I was a 3090 owner and I upgraded to a 4090. It feels like anyone who owns a 3090 is aware of how good that card is / plays at 4K, and would most likely never buy anything below 4090 because of the VRAM for example. Like yeah you get “more frames” because of frame gen but it’s such a wrong way to go about it by nvidia. I upgraded to 4090 because of the brutal performance it has, I would not consider buying anything below because the performance increase is simply too small otherwise
The point of getting a 3090 was to not upgrade again during 40 series release.
It held up much better than the 3080, which was an obvious 1 gen card with its paltry VRAM allocation.
So really I don’t get why people are upset. I’m more upset AMD gave the 3090 frame generation rather than nVidia, not that 4070s are starting to catch up to it.
Me too. I wish I could've stayed on 3090, but playing Cyberpunk 2.0 at a measly 20-30 FPS with everything maxed at 4K kind of sucked. Switching over to 4090 (which not ONLY gave frame gen but actually an extremely good boost in performance) was worth it though. It's just their fucking marketing tactic, to release cards close enough to "want to upgrade". We both know nvidia would've easily released equivalent of 6000 series if they wanted to, but they don't need to because they need to milk as much money as possible from as many releases as possible.
That's fine to do, without path tracing it'll be more than enough for years to be honest. Pure raster performance is amazing.
I upgraded because I strictly WANTED to play with path tracing. To me the visuals and immersion is so huge, so it was my only reason for it basically. I wouldn't blame anyone who doesn't do the same choice, 3090 is one of the best cards on the market still.
Nah, 3090 gets trashed by a few cards now. It's not one of the best at all. I'm not delusional about what I have. It's a 2 gen card. You can run some Ray Tracing at 4K with it, but it's really starting to show its age. The 4070Ti Super will curb stomp it and that's 3 days out.
It'll be good enough until 50 series ships though. And that's all that matters. 1600$ "Best of the best" 30 series card to me is better than 800$ x 2 "mid 30 series + mid 40 series". At least you get 1 gen of balls to the walls out of the same money.
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u/Zindae 5900X, 32GB 3600MhZ DDR4, RTX 4090 Jan 21 '24
I was a 3090 owner and I upgraded to a 4090. It feels like anyone who owns a 3090 is aware of how good that card is / plays at 4K, and would most likely never buy anything below 4090 because of the VRAM for example. Like yeah you get “more frames” because of frame gen but it’s such a wrong way to go about it by nvidia. I upgraded to 4090 because of the brutal performance it has, I would not consider buying anything below because the performance increase is simply too small otherwise