@Teagan - Thank you. OK. But I’m coming from an RTX2070 and so I’m guessing I won’t see such a vast speed. @Teagan can you tell me IF you’ve run into any issues I should be made aware of?

@Teagan - Thank you. OK. But I’m coming from an RTX2070 and so I’m guessing I won’t see such a vast speed. @Teagan can you tell me IF you’ve run into any issues I should be made aware of?

The jump from 1080 to 2080 was not good enough for me (and I see many others thought that too!) but 3080 was.

This website with benchmarks should interest you, as they are very accurate:

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3080-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2070/4080vs4029

According to them game FPS for you should increase 37%, and average use should be a ~97% increase. I assume some at least one of the technical tests they show are about the NVENC encoding, I'm not sure about that.

The only issue I have with mine is at 100% usage I get a somewhat noticeable coil whine but that is ok since my closed back headset is very good at stopping that.

Oh, and one thing, the air cooling on the founder's edition 3080 is EXCELLENT. At 100% sustained load for a long period my temperature never gets above 72-73 degrees C.

In your position I would upgrade anyways, for the PCIe 4.0 support and newer NVENC chip. There's also that direct memory access thing as well, for some games.

@Teagan - Ah, right. I’ve been told by my Builder that they have a back-order for many 3080s, but they could “get” a 3060. In any event, my 2070 is an end of life option.

Just looking... RTX 20xx is PCI-E 3.0 vs 30xx being 4.0 ... is that correct? [my mobo maxxes out at 3.0]

@AVsupport - That’s good to know. My Builder, a very well known UK Wide PC Building Company, knowing my exsisting Speccs has assured me that a 30xx can/could be slotted-in. I’ll further quizz them on what you are saying. Maybe a new MoBo to fix the problem? It’s gettin’ awfully expensive, for one of us ....😏

yeahh... just thinking IF it's backwards compatible ARE you gonna see the speeds you'd like to see to warrant the investment??

@AVsupport - Sure, understood. But, I’m in an unfortunate position of needing my MONSTA! repaired. If that means I can ONLY get a faster GPU, 2070 are end of life, for my MoBo, then, as long as this isn’t a “bottleneck”, and it can mechanically slot in, I’m not too concerned.

@AVsupport - Of yeah, my Builder is needing to like-for-like, so warranting an investment on my side shouldn’t be an issue. 😎

@AVsupport - Ah, just been onto my Builder this morning and asked the question: Would I see a difference in performance using he 30XX between my PCIE 3 and a PCIE 4? The answer was only on registering this difference through Bench testing of around 5%. In terms of net sums gains about 50%. And no, no need to change my MoBo to accommodate. He also added that the original BUILD is that strong that I’d be good to go.

@Grazie “Of yeah, my Builder is needing to like-for-like, so warranting an investment on my side shouldn’t be an issue”

OTOH, you could look at this as an opportunity to get a Monsta gpu, maybe pay the difference? A high end GPU may well outlast your current rig. One of the benefits of the Nvidia 3xxx series is the addition of AV1 decoding, might also come in useful in the future.

OTOH, you could look at this as an opportunity to get a Monsta gpu, maybe pay the difference?
 

@JN- Already been discussed 😉 .....

I don't see much camera gear that would use AV1 as acquisition format..

IMO the builder should give you a GPU that has the same original price as what you paid for the RTX 2070 because he is literally going to return it under warranty & get a same-price replacement from the manufacturer... Recently I found a RTX 3060 Ti for $400 US & posted my Vegas benchmarks elsewhere on these forums... In Vegas, it was about as fast as my $350 VEGA 64 LQ & also blocked another PCIe slot, so I returned it & will wait until a GPU gives faster Vegas numbers...

Don't expect Vegas to take advantage of these new GPUs until the next release, V19, etc. but IMO you should get the best card you can & even bump it up to the next level if you only have to pay the price-difference between what you paid for the first card & the cost of the faster RTX 3080, etc... Good luck!

The 20xx series uses the same NVENC and NVDEC as the 30xx series, so you won't notice any difference there. You should notice an improvement on timeline acceleration, and as said above, as GPU acceleration is improved in VEGAS, so too will the benefit you get out of the card, so a good investment now may pay off later.

I think I'm going to wait to upgrade from my Radeon VII until GPUs can decode 10 bit 4:2:2 via hardware.

Eh, @fr0sty ? What do you mean?:

The 20xx series uses the same NVENC and NVDEC as the 30xx series, so you won't notice any difference there.

Please explain.
 

You should notice an improvement on timeline acceleration,

@fr0sty - Like how?

@fr0sty - Thanks in advance.

When you encode with NVENC, or use NVDEC to help decode video on your timeline, your Nvidia GPU uses special chips to do that. They did not upgrade those chips from the 20xx series to the 30xx series, the only thing that got updated was the compute units, which saw a massive increase in performance. This is what is used to assist in timeline rendering, GPU accelerated effects, etc... so that is where you'll see the performance difference, not so much while encoding or just playing video from the timeline.

They did not upgrade those chips from the 20xx series to the 30xx series, the only thing that got updated was the compute units, which saw a massive increase in performance.

@fr0sty - Ah, righto!

This is what is used to assist in timeline rendering, GPU accelerated effects, etc... so that is where you'll see the performance difference,

@fr0sty - O...K...?

not so much while encoding or just playing video from the timeline.

@fr0sty - Isn’t playing Video and the Effects in those TL Events the same? In terms of what you’re saying, isn’t this the same?

TIA - G

Timeline acceleration accelerates the effects you see listed as "GPU accelerated", as well as text, etc... you'll notice a difference there, but not as much just playing video on the timeline without effects added. That is what the decoder chip handles (if you have it set to in file i/o, if you have an intel chip, it's said you get best performance by letting the intel gpu decode while the nvidia does the timeline stuff).

@fr0sty - Thanks for your explanations. So “stuff” that’ll get me to my Narrative faster! 😃

@Grazie Might be a while before it's widely supported but the Nvidia 30xx series has a new 5th gen chip on it that can do VP10/AV1 decoding in hardware and might be faster all around. If it was me, I'd definitely hold out for a 3080 and maybe grab something economical to get me by... like a 1660ti or an rx590. Here's the Nvidia encode/decode support matrix...
https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

@Howard-Vigorita - Thanks for your caring of me 🙏 . However, the card is being replaced by the company that originally built my MONSTA!, under my Warranty agreement. I’m not sure how they would then cover a Like-For-Like replacement - this NOW being a 30xx series and then allow me to fit or they to fit one in the future. Messy......

Cha-ching!

@Howard-Vigorita “If it was me, I'd definitely hold out for a 3080”

Yes sir! I’m definitely getting the RTX3080 with 10gb for...... 50% Discount ‘cos of the Warranty Swap-Out.

Thanks Guys for your support.