Why on earth is a GTX680 same price as 770!!!!!

itchy · 30 May 2013 at 22:36

No!! this is wrong in so many ways, a GTX 680 is about 10% slower
than GTX 770 so why are they priced the same!! :confused:

Madness I tell you!! :rolleyes:

Confused Stu · 30 May 2013 at 22:42

itchy said:
No!! this is wrong in so many ways, a GTX 680 is about 10% slower
than GTX 770 so why are they priced the same!!

Madness I tell you!!

Because people who have one GTX680 and want to SLI them will pay it. It's all about supply and demand, capitalism at it's finest!

itchy · 30 May 2013 at 22:57

So GTX 680 wont work with a GTX 770 in SLI!!!! :confused:

So they not like AMD with there cards?

JonnyG1982 · 30 May 2013 at 23:03

Gibbo was saying nvidia wouldn't let them sell it cheaper earlier. Dont really see how it works. But ultimately it does make the gtx680 rather pointless. As I said earlier the gtx680 should be £300 tops now & gtx670 £225. My opinion.

itchy · 30 May 2013 at 23:10

GTX 680 should be between £260-£310!
GTX 670 should be between £160-£210!

SOoooooo!!! :rolleyes:

GTX 770 is £330+!! :cool:

Capitalism!!! :mad:

Phixsator · 30 May 2013 at 23:13

Makes sense from a business perspective

. Those who already have a 680 will gain so much more with the same investment buying another 680 which makes them worth the money. Its also a good way to earn well on old stock while emptying it.

ubersonic · 30 May 2013 at 23:37

itchy said:
No!! this is wrong in so many ways, a GTX 680 is about 10% slower
than GTX 770 so why are they priced the same!!

They can SLi with another 680
They come with Metro last light
~~They use less power~~ (Was off on that one, sorry)
They can be overclocked to 770 performance (as a 770 is an overclocked 680)

Buckster · 30 May 2013 at 23:47

I guess partly that if the 680s were substantially cheaper than the 770s - who would buy a nice shiney 770 ? It would make the 770s look expensive therefore would effectively "devalue" them

Something Else · 31 May 2013 at 00:52

Well it gives you a choice.

If you have a 680 then you will get even better performance with SLI

Or you could sell the 680, get a 770 and have slightly better performance.

Really though the difference in performance is nothing if you overclock a 680.

colinmcr · 31 May 2013 at 08:27

I'd buy another 680 to Sli, so I guess they have covered their bases very cleverly. Now if only I could find a reference Asus 680 to match the one I have instead of that Direct CU II version.

Martini1991 · 31 May 2013 at 08:28

itchy said:
So GTX 680 wont work with a GTX 770 in SLI!!!!

So they not like AMD with there cards?

Egh, you couldn't Crossfire a 5870 with a 6970.
As it happens the 770 is a 680 rebrand, if you flashed the 680 to a 770 you could SLI them.

Jono8 · 31 May 2013 at 08:43

I agree. The only reason you would buy a 680 at it's current price is that you need another one for sli. That or you are mad. Good luck selling the rest of your stock e-tailers.....

Freddie1980 · 31 May 2013 at 08:50

itchy said:
GTX 680 should be between £260-£310!
GTX 670 should be between £160-£210!

SOoooooo!!!

GTX 770 is £330+!!

Capitalism!!!

So if we had a socialist economy this crap would be so much cheaper? Its upto Nvidia at the end of day, if their happy with the sales numbers then thier entitled to set the price as they see fit. If you don't want to pay 300 for a card don't do pay it and if enough people follow your example then prices will eventually fall.

555BUK · 31 May 2013 at 08:57

To make the 770 appear cheap, and to sell them by the bucket load

. For the same reason Intel doesn't reduce older revisions of CPU's when something new arrives. 2500K's and 2600K's still sell for almost as much as 3570's and 3770's, and the 35/3700's run on a newer process, have double the GPU grunt, and consume less power.

straxusii · 31 May 2013 at 09:52

ubersonic said:
They can be overclocked to 770 performance (as a 770 is an overclocked 680)

Not quite the ram is 7gz not 6ghz and anand had it up to 8ghz, must be different ram chips than the 680. The 770 can also be overclocked and on average will probably clock higher than a 680 can.

Marine-RX179 · 31 May 2013 at 09:54

Because 770 not really brought anything that truely make it superior to the 680 (no new architecture/die-shrink, no big increase in performance, no improve memory bus, no extra vram), thus Nvidia is not dropping the price on them, considering it still the same card (without the new tweakings). We are not exactly talking about GTX670 vs GTX580 here...which the GTX670 is quicker by a fair margin, thus making the GTX580 clearly inferior in performance.

Drangueos · 31 May 2013 at 10:10

because they are the same card

Twirlywoos · 31 May 2013 at 10:26

itchy said:
GTX 680 should be between £260-£310!
GTX 670 should be between £160-£210!

SOoooooo!!!

GTX 770 is £330+!!

Capitalism!!!

I'd hate to put you in charge of a business, you'd run it into the ground. What a price should be is irrelevant.

Marine-RX179 · 31 May 2013 at 11:07

majnu said:
I'd hate to put you in charge of a business, you'd run it into the ground. What a price should be is irrelevant.

The thing is, even with 670 and 680 at those prices, Nvidia would still make a decent profit since they are essentially mid-range cards sold at high-end in the first place. He's not exactly wrong on the "capitialism" part you know

But yea if I was in Nvidia's position, I wouldn't give a rat-ass about the consumer's opinion but only about how much money I can squeeze out of them too. It's just a shame that we are on the consumer's end here, rather than than Nvidia with the money rolling in.

Zeed · 31 May 2013 at 11:47

Sorry but people that ware thinking that NV will sell 680s below 300f mark ware just stupid..

I trace parts market for 7 years or so. And that NEVER HAPPENS ....

They never drop prices of old cards.. Rather bump prices of new ones