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Is a CPU bottleneck really that bad?
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Why is a 5 year old card designed for 4K gaming a good value and offers more than new and cheaper cards designed for 1080p and 1440p gaming?
A 3080 has the GPU oomf to run 4k, but doesn't have the VRAM to do it. Thanks to Nvidia gimping it with only 10 or 12 gigs of vram as soon as you try pushing the eye candy you're gonna start bumping into the vram limit. Even at 1440 or 1080p it can be an issue. That's probably why these cards have gotten so cheap.
It's really a shame because it's still a very good performing GPU, but without the VRAM it's severely hampered with what you can do.
Right, that's kind of my point. I wouldn't recommend a 3080 period, anymore, especially for 1080p gaming. It is a card that never really made much sense, even new, and in the last 5 years there are newer and cheaper cards that will match or beat 3080 performance for 1080p/1440p
From quite an extensive research I did, I can surely say all of your points are wrong.
3080 is an overkill for 1080p but over time games get more intensive so it becomes only more of a viable option. Limited VRAM works against it but for now it's still fine in most titles unless you go 4k.
3080 made total sense. It had enough VRAM at the time and now is even considered one of the best NVidia GPUs ever made by some people. NVidia could make it more future proof but wouldn't it attract miners?
Prices depend on the area but I haven't seen one where anything beats the 3080 for the price. 6900 XT can beat it in some titles but it's actually slightly slower on average (if I'm not mistaken). And obviously the AMD card has way inferior productivity features.
You sound set on buying the 3080, which is totally fine I guess. It's not like it won't render 1080p games with great performance.
You're just going to be overpaying for an obsolete GPU that you won't actually be able to utilize fully, and will be bottlenecked on VRAM before games can actually push it fully. Meanwhile there are newer GPUs that will also render 1080p games with the same performance for less money. The 3080 has already aged out and has no future proof value so you'll just end up replacing it soon. So its just a really poor choice and poor value to buy one in 2025.
It's wild how wrong you are. The 3080 was widely received as a total flop and NVIDIA was heavily criticized for it because it was obvious they purposely put too little VRAM to encourage more sales of the 3090... It is the worst X080 series GPU NVIDIA has released and only had marginal performance uplift over the 2080.
EDIT: lol you can downvote me but it doesn't make me wrong
Like 5060 Ti for 1.5x the price and 20% less performance? Nah I don't think so. I think I know prices in my own country better ngl.
Ok, dunno why you're asking for help when you already know better lol. I tried to help you
Lemmy people seem to have the issue of completely forgetting the original topic. I noticed this earlier when asking about mouse compatibility on Linux and people started recommending mice for almost the price of a new PS5. I was asking about the potential bottleneck. I already did my research beforehand and confirmed that 3080 is indeed good value and suitable for my needs.
But... its literally not in any way...
Ok I'm pretty sure supporting such argument will get me banned for a few days but whatever. If you're so sure that there are better deals in my country, suggest me some options and I'll check them again.