Just threw out 80% of my belongings and then bought a GTX 1080

Weird day.

Sad that it's already outdated

Personally I've got a 980 😏

Why not rtx lol

@Gerrymandered you like to pay 200 euros more for the same performance? rtx2080 is just as poweful as gtx 1080 ti but is also ~200 euros more expensive lul

@lamka02sk yeah, I wouldn’t know, I’m on a 1060.

Also my comment was slightly sarcastic. I should’ve made that more obvious

@Gerrymandered i would have gotten an RTX card. BF V looked great and other AAA games will follow next year.

Also aren’t the RTX cards more powerful? I think I read/saw a RTX 2080 run 1080Ti numbers.

I often get this irrational itch to buy new hardware.

Then I think, I game on 1440p, I'm one of those people who really doesn't see any difference above 45-50fps, and most games I play run well above the 75hz sync rate of my display using my current GTX960.

So if I buy a better card and then maybe buy 3 triple A games during its lifetime, those games would basically not just cost ~$50... They would cost 600/3 + 50 = $250 per game. Pretty expensive for a game I'd probably get bored with within one or two days.

I get that for some people it's really worth it to buy the latest $1k+ RTX2080 ray tracing toy (for example, your job/hobby is streaming/let'splays of the newest games) — but I think you should always do some rational math to see whether a card makes sense for you personally.

@fml89 RTX is more powerful but not as much as the gap that there has been in previous generations; the main advantage is the way it processes scenes. For games that support it, it is a much better (aesthetic performance) card.

RRX has real-time ray tracing capabilities. Just a shame that currently no game actually implements it. So yes, 1080s are nigh identical right now in performance.

Rtx* damn