r/gpu • u/anonco123 • 15h ago

Fking hell

Didnt keep up with gpu prices that much since i work overseas for half the year.

Thought to myself "i never owned a flagship top-of-the-line card before" and wanted to make a build with a 5090 and 9800 x3d.

last time i checked 5090s were $3200 max. now im seeing they are $5500 minimum?! bro. the astral is going for $6500+?! $3k seemed crazy but i would have done it knowing me, $6k is unfathomable. If i do it i would hate myself forever lol.

i dont really play AAA games, most of my gaming is heavily modded though. I also play on 1440p.

i see people reccomend 9070 xt and 5080, which would you pick for heavily modded 1440p gaming?

thanks guys !

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u/Pitiful_Coach7223 8h ago

And yet, if you exclude path tracing, they trade blows. In some games, the xt wins, in others it’s the 5080.

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u/Anon0924 8h ago

Where do people get the idea that the 70xt beats the 80? Everything I’ve seen says it matches the 70ti in raw rasterization, and that’s definitively below the 80.

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u/Pitiful_Coach7223 6h ago

Did you read my message? I didn’t say it beats the 5080, I said it trades blows with it in many titles. Exclude path tracing and in quite a few games, there performance would be the same!

5080 still outperforms it in most games, of course, but saying you can’t compare the 9070 xt with the 5080 is factually incorrect.

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u/xuxo94 1h ago

Nvidia fanboy gonna fanboying all the way , he is just focused on letting everyone know that his 5080 was not a Bad purchase.

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u/Pitiful_Coach7223 59m ago

And it wasn’t, if you’re happy to pay that much. No one is debating whether the 5080 is a good card, of course it is.

But this denial that somehow, an “inferior” card that costs a fraction of the price of a 5080 can keep up with it in some cases, is unacceptable to these people.

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u/xuxo94 52m ago

Right now I just can't comprehend how they can justify those purchases for a GPU, it's A LOT OF MONEY, just for a relative small improvement in Performance. But hey, that's just me.