So the 3080 only gets 10gb of memory. Realistically it should have been a 3060 or maybe a 3070 at best. I don’t think the prices and specs match what it usually has been, though the stupendous price increases in GPU’s are getting out of hand without getting a matching performance back for it.
EDIT: Come to think of it, it’s probably a better deal for most people to wait for next years super refresh once AMD has put some fire on Nvidia again as happened this cycle.
400w TDP for a single GPU is crazy. That’s probably more than what my entire system uses at full tilt.
Disappointing, but I guess that is based on the fact that most other games aren’t as memory heavy? Like cut a few dollars on memory so the performance increase doesn’t inflate the price too much? (Yes, weird strategy).
Looks like I would want to wait for the TI or Super with 16GB if that is true, 3090 is likely beyond reasonably priced.
lol. Maybe I won’t build a new system. Come along Sept. 1 to give real info, please.
Oddly enough, nvidia admitted sales of the 20x0 series weren’t what they’d hoped and that the increased pricing was probably a significant factor.
So, add in a global recession due to a pandemic and the obvious conclusion is…increase prices even more?
Ferrari charges whatever they want. When you have the best product, people will decide what it’s worth. To be fair the xx60 and XX 70s have always been competitively priced. The Ferraris, not so much.
I’m also fairly confident the 3090 even with 24gb of VRAM will struggle with DCS in VR. At some point the software becomes the bottleneck. Look at ARMA.
Sad but true. You HAVE to program with multiple cpu cores in mind these days.
Anyway, looks like the 3090 is going to be the holy grail and I have up to $2000 Canadian budgeted for it as soon as it comes out. No, I’m not rich. I just haven’t taken my wife out to dinner in like six months. 
Im building a nice comfy seat on my fence. That is where I will stay until some DCS revelant reveiws of the new cards come out. Do we really need 24 Gigs of RAM or do we just want to bragg?
Depends a little on how Nvidia handles that memory I suppose. I am curious to see some benchmarking.
I was reading up on the older generations today and cross referencing it with reviews, and a 650 ti would go for 100 euro’s on release… Yes this was 8 years ago but damn, times have changed. In The Netherlands there’s a tech website with a pricewatch that tracks and averages prices of products over a ton of websites. Even cards like the RX 560 would launch at 150 and then slowly track up to a retail price of 200…
Same goes for motherboards, there’s also a significant mark up in those these days. You easily pay 7 euro’s extra to have the same features we had 8 years ago in a 110 euro costing board.
Fortunately CPU prices have come down again, same for memory and storage!
It’s a bit depressing though, since a GPU is quite important for gaming and a mid-range card costs as much as the rest of the system components added up.
Aren’t we on track for gaming consoles to be upped in price, too? And really to advertise 4K home gaming on those it must be the GPU that got upgraded. Like you say for the rest of the components, won’t be much change compared to the past except for incremental updates and consoles always run mediocre hardware. So new GPU and a steep price increase.
Yeah I think 500/600 dollars if the rumours are semi true.
Though to be honest that is a banging deal for a console with a massive amount of power. 3rd gen ryzen with the next gen AMD GPU’s that include ray tracing and probably some other nifty features. The previous console refresh cycle was already running on older hardware on release.
That’s why I’m happy to continue with my 24" 1080p monitor. You don’t need to spend a lot to get good performance and visuals on it. $400 every 10 years or so for the monitor, $400 every 2-3 years for a video card.
Yeah, just take a look at the Steam Hardware Survey(not perfect, i know).
10X series is by far the most popular. The earliest 20X you get is a 60 series card.
Not surprising the RX 570/580 are the most used AMD cards, they are a good bang for the buck!
Wow, more people trying to game with an Intel UHD 620 than a 2080! 
By that chart, I am a 1%er! 
(1070ti)
Games like Hexcell, Stardew Valley and such run on almost any hardware. My girlfriends laptop has one of those 1.2ghz extremely low power laptops that run an insane amount on battery, but that intel CPU can boost up enough to run the above mentioned games and even The Sims 2. Plenty of old software can be done on integrated graphics!
Besides, a 2080 is very, very expensive.