For 1440p, 12 GB is plenty (for now). I play at 1440p and have yet to encounter VRAM limitations/stutters with my 3080 10 GB (although I'm on the edge, with some games sitting at 9.5 GB). Games like Indiana Jones are the exception, not the rule (presently, the future will be different, but not very soon). UE5 is an unoptimized mess, as it is.
That's like 10gb 3080 few years back. Even 4k ran fine at 10gb and now we need 16gb.
4k 32 is great for a monitor, big jump from 27 1440p for me.
Witcher 3 next gen crashes a lot with RT - esp Novigrad. Had to use a mod that reduced settings to reduce VRAM usage.
These new gen NVIDIA GPUs usually take a long time to sell at MSRP so I hope you get it by June. Good luck. But I suggest not to keep waiting for the GPU if you have the money and time to play right away. You never know when life changes and you won't get the time to game anymore. Just my two cents.
Totally agree! Trying to save up a bit before i build it, hence the wait
Odd, I had no such issues (other than the odd crash here and there over 100 hours). With RT maxed out. VRAM was near max, though.
yeah. That one is fine ( still priced high for a 70ti).
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Same boat as you with my 3080. I'll likely keep it for another generation unless I see a good deal on a 4080.yeah. That one is fine ( still priced high for a 70ti).
But better value in Nvidia cards will always be with cards that have lower VRAM. I had same issue with 1050 3gb and repeated mistake with 3080. ( Great jump in perf from 1050 to 3080 though
Even 16gb for say 4080 is a bit on lower side since its a 4k card. 1L cards shouldn't have any chance of being compromised due to VRAM, its laughable.
4090 is great, but priced high and has that problem. So we do have good nvidia cards, but not good value ones and any thing below 70tisuper is compromised on vram ..
From 3080, 4070ti super doesn't seem much of an upgrade to bother with. I don't see any price/perf jump with good perf that might make it worth upgrading from 3080.
I could spend more, but just don't feel like it. Id rather play through my older games backlog. HDR >> RT. Even Arkham City looks beautiful with HDR.
yeah my ideal for used - goo condition 2+ years warranty and/or warranty replaced. Dunno, but i still hesitate to buy used.
If it makes you feel any better, I bought my 3080 used 1.5 years ago w/warranty till May 2025. Zero issues (don't want to jinx it
) . Just have to do due diligence during the buying process, I guess.
I was looking at the same. Prices will be absolute shit for several months. A used 4080 would likely be more worth it. Also, how TF did you manage to snag a 3080 FE in 2020. It was impossible to snag one during that period. Unless you paid a fortune.
There is no room left for that PCIE connector:
6090 will surely going to need 2 PSU setup
Ray tracing and especially path tracing are such new technologies and so taxing that using them is pretty much reserved for the highest end of cards even a 4080 struggles with path tracing without DLSS and frame generation even at 1440p and honestly speaking other than ray traced reflections, ray tracing doesn't really look that great and it tanks the frame rate even when looking at a 5090 for example in Indiana Jones without ray tracing at 4k supreme settings it gets an average of 126fps where as when you turn on full path tracing the performance drops to an average of 38fps which is nearly unplayable at that point, now if the fastest consumer GPU on the planet is struggling to use path tracing how do you think the last gen cards and the ones before them are doing. Path tracing and ray tracing will only make sense when you are able to run games with at native 4k with ray tracing at a high refresh rate of say at least 90fps(currently about 55-60) and for full path tracing at at least 60fps(currently 30-40) with the halo tier card of the generation. I don't see that happening for at least 2 more generations which equates to about 5-6 years at least at the current pace.
