I've been looking at upgrading my PC from a secondhand 2060 I got in early 2021 for cheap. Right now, Newegg has a sale event this week where all sorts of things can be purchased at 10% off, including new GPUs. I already kinda regret not looking into this when they were being bundled with Wukong.
Right now, they're still being bundled with Star Wars: Outlaws. Been over a month now. I have no idea when they'll next bundle their cards with a game I actually want. And Outlaws is a game I really don't want.
What would you guys think in this situation?
I need a new GPU but I do some hobby 3d modeling and animations and such so wouldn't mind the quicker render and simulation times. But yeah it's been a long time since I've upgraded for vidya specifically
Honestly, I've done some AI-rendered art too, and I've started to hit a limit in output quality, while most of the "creator community" has moved on to higher spec models that my current GPU can't reasonably handle.
I do 3d modeling and animation. With a 4080 it still takes a while. rendering in cycles takes me ages lol. 1080p at 30fps and about 1024 sample rate. For a 1minute 30sec animation, it takes like 5 days or 100hrs to render. Im probably gonna get a 5090 or a cheap 4090 or if 5080 gets more than 16gb of vram. The 4080, ill relegate to a 2nd computer to be a secondary renderer. Have 1 copy of the same project on the 2 computers ans have it render different camera or part of the scene.