I’m in danger of winning a bid on an RTX 3090 24Gb card (unless someone is up late to get the last minute bid in). What’s the market like for GTX 1070s these days (I’ll have two for sale if all goes according to plan)?
Well, I lost the one I was bidding on, but yesterday I won a RTX 3090 FE, which should arrive Tuesday/Wednesday this week. I’ve recently upgraded my CPU, too (1800X to 5900X), so I reckon if I put the 1800X, and both GTX 1070s onto Ebay, I should cover half of the £590 cost of the 3090 (the 1800X was previously used with liquid metal thermal conductor, which basically destroys the branding - I’ll never use it again), so I’ll probably have to sell slightly under value, even though it is perfectly functional, but the three should get me close to 50% covered.
Well, finally won one, RTX 3090 FE, at £590. Done some benchmarks, and wow. In gaming benchmarks (unigine heaven, valley and superposition), and Shadoiw of the Tomb Raider, this thing stomps all over a single GTX 1070. But the real surprise came in Blender. I had already benched (well, timed) one of my own scenes using dual GTX1070, which came in at around 36.5 minutes on average. Same scene on the 3090 (on its own), with the only change being to switch from Cuda to Optix, the same scene rendered in 6.5 minutes. 7 times faster. Just, wow. Colour me impressed.
Even better, I upgraded CPU from Ryzen 1800X to 5900X earlier in the month, so I dare say my performance boost over the past month is an order of magnitude.
Colour me impressed.
EDIT: Anyone want to buy a used 1800X CPU and 2 GTX 1070 (both EVGA, one FTW) for, say, £300 + postage for the lot? Still a respectable setup.
I have no clue about performance and prices right now because I don’t follow the latest tech.
However in many ways I bet that you can easily have some modern games run good and Blender as well be able to handle complex scenes quite well.
The graphics card seems that is in the middle of the high-end range so it can handle the weight nicely.
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+RTX+3090&id=4284
To be honest, I don’t upgrade that often, and when I do it tends to be just a couple of bits. This month, feeling that my desktop was starting to show its age, they were a couple of expensive bit, but wow. Even upgrading to last gen stuff has made a massive improvement. And I mean, huge in terms of rendering speed and performance.
when i replace my laptop every … 5 or 7 years … i am always initially wowed by how it does so much more than the previous. until i start doing everyday things, and the increases are not so obvious. ymmv, based on your everyday things, of course.
My upgrades were predominantly for Blender (I play a few games, but I’m not a gamer), and the results in Blender speak for themselves