GPU Upgraders, What are you planning on buying?

What is it going to be?


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I get it. I have a 7900xt and am eyeing the 5080 but realistically have zero need for it. Probably going to sit tight until benches come out.

If I were you, i'd be looking at a 9800x3d. Are you getting 100% GPU usage?
I believe so - however it isn't something I always check... I'm never one of these thats got to be 100% pushing to the max if that makes sense?

Like I say, I'm a fomo, I don't really need the 4090 in all honesty. I like having new things though.

I'll investigate the new motherboard.

I'm not an alt of David B David B - I do have disposable income!!
 
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im interested in the 5090 mostly cos of the size but ill be honest the AI features are lacklustre and most of it is coming to the 40 series, I may sit this one out as getting one will be an absolute arse ache.
 
Who are these maniacs that buy $2k GPUs?
Im eyeing it, will wait for independend reviews to be sure, but yeh, i bought my 3080ti back durning cryptoboom for 2200€, so wont have any scruples getting 5090 as long as performance is there(and at 575W tdp obviously i will go well above msrp models, just to make sure cooling is efficient and relatively silent).
 
Im eyeing it, will wait for independend reviews to be sure, but yeh, i bought my 3080ti back durning cryptoboom for 2200€, so wont have any scruples getting 5090 as long as performance is there(and at 575W tdp obviously i will go well above msrp models, just to make sure cooling is efficient and relatively silent).
I don't get it tho, what's the performance benefit?

Feels like you spend significantly more to get marginal gains with a card that isn't anymore future proof.

I always end up around the xx70 series just because it's the best bang for buck usually. Kind of understand upgrading a 3080, but I see people with 4080 and 4090s talking about upgrading....
 
I always wait for at least 1 console gen to end before I upgrade and it must play their most demanding game at 4k / 60fps minimum.
 
Moved from a 1080 to 2080Ti when it released, so now I hope to get an 5090 to keep those settings maxed on 1440p with high framerates.
 
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Skipping the generation.
MFG doesnt seem like enough of a reason for me to upgrade.
And all the AI stuff, im sure will only really really be used in the RTX60s
I can hold out with DLSS4 SuperResolution and FrameGeneration2x.
 
5080 when it hits ~750 Euro.
1169€ msrp here in europe, bro, u might as well wait for 5070ti super in a year if u dont wanna pay above 750€
Even 5070ti starts from 879€ so maybe after big discounts u might find that one around 800 if its not selling well, but 5080?
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5070ti looks pretty good as a GTX 1080 owner looking to upgrade finally. First time in 7 years that the launch lineup has me interested like this. Note it's nothing to do with framegen bs

Not in a rush though so will have a look when stock is there in a few months. Could just buy a used 4080 or similar.
 
I don't get it tho, what's the performance benefit?

Feels like you spend significantly more to get marginal gains with a card that isn't anymore future proof.

I always end up around the xx70 series just because it's the best bang for buck usually. Kind of understand upgrading a 3080, but I see people with 4080 and 4090s talking about upgrading....
I will reasses end jan/early feb when we got full info about both 5080 and 5090, but logically speaking 5080 has to be much worse from 5090, not 50% worse but who knows, 35-40%? That is quite a big margin, its about as big of a gap as 4070 vs 4090, maybe 4070ti vs 4090 if 5090's tdp and size scales really terribly :P
 
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Same build as you, except I have 64gb of ram. I'm thinkin getting a 5080.
 
1169€ msrp here in europe, bro, u might as well wait for 5070ti super in a year if u dont wanna pay above 750€
Even 5070ti starts from 879€ so maybe after big discounts u might find that one around 800 if its not selling well, but 5080?
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Not impossible by the end of the year, there are often good discounts in Germany. Could have bought a 799 Euro PS5 Pro for around 614 Euro shortly after the release if i wanted to. Another good option is second hand from reatailers. We also often have pre builtt systems that are cheaper than the components. Wouldn't mind to sell my whole system and get one of those instead of upgrading.
 
5090, depending on real performance compared to 4090. It has to be at least 40%, I have no interest in MFG and don't believe for a second is comparable to real frames. Happy to be wrong.
 
depends on the raw non fg performance difference between my 4070TI and a 5080 and if there is in fact one with 24GB which would be nice. MFG sounds nice tho, but I dont see how 4X series cant support it and we might be just wasting money when it eventually hits on 4x series. Also no games lmao.
 
I'm going 3080 to 5080. My 3080 runs everything fine still.



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As a 3080 owner "only if you turn ray tracing off"

I think the 5000 is the first gen where that's really an option (with DLSS switched on) I saw a video of cyberpunk max all on the 5090 but set to Quality DLSS instead of Performance that Nvidia was using for its slides (quality is the setting I would always want to go for) it was hitting around 140-150 FPS. Will wait for the real life benchmarks but that's really something especially since early reports state DLSS 4 has fewer artifacts than 3.5.
 
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I have a 3080ti, no point in upgrading right now because I can't think of a game coming out in the near future that would make my card feel dated. If I had to pick one, I'd probably go for a 5080 though, seems like good value. Maybe I'll upgrade my entire system once Arma 4 comes out, but that's probably years away.
 
Hesitating between 5070 Ti and 5080.

3080 Ti at 3440x1400p is kind of lagging behind for path tracing, I know its a few titles but still, I'm holding off starting a new run and going through Cyberpunk 2077 & Liberty city because I'm like, might as well wait for upgrade and enjoy overdrive path tracing.

Waiting on reviews and of course, who knows, whatever AMD presents. But the thing is that this is an AI/ML world now and I just don't trust AMD. Nvidia just dropped better DLSS upscaler for all RTX owners all the way to Turing. Blackwell seems more future proof to me as the models improve, they'll also improve as they are basically model renderers now with all this neural network computing power.
 
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Gonna wait on AMD.

For the upcoming years I'm gonna stay put, pretty happy with my 7900 GRE.

If I update anything in the mid-term it's gonna be the CPU. Get my hands on a X3D.
 
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I was in on going from a 4090 to a 5090, but given that a lot of the DLSS4 features are coming to previous gen cards, I might hold off a bit and see what the end of year looks like in terms of games.
 
I'm happy with my 4090. The underwhelming boost to rasterization performance on the 5090 made me 100% sure that I'm okay with waiting for the 6090 or 7090 to upgrade.


I want a huge jump in raw performance like the 4090 was to the 3090 and I'm not seeing it here with the 5090.
 
The 5070 with 12GB VRAM in 2025 is outrageous.
"4090 performance" my @ss, this capping of a otherwise fine card is ridiculous. Clearly forcing AI dudes to buy 5070ti+.
 
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