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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.

So, you say that but, almost right after that, you come up with

Captain_Yuri said:

Chazore said:

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.

Looks to me that you already have your mind set on what to get.

You don't fool me, mate. Even if AMD manages the miracle of being on par with Nvidia on RT while using less power, you'd look at DLSS vs FSR 2.0 or the drivers or any other bit.

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” reportedly enters mass production soon

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7000-raphael-reportedly-enters-mass-production-soon

So that means that they'll launch in about four or five months. I'd bet on November, and maybe launch along their new GPUs to sell the idea of a full system upgrade.

hinch said:

JEMC said:

^The 3090Ti has the same amount of VRAM than a 3090, 24GB. The only difference is the higher bandwidth.

And RDNA 3 may be more efficient, but they're supposed to also be quite power hungry. I wouldn't rule out the possibility of needing a 800W or more PSU to run any of the high end cards, either from Nvidia or AMD.

Honestly anything 300W+ plus and I'm going to start feeling it so a RTX 4070/RX 7800 is probably going to be my upper limit (the former estimated to be around 350W). I won't be going anywhere near high end/flagship cards. Saves me from upgrading my PSU as well xP

I think most of us will have to get a new PSU, because I fear that most cards will feature the new 12+6 connector.