Sorry to say but you're delusional. A performance increase with 1:1 ratio with price increase is not an improvement. Go take a look at the reviews and name one genuine reviewer who recommends buying these overpriced stagnated 40 series cards.
Better deal is used 30 series cards in every way.
Delusional? straight up personal attack. Wow, you need to take lessons on how to make a point without callling names.
I said in my previous post to drag current setup for few months and then get the 4xxx series. Don’t know why one act like they know everything, assume things out of context and straight up do personal attack.
Also, how do you know that a used 3xxx card was not used for mining? It is a risk buying now as miners are dumping used cards left and right.
My suggestion to Op is based on state of his current setup, market condition in few months time and with oversight to setup something that can last couple of years without a thought to upgrade again as components start to slow down. If he needs a 3080 Ti, that CPU will most probably be a bottleneck. Mobo will be a bottleneck as well if it has limited PCIe lanes.
Without understanding any of this, without seeing earlier post, calling me delusional is just cheap.
Coming to the perception of cost. I would rather take a more efficient new gen card that is priced slightly higher or same over a current gen used card. A 4080 takes less power than the 3080 Ti, not to forget the 20-30% power loss at GPU when power is delivered to these GPUs. A 4070 will match the 3080 (and probably the Ti as well) in performance and it will be way more efficient than the 3080 Ti. And when this is paired with newer CPU that is not a bottleneck, both the CPU and GPU need not sweat it out and then end up drawing less power. This reduces TCO for setup that is also faster. Do not forget that RDNA3 is coming and Nvidia partners will cut the prices of 4xxx cards as AMD is going to undercut 4xxx.