3000 series - biggest jump?

[Xyclops]

Curious to know what current GPU people are coming from when purchasing the 3000 series. Who's making the biggest jump in performance? If you are upgrading your whole PC to go with the new card then state the GPU in your old PC

My old PC has a GTX 970, I am building a new PC. I bought a 1660 Super to put in the new PC, but will be selling it when I get 3080 (can't return it, as I modified it). I did intend to keep the 1660, but then when I saw the RRP of the 3080 compared to the performance of the 2000 series, I changed my mind.

 

[meerkat_near]

Im currently using a 2060 for 1440p 165hz gaming and im upgrading to a 3080 to get those high framerates in games like battlefield V.

 

[RexAlba]

Im upgrading from an Asus X99 deluxe with i7 5930k, GTX 1070 and 3440x1400 100hz monitor to Asus Z490 Strix Hero, i9 10900k and RTX 3090.
Still to decide on my new monitor but safe to say it will be 4k and high refresh rate.

Costing me an arm and a leg (obviously) and i have a basket with over £1200 in watercooling parts waiting to order as well when the waterblocks for 30xx cards are out but to hell with it, I want to go ALL out just once!

 

[hozzdutch]

I upgraded my mobo and CPU back in May in preparation for the new Nvidia cards this year.
I was on an Asus Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1 and an I7 6700K and a 1080ti. I was using a generic 4k 60Hz monitor.

I've moved to an Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero, an I9 10900k with an ASUS ROG STRIX XG27UQ 27" 4K 144Hz monitor. My 3090 order is in, but as per the rest of the world, I'm waiting for it to arrive!

Looking at the videos on youtube, I'm expecting to double my current FPS in games.

 

[JaseUK]

It's more than likely I'll upgrade my 1070ti to a 3070.

 

[alim192]

Iv just built my new pc, iv upgraded from 6600k with a 1070 to 3900x and I'm just waiting on my 3080

 

[crazy8s]

Will be upgrading from a 980 Ti

 

[Shiari]

Vega 64 with preorder to 3080, also keen to see what AMD is coming with

 

[Slinky69]

Will be upgrading from a 980 Ti

That's the real sweet spot, I think, 980ti is only just coming to its limits IMO

 

[nicRob]

3gb 1060 here and pre ordered a 3080 so a big step up!

 

[Minstadave]

Will be going from a 1080 to either a 3080 or whatever AMD offers as its flagship depending on performance/availability.

1080 doesn't quite cut it at 1440P UW aiming for 100hz. Its still perfectly playable bit Witcher 3, RDR2 and Warzone could do with a bit more GPU muscle, let alone Cyberpunk.

 

[JonnyG1982]

God, i use to upgrade my cpu/mobo regularly but last change was more aside grade from a I7 920 to a sandy 2500k way back in like 2011. After that i got little gains for gaming from cpus and overclocking for 3dmarks werent as fun so just stuck with it.

Since then i only really updated my gpu for the next 5 years until that also stopped with the 980ti which i bought about 3-4 years ago. The 1080gtx wasent worth it for the price i could get the 980ti for and when gtx1080ti landed i thought i could wait it out til RTX2080. O dear, that was a disaster, same price for same performance as a 2 years old gtx1080ti or double the price to actually get an upgrade. Nah, not accepting paying over £1000 for gpu, ridiclous.

So im hoping 3070 or 3080 (dependant on AMD offer) in new comet lake or Ryzen 3 or 4 system. A nice big jump in performance awaits.

 

[Xyclops]

3gb 1060 here and pre ordered a 3080 so a big step up!

I think that's about the same speed as my GTX 970, so I will have a similar jump to you. Very exciting! I'm surprised though, thought there may be a few people with older GPUs.

I will still be using my GTX 970, as my old PC has been repurposed to be a retro games machine and dual boots windows XP and Windows 7.

Have to say I am not a fan of Windows 10 really. WinXP and Win7 are far better OSes. Just a shame it isn't safe to use them online any more.

 

[Xyclops]

God, i use to upgrade my cpu/mobo regularly but last change was more aside grade from a I7 920 to a sandy 2500k way back in like 2011. After that i got little gains for gaming from cpus and overclocking for 3dmarks werent as fun so just stuck with it.

Since then i only really updated my gpu for the next 5 years until that also stopped with the 980ti which i bought about 3-4 years ago. The 1080gtx wasent worth it for the price i could get the 980ti for and when gtx1080ti landed i thought i could wait it out til RTX2080. O dear, that was a disaster, same price for same performance as a 2 years old gtx1080ti or double the price to actually get an upgrade. Nah, not accepting paying over £1000 for gpu, ridiclous.

So im hoping 3070 or 3080 (dependant on AMD offer) in new comet lake or Ryzen 3 or 4 system. A nice big jump in performance awaits.

Same here. From mid 90s to mid 2000s I would upgrade pretty much every year. Sometimes several times a year. My current PC was built in 2008 and has a QX9650 core 2 quad. The only upgrade that computer has had since I built it is to the GPU which is a GTX970.

The computer is actually still is 100% powerful enough to be used as a daily computer. It is not slow at all for browsing the web, watching videos, general office tasks, even 1080p video editing is doable. For gaming though it struggles to play modern titles. I haven't bought games more modern than Deus Ex Mankind Divided to play on it.

It is quite sad now how we are reaching the limits of what computers can do. Yearly changes are incremental rather than revolutionary. The 3080 is the first GPU in the last 18 years thats actually excited me. The previous one was the ATI 9700 Pro in 2002! ATI came out of nowhere and left nVidia in their dust!

 

[MrAshieB]

Curious to know what current GPU people are coming from when purchasing the 3000 series. Who's making the biggest jump in performance? If you are upgrading your whole PC to go with the new card then state the GPU in your old PC

My old PC has a GTX 970, I am building a new PC. I bought a 1660 Super to put in the new PC, but will be selling it when I get 3080 (can't return it, as I modified it). I did intend to keep the 1660, but then when I saw the RRP of the 3080 compared to the performance of the 2000 series, I changed my mind.

Little similar to yourself. Had a 4th Gen Intel Core i5 with a GTX 970. Just upgraded about a month ago to 10th Gen i7, and got an RTX 3080 at launch. Can’t believe I’d been living with such poor performance previously

 

[passey89]

Currently running a gtx 1080, ordered a 3080 on release just the waiting game

 

[Archy]

Upgrading from GTX 980, and Ryzen 2700. Will be upgrading motherboard and CPU when the new Ryzen chips are out too.

1440p gaming is doable at low settings on my current setup, new one should see some improvement to say the least!

 

[jaycob]

Will be upgrading from a 980 Ti

Same. Can't wait for mine to show up.

 

[Petremir]

970s in SLI here to a 3090. Upgraded most of the rest of the major parts early this summer. (3950X with 64GB of RAM). have a 32:9 1440p monitor (bought knowing the upgrade is coming) that makes the 970s cry.

 

[Condemn]

I'm going from a 1080 to a 3080, when I can get my hands on one

Playing at 3440x1440 on an Alienware AW3420DW Ultrawide, so I think a 3080 should provide enough power to drive it at high/ultra for most games at that resolution.

Running an i5-9600k on an Asus maximus hero xi m/b, 32gb of corsair vengeance 3000mhz lp ram, with about a 30% O/C. Hoping I won't be CPU bottlenecked though.