Monitor: 3440x1440 100Hz
Graphics Card: 1080Ti -> 3080
Processor: 8700K 5GHz
Ram: 16GB 3000MHz
Ssd: 850 Evo
Motherboard: Maximus X Hero
I’d really like to play Shadowlands at max settings with the new ray tracing turned on, but I’m not sure how my current specs will fare when paired with a 3080. How much difference would a 10900K make? And I think my RAM speed is on the slow side, what difference would 32GB of faster RAM make to my system?
Will I be all set for amazing performance with the 3080 upgrade or is there anything else about my system that could do with upgrading?
1440p and higher and more work is done on the GPU itself so you will see better framerates as more work is put onto the GPU than CPU. You may get 10-20% more frames, but it depends on the game itself.
The only thing is to move to a 9700k which will still bottleneck the graphics card but not by much.
However, a 8700k will work fine with a 3080 just as it does with a 2080, but if you’re wanting the best framerates as in top of the charts, then 9700k or better would be needed. Min i7 or a i9 would be best.
But you won’t have much problems, so see how the card runs over a set amount of time and then decide if you want to upgrade other parts later.
His 8700K is running at 5Ghz… upgrading to a 10900K is just a waste of money imho. The gains will be very small compared to the price, maybe 10-15% at best.
If you are running at higher resolutions than 1080P, or also want to play the latest games with raytracing on, then yes get the 3080… that is if you can get one
a bit of advice , avoid 3080… they have serious issues with the chipsets. It’s reported they are crashing and it’s a lot. Keep your 1080Ti it’s good card.
Yeah, most will get bios updates to stop them boosting to 2ghz or higher. Most will be about 1950mhz or 1900mhz as the upper limit to stop the cards from crashing due to electrical noise.
Companies are lowering down the cost by installing six cheap capacitors instead of how it suppose to be. So far only one company have done it correctly.
It does have some effect but it’s not 100% the problem. GamersNexus OC record score was done on a card that has 6 SP-Caps. Derbauer did replace some SP-Caps and it did improve a bit how far he can push it but still if the game hit > 2GHz it crashed.
The tl;dr is that the launch was rushed and vendors did not have drivers aside of Nvidia black box test which showed to be insufficient in this case.
the only actually problematic card in the real world as far as i’ve seen is the zotac trinity. 456.55 also improved stability a lot. BZ also showed how sp-caps aren’t necessarily any cheaper than mlcc.
also, i bet almost nobody commenting on this has any real clue other than repeating information they’ve heard without any good ability to discern if what they’re reading makes sense or not. unless you know what you’re talking about it’s best to just listen to trusted opinions and real world testing. easy to get misinformed and then pass that misinformation onto others, even if you have the best intentions. i’m trying to be really careful what i take in because frankly i don’t know enough about this to separate true and false.
Seems new drivers are sorting out the power problems without much lowering of performance. The cards just won’t go above 2ghz now so if you planned on overclocking the 3070, 3080 and all then it’s a no go really.
So go for these cards if you want or wait until end of the month and see what AMD has to offer with their graphic cards on the 28th Oct.
And 8th Oct for the new Ryzen 5000 cpu’s. (They’re skipping 4000 for desktops)
i’ve seen multiple 3dmark runs with over 2.1ghz since the new drivers.
power limit comes down hard, so i’d imagine cards with high power limits like the FTW3 will be helpful. they also have room in the other direction, people are seeing great results undervolting 3080s to ~270w with no performance loss compared to stock.
