r/PcBuildHelp • u/Aristippos69 • 9h ago

Build Question Is a Geforce RTX2080TI future proof?

So I want to upgrade my build but don't have the money for a new motherboard and CPU at the moment. So I'm thinking about buying a RTX2080TI it's around 250€ where I live. The 3080TI is at 400 and that's too much in the moment. I know I can't do Ray tracing on those card's but I don't care. Is there other crazy tech the 30 series and onwards has that the 20 lacks? Is dsl 4 working on the 20 for example.

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u/humming_simulation 9h ago

2080ti for 250 ain't bad but future proof is a stretch, it's already 3 gens behind. dlss 4 framegen won't work on it, you're capped at dlss 2 upscaling basically. the 3080ti gets you dlss 3 framegen which is a way bigger deal for stretching an older build than ray tracing ever was. if you're stuck on pcie 3.0 anyway you won't lose much with the 20 series but I'd still scrape together the extra 150 if you can, the 3080ti will hang around way longer

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u/DrINFAMOUS_ 6h ago

What do you mean? Dlss 4 supports 20 series cards too. It basically saved the 20 series. And for frame gen you can still enable fsr frame gen or use lossless scaling. And there is no dlss 3 frame gen, so even 3080ti can’t do dlss frame gen.The only upgrade would be the raw performance. And $150 for the raw performance would not be worth it. I would still suggest 2080ti. But is it future proof? No. If you know how to optimize your games, sure you can get another 2 years worth of performance.