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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea pretty much. Especially during the summer, it gets really hard to play games on it. Like the cooling and etc can keep up with my 3080/5950x but oh boy, the room temp is like a toaster after 20 minutes. I could turn on AC but that's more like a bandage than anything. RDNA 3 is also going up in wattage so I suspect that even if I get the top end RDNA 3, the heat/wattage will be similar to Ampere but obviously, the performance, least in Raster, will be closer to Lovelace.

I just hope that RDNA 3 can compete against Lovelace in Ray Tracing. And I mean in real Ray Tracing titles and not the fake nonsense that AMD sponsored titles have. Because if I am going spend $1000-$2000 on a new generation of GPU, I want a new gen experience, not last gen Raster nonsense. If they are close in RT performance to Lovelace while being very power efficient, sign me up. But if they are going to pull another RDNA 2 vs Ampere, then it may as well be back to the GCN days... Just more power efficient.

Assuming Lovelace comes out first, my plan is to get a 4080 or 4090 and then wait and see how RDNA 3 performs. If it's comparable, it will be easy to flip it and get RDNA 3.

Despite my current GPU fan issue with it ramping up, I still have to keep my two windows open to let cool air in, and summer is going to be killer when it's only going to be dry hot air. Also doesn't help that my side of the house is facing the sun when it rises, so from morning till semi-late afternoon it's going to get toasty. 

I also hope AMD manage to catch up in RT, but tbh, I'm sick of both Nvidia/AMD cherry picking their own sponsored games for best results, I'm not fond of us having to wait for GPU's in the wild for actual multi-game benchmark tests. 

Are you going to be selling off your 3080 if they come out with the 4080's day one?, or are you going to wait for 3rd party variants? 

I'll see what I can get my hands on. Once the 4080/4090 is in my hands and there's no issues with it like how my Strix 3090 fan shat the bed, then yea, I'll probably sell the Strix 3080 within the week.

It's unlikely I'll be getting FEs though as they are extremely hard to get in Canada.