amazing DLSS gets in 5-10 years from now.

Mummelmann said:
Norion said:
I'm currently unsure if I should get a 3080 and then upgrade my GPU again and also do a full system upgrade in 2024/2025 or do a full system upgrade in 2022/2023. I have a PC with a 1080ti and 7700k I got in 2017. It'll last for another 2-3 years perfectly fine but man DLSS sure is tempting. Which option do y'all think is best?

I think you should wait, if not for the entire gen of cards, then at least to see what an eventual 3080Ti brings to the table. I'm still sitting on my 980Ti (EVGA) and have been doing okay at 1440p up until the recent batch of demanding games (Exodus, Borderlands 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, etc.). Another advantage of waiting is having more games available that actually fully utilize DLSS and proper RT.

Waiting would help with that but considering Watch Dogs Legion, COD Cold War and Cyberpunk are all gonna have it by mid to late 2021 most big games coming out could already have it. Still I'll likely end up doing what you did and wait till the 1080ti starts to have trouble running stuff at a satisfactory level before upgrading which would probably be about the time the 4000 series drops. I think I'd prefer to get at least five years out of this card.