I recently purchased one and I returned it to the store because it had a very loud coil whine they refunded my money 5 weeks later. It was an ASUS TUF OC 4080. I'm looking to purchase a not ASUS or Gigabyte card in the hopes of avoiding their warranty process. I have my eyes on the MSI Suprim X 4080.
It seems stock of the 4080 is starting to dwindle and some variants of cards carry a 300$ premium and I'm wondering if it's worth spending a bit of extra money on a 4090.
Hopefully looking to spend under 2k, but I may be able to add a few hundred for a 4090 depending on circumstance.
Graphics Card, 4080 or 4090
LWasgood on 24/08/2023 - 17:26
Poll Options
- 21Spend extra for RTX 4090
- 11Buy another RTX 4080
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It's overkill at the moment, I have two 1440p screens, but I'm looking to upgrade in the near future.
If you would need a 4090, you would know you need a 4090.
If it's just a flex on us poor's, then sure go for it. But if youre just gaming and don't know if a 4090 is for you, then good news, you probably dont need one.
If you're paying $2000 for a card, may as well pay $2500 for a decently better card. Not like you're paying more $/fps for the 4090.
Sure but you can find 4080's for as low as 1600 when the deals hit, so its almost an extra 1000 not 500. Or at least 700-800 in most cases.
Like I said, if he wants to flex on us poors, go right ahead. Love the energy. Would if I could.
But does he need it? Like I said if you need a 4090, for 4k 140hz, video production, small ai ventures. You know you need a 4090.
I would be of the opinion just save the extra cash for top of the line 5 series, which (hopefully) wont have the bonus perk of destroying itself by melting its poorly implemented cables.
Hodl out for the 5090
Keep hodling for 7090
What about the willonty90?
thats almost two years away, what's the point?
Why not gigabyte? Their gaming oc card is the best reviewed one for 4080/4090 whilst being one of the cheapest
It's all heresay but I've heard their warranty process is about as bad as ASUS.
Your planning on using warranty too much… enjoy the best value.
Had a pretty good experience with asus gpu warranty recently. They fixed and returned the card within about a week of them having it. Also didn’t mention or complain that the warranty sticker was broken and the cooler had some rust on it.
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Nice !
If you think you'll be using it for a looong time then may as well get the 90 yeah? If you think you'll upgrade in a few years anyway then you could save money on the 80.
If you’re willing to spend $2k you may as well spend a bit more for a 4090 imo.
Take a couple of months to think about it and get the Cyber Monday special.
if you didn't have a 7800x3D or 13900k, or at least a heavily OCed 13700k (both CPU/RAM), you probably shouldn't get 4090 —— unless you know for certain the game you play won't CPU bound.
Quake 2 RTX @ 8k res down-sampled to 1440p.
Potatoes 🥔 or Rice for dinner tonight ?
I'm not likely to find a good deal any time soon right?
if you are willing to buy a 4090 now wait a few months and get a 5080. like if you are about to drop 2.6-2.8k on a gpu, you can prob grab a 5080 with an aio for around that price
pure speculationsome leaks are claiming huge increases to the memory on the 5k series we should know more in 1-2 months. this late in the game id wait
??? rtx 50 series is 2025 release, we're stuck with the 40 series until then
buy the monitor you want first, waiting a few months to see where the market is at and what deals can be found then
some youtuber (prob usa) did a FPS/$ eval between the 2 and found that there was almost zero diminishing returns going up to 4090, so both are equally worth it IF you are willing to pay these BULLSH!T prices
7900xt or xtx
I think it's better to get a second hand 3090 and hold out for next gen cards.
My previous build was a 3090 with 5900X build.
When Streaming and recording using OBS Baldur's gate 3 at highest, games is around 20-100 FPS, occasion server frame rate drop is due to DDR4 overheating. And my 32G RAM is 90%+ occupied.
After recent patch, the ram usage is much improved.
But after I change from DDR4 build to DDR5 build, using 3090 runnnig OBS record and stream BG3 gives me steady 100+ frame rate.
Point is, right now GPU is not the bottle neck.Later I build a whole new PC using 4090, it's extremely cumbersome, you have to choose your case carefully, and it's loud, hot and really unnecessary.
I would suggest if you already have a native PCIE 5 PSU, just get a old 3090 and try hold out till next year.
You have AMD and Nvidia plus intel to fight again for new gen market.
more importantly, there will be new, power demanding games.
At this moment, before Starfield comes out, I don't think you will need anything more than a 3070.
It comes down to your usage. What games are you playing and what monitor do you have? Have you done the basics of looking up reviews and performance?