Upgrade Option: 9900k or 2080ti?

[pgde 571]

FYI -- accordng to an email from EVGA I received this morning, they will be releasing a 2080 "Super" in a week or two. According to their forum price is in the $699 range for their reference card level). Below picture is from the EVGA site (even though it is a picture of the 2070 Super)

See https://www.evga.com/articles/01343/evga-rtx-super/

Edited July 20, 2019 by pgde

[G-RFRY 1,708]

The super GPUs have 8BGB of VRAM the 2080ti 11GB VRAM and the 2080super not faster than the 2080Ti in test.

[vortex681 806]

3 hours ago, rjfry said:

The super GPUs have 8BGB of VRAM the 2080ti 11GB VRAM and the 2080super not faster than the 2080Ti in test.

That's almost certainly true, but I didn't think that any actual tests of the 2080 Super had been released yet.

[Speedbird21 17]

Attached is my current system load and you can see the specs. I am running P3D, no weather addon at the moment, flying the PMDG 777. My P3D settings are turned up fairly high, but nothing crazy. Honesty, I think CPU has a greater impact on performance on FPS at the moment, but it may just be the way I have things configured. Is it worth going from the 8700 to 9900 considering price? Probably not at the moment, so it may be best to upgrade the video card and wait for the price drop that seems to be coming on the processors. 

[GCBraun 2,390]

I would recommend a 9700 if you are concerned about the price difference between the 8700 and the 9900.

You get the same 8 cores and the performance on simulators (and games in general) is similar, if not better, on the 9700 because you get limited HT, which is not needed and may even be a problem in some cases.

I could have afforded the 9900, but opted for the 9700 instead. 

[G-RFRY 1,708]

JayzTwoCents has just posted a video on SLI and in his words don't waste your money having tested the latest AMD and Nvidia GPUs go for the best single card you can buy,

[G-RFRY 1,708]

Check out Der Bauer latest video AMD fan boys giving him stick but then he explains how he makes manufactures take notice. 

There are some benchmarks appearing for the 2800 super.

Edited July 21, 2019 by rjfry

[pgde 571]

22 hours ago, vortex681 said:

That's almost certainly true, but I didn't think that any actual tests of the 2080 Super had been released yet.

See https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-2080-super-benchmark,39988.html

[vortex681 806]

9 hours ago, pgde said:

See https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-2080-super-benchmark,39988.html

Just leaked benchmarks so they need to be taken with a pinch of salt. The card doesn't officially release until 23 July so that'll be the earliest we'll see real world tests.