re: Finch's Guide to Obtaining a GPU/CPU and Trading Thread

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Not even worth it at $999. Performance uplift isn't worth the cost more than a regular 3080 at MSRP.

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Cost per frame basically always gets worse as you move up the stack. Value becomes a function of how far off the expected line you get. The 3070 is a better value than the 3080. The 3080 was always going to be a better value than the 3080ti. But this is just silly, outside of acknowledging that Nvidia has decided to get in on the scalp.

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Cost per frame basically always gets worse as you move up the stack. Value becomes a function of how far off the expected line you get. The 3070 is a better value than the 3080. The 3080 was always going to be a better value than the 3080ti. But this is just silly, outside of acknowledging that Nvidia has decided to get in on the scalp.

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To a point yes, value gets worse as you go up the product stack, and it really depends on your use case.

But the MSRP for the 3080 is $699. The 3080ti is $1199 MSRP.

You're paying literally $500 more more a 3-5% uplift in FPS. Its a bit ridiculous, and a money grab at this point by Nvidia because they KNOW that people will buy these cards at any price.

AMD Direct dropping right now.

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Price per frame is such a dumb way to look at cards in non-budget realm

People want performance, like me, to be able to get maximum frames at the resolution they desire.

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So, yes and no.

If money truly doesn't matter, then sure. Buy the best card (currently a 3090) every six to 24 months. When a new best card comes out, replace it. Do that forever. ???. Profit.

But for most people, it's a balance. For some of those people, price to performance matters the most. They are going to buy the best value card they can afford, and keep it for as long as they can. But that's not really enthusiast space, so let's ignore those people for the sake of this conversation.

Instead, I'll speak from personal experience.

I can absolutely afford to buy a 3090 (or equivalent) every year or two, based on release schedules. But with all the other things in the world to spend money on, is that really justifiable for me? No, probably not (and especially not without getting serious fricking side-eye from my wife...). Now, at my level of income, I can absolutely justify getting a 3080 equivalent every year. It's still objectively a bit silly, but yolo.

And then you have the people just below me, which I think are probably the most interesting. Those are the people who can either stay in the middle every year, or shoot the moon but then have to skip a generation. Or said another way, they could afford a 2080ti, but they couldn't afford a 2080ti and then a year or so later buy a 3090. It's either/or. So, for those kinds of people, are they better off sticking around the 3070 (on the low end) or 3080 (on the higher end) and upgrading more frequently? Or are they better off shooting the moon every two or three years and holding?

I believe reasonable people can disagree on that, but I would fall firmly in suggesting the former over the latter.

Picked up my 3080 TI this morning from BB at Mall of LA

I thought LA didn't get any shipments?

Yep, they didn't get any according to BB themselves

Want to bet? Call BB mall of la. I can show you a pic if you want. They got 46 of them in and sold them this morning. Even took $100 off because the shipment was late

I'll be damned. Very jealous. Would have said frick work for a few hours to grab one

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Blue- Check your local stores. One of the guys heredrove from hammond. He said his store had a few reg 3080's in stock yesterday

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I'm gonna check the nola ones when I get off of work