[SOLVED] timeline for cheap 20xx gpu's

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Depending on how much 10xx stock is still left in the channel, you may be waiting for the bulk of 10xx series cards to sell first, as anything lower than the RTX 2070 is likely to bring absolutely bupkis to the table, feature wise, and performance isn't going to be leaps and bounds better either. We already know that the 2080 doesn't exceed a 1080 Ti in rasterized rendering in most cases, so there is little rush for NVIDIA to bring out the lower tiered 20xx cards and force themselves to eat their old inventory.

Since you just want a mid-tiered card, you can simply buy the higher tier card now, and get the same performance. You're not going to be getting any ray tracing features on a 20xx card unless it's a 2070 or higher, and clearly...
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Depending on how much 10xx stock is still left in the channel, you may be waiting for the bulk of 10xx series cards to sell first, as anything lower than the RTX 2070 is likely to bring absolutely bupkis to the table, feature wise, and performance isn't going to be leaps and bounds better either. We already know that the 2080 doesn't exceed a 1080 Ti in rasterized rendering in most cases, so there is little rush for NVIDIA to bring out the lower tiered 20xx cards and force themselves to eat their old inventory.

Since you just want a mid-tiered card, you can simply buy the higher tier card now, and get the same performance. You're not going to be getting any ray tracing features on a 20xx card unless it's a 2070 or higher, and clearly you're not opting for that.

Expecting prices of the new RTX cards to come down is a pipe dream. There is a floor for how cheap they can be made as the ray tracing + tensor cores add 60% to the die size.

The 20xx cards may have newer version of CUDA cores in them making them slightly more efficient in some workloads, but they aren't going to revolutionize anything, so this time it looks like buying a 10xx series card with more resources than the 20xx card you hoped to buy is likely to give you the same net benefit for less money, and without having to wait.

Of course, this is only my opinion and if it's that big of a deal, I would wait for actual benchmarks.
 
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