Are the 1070s actually selling in droves?

Blackjack Davy · 31 Jul 2016 at 13:04

tommybhoy said:
Like for like the RX480's outselling the 1060.

If you'd followed the thread you'd know Gibbo said its pretty much their best selling card at the moment and reckons its on track to beat the 970 as the best selling of all time!

ShakeNBake said:
well, it's cheaper, and for the majority of people that's probably all that matters.

Better value in longer driver support i.e. it ain't gonna go "Legacy" in a year's time, better DX12 performance, etc. For those on 1080p and thats around 87% of the market these things matter.

Skribla · 31 Jul 2016 at 13:20

Pretty decent numbers crazy Nvidia selling 800 more cards in a week with a higher price not too shabby.

Poneros · 31 Jul 2016 at 13:57

Not surprising, Nvidia is still the market leader by more than twice. AMD still has a lot of catch-up to do, but they can do it.

Mayh3M · 31 Jul 2016 at 15:31

Nvidia is bringing GPUs to all sections of the market. Nvidia cares about their customers and they're rightly being rewarded for doing so.

melmac · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:05

Mayh3M said:
Nvidia is bringing GPUs to all sections of the market. Nvidia cares about their customers and they're rightly being rewarded for doing so.

LOL please give the Nvidia love a rest. Nivida cares! haha

Just like AMD, Nvidia care about making money. They both do whatever it takes. Everything from dodgy marketing slides to outright lies. They both have been in court recently, AMD for LLano securities fraud and Nvidia for a Patent lawsuit and 970 marketing lies.

They are a business and are out to get as much money as possible. They have shown that they are quite willing to step on customers of older cards to get newer sales. And AMD wish they had the market share to treat customers like Nvidia does.

Nvidia cares, lol funniest post I have seen on here in while.

Smurfin · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:07

Jono8 said:
easyrider, just buy a 1070 already

Just don't buy it from OCUK...still price gouging on some of those AIB cards which has got nothing to do with nvidia.

nashathedog · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:11

Poneros said:
Not surprising, Nvidia is still the market leader by more than twice. AMD still has a lot of catch-up to do, but they can do it.

Not if they don't sell enough different cards they can't. We need upgrades for the Hawaii, Grenada & Fiji owners of which there's many. The number of 1070's & 80's selling at OCUK tell us this isn't as small a market as you might think.

mcc49 · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:14

Smurfin said:
Just don't buy it from OCUK...still price gouging on some of those AIB cards which has got nothing to do with nvidia.

To be fair, the AIB are just as guilty for the high prices but ultimately I feel it's Nvidia's fault due to the 2 tier pricing. Why would you charge less for a GPU design running faster, cooler and quieter than the more expensive Founder's Edition? Especially when demands are high.

elmuzzy66. · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:16

tommybhoy said:
Like for like the RX480's outselling the 1060.

Think about what they could have achieved by actually nailing the 480 release

DrBombcrater · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:37

Mayh3M said:
Nvidia is bringing GPUs to all sections of the market. Nvidia cares about their customers and they're rightly being rewarded for doing so.

Yeah, the same NVidia that's twice been convicted in court of scamming their customers and forced to pay compensation. That NVidia, right?

~>Dg<~ · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:42

people are impressed by those numbers :confused:

i think they pretty poor especially when you look at the previous cards of 970s and 980s

970s sold was it 1 million cards in a short period of time yet 1070s have sold 600 this week.

its obvious people are holding off buying who would buy because of the current prices.

the 1070 and 1080s wont get near 970 and 980 numbers.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 31 Jul 2016 at 16:59

Mayh3M said:
Nvidia is bringing GPUs to all sections of the market. Nvidia cares about their customers and they're rightly being rewarded for doing so.

Oh stop brown nosing nvidia its embarrassing especially when the very customers you speak of have just done them in the class action lawsuit. They make cards to sell to make money like any other business. They aren't your friend. :rolleyes:

Mayh3M · 31 Jul 2016 at 17:04

Dayum. Nvidia doing well really upsets a lot of people I see.

chaparral · 31 Jul 2016 at 17:16

~>Dg<~ said:
people are impressed by those numbers

i think they pretty poor especially when you look at the previous cards of 970s and 980s

970s sold was it 1 million cards in a short period of time yet 1070s have sold 600 this week.

its obvious people are holding off buying who would buy because of the current prices.

the 1070 and 1080s wont get near 970 and 980 numbers.

Yes we have no idea what them numbers are like without knowing the OCuk numbers sold of say the 970/980 when they were released..

LoadsaMoney · 31 Jul 2016 at 17:24

Gibbo said:
It is because 1070 offers flagship performance, it rivals 980Ti and for VR it is a lot faster and were selling around 500 Vive headsets per week, so all those customers buying VR headsets need a power VR ready graphics card and 1070 seems the real sweet spot for that.

Very surprising, as everyone was saying no ones going to splash out more than a couple of hundred quid on a card to go with their headsets, as they'd already spent about £700 on them, so want to keep the cost down, and why AMD brought out their 480s first, as they said they were those cheap VR cards that everyone wanted, so they were going to deliver, not so ey.

Also, what happened to the market not being up there either, the high end, so while Nvidia were hardly shifting any cards, AMDs would be bloody flying out, and Nvidias market share would be dropping like a whores draws.

Mayh3M said:
Nvidia is bringing GPUs to all sections of the market. Nvidia cares about their customers and they're rightly being rewarded for doing so.

Got to agree, we should be thankful they are here, bringing out faster cards all the time, and cards in every segment, so that we can all upgrade and keep moving forward, be very bleak without them.

melmac · 31 Jul 2016 at 17:26

Mayh3M said:
Dayum. Nvidia doing well really upsets a lot of people I see.

Not at all. You are confused. People are remarking how ridiculous your post was. Nothing to do with been upset with Nvidia at all.

Griffildur · 31 Jul 2016 at 18:33

we need both companies to pull their finger and do better. Nvidia without AMD could very well be more expensive and less likely to keep improving very fast.

AMD without Nvidia would be a mess. We'd have no one to compare in terms of efficiency and temperature and we'd all get used to exploding ovens instead of computers. We'd need new power grids to accommodate power draw from all AMD cards.

Nah, we need both to do well. Heck, we could do with a third company ... c'mon Intel, join the fun, will ya?

D.P. · 31 Jul 2016 at 18:48

chaparral said:
Yes we have no idea what them numbers are like without knowing the OCuk numbers sold of say the 970/980 when they were released..

Gibbo has already said that Pascal is outselling Maxwell, and AIBs are saying the same thing.

Raikiri · 31 Jul 2016 at 18:52

~>Dg<~ said:
people are impressed by those numbers

i think they pretty poor especially when you look at the previous cards of 970s and 980s

970s sold was it 1 million cards in a short period of time yet 1070s have sold 600 this week.

its obvious people are holding off buying who would buy because of the current prices.

the 1070 and 1080s wont get near 970 and 980 numbers.

One shop in one country has sold 600 in one week, you can't compare that to total sales.

Griffildur · 31 Jul 2016 at 18:53

Raikiri said:
One shop in one country has sold 600 in one week, you can't compare that to total sales.

^^^ indeed.