Captain_Yuri said:

Probably faster than Big Navi.

It's a joke for now, but you can bet that it won't take long until we see games demanding an SSD drive in thei min. requirements.

Totally forgot one more thing to upgrade my new setup. Since I will be starting to play games on my TV I won't have it available as side monitor anymore. Which means I'll need to upgrade my 1440p side monitor to the cheapest 4k monitor I can find so I can mirror it. This is the cheapest one I could find.

https://geizhals.eu/samsung-u32j590-u32j592-lu32j590uquxen-lu32j592uquxen-a1807913.html

I think it's a great secondary monitor for that price.

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?

So just in case people don't know. The review NDA for the 3000 series ends on the 14th for Founders Edition and 17th for the board partners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9XvKzb1Ys

It's in the comments

I'd wait for the reviews first and then decide. If you can make it last until 4000 series, then that card will certainly age better for the generation than 3000 series and 1080 Ti is still an excellent card. Not to mention pairing that with DDR5 and PCI-E 5.0 should be a pretty incredible leap.

Personally I am upgrading from my 1080 cause I want those next gen goodies like ray tracing/DLSS/4k and don't want to wait.

Really depends on the type of person you are. Depending on the resolution, the 3080 might get bottlenecked by the 7700k in certain games.

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 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.