Hermits, today was the big day. How many of you were able to get the 4090?

[FIREPOWER 730]

I just ordered a 4090 and it should be arriving here next week  

 

I was gonna wait to see what AMD had cooking and I even thought about getting the 4080 16GB instead because $1600 for a card is insane but those benchmarks made me change my mind real quick.   I'm ashamed that I fell for Nvidia's trap but the 4090 is a beast and I couldn't resist it.

 

 

[lynux3 2,104]

[Mr. House 3,371]

You should be good with it for quite some time anyway. 

[Twinblade★ 3,928]

These prices are just insane. Nothing would get me to spend $1600 on a video card.

[Tears of the Cows 1,211]

Might as well sell your ps5

[FIREPOWER 730]

1 hour ago, ghostz said:

Might as well sell your ps5

Nah, I’m keeping my PS5. I don’t like waiting for games. Peasants like you may be okay waiting years to play Sony leftovers but that’s not what I do 

[FIREPOWER 730]

1 hour ago, Twinblade said:

These prices are just insane. Nothing would get me to spend $1600 on a video card.

I was thinking the same thing until I saw those benchmarks lol  

 

2 hours ago, Ramza said:

You should be good with it for quite some time anyway. 

 I plan to not upgrade for a very long time.

Edited October 13, 2022 by FIREPOWER

[Twinblade★ 3,928]

6 minutes ago, FIREPOWER said:

I was thinking the same thing until I saw those benchmarks lol  

 

 I plan to not upgrade for a very long time.

 

Its overkill. You could enable DLSS on a cheaper card and probably get similar performance with the same visuals.

[FIREPOWER 730]

19 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

Its overkill. You could enable DLSS on a cheaper card and probably get similar performance with the same visuals.

Yea for now but in the coming years when games get more demanding it’s gonna pay off I believe 

[sugarhigh 519]

I wouldn't buy any of these cards, but imo you'd be a fool to buy the 4090 as a gamer. That's a card for professional artists and engineers, priced accordingly. The 4080 12GB for 900 is the rich gamer kid card. It'll still be overkill for 3-5 years.

[-GD-X★ 7,749]

Just now, sugarhigh said:

I wouldn't buy any of these cards, but imo you'd be a fool to buy the 4090 as a gamer. That's a card for professional artists and engineers, priced accordingly. The 4080 12GB for 900 is the rich gamer kid card. It'll still be overkill for 3-5 years.

this. when i do ever get back into pc gaming, or need to do some minor 3D work, i'll get a card in the $400 range. 

[FIREPOWER 730]

2 hours ago, sugarhigh said:

I wouldn't buy any of these cards, but imo you'd be a fool to buy the 4090 as a gamer. That's a card for professional artists and engineers, priced accordingly. The 4080 12GB for 900 is the rich gamer kid card. It'll still be overkill for 3-5 years.

I plan to do some Unreal Engine 5 work and 3D modeling with it so it’s not just for gaming . I agree it’s major overkill 

[Remij 4,683]

Yea.  Mine will be here either tomorrow or Monday.

[Substatic 421]

I can afford it no problem, but the feeling of being ripped off and being fleeced as a sucker would linger. So I won't bother for now.

 

Not that I'm mad or upset at those that did get it, it's the only 4000 series that actually has a big jump in rasterized 4K performance. Sadly.

Edited October 14, 2022 by Substatic

[Substatic 421]

20 hours ago, sugarhigh said:

I wouldn't buy any of these cards, but imo you'd be a fool to buy the 4090 as a gamer. That's a card for professional artists and engineers, priced accordingly. The 4080 12GB for 900 is the rich gamer kid card. It'll still be overkill for 3-5 years.

 

I was hoping the $900 model (can't believe that's the "bad" one at THAT price) would have had better 4K performance. From the leaks and nvidia's own graph it looks to be horrific price per performance. 

 

And only 5 games announced with DLS 3.0. If that list grows exponentially and there is a price drop I might consider it. I also want to see what AMD has in store in 2 weeks.

Edited October 14, 2022 by Substatic

[sugarhigh 519]

3 hours ago, Substatic said:

 

I was hoping the $900 model (can't believe that's the "bad" one at THAT price) would have had better 4K performance. From the leaks and nvidia's own graph it looks to be horrific price per performance. 

 

And only 5 games announced with DLS 3.0. If that list grows exponentially and there is a price drop I might consider it. I also want to see what AMD has in store in 2 weeks.

The most I've ever paid for a GPU is 500, and I'm not that interested in going higher. I think it's generally better to buy cheaper cards more frequently.

[Hot Sauce 2,734]

9 hours ago, Substatic said:

 

I was hoping the $900 model (can't believe that's the "bad" one at THAT price) would have had better 4K performance. From the leaks and nvidia's own graph it looks to be horrific price per performance. 

 

And now it's cancelled. Nvidia is drunk.

[jehurey 3,238]

i'll be interested to see how that alleged hacker was able to "unlock" DLSS 3 frame generation on RTX 30 cards.

 

It kinda smelled like BS.

[sugarhigh 519]

16 hours ago, Hot Sauce said:

 

And now it's cancelled. Nvidia is drunk.

I think it'll be reannounced as the 4070.

[Remij 4,683]

9 minutes ago, sugarhigh said:

I think it'll be reannounced as the 4070.

They'll probably drop the price a tad and rename it as a 4070 Ti, and for future chips vbios limit the lowest binned ones as the regular 4070 with just 10GB of RAM.  

 

Good on them though for walking it back.  It would have been a disastrous launch had they kept it as is.