- Jul 15, 2015
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Hello!
Quick* question about looking at upgrading from a 3090 to either a 4090 or 4080S.
My CPU is a which I am aware will bottleneck the 4090 in particular in some applications, like 2k 90+fps gaming, but not by a ton. I'm not a "maximize performance" type of guy by any means, but whether it is worth an extra $700 is the contention, especially with the extra 50-100W draw. My intention is to upgrade "halfway" to something that can fully use the 5950x so that around the time the 6xxx cards drop I can swap out for a more powerful processor and when the 7xxx or 6S drops I can spread out the cost of my machine across generations instead of single big chunks (getting mild bottlenecks or overkilling on CPU power for each upgrade). The issue being that I've seen talk about a 4090 being dumb for a 5950x at 2k (ie, flushing $700 for absolutely 0 gain isn't ideal).
Money isn't really an issue, but I prefer not to be *totally* stupid with how I spend it. Seeing the large fps gains and AI features the 4xxx cards have been getting is part of why I'm suddenly interested (along with the 4080S being reasonably priced). Logic being even with the 5xxx around the corner, that would stomp on the 5950x anyways (making upgrading to a 5090 completely pointless).
I guess, since I don't plan on going to 4k gaming anytime soon, is getting the 4080S a better deal even if I'm losing 8GB for AI related tasks? Given the 5950x bottleneck (and not planning on changing the CPU, at which point I may as well rebuild completely).
Thank you for your input!
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Quick* question about looking at upgrading from a 3090 to either a 4090 or 4080S.
My CPU is a which I am aware will bottleneck the 4090 in particular in some applications, like 2k 90+fps gaming, but not by a ton. I'm not a "maximize performance" type of guy by any means, but whether it is worth an extra $700 is the contention, especially with the extra 50-100W draw. My intention is to upgrade "halfway" to something that can fully use the 5950x so that around the time the 6xxx cards drop I can swap out for a more powerful processor and when the 7xxx or 6S drops I can spread out the cost of my machine across generations instead of single big chunks (getting mild bottlenecks or overkilling on CPU power for each upgrade). The issue being that I've seen talk about a 4090 being dumb for a 5950x at 2k (ie, flushing $700 for absolutely 0 gain isn't ideal).
Money isn't really an issue, but I prefer not to be *totally* stupid with how I spend it. Seeing the large fps gains and AI features the 4xxx cards have been getting is part of why I'm suddenly interested (along with the 4080S being reasonably priced). Logic being even with the 5xxx around the corner, that would stomp on the 5950x anyways (making upgrading to a 5090 completely pointless).
I guess, since I don't plan on going to 4k gaming anytime soon, is getting the 4080S a better deal even if I'm losing 8GB for AI related tasks? Given the 5950x bottleneck (and not planning on changing the CPU, at which point I may as well rebuild completely).
Thank you for your input!
*now more involved!
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