GPU prices go boom

aoaaron · 11 Aug 2018 at 20:05

I'm surprised prices haven't started to properly drop the 1080tis. I'm guessing retailers are really prepared to wait for NVIDIA's announcement before shifting the stock.

mikeo · 11 Aug 2018 at 20:50

When they get to £400 I might be interested

Joeyuk · 11 Aug 2018 at 20:52

aoaaron said:
I'm surprised prices haven't started to properly drop the 1080tis. I'm guessing retailers are really prepared to wait for NVIDIA's announcement before shifting the stock.

Have to wait till one of the bigger retailers want to shift stock before everyone else follows and even though they seem to have stock I doubt they are holding huge numbers now as the everyone has known the new cards are coming.

ver01@ · 12 Aug 2018 at 19:23

Bought a 1070 for £220 locally so it seems gamers have started offloading.

Gibbo · 13 Aug 2018 at 13:09

Joeyuk said:
Have to wait till one of the bigger retailers want to shift stock before everyone else follows and even though they seem to have stock I doubt they are holding huge numbers now as the everyone has known the new cards are coming.

Most likely a case of this, were one of NVIDIA's top customers and were under 200 units of 1080Ti total inventory and in the last 30 days sold over 500 1080Ti, needless to say inventory is tight.

JessieD · 13 Aug 2018 at 15:31

Gibbo said:
Most likely a case of this, were one of NVIDIA's top customers and were under 200 units of 1080Ti total inventory and in the last 30 days sold over 500 1080Ti, needless to say inventory is tight.

Nooooooooooooooo!

Hey Gibbo what is the ordinary 1080 (non Ti) stock like please?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 13 Aug 2018 at 16:13

Interestingly enough AMD has released the WX8200 professional card uses higher clocked HBM2 and it seems to be from Hynix instead of Samsung:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13210/amd-announces-radeon-pro-wx-8200

I do wonder with Hynix now coming online whether costs of HBM2 should start to drop??

Gibbo · 13 Aug 2018 at 16:53

JessieD said:
Nooooooooooooooo!
Hey Gibbo what is the ordinary 1080 (non Ti) stock like please?

Even less stock on those.

JessieD · 13 Aug 2018 at 17:14

Gibbo said:
Even less stock on those.

I am doomed never to get a new card

chrcoluk · 13 Aug 2018 at 21:03

MSTRBKR said:
I think nvidia will dry up the stock of 10 series cards perfectly in time for new cards.

They will, so the prices stay high, thats what happened with the 9xx cards.

At 1080/1070 launch 980tis were costing more than their RRP, they only temporarily dropped after a lot of whinging on here with a gibbo special offer. They stayed expensive at other retailers.

AndreiD · 13 Aug 2018 at 21:12

I remember 980 Tis dropping to well bellow 1070 prices at the Pascal launch, but those were sales.

Nasher · 13 Aug 2018 at 21:39

JessieD said:
I am doomed never to get a new card

I've not bought one since 2016, still running an rx480. Which is still fine for the game I'm playing.

TBH the requirements for games seem to have leveled off. Developers know cards are stupid prices and know people are still running 2-3 year old GPUs, so that's what they are aiming for. The prices have gone up, but so has the time between needing upgrades.

Look at the Steam hardware survey and the most popular cards are the 1060 and 1050 by far, followed by older models. The 1080/1080Ti combined make up less than 4% so not exactly a prime target audience. It might seem like OCUK sells a lot, but in the grand scheme of things gamers just aren't buying current high-end cards because they are far to expensive.

FoxEye · 13 Aug 2018 at 21:42

Nasher said:
I've not bought one since 2016, still running an rx480.

TBH the requirements for games seem to have leveled off. Developers know cards are stupid prices and know people are still running 2-3 year old GPUs, so that's what they are aiming for. The prices have gone up, but so has the time between needing upgrades.

Ditto. £200 - £300 is my limit, and currently to upgrade would be £400+.

So nah AMD/nV, you keep 'em, I'll do something else

bigmike20vt · 14 Aug 2018 at 09:05

Nasher said:
I've not bought one since 2016, still running an rx480. Which is still fine for the game I'm playing.

TBH the requirements for games seem to have leveled off. Developers know cards are stupid prices and know people are still running 2-3 year old GPUs, so that's what they are aiming for. The prices have gone up, but so has the time between needing upgrades.

Look at the Steam hardware survey and the most popular cards are the 1060 and 1050 by far, followed by older models. The 1080/1080Ti combined make up less than 4% so not exactly a prime target audience. It might seem like OCUK sells a lot, but in the grand scheme of things gamers just aren't buying current high-end cards because they are far to expensive.

This is true if you game at 1080p... but for those of us with 4K TVs, 3 screens or those with VR hmds you really need everything you can throw at it if you want close to full detail.

mid_gen · 14 Aug 2018 at 09:06

I think 300 quid is the sweet spot for a lot of people. I'm running my 970 still.

Since I mostly game over the Steam Link, and my main monitor is 1600p, I'll be very happy with a vega64/1080 dropping to that sort of price....keep me going for a few years.

Nasher · 14 Aug 2018 at 09:35

bigmike20vt said:
This is true if you game at 1080p... but for those of us with 4K TVs, 3 screens or those with VR hmds you really need everything you can throw at it if you want close to full detail.

I'm using VR on my 480 and have no performance issues.

4k gaming is still really a long way off. If you want a low ms 4k screen it's a TN panel, which is worse image quality and colours than a 1080 or 1440 IPS or VA.

Gibbo · 14 Aug 2018 at 09:43

mid_gen said:
I think 300 quid is the sweet spot for a lot of people. I'm running my 970 still.

Since I mostly game over the Steam Link, and my main monitor is 1600p, I'll be very happy with a vega64/1080 dropping to that sort of price....keep me going for a few years.

At £329 when we do it, the 1070 is the absolute best deal at around £300 !

molinari · 14 Aug 2018 at 09:52

I'm desperate for a new GPU as I'm still running on an old Radeon R9 280. Also want to upgrade to 27" G-Sync monitor, so was aiming for a 1080. Hoping current prices drop a few more pennies before new cards arrive.

LePhuronn · 14 Aug 2018 at 10:18

Gibbo said:
At £329 when we do it, the 1070 is the absolute best deal at around £300 !

Not when you're planning on ripping the DVI port off

bigmike20vt · 14 Aug 2018 at 11:52

Nasher said:
I'm using VR on my 480 and have no performance issues.

4k gaming is still really a long way off. If you want a low ms 4k screen it's a TN panel, which is worse image quality and colours than a 1080 or 1440 IPS or VA.

4k gaming isnt a long way off if you are happy using a TV however...... I cant go back to monitor sized screen gaming now, not after being spoiled by 65inch and 70 inch TV gaming.

I am happy with 20ms screen of my TV (when outputting at 4k - its a lot worse at 1080p)

as for VR it really depends what games you play...... VR games on oculus store, sure, my gtx 980 is ok.

but if you want high detail on pCARS2, Elite dangerous, ETS2/ATS, IL2 or DCS2............. then I expect you will run into problems... i know i do with my gtx 980 any way.