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So, 19th March GDC Nvidia Key Note

Y'kow i dont think oc is making a killing in all this. I mean sure they probably are making a bit more per card sold. But i suspect that at least part of the price increases are coming from distribution level and even manufacturers level. And how many cards are they actually selling?

It seems like everyone is saying to stay away from pc hardware at the moment. So likely they are selling a lot fewer cpus, motherboards, ram etc.

Even if they could sell gpus at msrp people would just buy them out and stick them on ebay. So OC would make no money and have no stock. So its a damned if you do damned if you don't.

The current pricing sucks for everyone.
 
If the performance of the 2080 isn't at least 30% better than my Titan Xp then I'll wait until the inevitable 2080 Ti or even the full fat Titan as we all know they'll release the gimped Titan first, Then eventually the full fat Titan.
 
I think 1180 / 1170 naming makes far more sense as its 11th generation of CUDA core based cards.

As for OC UK increased prices due to high demand... yes it may seem opportunistic but if they lower all GPU prices and ignore current market then miners would buy them all off within minutes anyway.
 
String said:
It's an absurd perspective. Even if Gibbo drove a 1997 Fiat Cinquecento, I still wouldn't pay £1000 for a 1080ti.
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No no Gibbo should totally drive a 1997 Fiat Cinquecento for the £3 or whatever cheaper GPUs we'd get for a whole one month!
 
Cost of living is cheaper up there anyway. Most folk on Andrews wage down here in the southeast would probably be sleeping in that Jag.


Bottom line, it's a daft version of connect the dots and has nothing to do with the market being in a state of flux.
 
Hopefully they actually bump up the xx60 card. (performance not price lol)

Don't want to see another 760 -> 960. :o

Looking for a 80-100% increase from my r9 290. I can dream anyways.
 
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I think 1180 / 1170 naming makes far more sense as its 11th generation of CUDA core based cards.
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It isn't.

The 8800 and 9800 (G92) are referred to as having "128 CUDA cores". G80 supported CUDA v1.

There is no science to this "11th generation" claim at all.
 
NVidia have been messing with their naming scheme all the time anyway.

1060 3gb and 1060 6gb as an example, if you compare it to other cards in the same generations naming scheme it should have been the 1060 and the 1060 ti.

780 ti was a naming scheme change, previous generations the x80 was top end.

750ti was a Maxwell gen 1 card, so should have been an 800 series card. but they didn't do desktop 800 series.

Really arguing about what NVidia call their cards is a fools errand. Even if you guess correctly it doesn't mean anything.
 
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@melmac But, amusingly, you've already acknowledged that in the past nV changed their naming scheme purely for marketing reasons... yet you say that's a crazy reason to do it now?

At least my argument isn't totally inconsistent :p

And we've already established that the idea of the 1080 being the "10th generation" nV GPU is purely in your head. Nobody else refers to them like that.

Oh and lastly I said they might call it 1180 (etc). But I disagreed that this was anything to do with the "generation" of the card. I said the choice would be 100% down to the marketing dept. They will choose a name which they feel resonates better with the customer. There will be no other consideration. "Generations" won't come in to it at all.

So before you start making things up, I will repeat that I think it's more likely it'll be the 20xx series, but I never claimed to know they won't use the 11xx nomenclature. They may well do. Just not for the bizarro reasons you have invented :p
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No, what i said was your reasoning for going for 20xx is wrong because if the marketing department were naming things because bigger is better than they would have gone 10800 instead of 280.

My argument has been totally consistent. 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100. Not 2000.

And lastly, The naming scheme has nothing to do with me, Nvidia named the cards and explained what the numbers meant at the time of the change over. It was big news at the time because there was lots of confusion after the naming scheme changed. Especially with the renaming of the OEM and rebrands. I know I am 100% right on this. This is fact.

You seem to be hung up on the word "generation" Use "series" if it makes you happier.

The only thing you have established is that you don't know as much as you think you do. As I said, do some research. Come back when you know something.
 
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10800 is kind of clunky though - probably end up with something like 10K8 so it was a bit snappier. The other problem is in that sequence 1000 to 1100 doesn't stand out as much as 900 to 1000 so its likely the marketing department would be looking to ritz things up a bit so who knows what might happen with the naming.
 
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10800 is kind of clunky though - probably end up with something like 10K8 so it was a bit snappier. The other problem is in that sequence 1000 to 1100 doesn't stand out as much as 900 to 1000 so its likely the marketing department would be looking to ritz things up a bit so who knows what might happen with the naming.
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Yeah, anything could happen :)

I just don't like been accused of making things up.
 
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