I know I'm late to give advice, but if you still on the fence between cards I would advice against Strix if you planning to stay on air, on water it’s a different story. All Strix 30 series line up have serious issue with shroud/fans rattling, Asus is aware of that now, but they will first provide help to Europeans customers, and no ETA for North America.
We have been told to return out cards where we got them from, doesn't sound promising.
Honestly, I'm kind of miffed they changed the black, "triangley" design they had before. I loved, loved, loved the way the 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti looked. The new one is aesthetically pleasing too but if it has issues... well, it can be pretty all it wants, if it don't work, it don't work.
The 3080 is a good 1440p video card, however, so is your 1080 Ti. True, the 3080 is faster, however do you need faster? Unless you want Ray Tracing from one of the 27 or so games that use it [out of the thousands of games available] there is no need to upgrade. If you don't care about Ray Tracing and your monitor is 1080p you are fine, if your monitor is 1440p you are still fine. There is no good 120+ FPS 4K ultra settings gaming card on the market and probably will not be for another four years, I doubt the 4080 will be able to cut it especially if ray traced. The 3080 does a good job running GPU intense games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at 1440p just don't expect to get anywhere near 120 FPS, you might get half that with ultra settings. And I think the year in the title of the game "Cyberpunk 2077" is the year they think you will be able to get 144 FPS at 4K in that game. So, it all depends upon what games you like to play and what resolution you plan have or plan to use in the near future.
Thanks for that, it's nice to read other people's reasoning.
Personally I think 4k for gaming is a bit overkill. I prefer a higher framerate and to me the upgrade from 1080p to 1440p is quite huge, but I've tried 4k and honestly unless you have a large screen it's really not that staggering, especially in my case - I like to sit really close to the monitor, so I don't really need a huge screen. My 27" is more than enough.
I mostly play single player shooters (open world and linear) and online coop games like Vermintide II or Monster Hunter: World, the occasional 3rd person action/adventure game (Tomb Raider etc.) or RPG (Witcher, Elder Scrolls). I'd like to maintain around 85+ FPS for as long as possible and right now, my 1080 Ti can handle that no problemo - I think Cyberpunk would be the first game where I'd need to drop settings or resolution to enjoy that. So I guess I don't need faster, for now
I am vaguely interested in RT but I'm even more interested in DLSS. Honestly that's the only thing that's really appealing to me because hey, more frames for very little sacrifice to fidelity. Though if someone dropped a 3080 in my system overnight, I'd really only play three or four games with RT: Control, Quake RTX, Metro Exodus and Cyberpunk. A huge percentage of my backlog isn't raytraced and not new, for that matter. I think the game that might push me over the cliff would be Far Cry 6. If that runs bad, I'm off to 3080 land ASAP
