MuhEbola: I should mention, my system has a 3090 OC. Just thought i would mention this in case anyone thought to dismiss my comment as some AMD fanboy.
xixas: Oh, and you're rolling a 3090 too (3090 FTW3 here)
You and I are just clickin' in the CP77 forums today, lol
Now, if ya just add that you're a Linux-only gamer, might be worth striking up an old curmudgeon's tech group :)
I was rolling a Titan Xp Galactic Empire GPU, two of them in fact! Then i decided to try some of the new stuff and grabbed 6800XT at the time (though wanted the 6900XT) simply because it wasn't as much of a rip off.
I still attempted to grab a 6900XT when prices had calmed down a lot, but these were even more rare than Jensen's thoughts of goodwill for his loyal fans. So then i stumped up for two ASUS TUF 3090s, and then realized the errors of my ways.... Sli is very very.... VERY, veryveryvery dead. So i have a spare that will be tinkered with someday, or maybe swap out the two Titan RTX cards in my workstation if the benchmarks are close enough to warrant that.
As to Linux, well i tried Ubuntu on occasion, and just didn't catch onto it for some reason. I did genuinely try, and not just one of those tries where you realize gaming isn't much of a thing and then quickly uninstall it. I tried it as a daily use machine, for browing, youtube vids to help me sleep, watching my movies and TV shows, and this lasted for about six or 7 months, then i just couldn't be bothered having to turn that off so i could switch on my gaming machine. So back to windows i went.
Linux Mint, being a Windows lookalike, seems well worth trying, but i never got around to installing it, because i fear it'll be the same as Ubuntu, one system for gaming, and the other for daily use, and i just can't be bothered fiddling around with an unfamiliar system trying to get a game working like i did when i tried out Ubuntu.
I honestly feel that the folks behind Linux/Ubuntu, just don't like us WinOS types LOL
They don't want us sort of deviants round their pubs.
MuhEbola: It's probably just Nvidia trying to push people onto newer cards, and they'll be wanting you to start from the 4080-tier and up when making your selection.
Don't worry, that's just Nvidia being Nvidia. They're like Apple.
PaladinNO: Which is exactly why I treat GPU-drivers like BIOS-updates - I don't update it unless I have a specific issue.
For all their price fixing and other scummy movies, at least Nvidia allows users to have different GPUs. Apple just forces people to exclusively use devices and software within their own eco system.
I will this for Apple: they make, or at least made, great monitors.
+1 for the Not installing "new" drivers/BIOS if nothing is broken or you don'#t have a specific need for it.
For those on older cards, a driver update is never going to unlock more performance than the card is physically capable of. Carefully read the update notes, to see if anything will benefit you, then leave it alone for a few weeks, to see if anyone has any problems, and if there are no problems reported, then by all means, download and install it.
If you have an old Intel CPU though, you could pay to win and unlock some "extra" cores on the CPU you already bought LOL
(Anyone else remember that dirty low down scam?)
Like having Day One DLC paywalled on the disc you already bought, but only you couldn't download this DLC, and they weren't downloadable either.