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the rumor said price point would be $250 for a 1080 performance Navi 7nm high end. so the point is pricing and performance ratio i guess. but yeah if you want high end 4k gaming 2080 ti is prob only option for next 2-3 years. maybe longer, since Nvidia truly is a monopoly now, people who like high end gaming can't wait around forever, and we already been waiting around forever for competition

OK, that makes sense.

Well, if it is at $250, that would be awesome price for sure!

But I doubt that tbh.
 
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there won't be any competition, rumors are that 7nm Navi chips only compete at the 1080 performance level lol.

I would sure like 1080 performance for 300$ or less. If Nvidia wont do that, I'll gladly take AMD.
 

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I would sure like 1080 performance for 300$ or less. If Nvidia wont do that, I'll gladly take AMD.

It will be good if true for most gamers. As someone who is reading to move on to 4k gaming though, I think I am willing to invest in the 2080 ti personally. Last life cycle was 2 years long... this one will probably be 3 years... so might as well invest...
 
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New RTX line raised the price bar up to 3x times. That’s the fact everyone should put up with. Pascal showed is that they won’t be any cheaper even at the end of their life.

Third - there’s CROWDS of dumb idiots willing to spend thousands of $ for a new hardware - they don’t count their funds, they just spend all they have until being completely milked out. You might think its not the case - like, everyone here knows its complete ripoff and won’t buy new rtx... But think it over: how many people sit on this forum? And how many just bought 2080/ti for the last month? That’s it..

As for me - I live in totally broke country (not without help of another two; I won’t call’em here, But I must admit both of them are huge, and one speaks russian, another english), we have totally screwed up economics and income-expenses ratio - plus nauseous allaround royal battles and 2080 Ti/9900k prices...that completely bans PC gaming for me - the thing I wouldn’t imagine myself 3-5 years ago.

Back then, I could built an entirely new top-tier PC each year+alot of interesting videogames made sence in all this. Now I don’t have fun at all, funds requested are insane and not easily earned.
 
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wait when there will be game who is made in machine level. no need to waist money on useless thing who don't make income.
 
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New RTX line raised the price bar up to 3x times. That’s the fact everyone should put up with. Pascal showed is that they won’t be any cheaper even at the end of their life.

Third - there’s CROWDS of dumb idiots willing to spend thousands of $ for a new hardware - they don’t count their funds, they just spend all they have until being completely milked out. You might think its not the case - like, everyone here knows its complete ripoff and won’t buy new rtx... But think it over: how many people sit on this forum? And how many just bought 2080/ti for the last month? That’s it..

As for me - I live in totally broke country (not without help of another two; I won’t call’em here, But I must admit both of them are huge, and one speaks russian, another english), we have totally screwed up economics and income-expenses ratio - plus nauseous allaround royal battles and 2080 Ti/9900k prices...that completely bans PC gaming for me - the thing I wouldn’t imagine myself 3-5 years ago.

Back then, I could built an entirely new top-tier PC each year+alot of interesting videogames made sence in all this. Now I don’t have fun at all, funds requested are insane and not easily earned.

I think the older we get, the more we realize, we don't really need most of this over hyped stuff anyway, it's all to do with marketing and profit margins.

How many people live on credit these days ? or even rely on credit.

PC hardware prices are what pushed me to decide, Xbox One X for my main gamming and cheap secondhand PC to mess around on.

Like i have said before if I don't buy high end stuff i can't be disappointed with what i have or get buyers remorse, which I have had many times in the past lol

With the speed at which tech evolves New PC hardware soon becomes old or classed as old, so throwing money at high end hardware is the biggest waste of money I can think of for my needs, I can understand if it's purely business use but just to play games or stay on top to have the latest tech is a share holders wet dream lol
 
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The PC hardware market is getting really ridiculous. Im looking at prices for the 2080 strix and just for the card it's $869. Ok. That's fine. Taxes make it $930. What? You kidding me?

Then I go and look at the Asus Strix (and some other non Asus cards) and the 1080ti's are just as much if not more expensive than a 2080Ti or you straight up cant find one brand new.

I need a new GPU but not this badly. Why is it so hard to find a 1080Ti STRIX card that is under $1000? Bitcoin isnt the reason for the high prices anymore.

Go to EVGA b-stock

You get a 1 year warranty to ensure no damage & the 1070 is $320 or so, 1080 is around $430, same warranty ,1080ti is $600 or so
 
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I think the older we get, the more we realize, we don't really need most of this over hyped stuff anyway, it's all to do with marketing and profit margins.


There are a ton of GTX 1070's on ebay. A quick glance tells me they're going for about $225 on average...seems like a decent enough deal. Are there "needs" that people have that require you purchase more graphical power than the GTX 1070 can provide? I've survived just fine on a VEGA 8 for the last 3 months and my "upgrade" that is coming is an R9 280x.

From my perspective...I rather buy used and get a decent deal if nVidia isn't even attempting to price these new cards at something that doesn't outright seem like a ripoff. Although...in my 50 years...I've seen plenty of people justifying any type of purchase. I'd never stand in the way of someone doing so either...they can get rather ugly...quick.

I agree with Salty on the matter. I used to be able to buy whatever I want, whenever I wanted to...often later realizing I didn't actually need to purchase something so expensive other than the "I want the latest and greatest and I want it now" factor.

I'm actually quite thankful for being poor...it allowed me to separate my wants from my needs...and understand the difference.

Oh wait...I'm on a tech enthusiast site...2080ti's for everyone, the cost be damned.

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The reason for the high prices is completely due to the lack of any serious competition from AMD. Until they get their act together like they did for CPUs and start competing properly head-on, NVIDIA and retailers can afford to take the piss.

This annoys the hell out of me, too. For the last few generations I'd been buying the top end cards, eg GTX 580, GTX 780 Ti and GTX 1080 (before the Ti came out) each time with those cards becoming more expensive. Now the 2080 Ti's price is stratospheric and completely ridiculous. I can appreciate that some price inflation could occur if the GPU is expensive to make with lowish yields, but at well over a grand for one is ridiculous and has priced it out of my reach, which has really annoyed me.
AMD should move their asses in a serious way , they should impact NVIDIA's GPU's like they did to Intel's CPU's with the Ryzen , we need a REAL performance/price fight , AMD should stop NVIDIA's monopolism.
If AMD didn't stop NVIDIA's monopolism , who will do it ? we will keep seeing those silly GPU's prices increasing every year with every new gen.
 
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:) My newest (to me) Graphics Card cost me £10 (free delivery) and i'm happy with it

I've always been pretty lucky, with a decent network of friends in the community , & acquiring very gently used video cards at a reasonable price has never been much of an issue. Just post that I am looking, and a day or two later, I get several replies all of which are mostly very reasonable. And the street goes both ways ,otherwise it doesn't work. When you're looking to sell yours ,and you've taken good care of it ,you let it go at a very reasonable price (not the price that it's worth to you), but the price its worth to your friend/buyer, & the cycle continues
 
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I'd never stand in the way of someone doing so either...they can get rather ugly...quick.

yeah to true, I been on the wrong end of those type of people in the past, just for saying about price lol, next thing they all gang up on ya doing there best to belittle anything you say, some are probs shrills maybe?, then some years later you see same people moaning about prices lol i cant help but think of a certain website forum that's full of those type of people, although I shall not name the site lol

I bet the share holders are rubbing their hands Vigorously
 
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On newegg.com, 1080 BNIB prices are in the low $400's. no refurb, or open box crap, just new retail.

id link it, but for some reason, anything i link is disappearing.

i say we should be thankful RAM prices have finally dropped. 2x4Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR4 is now under $70.
 
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This notion that competition drives prices down it's just not true, never has been. Look at Intel, did you see any price drop ever since Zen hit market ? I didn't, moreover with every new launch since then their consumer flagships got more expensive. Or take the smartphone industry, the competition there is absurdly high, yet what do you know, 1000$ phones are a thing. What competition really does as seen with Intel, is that it drives technological advancement mostly.

This isn't true at all if you exclude the flagships. Sure, the prices for Intel chips didn't go down when Zen launched, but what you got for your money from Intel definitely went up in the mainstream segment, and even some of the HEDT. Before Zen hit one of Intel's biggest selling enthusiast processors was the 7600K, a 4GHz Quad-Core with no HT. It was selling for $240. Then Zen hit, and Intel brings out the 8350K, a 4GHz Quad-Core with no HT for $180. Same with the 7700K, it was selling at $340 before Zen. After Zen we got the 8700K, with two more cores and higher clock speeds for basically the same price. And we also got the 8600K which is a 6-Core with no HT for basically the same price as what we were paying for the 7600K with 2 less cores before Zen.

The flagship outliers are a different story, and always have been. But the fact is competition definitely brings down the prices in most areas, and has brought down Intel's prices and changed what you get for your money. I have no doubt that we would still be paying $350 for Quad-Cores with HT if it wasn't for AMD coming out with Zen.
 
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AMD should move their asses in a serious way , they should impact NVIDIA's GPU's like they did to Intel's CPU's with the Ryzen , we need a REAL performance/price fight , AMD should stop NVIDIA's monopolism.
If AMD didn't stop NVIDIA's monopolism , who will do it ? we will keep seeing those silly GPU's prices increasing every year with every new gen.
Yeah, exactly. If AMD don't fill the vacuum, then Intel will. Remember those stories a while back about Intel hiring graphics talent and speculation about them getting into graphics? No way are Intel gonna leave all that money on the table if AMD can't step up to the plate.
 
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AMD can step up to the plate and they have. I think many are undervaluing what AMD has. I agree, they don't have a 1080ti or 2080ti performance but they have close to 1080 performance with VEGA. Only issue is price and that is starting to come down. If rumors about NAVI are true ($300 for 1080 performance) then I don't see the problem.
 

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My Goodness. These posts are from 2 years ago? I am just now looking into building a pc, and I thought this GPU drought was a recent issue.

What the hell am I going to do? GPUs are 2 and 3 times what they were last year, according to my research.

Dayum!
 
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What the hell am I going to do? GPUs are 2 and 3 times what they were last year, according to my research.

Dayum!

How about starting a new research about getting a job.
Alternatively star a new research about finding a sponsor.
In the end of the day we the idiots we do sacrifice other enjoyments so to be able to enjoy recent technology, and most of as we have a job.
 

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Ahhhh. More words of wisdom from our resident troll. I feel on the path of enlightenment already....


@MiguelElToro -- Go start your own thread making sure you include some requirements. Sometimes people go big just because they think they need to but in reality they dont... Same thing with power supplies. Not everyone needs to run a 1300watt power supply. 80% of people can easily scrape by with a good 500-650watt unit.
 
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I just have to chime in. It strikes a chord when news come out that more than half the manufacturing cost of consoles is due to ram. It is terribly expensive these days.
 

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How about starting a new research about getting a job.
That’s a pretty shitty thing to say to someone you don’t know. If this was my site I would permaban your ass.

You also need some friends, your within two decades of suicide.
 
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It would have been a better idea to create a new post of your own, in order to complain, rather than necroposting here.
 
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So by "absurd gpu prices" you essentially mean absurd nvidia prices.

Yeah, it's unfortunate AMD (or anyone else) doesn't have anything current gen to compete with Nvidia's top of the line cards. It's looking fairly safe to say that AMD will close the gap in the mid-high range department next gen with big navi. Between the nvidia 12 pin power nonsense and other stuff mentioned by moore's law is dead here:

things are looking more promising for AMD and less promising for nvidia in the near future. Even if AMD can't match nvidia's top end flagship gpu next gen, as long as they keep getting closer and continuing to be more consumer friendly, then nvidia's arrogance will eventually catch up with them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if in the next couple of years AMD pisses all over nvidia's yard and becomes the new top dog on the market (exactly like they did with intel)

Maybe it's still not too late to get rich off some of that juicy AMD stock ;)
 
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I agree the pricing is absurd & for more than one reason. Back in 2016, purchased a EVGA GTX 1070 FTW (8GB GDDR5) for $429.99 shipped.


Since then, while there's been lots more memory of a more expensive type (GDDR6 or HBR2) added, as well as more bandwidth & wider bus, the old HDMI 2.0(b) & Displayport are the same as at least with the GTX 1000 lineup, maybe further back.

Why buy another & far more expensive card that doesn't meet the need? Am not a gamer, rather a video enthusiast & both are whom GPU's are for. However, the OEM's has seemed to have forgotten the latter group. Many of which now owns HDMI 2.1 TV's, this also includes the eARC feature. Imagine being able to do what one wants, at 120 Hz, on an HDMI port!

No, am not paying these high prices for basically what's owned for my purpose. Make the video standards up to date (this is a new decade) & maybe I'll think about it. Used to be, the GPU OEM's did a decent job of staying current with consumer video standards, obviously this is no longer a 1080p world. One can go to most any retail store & get a 4K TV for a few more dollars (sometimes less if on promo), plus next gen over the air viewing is on the way (some owners will get this by firmware update).

Again, the GPU OEM's seems to market their cards towards gamers, leaving what would be to them minor features out which would bring in more sales. HDMI 2.1 has a 48 Gbps bandwidth & Displayport 2.0 will have close to 78 Gbps. A portion of all of those memory chips in these cards could be put to those who loves video, like movies, a lot of which are available from the PC. While not the only source, still there's lots of apps/Web content for 4K at 120 Hz, and for some, 8K (due to limited content over the air or cable/satellite channels).

Why not make a card for everyone to enjoy.....after all, it's video! :clap:

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I have an EVGA RTX 2080 Black Edition, it was expensive but I have a 4K60 panel so I needed the performance.

Now I see 4K120 panels are coming into the market but I am looking more at 8K when it surfaces.
 
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