[Dismas]

Right now you can buy a fully built machine with a Radeon RX 6900 XT cheaper than a Nvidia 4090:
https://videocardz.com/newz/gaming-pc-wi...4080-alone

Something to consider if any of you are doing Black Friday shopping.

[Nyx]

Would be tempted to go AMD just for the sake of supporting their market share if they didn't botch FidelityFX and RT implementation. Their rasterization price to performance is unreal which is great, but these days any RTX card from the 3060ti up can run smooth at 1440p on just about any settings any game. Now I want the ability to turn on raytracing and not have my card shit the bed, which essentially requires a 3080 or up unless it's Minecraft, and the bottom end RTX card will get the same performance as the top end AMD card with RT on. Hopefully RDNA 3 changes things but doubtful. Need the 4080 price to drop 300-400$ ideally, which hopefully AMD can force. Don't even care about the FPS the 4080 puts out, just the power efficiency.

[Dismas]

Would be tempted to go AMD just for the sake of supporting their market share if they didn't botch FidelityFX and RT implementation. Their rasterization price to performance is unreal which is great, but these days any RTX card from the 3060ti up can run smooth at 1440p on just about any settings any game. Now I want the ability to turn on raytracing and not have my card shit the bed, which essentially requires a 3080 or up unless it's Minecraft, and the bottom end RTX card will get the same performance as the top end AMD card with RT on. Hopefully RDNA 3 changes things but doubtful. Need the 4080 price to drop 300-400$ ideally, which hopefully AMD can force. Don't even care about the FPS the 4080 puts out, just the power efficiency.

I got an EVGA 3090 about a year ago. Might be an odd choice, but I'd recommend people consider buying the 3000-series. EVGA will still honor the warranty on last-gen cards even though they've exited the market. Great cards, without the melting issue, and people are offloading them.

[Nyx]

Would be tempted to go AMD just for the sake of supporting their market share if they didn't botch FidelityFX and RT implementation. Their rasterization price to performance is unreal which is great, but these days any RTX card from the 3060ti up can run smooth at 1440p on just about any settings any game. Now I want the ability to turn on raytracing and not have my card shit the bed, which essentially requires a 3080 or up unless it's Minecraft, and the bottom end RTX card will get the same performance as the top end AMD card with RT on. Hopefully RDNA 3 changes things but doubtful. Need the 4080 price to drop 300-400$ ideally, which hopefully AMD can force. Don't even care about the FPS the 4080 puts out, just the power efficiency.

I got an EVGA 3090 about a year ago. Might be an odd choice, but I'd recommend people consider buying the 3000-series. EVGA will still honor the warranty on last-gen cards even though they've exited the market. Great cards, without the melting issue, and people are offloading them.

Strongly considering either a used 3080 for a bargain, or buying a brand new 3080ti that are popping up with wicked discounts. Will be flipping my 3070 which would offset it a fair bit if I did.

[Dismas]

Number of deals on 3000-series is decreasing:
https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-30-amper...up-to-200/

[Drako]

I've noticed recently that individual RX 6000-series cards are jumping up in price, and are more frequently out of stock. I would think things will die down once the holidays are over, and the RX 7000-series has been out for two to three months.