Nvidia Ampere might launch as GeForce GTX 2070 and 2080 on April 12th

[Shoeyuk]

I guess would have to try and order direct from nvidia

 

[TallPaul1878]

If you strip down your whole PC and sell it off then you might be able to afford a new graphics card

 

[FoxEye]

If the launch price of the Ampere XX80 is around £625 who is interested in getting one?

I've budgeted for £500-£600 and no more than that. Why you gotta add that extra £25?

 

[crinkleshoes]

Said it before and say it again HBM2 is just not fast enough for gaming cards.

Even if I give the memory on my Titan V a big overclock (from 850mhz to 1066mhz) it is still not fast enough to keep up. Yes you get massive bandwidth but that is not much use for lots of small chunks of gaming data which need raw clockspeed.

Hopefully Ampere/GDDR6 will make this obvious to the guys who are just about to criticise me for saying HBM2 is too slow.

I agree with you on that... bandwidth is great for a few things... but for most things, you want to find the right balance of bandwidth and latency.

 

[TheSwede]

I've budgeted for £500-£600 and no more than that. Why you gotta add that extra £25?

By the time the cards being released you can have saved up those extra £25, no ?

 

[FoxEye]

By the time the cards being released you can have saved up those extra £25, no ?

Sure I could have saved up another £500-£600, doesn't mean I'm spending £1k no matter how much Haribo it may or may not come with

 

[Panos]

With next gen gsync monitors going over the £1100 mark, and the new GPU prices well over the £800, doubt it will worth the upgrade.

1080Ti still cuts through at 2560x1440 for years to come, and for 4K consoles makes more sense, especially the XBOneX with the upcoming Samsung VRR TVs makes a far cheaper cheap and very good alternative.

 

[crinkleshoes]

With next gen gsync monitors going over the £1100 mark, and the new GPU prices well over the £800, doubt it will worth the upgrade.

1080Ti still cuts through at 2560x1440 for years to come, and for 4K consoles makes more sense, especially the XBOneX with the upcoming Samsung VRR TVs makes a far cheaper cheap and very good alternative.

You don't deserve to be on a computer enthusiast forum... go home and play with your consoles that have the graphical capability of a £500 PC...

 

[Silent_Scone]

You don't deserve to be on a computer enthusiast forum... go home and play with your consoles that have the graphical capability of a £500 PC...

He's not wrong, though. Prices are getting daft. Some of us have more than one expensive hobby lol

 

[crinkleshoes]

He's not wrong, though. Prices are getting daft. Some of us have more than one expensive hobby lol

Console for 4k... he deserves a big fat donkey dangley slap in the face...

 

[AiiR]

You don't deserve to be on a computer enthusiast forum... go home and play with your consoles that have the graphical capability of a £500 PC...

People can still be enthusiasts and not want to spend ridiculous amounts on their hobby.

 

[crinkleshoes]

People can still be enthusiasts and not want to spend ridiculous amounts on their hobby.

Yeah sure... I don't want to spend ridiculous amounts of money on my hobby.

But... 4k... on a console... he needs a slap.

 

[Gregster]

2080Ti for me this time.

 

[crinkleshoes]

2080Ti for me this time.

Hope you don't mind waiting at least 9-12 months for that

 

[bemaniac]

XMAS I am capable of quick pre-ordering an 1180ti/2080ti as soon as they are available for preorder. I'll be happy to wait on every site and click at the right moment to preorder. No issues with doing it this way. I did for the 1080ti afterall on day one and the 980ti too.

 

[bemaniac]

I mean literally what the hell is the point of hype and excitement if you can just walk into your local shop and buy the latest tech. I love the feeling of waiting to buy and snagging it at the exact second. I've never bought a single console or GPU any later than midnight on the day of release.

 

[crinkleshoes]

I mean literally what the hell is the point of hype and excitement if you can just walk into your local shop and buy the latest tech. I love the feeling of waiting to buy and snagging it at the exact second. I've never bought a single console or GPU any later than midnight on the day of release.

Crazy person... woo.



I'd rather just not bother and be able to pick up what I want when I feel like it, instead of 00:01 or 08:01 on release day... trying to snag that is annoying

 

[melmac]

If the launch price of the Ampere XX80 is around £625 who is interested in getting one?

Since I just upgraded to a 1080Ti I will wait until the xx80Ti.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You don't deserve to be on a computer enthusiast forum... go home and play with your consoles that have the graphical capability of a £500 PC...

I can't see you building a better gaming PC for £400 to £500 especially with a RX580/GTX1060 alone costing well over £250 due to price hikes,and DDR4 price has gone up by 2 to 3 times,so you could easily be spending £400 to £500 for a midrange graphics card and 16GB of DDR4.

The XBox One X,has a 2560 shader Polaris/Vega GPU with a 384 bit GDDR5 memory controller,and running at slightly lower clockspeeds. The GPU is probably faster than a RX580 or GTX1060 in reality which in theory are not really that great in regards to perform considering how old the GTX970/R9 290 are in comparison,and are between 3 to 4 years old.

I just hope the GTX2060 can show the RX580/GTX1060 a clean pair of heals TBH!!

 

[crinkleshoes]

I can't see you building a better gaming PC for £400 to £500 especially with a RX580/GTX1060 alone costing well over £250 due to price hikes,and DDR4 price has gone up by 2 to 3 times.

The XBox One X,has a 2560 shader Polaris/Vega GPU with a 384 bit GDDR5 memory controller,and running at slightly lower clockspeeds. The GPU is probably faster than a RX580 or GTX1060 in reality.

I'd be OK if he was pushing consoles for 1080p... but 4k consoles... no, just no