Keep new 3080 or stay with 2080 and wait for 40 Series?

[trawetSluaP]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is doing good!

I've ordered a 3080 Suprim X 12GB in the last few days and got it on "sale" for £800 which I thought was pretty good.

Now that it's arrived the sheer size of the card means I'd have to completely rearrange my waterloop and is giving me buyers regret.

Additionally, I'm not sure whether I really paid a good price. Should I return the 3080 (it's still sealed) and just stick with the 2080 I have and see if I can grab a 40 Series card.

Opinions are welcomed!

 

[Dawelio]

Question for you, is the 3080 something you only want or actually need?

Doing the waiting game is never good, seeing as there's no word yet on when the new series will launch. Last rumors I heard is that Nvidia is actually trying to delay the launch of the 4000 series till next year, due to the high inventory of 3000 series cards.

I got an 3080 this february, paid waaay overpriced, double yours essentially. Sold it 2 weeks ago for under yours, so a massive loss for me and a purchse I personally highly regret till this day. Seeing as my older 2080 and even 1080 Ti still does more than enough for my needs. Hence, I mostly wanted it and not actually needed it.

Depends on what you do, 1440p or 4K? Seeing as the jump from an 2080 to an 3080 isn't that big, when you considering the price to perfomance. For your price though, I'd personally keep it. But that's just me.

 

[KingNosser]

rearange the loop it'll give you a mini project to do

 

[AlienALX]

If you are happy with how it performs keep it. The 40 series will not do anything this can't, so like I say if you are happy with game performance keep it.

The only thing the 40 series will be is faster. And more expensive, harder to get at launch and more power hungry.

The price seems OK. Right now the cheapest I have seen a 3080 for is £689 and that was the TUF. However that was the 10gb card and the TUF is not Asus' high end card. The Suprim X is MSI's and it is 12gb.

Plus if you are water cooling and buy a 40 series you will have to wait for the blocks to come out, and when they do you won't have a ton of choice like you would now buying a block for a 30 series. I would also place a wager the block for a 30 series will be much cheaper now than any 40 series block at launch.

That is why I never buy anything on launch. Because you have to wait for a block, then pay about £150+ for it because you don't have any other choice.

 

[Dawelio]

The price seems OK. Right now the cheapest I have seen a 3080 for is £689 and that was the TUF. However that was the 10gb card and the TUF is not Asus' high end card. The Suprim X is MSI's and it is 12gb.

Although the TUF series from ASUS are incredible in terms of cooling and acoustics. Many have picked those over the Strix’s to be honest. And they do come in 12GB variant as well. 10GB isn’t being produced anymore, last time I heard.

 

[23RO_UK]

I sold my Asus 3070 TUF OC V2 for £450 (it was to a mate hence the low price for a practically new card) and picked up a Zotac 3080 Trinity 12GB for £719.99, I’d read the reviews of the Trinity and it wasn’t rated as a bad card overall (no coil whine and the acoustics/noise were on par with the TUF); the selling points for me were the 5 year Zotac warranty and the fact waterblocks are readily available for it.

Paired up with my 12600K running at 5.2GHz (and a little tweaking with the GPU) it’s performance is nothing short of obscene.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah if I wanted air I would have gone with the TUF. I would never buy an air cooled Strix card, far too much money for the performance.

Looking at the 3080 12gb cards on OCUK they go for £780-£800 depending on model. TBH even the low end Inno3D cards would be fine as it is only the cooler they have cheaped out on.

Obviously as I said before the most critical part is being able to get a block. Something I can no longer do on my Kingpin card.

TBH? I would not have bought the Suprim. Not hating or anything, but why buy the most expensive card MSI made just to remove the cooler?

However that could actually have been a good move given this.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/-b-g...90-d-rgb-water-block-nickel-pl-bg-18a-ek.html

From what I can make out the Trio uses the same block as the Suprim, though please be sure to check that first.

https://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-quantum-vector-trio-rtx-3080-3090-d-rgb-nickel-plexi

This is the 2nd generation Vector GPU water block from the EK® Quantum Line, designed for MSI® Trio and Suprim RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards based on the latest NVIDIA® Ampere™ architecture. For a precise compatibility match of this water block, we recommend you refer to the EK Cooling Configurator.

So yeah you may have made a wise choice there, if you snap that up

 

[trawetSluaP]

Thanks for all the info/opinions guys.

I'm forgot to mention in my OP that I plan to leave the card on air as it's got such a beefy and awesome looking cooler, however, my CPU will still be cooled by the loop.

Am swaying towards keeping the card.

 

[Dawelio]

Thanks for all the info/opinions guys.

I'm forgot to mention in my OP that I plan to leave the card on air as it's got such a beefy and awesome looking cooler, however, my CPU will still be cooled by the loop.

Am swaying towards keeping the card.

Yeah, I'd do the same in your shoes to be honest. As more time goes on, the darker it seems with the next gen. Lastest rumors were that Nvidia is trying to hold back on the launch till next year, due to the oversupply of the current gen.

Even if you have an 3080, it's not like it's going to be bad just because 40 series launches. It will still be one hell of a card for years to come.

This is also not even beginning to talk about power consumption, heat etc... Next gen cards will probably be a real brick, 4+ slots isn't out of the question lol.