At my local shop, I am next in queue to get an RTX 3080. Should I get it or wait for RTX 3080 Ti release in January? I am currently using an RTX 2080. Is the Ti release relatively certain or doubtful?
I am not suggesting you should do otherwise but even MSFS 2020 doesn't seem to have any problems with 10GB VRAM from the reviews I have seen. If in your position I might do the same but I'm still to see any reviews where 10GB is limiting.I'm basically in the same situation as you. I have a 2080, want a 3080, am waiting for a 3080 super/Ti at the moment. I have a reason for waiting though, because I play MSFS 2020 at 4k and that game is a VRAM hog. If that's not your situation though and you're next in line for a 3080, I'd be temped to just go with that.
I am not suggesting you should do otherwise but even MSFS 2020 doesn't seem to have any problems with 10GB VRAM from the reviews I have seen. If in your position I might do the same but I'm still to see any reviews where 10GB is limiting.
Makes senseTrue, but that's because those reviews are reviewing the RTX 3080 on MSFS 2020 as-is, without any mods. As soon as you modify the airport with scenery that makes extensive use of PBR on a large number of objects and surfaces, the VRAM requirements go up significantly. I personally use a lot of such scenery, and I don't want to be turning down texture resolution because the RTX 3080 only ships with 10 GB of the stuff.
Makes sense
It’s hard to say. I don’t think they ever said the 3080 was the successor to the near double the price 2080Ti, just that it out performed it. It was more showcasing the generational lift in performance. I do think they have been a bit stingy, 12GB would have felt much better but I also expect it would have lifted the RRP by £50-£75 and possibly pinched supply chains even harder. I would be more concerned if 4K with highest settings was my main objective but it’s not. At 1440p and game settings to achieve >120-130 FPS I don’t see it being a problem any time soon. NVidia also works very closely with game devs to help them get the most performance out of games.Not to thread -jack, but in your opinion do you think Nvidia was too conservative with VRAM this generation? I know what everyone is saying, that there's a difference between memory allocated vs memory utilized and that 10 GB is plenty fine for 99% of the use cases and that AMD and Nvidia GPUs use VRAM differently so you can't compare the two, but I mean come on; Nvidia has been pushing the RTX 3080 as the successor to the RTX 2080 Ti and that GPU had 11 GB of the stuff (even if it was a bit slower). And then let's not forget the GTX 1080 Ti which also had 11 GB of VRAM (GDDR5X I believe). That was four years ago, and after two generations of GPUs, we've managed to actually go down in VRAM rather than up. I mean, how much more money would it have cost Nvidia to make the RTX 3080 a 12 GB card? That would be an almost symbolic gesture of increased performance over the 11 GB shipping in the the 1080 Ti / 2080 Ti, but at least it would be in an upward trajectory.
It’s hard to say. I don’t think they ever said the 3080 was the successor to the near double the price 2080Ti, just that it out performed it. It was more showcasing the generational lift in performance. I do think they have been a bit stingy, 12GB would have felt much better but I also expect it would have lifted the RRP by £50-£75 and possibly pinched supply chains even harder. I would be more concerned if 4K with highest settings was my main objective but it’s not. At 1440p and game settings to achieve >120-130 FPS I don’t see it being a problem any time soon. NVidia also works very closely with game devs to help them get the most performance out of games.
The performance increase from 3080 to 3090 is underwhelming from what I've seen in videos, at 4k anyway.
GET THE 3080! If you have a chance in the queue do it. Whenever the 3080Ti comes out this stock issue and scalping will persist and you will be back at the bottom of a months long list. I managed to get a 3080 FE and AC:Valhalla on max settings at 4k is hitting 6.5gb of vram. People don't seem to understand that this is gddr6X vram and has almost double the through put of gddr6. Also from what I understand that little bar games show you is allocated usage not actual usage. 10gb of gddr6x will be fine for a while...At my local shop, I am next in queue to get an RTX 3080. Should I get it or wait for RTX 3080 Ti release in January? I am currently using an RTX 2080. Is the Ti release relatively certain or doubtful?