If you think of buying nvidia 4000 series - don't, better wait

[Vimmer]

They advance these cards way too fast.

 

[BigBadBeef]

If you think of buying nvidia 4000 series - don't, better wait for 5000. Or, if you don't wanna wait, better go back to the high ends of the GTX series or early RTX (2060/2070/2080).

While the series OP mentioned were indeed good, lets not forget that upon the point of release, the prices were eye wateringly high. It would seem that only those nVidia cards, whose leftmost number digit is odd, are good cards.

I mean look at my GTX 980. 10 years old, paid 600€ for it. Today I'm playing modern games with it, granted, age has driven it to the point where it performs like an entry level card, but nevertheless...

Now? Maybe that 5080 will once again attain the glory days, maybe it won't. I don't trust nVidia anymore. Their cards are as expensive as they've ever been, but they feel cheap. Tainted by lies and deceit (Forgot the 4080/4070 naming scheme already?). I no longer have that feeling that care and attention has gotten into them which would reflect in a long service life.

AMD has issues too. Thermal hot spots cook some cards, so you're playing the lottery if "the long game" is what you play. But at least they are still trying, unlike those recently indolent bastards up at the green camp. I won't even mention Intel GPUs, because they're still in diapers and overdue for potty training.

So what's a guy to do, who builds a top of the line, best of the best PC once every 10 years and expects he won't have to even replace a fan during that period?

Wait, I suppose.

 

[KGIII]

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[rado84]

I had forgotten about this topic...

I mean look at my GTX 980. 10 years old. Today I'm playing modern games with it

Almost the same, only I bought a second hand (from a gamer for $228) GTX 1080 Ti with 11 GB VRAM. Today it's 7 years old and yet it runs ANY game I want the way I want. I don't really care about DLSS or RT, I'm more interested in the fact that characters on movies and TV show DON'T teleport like it was with the 4060. On top of that I tried two different versions of 4060 and the result was still the same. So I returned them to the saler and asked for a refund which they approved.

According to benchmarks, even nowadays the 1080 Ti buries the 4060 into the ground by performance. And to add to that - the PCIE1 slot on the motherboard is dead, so I had to put it on the second slot (PCIE4) which thanks to an AsRock "hack" runs at Gen2 speed. Even at that speed it still performs a lot better than the most of the RTXs. I don't even dare to imagine how it will perform on the new motherboard when I put it on the PCIE1 slot.

Sorry, nVidia, but RTX sucks! Do you remember what Linus Torvalds told you years ago? That gesture with the hand and the fingers? Well, that's my response to the RTX series...

 

[BigBadBeef]

GTX 1080 Ti with 11 GB VRAM.

Wait, what? ELEVEN (11) GB of vram?!?

 

[rado84]

Wait, what? ELEVEN (11) GB of vram?!?

Ask Gigabyte why 11, not 12.