VR Reverb G1 - 3080 vs 3090

[NiiranenVR]

I have allmost on hand a : 

Inno3D GeForce RTX 3080 iCHILL X3.                      But ........... ?

 

For around  660 $ it should be possible get a 3090 ....... So .....worth it ??? 

 

It's on the 'used' marked course nowhere it's possible to buy them here in dk unless you're lucky 

And allmost sure later a G2 

 

Edited January 10, 2021 by J5_NiiranenVR-Gfr
Ps , I only play Il2 .... Other stuff I do are sending emails and so on ?

[unlikely_spider]

Why is someone selling a 3090 for $660? Or am I reading that incorrectly?

[NiiranenVR]

7 minutes ago, unlikely_spider said:

$660

UPS - more money ?

 

And now om in contact with one just under 500 $ more to pay for than the 3080 

[unlikely_spider]

3 minutes ago, J5_NiiranenVR-Gfr said:

UPS - more money ?

 

And now om in contact with one just under 500 $ more to pay for than the 3080 

I see. It depends I guess - @dburne here has a 3090 and VR, and he seems quite happy with it. My understanding is that it's about 20% better than the 3080 for almost twice the cost, so it comes down to personal finances at that point. VR, especially at the res of the HP headsets, is especially tough to dial in well, so every extra bit of horsepower will be noticable.

I've got a 3080 and IL-2 is great in my G2, though I get a solid 45fps. If 90fps is your goal, you've got a better case for the 3090.

[dburne]

2 minutes ago, unlikely_spider said:

I see. It depends I guess - @dburne here has a 3090 and VR, and he seems quite happy with it. My understanding is that it's about 20% better than the 3080 for almost twice the cost, so it comes down to personal finances at that point. VR, especially at the res of the HP headsets, is especially tough to dial in well, so every extra bit of horsepower will be noticable.

I've got a 3080 and IL-2 is great in my G2, though I get a solid 45fps. If 90fps is your goal, you've got a better case for the 3090.

 

3090 will not give constant 90 fps though either.  Great card though, just am not sure it is worth the big premium in price.

[NiiranenVR]

Thank you ....... Its hard to controll myself ( i need a wife ?) , but I let my common  sense rule my world .... At moment 

I should pay 230$ more for the 3080 than shopprice .... The 3090 would be around 230 $ cheeper than shopprice .... But in about a month or so there will come the new GPU      'ti 

 

So ..... I'm ok with my 2080 super .... At moment ?

[Charlo-VR]

You can’t always rely on a wife being your voice of reason - my wife actually paid for my 3090! ?

 

I agree with what @dburne wrote above. I enjoy 85-90 fps in MP with my 3090, but still have to turn down some things to achieve that. I also verified with my own tests that IL-2 doesn’t need more than 7.5 GBs of VRAM, so the 3080 is the better choice for most.

I tend to keep the same GPU for more years than most folk anyway.

Edited January 10, 2021 by Charlo-VR
Corrected max. GPU VRAM usage

[Jaws2002]

3 hours ago, dburne said:

 

3090 will not give constant 90 fps though either.  Great card though, just am not sure it is worth the big premium in price.

 

I understand his dilemma. Right now all the 3080s are ridiculously overpriced and if he can get a second hand 3090 that's below the official price, it could make more sense than a ridiculously overpriced 3080 with less than half the memory.

Edited January 10, 2021 by Jaws2002

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

I got a 3090 for 1500 and I don't regret it. It's blazing fast. IL-2 has some issues with its engine (HDR, SSAO and lots of clouds killing framerates at incredibly high resolutions) but it's been worth it so far.

 

P.S. I am referring to scalability. The performance hits of these settings is non-linear to resolution. They increase extremely at higher, nowadays non-standard resolutions. At ~6000x3000. So it's a complaint from the high horse, to be fair.

Edited January 11, 2021 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf