Question buy 2080ti today or 2080 super and upgrade to RTX series 3000 later next year

[pyroron]

3900X Taichi X470 EVGA G3 750 970 Evo 500G & Intel 660P 1 Tb CM H500 case G Skil trident Z 3200 32 G Ram

 

[killster1]

2080 super but really it depends what you need / wish to run @. . i personally disable a few things and still get great frames at 1440p when and if i play games, some people must have shadows and water ripples etc so they would get the 2080ti, really i dont know what they will offer next and the price so its hard to say.

 

[Guru]

Nothing if you plan on upgrading 6 months later to 3000 series. Why would you spend $700+ now, only to spend $600-800 more 6-7 months later? It makes no sense.

Generational improvements will be quite low for Nvidia as they have massive chip sizes, they can't go bigger with it, if anything they are going to want to go smaller and take advantage of 7nm that way, so I don't expect more than 15% performance improvements tier for tier.

 

[KentState]

Never buy the top of the line card, at full price, near the end of the life cycle.

 

[killster1]

Nothing if you plan on upgrading 6 months later to 3000 series. Why would you spend $700+ now, only to spend $600-800 more 6-7 months later? It makes no sense.

Generational improvements will be quite low for Nvidia as they have massive chip sizes, they can't go bigger with it, if anything they are going to want to go smaller and take advantage of 7nm that way, so I don't expect more than 15% performance improvements tier for tier.

so if they are a gamer, their last card died they should just quit playing games or switch to 720p res? i can think of loads of reasons. also its not like the card is worthless when buy a new one can always give it away or sell it

 

[Guru]

so if they are a gamer, their last card died they should just quit playing games or switch to 720p res? i can think of loads of reasons. also its not like the card is worthless when buy a new one can always give it away or sell it

He didn't say that, so that is just a hypothetical that doesn't apply here.

 

[killster1]

He didn't say that, so that is just a hypothetical that doesn't apply here.

sure it does, you think they are buying a 2080ti for the computing power or they are a gamer. So the gamer is suppose to not play games and wait 6 months? change to 720p gaming ;P they didnt mention a wait for 6 months with nothing option or maybe you would be right.

 

[alcoholbob]

If you don't care about money, sure. Both companies will refresh their lineups for HDMI 2.1 rollout next year. RTX 2000 series will likely get refreshed quite soon with 7nm Ampere GPUs. If you aren't gaming at 4K a 2080 Ti is pretty useless IMO, just stick with a 2080 Super. It's much cheaper and usually only a little bit slower at 1440p and less.

 

[mopardude87]

Was just like the op not to long ago considering a 2080 Super. Decided to save dang near $350 and go with a cheap used 1080 ti. For what i play at 1440p, its been a beast of a card.