Bummer. Was hoping for $1200, would have gotten the 3090 for $1400 but $1500 is too much for me. $1200 was too much but I was willing to bite. Now I am not sure if it is worth upgrading my 1080 Amp Extreme to 3080 or just wait until next year and see what the landscape looks like. I don't want to switch to AMD. What does everyone else think?
Well, for one thing, getting an RTX 3080 for $700 would far more than double the performance of your current card. The RTX 2080 Ti is ~30% faster than the GTX 1080 Ti and the RTX 3080 is ~100% faster than the RTX 2080 Ti so the gain that you would get for $700 would be nothing short of massive. Whether or not it's worth the upgrade is completely dependent on whether or not you're satisfied with your GTX 1080. If you are, then upgrading would be a complete waste.
The other thing is, what's wrong with AMD? I've had Radeon cards only since 2008 because they always offered me better performance at the price points that I was willing to pay and I've enjoyed them immensely. Before that, I had four straight nVidia cards and before that I had a CirrusLogic (pre-3D). Remember that ATi has been around
far longer than nVidia and if their products were bad, they'd be extinct.
If AMD has a better product (although I doubt it will), then only a foolish fanboy would still buy nVidia. People who have never owned a Radeon card and are afraid of them are as ridiculous as people who have never owned an AMD CPU and are afraid of them. The differences between them are only performance-based. When it comes to actual use, there's no difference between them. There's more differnce between a Samsung and a Motorola Android phone than there is between a GeForce and a Radeon card.
The pricing for the 3080 and 3070 is a pleasant surprise. Nvidia will sell boatloads of 3070s and 3080s at those prices and performance.
Yes they will. The only question is, what will retailers do with all their leftover ~$2,000 RTX 2080 Ti cards? As soon as nVidia made their announcement, those cards were immediately turned into dead stock.
Bad news for AMD. These prices are very competitive. The fact that the 3070 was launched means the 3060 and 3050 will come sooner rather than later. AMD is going to have a rough time maintaining their position in the mid-range segment. Meanwhile, Intel is squeezing them from the bottom with better and better IGP.
Intel's IGPs would only be a threat to AMD (and nVidia for that matter) if AMD and nVidia were standing still. They're not. Intel's IGPs are, as of now, nowhere near ATi's IGPs and each step forward that Intel takes, ATi takes an even bigger one. Hell, Intel's
most powerful IGP, the Iris Plus, is listed as being 50% behind the Vega 8 which itself is weaker than the lowly GT 1030. I have serious doubts about the viability of Intel's invasion of the graphics space. We've all heard this talk before from Intel just like we heard about nVidia wanting to make CPUs. Even Larrabee didn't go anywhere. When Intel finally releases its "Xe Graphics", nVidia will have Ampere and ATi will have RDNA2. Intel will just be left in the dust again.
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