Quote: "The 2080 is not that much faster than a 1080, sure the new 3080 sounds great, but we have yet to see real tests yet on the new cards. They do sound a good improvement from the 2080 though. Usual cycle, 2nd gen of new tech is always significantly better than the first."
Actually their mid tier 3070GTX beats the 2080RTX and is one and half times faster, the 3080 RTX is a beast on it's own and doesn't even compare to the 2080RTX.
The problem is a unique one in that nvidia had extremely low yields per waffer with their 1XXX and 2XXX series of cards which inflated prices drastically. With the 3xxx series Nvidia partnered with samsung to produce their 8nm chips and to improve yields per waffer.
So not only are the cards faster the price has been driven down due to production costs. Last time this happened with nvidia was in 2004 nearly 16 years ago, which is also the time they had switched over from AGP to pcie with their FX5 series, was also the last time a new generation mid tier card destroyed the top end card of the the previous gen. 8800GT came pretty close and was also card that made no sense as it beat out the GTS of the first version of the 8800 series.
So releases this year is pretty special and unique, it will also mean with AMD release they will have to match pricing wise or under cut them to get their units moving as they will also be releasing new cards in the near future, intel will also be releasing their new line up of dedicated GPU's which is going to interesting. Apple is also switching over to ARM CPUs and GPUs, which means AMD is going to lose some revenue with their AMD GPU's in the desktop and portable markets.
This unique situation means there is far less value in the 1XXX and 2XXX, and not really worth is due to the price reduction of the new releases.
Win10 Pro 64bit----iCore5 4590 @ 3.7GHZ----AMD RX460 2gb----16gig ram
