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MSI Geforce RTX 2080ti Gaming X Trio!

I know, I did point out I knew they were ordered to ;)

Nvidia are shameless and it was good of OcUK to offer returns. Pretty sure no other UK retailer did.

I really should have learned my lesson with Nvidia. First I bought the 756(?)meg 460 and then the 1gb came out, then I bought a 670 at launch and it tanked in price about a month or so later, then I got a 970 where they'd diddled with the RAM.

Mind you, the last ATI card I had caught fire in my machine while I was playing Star Wars Galaxies.
 
They need to think about the second hand market too imo if they sell the 2080 Ti at £1000 you could buy a 1080 Ti for less than half the price! I'm guessing £799 for the 2080 Ti FE
 
I'd wager the 2080Ti is going to be a GT104 chip and we'll see a 2080 Ultra or 2090 in 6 months using the 102. nvidia may even play the profiteering game even more and release a 2090 and a 2090ti.
 
Surely that would cause too much market segmentation though? It's bad enough with ti variants being added to seemingly every card, but adding another tier over the 80ti and lower than the Titan range?

I think the faeces storm would be too great to weather if they did that.
 
I’m prepared to take a wild stab in the dark and say this is a Nvidia stunt to better position themselves for future price gouging. Once the fanboys on board and all sense of proportional increase is lost ie old generation cost vs new, it’ll become much easier to market the ti in the region of £1000.

I’d also guess the pricing will be much tighter across the line as encouragement to pay that bit extra for the top card. Nvidia will later drop mid tier pricing - if and when it pleases to or if AMD manage to somehow shake things up a bit.
 
bigmike20vt said:
IF it performs like we would expect it to perform (looking at past ti jumps over vanilla) and if I can power the damn thing (I have a Corsair 650w PSU ) I would be ok with £750 for the Ti. Anything above that and I will wait I think
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That's wishful thinking I reckon. Some 1080ti are on for £800 so I can't see them selling a card 50% more powerful and chucking in all the raytracing stuff for the same money. It'll be expensive, top end 2080 units will probably be £750.
 
I wonder if Titan cards actually sell in the numbers they hope for given the Ti cards always get close to it in performance.

The GT102 might become solely for Titan in the £1200+ bracket.

1080Ti came out in March 2017 and Titan Xp in April 2017. How many people really were willing to pay the nearly double for marginal performance gains? And we are talking about a period when mining actually pushed the 1080Ti closer to Xp prices.

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Latest spec leak just blew that theory out the water.

https://videocardz.com/77369/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-features-4352-cuda-cores

2080ti with nearly all SMs from the top quadro card.
 
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jjgreenwood said:
That's wishful thinking I reckon. Some 1080ti are on for £800 so I can't see them selling a card 50% more powerful and chucking in all the raytracing stuff for the same money. It'll be expensive, top end 2080 units will probably be £750.
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perhaps..... I need an upgrade, however as much as i would like it to be a new 2080Ti, a 2nd hand 1080ti may do as well.
looking at the most recent leak, the 2080 is pointless if you are happy to go 2nd hand. sure its a nicer newer chip and will probably run a bit cooler than the 1080ti, also has RTX when supported..... but also has 3gb less memory and will be more expensive.
I wish i had got a 1080ti on launch as this generation is looking like one to skip really, and then go all in on the 7nm cards, possibly next year.
 
Boooooooooooooo

Hopefully they make a dual fan version too, always went MSI when going Nvidia for the dual fan cooler (better then most of the tri fan coolers and fits in the majority of cases).
 
My reckoning is that

2080Ti is really the 1080 card
2080 is really the 1070 card
Not in performance but in naming and hierarchy.



The 2080Ti should really be the 2080 and the 2080 should really be the 2070. This is Nvidia changing the lineups again like they did with the 6** series cards

Expect to see the Titan RTX which should really be the 2080Ti card and then later on, the full fat RTX card which will be the proper RTX titan card.

They want to milk you and give you a card, 2080Ti, that you think is the high end when in fact it should really be the 2080. Bend over and lube up all you nividia boys :D
 
scritchyrat said:
I know, I did point out I knew they were ordered to ;)

Nvidia are shameless and it was good of OcUK to offer returns. Pretty sure no other UK retailer did.

I really should have learned my lesson with Nvidia. First I bought the 756(?)meg 460 and then the 1gb came out, then I bought a 670 at launch and it tanked in price about a month or so later, then I got a 970 where they'd diddled with the RAM.

Mind you, the last ATI card I had caught fire in my machine while I was playing Star Wars Galaxies.
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OcUK and Caseking were the first in Europe to offer returns, as we simply believe to keep customer happy!

Maybe we were even first in the world!

I think at that time we’d sold over 15,000 970’s and the total amount of cards returned under the offer was 200-300 if memory serves. :)

We’re a unique reseller, we aim to be no.1 on service, no.1 on technical knowledge and we give the customer so many options, live chat, call us, come in and see us, social media, forums which is more so than any competitor. :)
 
Rifte said:
I usually pick up a new GPU release when I go stateside and sling it in my hand luggage.

Around $900 and if the performance is more than 25% on my 1080ti I will get the 2080ti.

My 2700k will cry of course as it bottlenecks the GPU, but it will be the kick up the backside that I finally need to leave Sandybridge.
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I just picked up a 1080ti on the bay for £460 to go with my i5-750. Albeit i´m going to be playing at 4k but how's about that for a bottleneck ;-)
 
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