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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

cliffy said:
That's the past, lost change, 15 years ago i could go into my local and buy a pint for £2 now i am lucky to get one for £4. Heck in 2000 my parents sold my Grandads house for £80k last week same house sold for £350k. 10 Years ago the original Samsung Galaxy launched for $400 now you are looking at $1k. So yeah to see the prices of the new 30 series i am pretty impressed
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That is such a daft post. You are talking about 3 generations as recent as 2017 where the prices are the same for each release and you get a performance bump. The 20 series bucked that trend significnatly. It isn't 20 years of inflation here or anything. It is markup pricing and still higher than it shold be.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Inflation and exchange rate are factors. The prices are pretty much where they should be, and after a month or two they will be lowered with promotions etc.
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Inflation has not been that great to have a 50% increase in price for the 3080 compared to what the previous XX80 series have been though. Neither has the exchange rate. The $ price is also higher.
 
Bear in mind these PSU ratings are a total worst case scenario, so they're assuming the most power hungry mainstream CPU imaginable and a system full of drives and other rubbish sucking power, then a decent margin on top.
 
Cooper said:
All I can say is that there's going to be a lot of early adopter 3080 buyers remorse going around in 6-9mths time when Nvidia release the 3080Ti with 20GB of VRAM...:p

Getting older really does teach you the value of 'Patience is a virtue'.
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Nonsense. The time to buy a 3080 is now because the couple hundred quid you "lose" when you trade up to the inevitable Ti will be what you spent to have the performance for the 6-9 month period between.

Another dilemma is whether to buy the 3090 now and not have to wait at all. Your next upgrade will be literally a couple of years away.
 
Milkybk said:
2080Ti's came out over a year ago? Tbh I just re-read your post and I did miss that you said "bought recently", so I apologise. Early morning skim reading.

However I still think people should be able to spend their money how they please.

And no, I didn't buy a 2080Ti recently.
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More than that. I bought both of my second hand 2080tis 18 months ago and they were 3 months old then. I think its closer to 2 years since the 2080ti came out? I have certainly enjoyed both my cards for the last 18 months.

Should I have sold them both last month? Yes I should but they are in a watercooling loop and I am too old and too busy to have had time to dismantle it all, put in a temp card (use the pc for work) and then do it all over again this month when I buy a 3090.

Will wait for the ek blocks to be available and order a FE 3090 and then install at my leisure. If I get £600 back for the pair of 2080tis then so be it. I only paid half new price from them in the fist place.
 
beany_bot said:
Thats so ridiculous though. Because you can easily just say at that time. "Oh stupid people buying now should wait for 4000 cards. oh patience is a virtue... blah blah blah".
No, the BEST time to buy a GPU in those terms are soon after it releases. i.e. NOW.
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Yep release date is the best date. 100%. Any other time, the length of time it remains the nth fastest GPU (and retains its value) decreases faster than the price to purchase it brand new does.

Eg. Buying brand new 2080ti a month ago would have been very bad. Buying a brand new 2080ti on release was the best time to buy it - lasted longest and made the most out of it.
 
Vertigo1 said:
As some reviewers have said, they're trying to finally "kill" the 1080Ti.

Their problem has been a combination of the 1080Ti being way too good (virtually a Pascal Titan, only released to counter an AMD product which never materialised) and that Turing was underwhelming (both in terms of raw raster power and RT features nothing used).

Ampere is all about finally burying Pascal and getting people to move to an RTX card in numbers to drive the industry forward. Developers have no incentive to add RT support to titles if the installed base of RTX cards is low.
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This does make sense
 
beany_bot said:
Thats so ridiculous though. Because you can easily just say at that time. "Oh stupid people buying now should wait for 4000 cards. oh patience is a virtue... blah blah blah".
No, the BEST time to buy a GPU in those terms are soon after it releases. i.e. NOW.
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I agree with you in principle. But i'd at least wait for reviews and maybe see what the competition is, providing it's not too far away of course. But it is a bit too quiet on the AMD front.
 
Yaayuh! said:
I agree with you in principle. But i'd at least wait for reviews and maybe see what the competition is, providing it's not too far away of course. But it is a bit too quiet on the AMD front.
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this, no reviews and a potential AMD release to impact on pricng even if you don't want to buy AMD.
 
If I can get near double the performance of my 1070 for a £500 outlay, then I'm in.

My only worry is the miserly 8gb of vram, which is no more than my 1070 has. Surely they should be giving us more vram four years later??
 
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