Yes, yes. Figured I'd start a new thread for this since it's finally that time again.
Last time we had an update was... wow, two years ago, but now that the Ethereum monkey is off our backs (at last!), it's time for Team Green (and Team Red (and Team Blue)) to finally exit their vaults for all the world to see. So what's on the table?
Well, a lot, actually.
According to NVIDIA's (no doubt hand-picked) benchmarks, the 4090 and 4080 are around 100% faster than the equivalent 30-series cards they replace, and all that extra speed comes at "only" a ~50% price increase. In "RTX [ON]" games, they even bench as high as 4x the speed of the 30-series. Plus of course the newest revision of DLSS allows 4K gaming at frame rates usually associated with 1440p etc etc. Oh and also they will have dedicated AV1 encoders onboard (some? all? of the cards)...which takes away the only real advantage Intel had going with their cards.
Also they are HUGE and can pull up to 450W from your PSU, which means 1000W PSUs are probably going to be the new minimum.
Of course now that mining is over, there are used 30-series cards galore out there, and I've even seen NIB 3090 Ti's going for under $1100. Benchmarks and suchlike of the 40-series won't (officially) be coming out until mid-October, so if you're uncertain about the 2022 offerings and are looking to take advantage of current-gen cards, your best deals are as follows:
Gaming: NVIDIA - RTX 3080 (non-Ti), AMD - RX 6800 XT, Intel - A770
Productivity: NVIDIA - RTX 3090 (non-Ti), AMD - RX 6900 XT, Intel - A770
AMD is holding off to announce their RX7000-series until the first week of November, so I guess we'll have to wait until we're drowning in Mariah Carey to get the details on their newest cards. And Intel strongly insists their GPU division isn't dead yet, so I suppose we might get to see what their Battlemage cards can do sometime in mid-...June, maybe?
--Patrick
Last time we had an update was... wow, two years ago, but now that the Ethereum monkey is off our backs (at last!), it's time for Team Green (and Team Red (and Team Blue)) to finally exit their vaults for all the world to see. So what's on the table?
Well, a lot, actually.
According to NVIDIA's (no doubt hand-picked) benchmarks, the 4090 and 4080 are around 100% faster than the equivalent 30-series cards they replace, and all that extra speed comes at "only" a ~50% price increase. In "RTX [ON]" games, they even bench as high as 4x the speed of the 30-series. Plus of course the newest revision of DLSS allows 4K gaming at frame rates usually associated with 1440p etc etc. Oh and also they will have dedicated AV1 encoders onboard (some? all? of the cards)...which takes away the only real advantage Intel had going with their cards.
Also they are HUGE and can pull up to 450W from your PSU, which means 1000W PSUs are probably going to be the new minimum.
Of course now that mining is over, there are used 30-series cards galore out there, and I've even seen NIB 3090 Ti's going for under $1100. Benchmarks and suchlike of the 40-series won't (officially) be coming out until mid-October, so if you're uncertain about the 2022 offerings and are looking to take advantage of current-gen cards, your best deals are as follows:
Gaming: NVIDIA - RTX 3080 (non-Ti), AMD - RX 6800 XT, Intel - A770
Productivity: NVIDIA - RTX 3090 (non-Ti), AMD - RX 6900 XT, Intel - A770
AMD is holding off to announce their RX7000-series until the first week of November, so I guess we'll have to wait until we're drowning in Mariah Carey to get the details on their newest cards. And Intel strongly insists their GPU division isn't dead yet, so I suppose we might get to see what their Battlemage cards can do sometime in mid-...June, maybe?
--Patrick
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