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Dunno where you are but in this section of planet earth - it's just scalpers and more scalpers - private scalpers, corporate scalpers....scalpers everywhere. We're talking about the 4080, right? If it's the 4080 Super - same thing.... whoa.

Laptop 4090 in terms of overall performance, is like a 16GB 4070 super, which only uses ~170 watts. Pair it with a mobile AMD cpu, and that would be a pretty sweet setup. Especially if you got their mobile X3D cpu. However, noise can definitely...

Until I see them for $800 or less, I can't really justify it, mostly on principle, I still think that's the price they should have been to begin with. The reason I've waited this long to upgrade (and the reason I bought a second 1080ti, even...

Haha, still 4070 super or ti super looks better for me, but it's an interesting release, makes me wonder if we're not going to see another iteration of the XTX as well, either way, I think I'll wait a few weeks to see what shakes up with pricing.

RX 7900 GRE just threw a wrench at this discussion, thoughts?

RT, ya it kinda depends on what you like, and also the game, they use it in vastly different ways. That aside, it isn't a huge concern for that price level as you aren't talking enough power to run the really heavy hitting things like full path...

I'm sure you're right about DLSS, and I probably should have been a little more specific, it's mostly RT that I don't give a shit about, I know it's going to continue to become more prevalent in the future, and I know it gives some people a grand...

In thinking more about it, lets assume I don't have the 320w peak power limitation, still want best performance per watt, and still have a roughly $800 budget, but am fine with buying second hand, would you guys still choose the 4070 super? I've...

In that case, the 4070 is the way to go. Good performance for watt, and if you give DLSS a chance I really don't think you'll regret it at 4k. One of the things you tend to find for all TAA is that it does better at higher resolutions and frame...

Yeah I definitely am looking at matx/itx down the road, at the moment I've got a little money coming so I'm trying to knock the big expense, i.e. gpu upgrade out first, use it with the current older, but still reasonably capable MB/cpu, I expect...

I have no doubt as to your electronics prowess. The lack of information I had was not knowing you had a DC line to the batteries, so without that, naturally my opinion would be to go with the simplest solution for the average consumer. That...

I have a laptop, have 5 or 6, and it's what I use for non-gaming junk like replying here atm, but afaik with the exception of the few "laptops" that put full power GPUs in them, they don't offer the gaming performance I want. I have looked at...

I have a good traditional PSU, 1000W platinum rated, *but* the issue is that I'd have to run it off the inverter, and I'm determined not too; the traditional switchmode PSUs we use, btw, have a maximum efficiency at a very specific wattage that...

I think you are right. Any of the 4070's will be good. If you have a target framerate you want to reach, DLSS and Frame Gen can be hugely helpful. Let's say your new 4k TV is max 120Hz. In your Nvidia control panel you can set the max FPS...

No the spike issue is a very valid concern, that I hadn't (but should have) considered, just hadn't seen any mention of it or numbers out there, thank you for mentioning it!

I would still consider 4070 super. Your powersupply is only 320W. GPUs in classes over that have spikes that can trigger your PSU. Even though the 7900 XTX actually gives you higher frames per watt, that GPU also have 20ms spikes up to 391W. The...

I second that. It sips power compared to other CPUs with similar performance. In addition, when you start capping games, reducing settings, using upscalers and also old games where GPU is more then enough, it have given me more boost in...

BTW, I don't have any delusions about 4k Ultra, I'm just using it as a loose metric (4k ultra at 60fps fwiw), to shoot for, since most of the gpu heirarchy charts out there use aggregate averages to differentiate models anyway. That said, I've...

Appreciate all the replies guys, lots of food for thought. Funnily enough I had just about convinced myself to spend money on the 4070ti super, after looking at the average wattage consumption vs FPS on the current Tom's GPU recommendation...

My two cents about this is from my own experience tuning systems for image consistency and low noise, but steps are same to reduce power consumption (which is not a factor for me other then reducing noise). Take what you want from that and see...