NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[gpuerrilla]

holy cow?! I used to build whole systems for that. Mine is £300-350 and that's with several months saving gone into it. Time was you could game quite reasonably for a few years for a midrange card at just £150. Long gone are those days.

Dont mention mid-range buddy! Some people on here get confused with high-end mid-range low-mid-high.. must be all them branding shenanigans to smoke and mirror the prices!

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

many a true word is said in jest. Or maybe that boomerang came back and he realised an opportunity...?

I think it was renting or installment payments come to think of it. Need to see if I can find the timestamp.

 

[Kelt]

many a true word is said in jest. Or maybe that boomerang came back and he realised an opportunity...?

I can just see it now...

Jensen:

"The bigger the lease, the bigger the save!"

 

[gpuerrilla]

It just works.

 

[ik9000]

Dont mention mid-range buddy! Some people on here get confused with high-end mid-range low-mid-high.. must be all them branding shenanigans to smoke and mirror the prices!

Look it's really quite simple. Just because gigabyte alone have over 12 models for just the 2070 doesn't mean it's too confusing for people. You just need the super-ti XT version 2.0 with the Windforce OC frozr 3 white edition in SLI. But not the version 1.0 as that had the reference mosfet and more tensor cores but lower memory clock and.... yeah it's stupidly confusing.

 

[TNA]

Let's all get the lube ready cos nvidia is going to do us all dry with pricing lol.

Jensen knows you like it

 

[ik9000]

Jensen knows you like it

so when he turns to his VP and says "I've got the new pricing strategy to announce, I just hope they all swallow it...."

 

[TNA]

so when he turns to his VP and says "I've got the new pricing strategy to announce, I just hope they all swallow it...."

Easy mate, this is a family friendly forum!!

 

[OG Don Mecca]

Look it's really quite simple. Just because gigabyte alone have over 12 models for just the 2070 doesn't mean it's too confusing for people. You just need the super-ti XT version 2.0 with the Windforce OC frozr 3 white edition in SLI. But not the version 1.0 as that had the reference mosfet and more tensor cores but lower memory clock and.... yeah it's stupidly confusing.

Gigabyte do have too many of the same item I just looked up there 2070 and 2080 range and was like wow this guy aint joking lmao

Think there marketing and R&D teams had to try and justify there jobs?

Manager walks in "right guys explain to me why we have 30 guys doing a 5 man job!?"

Staff reply look we have re-branded the card 12 times to make a extra £50 per tier

Manager - Grats guys have a bonus!

 

[ik9000]

Gigabyte do have too many of the same item I just looked up there 2070 and 2080 range and was like wow this guy aint joking lmao

Think there marketing and R&D teams had to try and justify there jobs?

Manager walks in "right guys explain to me why we have 30 guys doing a 5 man job!?"

Staff reply look we have re-branded the card 12 times to make a extra £50 per tier

Manager - Grats guys have a bonus!

No, I really wasn't! And even better their compare function only allows 5 cards at a time, so it's impossible, or very difficult, to actually see the differences between them all and make an informed choice!

 

[ik9000]

Easy mate, this is a family friendly forum!!

allo allo!

 

[OG Don Mecca]

So anyone leaning towards any 3000 series card in particular or just awaiting pricing to decide?

 

[Satchfanuk]

Don't threaten me with a good time. lol.

 

[ik9000]

I was going to get a 2000 series as at some point they'll stop doing win7 drivers and I have a dualboot system with some legacy stuff on 7 I'm not willing to lose, and can't run on 10 (bizarrely). If 3000 support 7-64 bit I might go 3000 series instead. I just wish they'd make a statement about whether win7 64bit will get driver support or not. That would make my decision for me.

 

[McGraw]

Just had a horrible thought that nvidia will price high knowing how many fs2020 upgrades there will be

 

[OG Don Mecca]

Just had a horrible thought that nvidia will price high knowing how many fs2020 upgrades there will be

i hope not!

that releases today dont it? ill have a go later see how much it makes my 1080ti cry at 4K lmao

im still kinda gutted they said the VR wont be available on release

 

[narta]

Rumor: GeForce RTX 3090 Pricing to Arrive Around the $2,000 Mark @techpowerup

 

[OG Don Mecca]

i hope not!

that releases today dont it? ill have a go later see how much it makes my 1080ti cry at 4K lmao

im still kinda gutted they said the VR wont be available on release

so it seems i was wrong and its out tomorrow

 

[Rroff]

Until Nvidia stagnates for multiple generations back-to-back, Turing is the aberration.

It starts with the 600 series really - up until that point each new generation (not including refreshes) the top end card(s) used a core that was within ~15% of the largest mass consumer market viable size core that could be produced - with the 680 it was barely half the size and if you know your electronics then likewise certain areas of the PCB were populated with "jellybean" generic components that previously were only used on mid-range and below products in that position rather than higher rated components. And it goes on from there with shuffling of the tiers and prices.

I'm not sure why not a small number of people are not only OK with this practise but in some cases will even actively defend it!

Personally I'm less bothered with the silly price Ti/Titan types cards if they are at the bleeding top end and populated with boutique components/specs - you always had the odd Ultra, etc. at much higher prices but that is another matter.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

So anyone leaning towards any 3000 series card in particular or just awaiting pricing to decide?

We haven't seen benchmarks or prices yet.