Any happy 4080 owners here?

[brachy33]

My only months old 4080 FE died over the weekend. There were no indications of any problems. It just stopped working on Saturday after a few hours playing Ashen and Metro Exodus. I've never had an FE before. How's Nvidia's warranty service?

Haven't sold my EVGA 3080, yet, so I'm still able to use my computer until I get back the 4080.

Sucks to hear. I have not had a card fail in a lllooongg time so can't say anything to how nVidia will respond but hopefully it's responsive. Anything you can point to that might've caused the card to 'break'? Were you pushing beyond stock at all?

 

[Mad Maxx]

Sucks to hear. I have not had a card fail in a lllooongg time so can't say anything to how nVidia will respond but hopefully it's responsive. Anything you can point to that might've caused the card to 'break'? Were you pushing beyond stock at all?

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I had a GPU fail on me, either. Nothing seemed wrong until it just went silent about 2+ hours into a game. I'm not an overclocker and have everything set at stock levels. Already on its way back to Nvidia, so we'll see what happens. The rep I text chatted with said they'd most likely just send me a new one since mine is less than 90 days old.

 

[jobert]

Did you have to pay to send it back to Nvidia?

 

[GoldenTiger]

Did you have to pay to send it back to Nvidia?

You do with most mfg's, so probably?

 

[jobert]

You do with most mfg's, so probably?

Yeah but that box is massive so I imagine that's got to cost a shit ton of money to ship. When I picked mine up from Best Buy it was still in the shipping box that comes from Nvidia and it's just comically large.

 

[Mad Maxx]

Did you have to pay to send it back to Nvidia?

$37 USPS + insurance.

 

[WorldExclusive]

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I had a GPU fail on me, either. Nothing seemed wrong until it just went silent about 2+ hours into a game. I'm not an overclocker and have everything set at stock levels. Already on its way back to Nvidia, so we'll see what happens. The rep I text chatted with said they'd most likely just send me a new one since mine is less than 90 days old.

Well they have plenty of 4080 cards so turnaround should be instant.

 

[MistaSparkul]

$37 USPS + insurance.

Wow they actually made you pay? When I RMA'ed my 2080 Ti they provided a pre paid FedEx shipping label.

 

[GoldenTiger]

Wow they actually made you pay? When I RMA'ed my 2080 Ti they provided a pre paid FedEx shipping label.

I'm surprised they paid for yours... Seems unusual in my rma experiences with companies.

EDIT: I'm talking about to them, not from.

 

[MistaSparkul]

I'm surprised they paid for yours... Seems unusual in my rma experiences with companies.

EDIT: I'm talking about to them, not from.

This was back in 2018 so I guess times have changed lol. I wouldn't expect the same thing if I RMA'ed today.

 

[polonyc2]

I have an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra...any point in upgrading to a 4080 16GB?...I have a 1440p G-Sync monitor...the only reason I'm considering it is because of the 16GB VRAM...or is it better to wait for the inevitable 4080Ti?

 

[jobert]

I have an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra...any point in upgrading to a 4080 16GB?...I have a 1440p G-Sync monitor...the only reason I'm considering it is because of the 16GB VRAM...or is it better to wait for the inevitable 4080Ti?

If you have to ask others if you should upgrade your GPU then the answer is no. And also even though your CPU is certainly fast, at only 1440p you're not going to get full use out of a 4080 never mind a 4080 TI. I have a faster CPU than you and at only 1440p there are games where I cannot fully push even a 3080 TI.

 

[Furious_Styles]

I have an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra...any point in upgrading to a 4080 16GB?...I have a 1440p G-Sync monitor...the only reason I'm considering it is because of the 16GB VRAM...or is it better to wait for the inevitable 4080Ti?

Unless there are a bunch of games you're playing that are memory limited I don't see the point of buying the worst value card nvidia currently offers.

 

[polonyc2]

Unless there are a bunch of games you're playing that are memory limited I don't see the point of buying the worst value card nvidia currently offers.

Hogwarts Legacy and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive advanced RT patch is what got me thinking about upgrading my 3080

 

[NamelessPFG]

I have an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra...any point in upgrading to a 4080 16GB?...I have a 1440p G-Sync monitor...the only reason I'm considering it is because of the 16GB VRAM...or is it better to wait for the inevitable 4080Ti?

If I were in your position, I'd just skip this generation and wait for Blackwell and RDNA 4, especially with NVIDIA's pricing right now. The 3080 is a very competent GPU, especially with a 1440p monitor and no mention of unoptimized VR games.

Yes, PC games are suddenly getting a hell of a lot more demanding this year, but not so much that a high-end Ampere card like a 3080 couldn't handle it if you're willing to just dial the details back a bit. Coming from that, you might as well plunk down $400 more for the 4090 and its 24 GB of VRAM, assuming it's not actually $450-500 more with MSRP cards rarely being available.

 

[polonyc2]

If I were in your position, I'd just skip this generation and wait for Blackwell and RDNA 4, especially with NVIDIA's pricing right now. The 3080 is a very competent GPU, especially with a 1440p monitor and no mention of unoptimized VR games.

Yes, PC games are suddenly getting a hell of a lot more demanding this year, but not so much that a high-end Ampere card like a 3080 couldn't handle it if you're willing to just dial the details back a bit. Coming from that, you might as well plunk down $400 more for the 4090 and its 24 GB of VRAM, assuming it's not actually $450-500 more with MSRP cards rarely being available.

agreed...I don't like the pricing on the 4080 16GB or the 4090...I was looking at 3090 Ti prices and they are even crazier than the 4000 series pricing

 

[NamelessPFG]

agreed...I don't like the pricing on the 4080 16GB or the 4090...I was looking at 3090 Ti prices and they are even crazier than the 4000 series pricing

3090s of any sort shouldn't even cost more than $800 used right now when a 4090 is literally double the performance at $1,600 MSRP. I'm not sure what the retailers are thinking by refusing to just fire sale those when you could spend just a bit more and get a 4080.

The only justification I see is that those older Ampere cards still have 24 GB of VRAM, and that probably matters more than relative tensor core performance to the AI/ML crowd with the sizeable datasets that they're working with. (Why aren't they buying RX 7900 XTXs instead, other than availability? CUDA. Gotta love that vendor lock-in.)

Other than that, the 4080 is still a noticeable step up over Ampere's best for raw GPU performance. There's no reason to buy last-gen cards at this point unless you're getting them really cheap, because NVIDIA sure isn't dropping Ampere MSRPs right now in the hopes that you'll settle for them and clear out their stock with the Ada Lovelace cards being so expensive.

They're also probably banking on suckering people like me who kept the same old GTX 980 for seven years and got tired of waiting for a worthy GPU upgrade at a reasonable price. You're fortunate to not be in that position.

 

[Dayaks]

I just bought a 4080 FE for my kid’s eGPU for her surface pro 8.

I’ll have to bench it and see how constrained thunderbolt 3 is.

Her 1080ti just died and I wanted a FE. Didn’t see that option for the 4070ti.

 

[dogDAbone]

So it basically boils down to this:

If ya wanna play, ya gotzta pay.....

'nuff said

But yes I think all the new cards are considerably overpriced, that's why I refuse to buy any of them, and will be sticking with my 3080 for the foreseeable future

 

[Dayaks]

I just bought a 4080 FE for my kid’s eGPU for her surface pro 8.

I’ll have to bench it and see how constrained thunderbolt 3 is.

Her 1080ti just died and I wanted a FE. Didn’t see that option for the 4070ti.

Ended up putting my 3080 in my kid’s eGPU and the time spy is about 9,000.

4080 in my main rig is 24,741. FE is super quiet. I figure I’ll be set until it dies, hopefully in a decade, with my 3440 21:9. Maxes around 58C.

Also holy crap is it heavy, the shipping box was 17 lbs!! Lol. At least it *feels* expensive.

Also the 3080 was a noticeable upgrade over the 1080ti even over thunderbolt3.

 

[revenant]

I finally upgraded my Asus strix 2080ti OC to an MSI 4080 16G Gaming X Trio... I looked at the 4090 but I was already dropping chunks o change all over this card seemed to fit my upgrade path well and isn't too power crazy... my real plan was to just upgrade my platform to z690/z790 and raptor lake and a new LG C2 42" display but none of the DP to HDMI adapters/cables I looked at for 120hz 4k seemed to work consistently well.. So I said screw it and got a native hdmi 2.1 gpu.. four years later it's pretty much what I spent on my 2080ti in 2019 (which I should be able to get about 400 bucks for on ebay)... So far the card runs quiet and cool. It's a BEAST too... 3 slots.. Not too much RGB stuff all over it.. Just the MSI logo and three slashes across the side.. like a claw swipe or something. I haven't tried OCing anything at all yet.. It does have micron memory onboard.

 

[Skott]

Yeah the 4080 is a good gpu its just priced badly. Which seems to be a common problem with all of nVidia's cards these days. They are all way over expensive in my opinion but it is what it is unfortunately.