Been using the 1080ti since launch (2017). Has served me well over the past 7 years. I feel like it's time for me to upgrade, can anyone recommend me a replacement? Should I wait for the 5000 series?
Recommend Me an Upgrade from GTX 1080ti
mooodeng on 24/08/2024 - 20:25
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Inevitably the 5000 series will be sold out on launch and you'll be scraping around for overpriced stock. But in terms of speed, you'll be going off rumour for how much better it is. The 4070 was about as fast as the 3080. The 4060 was a dud. The 3090 was a bit of a dud (for gaming) and about as fast as the 4070ti. The 4090 was a powerful beast. How will nVidia balance their 5000 series? Who knows. Will DLSS 4.0 be amazing or crap and will it be limited to 5000 series cards? Also unknown. Pricing will have more to do with what AMD release and timing.
Depends on the rest of your system, resolution and budget too. If you're looking to get the absolute best of the best, maybe hold out and see what the 5090 is like. If you're gaming at 4K60HZ or under just grab a card for ~$1k and you'll be fine for years. Plus you'll get to actually play games on it for the next 6 months instead of waiting.
The naming is super confusing.
You are probably going to be disappointed in bang-for-buck with any upgrade, assuming it is just for games. The 1080ti is fine.
OTOH, if you are into AI, and want 32GB VRAM for an LLM, … then you are the reason why GPU cards are so expensive! :-)
Not exactly fair to purely blame the AI crowd with this one, prices have been shit for years especially second hand…. Always some market excuse around….
Depends on resolution played at and budget!
For example, a modern GTX 4060 will cost you around $450 and gain you less than a 10% performance increase:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1080-ti.c2…A current 4070 Super will be almost twice as fast, but will also set you back ~ $900 …
A Radeon RX 7900 GRE will also be about twice as fast and set you back ~ $850 …
ensure you get something balanced to your CPU, getting a 4090 with a 7 year old CPU will limit it's performance. If you have AM4 motherboard then a 5700X3D or 5800X3D will work great with a powerful GPU.
I went from 1080ti to 3080, great improvement.
This question is a bit vague. Are you upgrading your cpu and MOBO as well? Wouldn't make much sense to upgrade your gpu to anything too serious unless you are upgrading your entire setup.
Have you got a budget? What'll you use it for and what's the rest of your system?