Question Should I get a 2070 over 1080?

[Rchow125]

Reason why I ask this is because 1080s NEW are like $700 and up when 2070s are $400-550. Yet SOME 2070 outperform 1080s by a little. Willing to spend 550ish. Currently looking at the 2070 rog strix.

Note: Now I’d like to game in 1440p and be safe on future proof for the next 4 years.

Also I know there are cheaper used 1080GPUs on the market. But don’t want to buy a mining card. Rather just get a brand new one to avoid that risk.

Questions: what’s the Best Buy? Gpu market still inflated? Should I just wait to buy a card or get the 2070?


Side question: for the rog strix gpu. I saw that there is 3 versions of the 2070 the normal. The advanced and overclocked. Which would be best to get. Yes the overclocked one will do better out of box but can’t you over click the other cards to at least get closer to the scores as an OC edition?

 

[WildCard999]

The difference between the 3 2070's is incredibly minimal, doubt you'd notice the difference so I'd get the cheaper one (A8G or O8G is the same price currently per PCPer).

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

With that kind of price difference it shouldn't be too difficult to choose the RTX 2070. You will also get better performance when using ray tracing (GTX 10 series gets ray tracing support this month.)

 

[King_V]

Reason why I ask this is because 1080s NEW are like $700 and up when 2070s are $400-550.

The 2070s are being produced, whereas the 1080s are no longer being produced, so the supply of 1080s is drying up.

I have no idea why sellers think this justifies higher prices on the 1080. People will just ignore that and buy the 2070.