orkan
You know, I really miss the late 90's and early 2000's. Computer enthusiasts were all quite excited about each other, and constantly encouraged others to build faster systems, better looking systems, or crazier cooling loops... or whatever we were into. It wasn't a judgmental atmosphere at all. 
 
A system I built in 2005, complete with dual bay-res, the best blocks of the time, stealth modded optical drives, and one of the most iconic boards of the era. I sure was happy about it. Everyone loved it. 
 

 
We all happily enjoyed the latest most powerful cards, and those that couldn't or didn't want to, weren't toxic and envious towards those that chose to. 
This new culture of tech personality that exists today disgusts me to my very core. I find that I no longer want anything to do with any gaming or tech oriented communities. Simply too many trash human beings to sift through before finding anyone genuine. This new, and often younger, type of person seems to ONLY want conflict. So toxic and so tiresome. 
 
I'm going to sit here and play Red Dead Online with a great friend using my beastly powerful EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra powering my giganticly obnoxious 49" super ultrawide  and I'm going to completely forget every one of the nasty little people on this forum even exist. 

rougeau

transdogmifier

CraptacularOne

orkan
 
 
I mean... it's REALLY fast. If this isn't a "gaming" card, someone forgot to tell games. Prior to getting the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra, I was running an EVGA 2080Ti. I have a Samsung CRG9 49" super ultra-wide monitor running 5120x1440 resolution. In Red Dead Online, I was running medium/low with sliders 1/4 or 1/2 at most... and at those settings was seeing 50-70fps. With the 3090, I have every single setting and every slider cranked as high as they will go. Full ultra. I'm seeing 70-120fps!!!! Some areas of the game are extremely punishing during certain hours. For instance, Strawberry, standing near the creek looking at the town during the night. It is an amazing sight that really shows off the beauty of this game. If someone starts throwing fire bottles right there at that moment, fps will dip into the low 50's. Those "ultra" lighting and particle quality settings are really punishing. Man they look amazing though. Up in the mountain tops where there's less going on, it's not uncommon to hit 110-120fps. Buttery smooth gameplay is a first for me with this title.
 
Bottom line: A 3080 is not enough to max Red Dead Online at this resolution with max settings. An overclocked 3090 can barely do it above 60fps all the time. Dropping water physics back to half slider, pushes that same scene in Strawberry back up into the 80fps+ range. Just running around in the great plains or heartlands during the sunlight hours nets FPS in the 80's and 90's.
 
It is an unbelievable experience. It's like an entirely new game. I'm a level 282... and the entire game has a feeling of being fresh. I want to go see everything all over again.
 
 
I paid over $1600 for my 2080Ti, and I was happy with it until a year ago when I started playing Red Dead Online. That game crushed that card. Now, this 3090 crushes this game, and despite the to-my-door price of over $1900... I'm quite happy with my purchase.

Not that I think the 3090 is a "bad" card but you do realize that the 3080 is only about 10-15% slower right? So that "50 fps" dip you are referring to on your 3090 will only be a dip to about 45fps on a 3080. Making outlandish statements like a "3080 is not enough" is just foolish when anyone can read any review and see for themselves. You do realize that 5120x1440 is actually LESS pixels than 4K right? So your display is actually easier to drive than a 4K display is on your video card. I have both cards and yes the 3090 is indeed faster but it's not so fast that the same games are unplayable on my 3080. 
 
I'm glad you're happy with your card but at least try to maintain some form of credibility and refrain from the foolhardy blanket statements. 

again: Your opinion of how people spend THEIR money is irrelevant.
 
Why you feel the need to try to kick people in the teeth is beyond me.
 

I think you're missing the point, he doesn't give two craps what the guy spend his money on, he just doesn't want people making over exaggerated claims of epicness

rougeau
I miss the 90s when people didn't use strawman all the time and react like women.

To recap a 3090 owner told another 3090 owner not to over exaggerate and the first first 3090 owner is calling him jelly then commences braging about his computer..

dragomirc
I hear you, we were building rigs, overclock hell outa CPUs and GPUs, assembled nasty custom loops (had 2 separate loops) overclocked i7 920 to 4.82GH, hanged out on benchmark lists, spend enormous time, money and efforts to drop a last bit of hardware performance. But we shared out skills, tricks, and hints, and enjoyed in healthy and creative competition.
Sure there was an open war between AMD, Nvidia and Intel fanboys but based on arguments and facts.
Missing old god times. 

yaggaz

transdogmifier
 
 
again: Your opinion of how people spend THEIR money is irrelevant.
 

 
To be honest I don't see where he told him how to spend his money?      
 

CraptacularOne

rougeau
I miss the 90s when people didn't use strawman all the time and react like women.

To recap a 3090 owner told another 3090 owner not to over exaggerate and the first first 3090 owner is calling him jelly then commences braging about his computer..

What's even funnier is I have a "giganticly obnoxious 49" super ultrawide" (to quote the misguided OP) myself so it's not like I'm speaking from lack of experience 

dragomirc

CraptacularOne
 
No it's YOU who is missing the point of my post. He's making wild and completely inaccurate claims about a 3080 not being able to play something is what I took issue with and decided to correct him. We all know a 3080 is only about 10-15% slower than a 3090 and in the context of his own example given (a 50fps dip) a 3080 would only dip to about 45fps. Hardly what I or any other sane person would call "unplayable". 

Your communications skills makes you unfriendly, patronizing, antagonistic, even when telling the right things. 
Must say nicely matched your name and avatar.
Ever try to approach people with smile, not with growl?
We are here to socialize, to have a virtual fun, but you behave like hunter looking for preys and suffocate them. 
Please try just once to be friendly poster, not grumpy and arrogant deviant.

pmclean

CraptacularOne


What's even funnier is I have a "giganticly obnoxious 49" super ultrawide" (to quote the misguided OP) myself so it's not like I'm speaking from lack of experience 

 
Correct me if I'm wrong but going off the monitor which you listed in your signature which is a 3840x1080 49' monitor whereas the Samsung c49RG90 is 5120x1440. So you don't have the same  "giganticly obnoxious 49" super ultrawide". You have an ultrawide monitor with ~HALF the pixel count of 4K. So again unless I'm somehow wrong about the monitor you list in your signature you can't compare your experience with Orkan or anyone running 4K. This thread had only positive posts before you decided to argue, or whatever you call it, with orkan. I don't understand why you felt the need to come into this thread and insert your opinions. Didn't your mom teach you to keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say. This is exactly what op refers to in later post. I also have been a PC Gaming Enthusiast since 1991 and have watched the PC Gaming community change so many times, not once for the better IMHO. Now we have all these leeches trying to latch on and suck money out gamers any way they can think of. I'm glad PC Gaming has grown so much but it's not always for the better. Again unless you have the wrong monitor listed in your sig, then sir, you ARE speaking from lack of experience.
 
3840*1080=4,147,200 - Craptacular monitor
5120*1440=7,372,800‬ - Op Samsung c49RG90 monitor
3840*2160=8,294,400 - 4K monitor
 
https://viotek.com/suw49c...-gaming-monitor/ 

pmclean
I really don't see a problem with the OP's original post. He said the 3080 wasn't enough to play with everything maxed and still get 90-100fps. 
 
You say you're here to help people and solve problems. Who are you helping and what problems are you solving with your first and subsequent post in this thread? 
The op stated his opinion, had real numbers and provided screen shots to back up his claims. 
 
The performance gain of the 3090 over the 3080 is not that great, everyone knows that, however some people will buy the 3090 knowing that. The op did and he shared his experience. More than anything else all the OP was trying to convey to the community is how happy he is with the 3090. Don't understand why you have a problem with that. All he said was a 3080 is not enough to run Red Dead 2 with all settings maxed with the resolution he is using. Obviously a 3080 will run Red Dead 2. Op never said the game was unplayable. You're putting words in his mouth. Different people have different definitions of unplayable.
From your signature and mod my rig page you are not running the same monitor as OP so you can't compare. 
 
Again don't understand why you feel the need to come into a positive happy thread and cut down what OP said in a condescending tone.
Did I miss the beginning of this?? Where are there wild and completely inaccurate claims about a 3080 not being able to play something?
Who are you calling idiots with delusions of grandeur ?? 
You seem to care way too much about OP being extremely happy about buying a 3090. 

pmclean
I really don't see a problem with the OP's original post. He said the 3080 wasn't enough to play with everything maxed and still get 90-100fps.