Video Card replacement

T1berious

Well, the time has come to replace my venerable GTX 980Ti

My Rig is as follows:

i7 5930K
16Gb DDR4
GTX 980 Ti
Samsung 970 SSD
Corsair AIO

All wrapped up in a Fractal Design Define R5

So my question is what GPU?

As much as I'd love a 2080 Ti I can't afford it. I think I could do 750 at a push. I currently solely game at 1440 but I'm pretty sure over the next year I'll pick up 4K monitor.So I do want to keep an eye on 4k gaming performance.

So 2080 Super? Any other options? i'd be interested in hearing your thoughts!

Cheers T1b

Sunshinewelly

I upgraded from a gtx1080 - was looking at a 2080TI but just could not justify the expense. Then was looking at the 2070 super

after numerous hours looking at benchmarks and reading some forums realised that a top end RTX 2080 offers enough headroom over the 2070 super and depending on the 2080 card it matches the 2080 super.

for example i bought a zotac extreme 2080 which is the highest out of the box 2080 you can get. It was £629 at overclockers. The cheapest 2080 super was £699.

I would not pay for a 2080 super. Either go for a 2070 super or a discounted but decent A chip 2080  (or look at AMD's offerings)

the 2070 super is a great 1440p card and capable of 4K. The 2080 when overclocked is more than capable of 4k

the zotac comes with the samsung memory and the A Chip so i was able to put a decent overclock on it (air cooled) and now according to time spy GPU benchmark its GPU score is 12105 which is higher than the 2080 super FE.

it was an extra £129 over the super 2070 but is probably around 15% faster than the 2070 super.  my card is now around 15% slower than a 2080ti.

very happy with the card as it offers a quite a nice leap over my GTX1080. I was also able to sell the GTX 1080 for £270 so the hit was not so bad.

T1berious

Would that also mean that a 2080 Super OC'd would put in a good effort against 2080ti say 10% down (Not a reference but a good partner card)

Sunshinewelly

If you found a good 2080 Super and overclocked it then yes it's going to get quite close to a stock 2080 ti

But a good  2080 Super is going to be close to £800 and that puts you closer again to 2080ti territory. You can get very good 2080 cards for under £650

My extreme amp from zotac was £629 at overclockers. The same super version is £800 and looking at benchmarks my 2080 non super version is within 1 fps of that 2080 Super version.

I  don't think the super 2080 is worth it

It's either a 2070 super or a discounted 2080 or do the jump to the 2080ti

If you are interested in rtx then the 2080 will offer better performance over the 2070 super as it has more tensa cores

aoaaron

i dont think a  2080 super isn't going to get that close to a 2080ti.


For 1440p, a 2060/2070s/5700xt is enough.

I wouldn't try to plan ahead for a 4k monitor purchase because hopefully by then, new nvidia cards will be out if you're buying it this year.

I personally think ultrawide is better than 4k tho so give it a thought. If you do, a 2070s will be fine of one.

moonbeam120

4K gaming is overrated. Ultrawide 3440 x 1440 (2.5K) is the sweet spot for gaming on a monitor.

If you want ray tracing then a RTX2070S or RTX2080 is the best bang for buck route to go.

If you don't need or want RT then a GTX1080Ti is still a beast of a card to use.

Alternatively pick up another GTX980Ti like I did (close to GTX1080Ti performance in SLI) They can be had for less than £200 on ebay. Not perfect but on most games it will knock your socks off.

aoaaron

Totally agree. Pump budget into a second hand good ultrawide.
I actually think ultrawide is the main perk or reason other than FPS to be a pc gamer now

T1berious

interesting thoughts.  Goes off to look at 2080's....

aoaaron

I think the sweetspot for a 2080 is definitley a ultrawide monitor but check them out.

                               
Ultrawide and responsive high FPS are the two main perks PC gamers have which console gamers will basically never have.

Greg Hook

If it was a case of 4K 60FPS or 1440p 144FPS, I know which one I would choose!