wavetrex:

That 1080 Ti is still powerful enough for yet another year, so you can afford to wait. Those of us that have been stuck with slower cards, like 1070 or less, we could pretty much not play any modern game anymore at decent quality settings. I bit the bullet at roughly 700 € for a 6800 XT (which was basically the lower price in my country), and now I can wait again for several years until I need to upgrade. A basic 3080 (10GB) is still upwards of 900 € here, that's just disgusting.

Reddoguk:

I believe getting a XX90 card early on is the way to go(if you can find or afford one). I fear that by time these prices come down a lot it won't be worth getting one. Since GPUs are coming every two years now, if you wait a year then i start thinking i might as well just wait a bit longer and get a 5000 series card instead but then i thought this is just how things are now.(gpu prices are never gonna return back to old rates) The days of a £700 XX80 are long gone unless AMD has anything to say about it. I think even AMD will ask a premium for their next offerings. I'd like to see a 7900XT for £700-800 and XTX for £900-£999 but i doubt retailers will charge that. People might just have to buy the previous gen. So if you want a 4090 at a decent price wait for 5090 to come out then wait for 4XXX price to come down. ATM avg price of a 4080 is £1400 which is F***KING insane, pardon my French.

Hypernaut:

Before the rude and totalitarian left took over.

JamesSneed:

You know you can easily set a lower power limit? The nifty thing about GPU's is how parallel they are they do pretty well with lower power limits. Set a 225w power limit on the 3080 and it will still be a tad faster than the 3070. These commands work in Linux and Windows. Nvidia command to list out all data points: nvidia-smi -q Nvidia command to set power limit 225w: nvidia-smi -pl 225

Freitlein:

Normal is high-end for a maximum of $450. But even then, I wouldn't (like to) buy a graphics card that consumes more than 200 watts and/or also has a memory bottleneck built in. That would not be very wise.

H83:

I think the same. During the blakc sales friday, i had the chance to buy a Saphire Nitro+ 6800XT for 690€ but i could`t stop thinking about paying that much for an "old" card so i din`t buy it. I even tried to sell my 1080Ti to make the deal "easier" but no i didn`t sell it, so no deal in the end. I don`t know if i did the right choice but i`m not worried because next month starts the amazing Guru3d christmas contest and my body is ready!

H83:

True, my 1080Ti has been a terrific card that still performs very well and i know i can keep it for another 2 or 3 years without any problem. But i use it to drive a high refresh 34 screen at 3413x1440 and sometimes the card struggles a bit, so i would like something with some more power and i like to try new hardware, of course. But i also want to upgrade my CPU (7600K), that is holding back my 1080ti, so i`m gonna save for it and then buy a new GPU later, if something good appears at decent prices...

H83:

True, my 1080Ti has been a terrific card that still performs very well and i know i can keep it for another 2 or 3 years without any problem. But i use it to drive a high refresh 34 screen at 3413x1440 and sometimes the card struggles a bit, so i would like something with some more power and i like to try new hardware, of course. But i also want to upgrade my CPU (7600K), that is holding back my 1080ti, so i`m gonna save for it and then buy a new GPU later, if something good appears at decent prices...

Glottiz:

And what happens in 2-3 years? You'll pay ~1800€ if you want a 5080Ti card. Or you'll pay 800€ for a 5060 card.

turbare:

I bought myself a PS5 and a sub; I'll happily play through the catalog whil I wait for prices to become normal again, back when a 1070 class card used to cost 400 euro and an 1080 would be 600 eur. Not the blasphemous prices we're currently seeing.

Neo Cyrus:

Well you should definitely sell parts like GPUs and CPUs that are relatively "easy" to sell. The 1080 Ti probably still fetches a good amount considering it's roughly on par with... what was it? The 3060 or 3060 Ti? Try Facebook marketplace (I have no experience with it, but I hear it's easy to sell stuff there) and Kijiji. At this point you might as well wait for the 7900XTX which will at least have a paper launch of the reference models on the 13th... or win the Guru3D Xmas contest for a GPU. Personally I'll be waiting until January to see how the AIB models shake out.

pegasus1:

1080Ti on day of release for I think £600 (maybe £699) was one of my best ever buys. On water and with all that VRam it's still a beast of a card. Up there with the 8800gtx when it comes to how well it has lasted.

Glottiz:

And what happens in 2-3 years? You'll pay ~1800€ if you want a 5080Ti card. Or you'll pay 800€ for a 5060 card.

rm082e:

How many people out there really need more than an RTX 3080 to play games?

RealNC:

How many people needed a 980 Ti to play games? That was $650 MSRP.

Serotonin:

Consoles are the answer during all of this. Xbox series X has gamepass and is pretty much a small pc at this point. Once you get out of habitual upgrades and give a console a try, you'll realize how much the line has blurred between both. I own a decent PC for now and both consoles. But if prices stay this high for gpu's - I'm just sticking to console. I just played gow ragnarok on PS5. PC might get it in a year or two, but I'm already done with it. I enjoyed the experience for the most part and it was done on a $500 system that won't get replaced for another 5 years. And I got to play it now. I used to say can't do consoles because keyboard and mouse, then fps games became crap. I'm perfectly content gaming on console and just buying a laptop for pc needs outside of gaming.

pegasus1:

1080Ti on day of release for I think £600 (maybe £699) was one of my best ever buys. On water and with all that VRam it's still a beast of a card. Up there with the 8800gtx when it comes to how well it has lasted.