| Captain_Yuri said: Overall it just feels like a waste of sand. Like I know this is for those that want the best GPU that money can buy but buying a 3090 2 years ago made sense because you had 2 years of dominance. Buying a 3090 Ti now feels like a waste of money because in about 6 months, you will get rekt by a 4070 for a quarter of the price and probably half the power. Granted you won't get the 24GB of Vram with a 4070 but a 4090 will probably have same if not more with 40-50% performance uplift at least. Least we get to see the types of PSUs we will need for top end Lovelace though loll. If RDNA 3 can catch up to Nvidia in Ray Tracing with less power, then I might consider buying AMD but if RDNA 3 performs similar to RDNA 2 vs Ampere in Ray Tracing, then hopefully my 1000 watt power supply can handheld the 4080/4090 loll. |
Kinda yeah. Not sure who this card is for. Most enthusiasts who really want a top end GPU would already have gotten their hands on 3090 by now. And a $2000+ dollar flagship this late feels like a silly investment, seeing as (like you said) Lovelace is literally months away. Unless people actually need all that VRAM for work.. its just not worth it. Performance per watt this has to be one of the worst scaling in the Ampere line and certainly that for cost/performance. Plus 500+ watts is frankly insane for not much gain.
For next gen its a wait and see for me. We've already seen a lot of sources pointing that Lovelace is going to be a power hungry beast. 4080/90 going up to 600w, and even a midrange 4070 around 350W. RDNA 3 supposedly quite a bit more efficient. I'd rather not deal with extra heat/power than necessary also save me from spending money on a new PSU - if possible. But then a lot will ride on performance (like RT) and other useful features. I'd say you should be okay for 4080 with no OC with a 1000W PSU. At least we should hope so lol.
