Hey everyone. I'm looking to upgrade my current PC built about 3 years ago. Money isn't an issue but I don't want too be wasteful. Looking to future proof for 2+ years and be able to max out RTX games at 4k.
Current specs:
-SLI GTX 1080 TI
-i9-7900X
-32 gb ddr4 ram
-Asus ROG Rampage VI Extreme
-an overkill PSU and plenty of SSD and HD storage
- 4k display with 60mhz refresh
My current plan is I'm looking to go from an SLI setup to a single card and just get a new RTX 3080 or 3090. I have a water cooled loop so I can overclock the CPU so that should be good for a while right? Another question I have is weather it's worth upgrading to a 4k monitor with a faster refresh rate. I also admittedly know very little of the new Radeon GPU line so is that worth waiting around for?
Thanks for reading! This board helped me build my first PC years ago so it's always my go to.
Comments
I don't think NVidia has ability (or enough reliability) to pull super/ti -upgrades to their models this quickly.
You can't run stuff at that high refresh rate at 4K. If your current monitor already supports adaptive refresh rate, then it's likely good enough as it is. But if you get update that gives you both higher refresh rate and adaptive refresh rate, that'd be large enough update to consider buying new monitor.
I think that would be overkill, and also a bit premature. We don't have that many PCIe 4 SSDs on market yet.
It's not clear whether Navi 2X will have the same problem. If it relies on GDDR6X, it will have the same problem for the same reasons. If it relies on HBM2 or GDDR6, then the memory will be plentiful, but there could be other delays. And HBM2 could cause cost problems, while GDDR6 could cause performance problems unless AMD goes with a much wider memory bus, which will also cause cost problems.
As best as I can tell, neither Samsung nor Hynix are producing GDDR6X memory at all. That would be shocking for a long-lived, widely used memory standard. It would make a lot of sense if it's going to be some short-lived thing that is only used for one chip ever. On that basis, I'm guessing that AMD won't use GDDR6X, but that's just a guess.
As for when RTX 3080 and 3090 will become widely available, that really depends on when the memory is. Take the date that Micron announces that GDDR6X is in mass production and add a few months. That announcement could come any day, or it might be several months away.
Verkkokauppa.com, a Finnish retailer with 4 physical stores and a web store, apparently got 10 units of RTX 3080 for their whole chain.
Source: www.verkkokauppa.com. The website is only in Finnish, but if someone understands Finnish they do list number of recently received products and recently sold products for everything they have on sale. Out of 12 different RTX 3080 models only one had recently arrived units, and even for that only 10 units.
The upcoming Super models might be just doubled RAM with no other changes, kind of like AMD is doing with different RX 570 and RX 580 models at the moment.
Source:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-s-upcoming-RTX-3060-Super-8-GB-RTX-3070-Super-16-GB-and-RTX-3080-Super-20-GB-models-confirmed-by-Gigabyte-listing.494640.0.html