Hopefully the 20gb 3080 won’t take too long to come out. I’ve been waiting for a long time to replace my 1080ti

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

 

It looks like being called a Super actually.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-s-upcoming-RTX-3060-Super-8-GB-RTX-3070-Super-16-GB-and-RTX-3080-Super-20-GB-models-confirmed-by-Gigabyte-listing.494640.0.html

Howeverver by al accounts it is not getting more cores or higher clocks just more ram and the punters are predicting about a $100 US premium for it.

👍 An extra 100 notes for 20GB VRAM may well be worth it for MSFS, especially for when they change to DX12, as I have heard DX12 will almost certainly use more VRAM if P3D V5 is anything to go by.

 

8 hours ago, Richard Sennett said:

What did we learn here buy Nvidia - MSI - Asus - I wont be buying an EVGA next time 🙂 

Seriously...looks like a FOUNDERS's...but....will there be an nVidia made, FOUNDERS 3080 20 GB?  That's what I want....

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Sesquashtoo

will we get an rtx 3080ti

13 minutes ago, Sesquashtoo said:

Seriously...looks like a FOUNDERS's...but....will there be an nVidia made, FOUNDERS 3080 20 GB?  That's what I want....

It was not planned at first, but newer rumours suggest that there will be one.

8 minutes ago, ashepherd316 said:

will we get an rtx 3080ti

We don't know what it will be named, but a 12GB GA102 is coming.

Any know why VRAM has progressed so slowly, I have 1070 and it baffles me that the 2070 and now 3070 haven’t added more than 8gb. I’m not one of these guys that’s willing or able to pay crazy amounts for a graphics card so I’m hoping if there is a 3070ti 16gb that it’s priced reasonably.

1 minute ago, Carts85 said:

Any know why VRAM has progressed so slowly, I have 1070 and it baffles me that the 2070 and now 3070 haven’t added more than 8gb. I’m not one of these guys that’s willing or able to pay crazy amounts for a graphics card so I’m hoping if there is a 3070ti 16gb that it’s priced reasonably.

GDDR6 is very expensive and in high demand, especially since GDDR5 is not in production anymore, which forces even the low-end cards to use GDDR6. This is why the original GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 were phased out. The new consoles will put even more strain on that demand.

48 minutes ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

GDDR6 is very expensive and in high demand, especially since GDDR5 is not in production anymore, which forces even the low-end cards to use GDDR6. This is why the original GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 were phased out. The new consoles will put even more strain on that demand.

Another reason why the amount of vram isn't increasing much is that current games simply don't require it, even in 4k. As far as I know there is no test how much vram is required for optimum results. There are some tests that show MSFS reserving up to 16GB vram, if it's available, but we don't know whether all that vram gives better FPS, less frame drops or more LOD, or does nothing at all. Even a future upgrade to directx12 might not require more vram, neither does VR at the moment as far as I know.

Buying a 3090 is about giving MSFS as much vram as possible, to eliminate any bottleneck your graphics hardware could pose. If only Asobo could tell us how much vram we need or at least whether more vram actually helps.

 

6 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

the punters are predicting about a $100 US premium for it.

I'd expect to pay a fair bit more than $100 for an additional 10GB of GDDR6X. I'd be delighted if the 3080 super was priced at that as it'd be a massively attractive price point for all that performance. 

50 minutes ago, Tektolnes said:

I'd expect to pay a fair bit more than $100 for an additional 10GB of GDDR6X. I'd be delighted if the 3080 super was priced at that as it'd be a massively attractive price point for all that performance. 

No chance will it only be 100 more. They’re not gonna dare do that, when they’re selling 3090’s. I suspect if it even does happen, the price will only be slightly less than a 3090. And that’s a big ‘if’ it happens. 

Edited September 26, 20205 yr by Ianrivaldosmith

7 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

 

Buying a 3090 is about giving MSFS as much vram as possible, to eliminate any bottleneck your graphics hardware could pose. If only Asobo could tell us how much vram we need or at least whether more vram actually helps.

 

 

Anecdotally, you are going to make us of more than 10GB when running the game at 8K or on more than one 4K screen or across 3 or more 1440p screens.

However it would be nice to have some actual facts or test results so we know for sure.

8 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

 but we don't know whether all that vram gives...more LOD, or does nothing at all....  If only Asobo could tell us how much vram we need or at least whether more vram actually helps.

Seems like we know more than that.  If I manually set scenery and object LOD VRAM usage goes up accordingly.  It could be that as Asobo continues tuning or even goes DX12 they may reallly not know yet.

I think the 3080 20GB  will pitched around 1,000-1,200 depending on the AIB cards.

And now some GPU`s have been found to have problems due cheaper caps used on some cards, this could slow down the 3080 and the 3090 cards release, 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by G-RFRY

4 hours ago, G-RFRY said:

I think the 3080 20GB  will pitched around 1,000-1,200 depending on the AIB cards.

Might as well just get the 3090 if that is the case. 

2 hours ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Might as well just get the 3090 if that is the case. 

If you have the cash that`s up to you but may take time to get anything the way the supply is going.