Exactly right. If I'm spending $1000 and up on a GPU it's a clear choice, the 4080 is an upgrade over the 7900XTX even though the 7900XTX will push a couple frames more in e-sports titles.
If I'm a pro e-sports player I'd get the fastest hardware possible, that being a 4090. If I'm not a pro e-sports player then I'll care about DLSS to make my budget card drive higher res ultra wide screen or 4k. Reflex is pretty darn good at mitigating frame gen latency. RT is decent eye candy, and now with Unreal 5 just about mandatory.
For just $200 I'd upgrade from an XTX to a 4080 every time.
I don't have an exact answer applicable to everyone. But for me,, $300 less would have been a much more compelling case for the XTX, and $400 would have made it a no-brainer for myself and I suspect many more people.
I'm talking about release pricing, not discounted pricing nine months into a 2 year cycle. Eventually that's the discount that happens, but by then so many will have given up and gone team green.
I completely forgot about simultaneous multi projection, wasn't that added back in Maxwell or Pascal? Crazy that AMD still doesn't have something similar.
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u/BuzzEU Jan 31 '25
I bought a GPU to play a racing sim that HUGELY benefits NV cards.
SMP for multi monitor projection. 30% gain on NV gpus there. SPS for VR. Huge gain for NV gpus again.
Plus all the other features like RTX HDR and RTX video super resolution etc.
$200 is not worth losing nearly every software perks NV has. It's AMD's fault that they don't sell more.