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hinch on 15 July 2022
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Chazore said:

Going by Jayz2C latest Nvidia vid, I don't think I'm gonna bother waiting for the 4000 series, because it sounds like Jensen's going back to greedsville and raising the prices for them, coupled with the higher wattage req just feels like a massive put-off for me personally.

Prob gonna wait a little longer and just grab a 3080, even though I'd love a 3080 12gb model, the manufacturing for them has stopped and it'll become super rare to grab one, as much as I'd like one (since my 1080ti is 11gb and 1gb shy of the 3080 12b variant).

I can also see the scalping issue happening with the 4000 series, so that just makes for another put-off. I think those waiting for the next series should either buy a higher model 3000 series when they are even cheaper, or just wait for AMD, because the 4000 series is sounding more and more like a bit of a long joke at this rate. 

I mean what else can that series bring to the table that the 3000 series already has and what would even be made exclusive to the 4000 series, that'd make them worth getting?. We already have DLSS, that's being improved upon and I'm sure the 3000 series would still gain access to said improvements, and it's not like that series will end up like the 1000 series, where they didn't get DLSS support and some other features. 4000 series just sounds like the 3000 series, but slightly better, but at the cost of a higher rice, higher wattage and scalpers. 

Not seen that one, might give it a watch.

Yeah Nvidia seems to be pushing for flat out performance over efficiency for gains for Ada and they will most likely will reshuffle prices again, for each tier. Agreed, its definitely worth waiting it out. Hold out for a good deal on a 3080 or 3090. Otherwise if you can get a hold of a RTX 4070 at MSRP for around $550-$600. Which would be quite a good deal; as it should be moderately faster than a 3080, in raster and 3090 in RT. Only thing is that it'll have 10GB GDDR6 vs 10 or 12GB GDDR6X of the 3080.

There will be some improvements again on RT again (if murmurs are correct) so it'll be just juggling whether its worth the expense and hassle of dealing with pre-orders and fighting against other people including scalpers. I'm personally leaning towards a RTX 4070 myself but if I can't get one and I see a great deal on an Ampere card, I be swayed to go that direction.

But yeah a 3000 series card will be good for a long time. Until maybe Nvidia figures out chiplets, these huge monolithic top end GPU's will only get bigger pricier and more power hungry.