Upgrade to 3080 from 2070 Super

Board Walker · 31-05-2021 08:12AM #1

Hi Guys, i am mainly running Flight Sim/P3D etc and i currently have an RTX 2070 Super 8GB. I was thinking of upgrading to a 30 series. I know very little if anything about GPU's to be honest hence why i'm asking here.

In terms of graphics visual quality am i gaining anything or is it just FSP i'm getting? my PC is only just over a year old with an i7 9700k 3.6 ghz processor.

thank you!

SeanW · 02-06-2021 07:57PM

I'd advise against making any changes in your setup right now. Mainly because modern graphics cards are almost nonexistent. You may have heard about a chip shortage, this is seriously affecting the supply of both AMD Radeon and NVidia GeForce graphics cards. To make matters worse, cryptocurrency miners have been grabbing every graphics card they can get their hands on while scalpers got the rest. And at least as far as NVidia is concerned, AFAIK the generational improvement from the 20 series to the 30 series is not that great.

With any 20 series card, you might want to consider skipping this generation, though many will be doing so out of necessity regardless.

Board Walker · 03-06-2021 09:39AM

Cheers Sean!

23-09-2021 08:32AM

If you do decide to get a 3080 (~1500e on casekingDOTde) just make sure the PSU is up to the task. Decent 750 unit and up.

Board Walker · 23-09-2021 12:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117927711#Comment_117927711

I just saw the shortage appears to be gone. Seems to be easy enough to get one now.

I wonder how much id get for my 2070 Super thats 2 years old?

23-09-2021 10:01PM

Really depends. I'd check adverts and see what people are selling 2070s' for. Around 6-700 would be my guess though. Or under 550 if you want it snatched up.

Board Walker · 01-10-2021 11:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117931180#Comment_117931180

I wonder is it just performance is all im gaining to a 3080 or would there a noticeable visual quality too?

01-10-2021 02:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117962847#Comment_117962847

Yeah I mean, there's obviously the fps part, but you can turn up graphics settings, resolution (if you have a higher res monitor), RTX etc.

As far as features are concerned, Second gen RT cores, 3rd gen Tensor cores, DLSS, NVENC etc.

Upgrade to 3080 from 2070 Super

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