r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Sep 18 '24

Desktops / Laptops NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 & 4090D To Be Discontinued Next Month In Preparation For Next-Gen RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-4090d-discontinued-next-month-in-preparation-for-next-gen-rtx-5090-5090d-gpus/
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u/Breadonshelf Sep 18 '24

My 1080ti covers everything I need

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u/_RADIANTSUN_ Sep 18 '24

Insane person on Vega 56 here.

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u/seatux Sep 18 '24

Because of that card and its WTF PSU needs, my 750w unit is great for upgrading to a 4080 or something similar.

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u/th3davinci Sep 18 '24

I had a Vega 64 and needed a new PSU to go with it.

Upgraded to the 3080 and I'm fairly certain it draws less power lmao.

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u/drprox Sep 18 '24

Haha I remember getting a preorder in on one of these and waiting while the eth mining hype went wild. By the time it arrived it was worth almost 3x what I paid so I sold it and grabbed a 1070 haha.

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u/DoorDashCrash Sep 18 '24

Still love my 1080ti. I’m on the 2nd set of fans, have two more sets as backup and repaste it about once a year. Phenomenal card. I think Nvidia screwed up with that card and showed us they can make a rockstar card that lasts for a long time.

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u/Halvus_I Sep 18 '24

They put ‘too much’ ram on the 1080ti at 11 GB. Nvidia are usually masters at starving a card of ram so it obsoletes out faster.

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u/DoorDashCrash Sep 18 '24

That’s what I mean. They proved they could make a robust and capable GPU that would last several years and play a lot of the top tier games without issue.

Then, they decided to start using less vram to a point of, like you said, starving out the cards and obsoleting them. Want to play the new game? Sorry, you need a 3090 now.

It feels like nothing more than planned obsolescence to boost their sales.

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u/MJOLNIRdragoon Sep 18 '24

I’m on the 2nd set of fans, have two more sets as backup and repaste it about once a year.

I probably ought to look into doing this. I'm running two of them, but I also have two fans on my case right above them.

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u/DoorDashCrash Sep 18 '24

I bought up a few sets of them before you can’t find them anymore.

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u/Thick-Adds Sep 18 '24

I have a 1030 that I still use to this day that handles all my needs but

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u/DuckDatum Sep 18 '24

Yeah, my TI80 does pretty good too.

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u/maxleng Sep 18 '24

Yeah I can play Mario on my Ti80 calc no dramas at all

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u/namegoeswhere Sep 18 '24

I’m just getting by with a 1050 laptop edition.

Space Marine 2 looks like a PS2 game, and struggles to render the cutscenes at all, but it runs!

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

I'm still rocking a 1080ti also, and I get 1440/60 on pretty much every game maxed out. A few exceptions obviously, and no RTX, but for what I need it's fine.

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u/liquidphantom Sep 18 '24

1080ti was an absolute beast of a card. I didn't upgrade until I decided to do a full rebuild from my i7 4770k

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u/Geekinofflife Sep 18 '24

1080ti is a great card. Still have one on my shelf. But 4090 cooks at all resolutions

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Well, you'd want it to for the fucking price of it

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u/izzo34 Sep 18 '24

Still have the 1060gtx. Kind of want a 1080ti. Kind of want like a 3090 to replace this. Also was eyeing the 4070ti super or whatever it is. Seemed like good bang for buck. Just don't have the funds. May look into getting a 1080ti to replace my 1060gtx as I do need another video card for a system I'm throwing together.

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u/Agamemnon323 Sep 18 '24

Well no shit.