“Now he’s stuck playing his Xbox 360” LOOL

Now the benchmarks are out the way, I'm leaning more towards the RTX 3070 / RX6700.. since I don't game at 4K and the power usage is a tad bit too high for me. Still really impressive stuff though. Good luck to everyone buying out there!

These benchmarks show that a 3070 will most likely not easily beat a 2080ti. Gonna be slower in plenty of scenarios.

RTX 3070 vs RTX 2080 Ti at 1440p 😅

Don't sell those 2080 Ti just yet

— _rogame 🇵🇸 (@_rogame) September 16, 2020

Yea it's gonna be a situation where the 3070 and 2080 Ti trade blows depending on the resolution and ray tracing. Not that anyone should sell a 2080 Ti and get a 3070...

Very true. But someone out there could be thinking of getting a 3070 when a second hand 2080Ti could be better or cheaper.

Yea if I was in the market to get a 3070 class GPU, I'd probably think about that 2080 Ti, specially with that Vram and 1440p performance unless I really want that Ray Tracing which I am sure is gonna be close as well. If the monitor is 1080p, 2080 Ti no question.

Alternatively, wait for RDNA 2

So now that PCIE4 is useless, which CPU to get? Pretty sure I'm gonna be fine with a 3080, but will that be true with a 4080?

Well DF showed that Ryzen is bottlenecking 3080 depending on the game and resolution but Zen 3 could change that. So... Wait for Zen 3 or get Intel 10th gen.

But one thing that you may want to think about is RTX IO. Depending on how the SSD thing turns out, it could be a nothing burger or might actually have an affect on performance, specially with PCI-E 4.0 vs 3.0 SSD speeds. Since Nvidia even mentioned the benefits at their press conference, it's certainly going to be used, just the question of what speed the SSD will need to be. So I'd wait for Zen 3 at least to see how the cpu turns out.

Dave 2d did a good review:

600 Watts ain't gonna happen. Also the noise the founders edition fan makes at high rpm is kinda yikes and according to him, that should only happen if your case has no air flow as it's very silent cooler that keeps the temps in line.