Homelander wrote: » While I think the 8GB on the RTX3070 is a bit of a joke, I am not hugely pushed. I'm OK with texture being set at high rather than ultra, or medium down the line if really needs be, when everything else can be maxed out at massive FPS. I mean most games, comparing medium v ultra textures, not a huge difference visually for a massive vram hit.
Samuel T. Cogley wrote: » I am aware of the allocation v actual use situation but Hardware Unboxed showed the performance hit the 8GB cards were taking in it's benchmarks.
Hyzepher wrote: » I think it will be interesting to see how the 3070 8Gb performs before we use the old 8Gb models to make assumptions
frozenfrozen wrote: » do the reviews have anything about the storage decompression thing on the
frozenfrozen wrote: » do the reviews have anything about the storage decompression thing on the cards? Can't imagine 10GB of VRAM is an issue if you can swap at 6GB/s from disk
Hyzepher wrote: » I think the 8gb 3070 is being unfairly comapared to the 2080ti - mainly due to the Nvidia press release - but it really shold be compared to the 2070/Super and I think we'll see the same performance increase despite the Vram size
Giblet wrote: » RTX performance is great, but I mean, that's barely a few games still.
Samuel T. Cogley wrote: » From what I saw there is no improvement in efficiency of RT there, the hit is about the same as Turing.
Giblet wrote: » I saw Quake II and Minecraft which use pure pathtracing have huge improvements. Control also. Those AAA games, Quake II and Minecraft...
Samuel T. Cogley wrote: » Better than just the overall improvement in performance?
Giblet wrote: » Well a lot of people where saying the 3080 is going to completely destroy the 2080 TI, but it seems to be a 20% increase across the board, and less at lower resolutions (and that power draw... sheeesh!). The 3070 doesn't have DDR6X, so yes, it'll trash the 2070 super I imagine but I just don't see it winning all benchmarks against the 2080TI which has nearly 50% more memory bandwidth than the 3070. (Prob a 2080 killer?) RTX performance is great, but I mean, that's barely a few games still.
EoinHef wrote: » The numbers coming from using a 1080 look great. Gonna be a big boost for me. Who knows when be able to get hands on a GPU though. Initially for me it would be founders or nothing,id be worried about some AIB coolers givin power usage. Would have to wait on individual reviews and my price range would be in the lower AIB range im guessing. Some priced at near £800 and screw paying that. If the founders is scarce I won't be too bothered as waiting for AMD would be the sensible thing to do anyway
TitianGerm wrote: » Massive increases for me moving from a 2060. I better get one tomorrow now!!
BloodBath wrote: » The price of those monitors needs to come down a lot now. Still 1k+ for 4k/120hz+ monitors.
EoinHef wrote: » Wonder what time they will open up sales,cant see it being 12.01 am but that would suit me.
Homelander wrote: » The whole system just really got messed up when AMD stopped being competitive and Nvidia ran absolutely riot with pricing. GTX10 series in particular where it really started, 1070 ended up being €500, compared to about €350 for the GTX970. In a normal run of things, it would've been a €350-400 class replacement card, and beaten the 980Ti handily despite being €200-300 cheaper. Until relatively recently, it was always completely normal for the "mainstream" performance card to be comparable to the prior gen's flagship at a significantly lower price, close to half in many cases.
We picked up a GTX 970 for £250 back in the day, and it had a $330 US ticket price - Nvidia's latest has a baseline £330/$380 price-point.
Squidgy Black wrote: » I think Nvidia slightly overshot their marketing on this. They released a card that has noticeable improvement on the last flagship card, for around 500 quid less. But left themselves wide open to "un-impressed" or "letdown" reviews/reveals because they pushed their marketing too hard in terms of saying it was going to be twice as fast and make the previous cards redundant. It's still class and a noted improvement, but I'd say those 2080ti owners who sold for dirt cheap are absolutely fuming (albeit it's their own fault for panicking).