Caporegime
We don't know whether Nvidia is using its 7NM allocations initially for its commerical GPUs though. AMD after all seems to be focusing its first 7NM GPU for commercial usage too and also using 7NM for Ryzen 3.
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Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread
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We don't know whether Nvidia is using its 7NM allocations initially for its commerical GPUs though. AMD after all seems to be focusing its first 7NM GPU for commercial usage too and also using 7NM for Ryzen 3.
Soldato
I love my 970 but at 4K it’s not really cutting it but I’m hoping the new 1180 will sort that ...
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Associate
Will skip the normals and do ti to ti as usual, hoping for a lot better vr speed
Caporegime
Nvidia reportedly stockpiling one million next-generation graphics cards
https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-next-gen-graphics-card-inventory-stockpile
https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-next-gen-graphics-card-inventory-stockpile
Soldato
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haha wouldn't be surprised - most AIB had their Card designed drafted up and on show around Feb time .
always a fear for AIB that nvidia will increase the selling time of FE cards - heck AMD did it for 3/4 months and ASUS refused to sell them.
then pulling Titan to their store only Hurt Resellers like OCUK- recall Gibbo not being happy about it way back when
Associate
I’m assuming you have the 1080ti, what issues are you having with VR with your the GPU and why want to upgrade it at all?, I ask as I only have an r9-290 and I’m there’s not a VR game I can’t play with it. I have been saving up slowly for a 1080ti, but I can’t bring myself to spend the money as realistically I don’t see how the 1080ti will do anything that the 290 can’t do in Budget Cuts, SkyrimVR (vanilla) Pavlov, StandOut and Onward.
For flatscreen games I wouldn’t mind the extra grunt, but as I play pancake games on the 1080p 60hz living room TV the 1080ti would be waaaay overkill
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if you are happy on mid details then lower spec cards are fine.
most made specifically for vr games are also fine
but if you want all the eye pr0n on games like pCARS2, Eite Dangerous Euro truck sim 2 (believe it or not) or you want to use the high detail mods for games like skyrim VR, then the more grunt the better, even more so if you like to super sample.
most made specifically for vr games are also fine
but if you want all the eye pr0n on games like pCARS2, Eite Dangerous Euro truck sim 2 (believe it or not) or you want to use the high detail mods for games like skyrim VR, then the more grunt the better, even more so if you like to super sample.
Soldato
Oh I believe it. Cranked everything up to max on my OG Titan and was floored by how pretty it was. The rain sucks though.
Man of Honour
If they were stockpiling that many next gen cards NVidia would never have just increased the Titan V price to £2800 in case they get stuck with unsold Volta cards.
They might have just expected the mining boom to still be strong and ordered too many. There was a story a week or 2 back they had 300k of exess inventory of Pascal they were finding it hard to shift.
Man of Honour
The story about 300k of excess inventory is a bit silly even if it is true.
People are not going to stop building PCs or replace older/defective GPUs because NVidia have not released a new architecture. For example a workmate of mine a couple of weeks ago blew up his HD 7970 but is now very happy with the GTX 1060 he replaced it with.
Globally it is not going to take NVidia that long to shift 300k of GPUs even if the story is true.
Soldato
The 1170 should blitz 1440p, I might pre-order one if they come up with custom cards as quick as the Founders Editions. Hopefully soon
Me personally I'm still loving my 980 Ti at 1500mhz and 8ghz memory.
When it comes to price performance overclocking potential etc etc, the 980 Ti is the best Ti IMO besting the 780 Ti and the 1080 Ti
When it comes to price performance overclocking potential etc etc, the 980 Ti is the best Ti IMO besting the 780 Ti and the 1080 Ti
The issue, IMO, isn't performance, it's price. If they look at it and think '1170 faster than a 1080ti? Shouldn't it be close to 1080ti pricing?' and put them out at £600, then 1180 at £750, this will mean 1180ti could be £1k or close to it. memory isn't getting any cheaper and cards are using a lot of it and demand is still high across the board.
Not sure if serious. As I have mentioned many times in the past, if they did that every time a new generation of cards came out, a graphics card would cost like a house.
Mining profits a way down, there will not be that the demand we the last 6 months or so. They are not going to risk ******* off gamers by pricing it silly either. Max $50 price hike and they will probably put that down to memory or something.
We will see in a few months time, but I suspect even a 1170 will be closer to £500 than the 1070 ever was at launch. Nvidia have a dominant market position and they know it. They also know that there are thou do, if not tens of thousands of people that will buy their latest card at almost whatever price they release at. Enough people have bought Titan Cards in their various iterations in the past for exorbitant amounts of cash for a minimal improvement for NV to know people are waiting. Nvidia might try and see how far they can push it, complete with 'we're sorry, poor yields and rising memory prices have forced us to raise our prices, it's not our fault' while reaping the cash. I still expect even the 1170 to be around £500, most likely more. The original 1070 FE launch was £399 two years ago, prior to the major memory shortage and mining boom. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/nvidia-gtx-1070-wanna-pre-order.18734903/
But not hard enough that they had to lower prices,Seems a bit BS really
EDIT: TO be clear, it is perfectly reasonable that this happened. There was a massive supply shortage, Nvidia publicly stated they would increase supply, it takes at least 6 months to get orders in at the fab and int he mean-time the mining market crashed. But if Nvidia really had big concerns about excess stock then prices would be much lower already.
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I'd be interested to know if AMD have ordered a surplus of VEGA GPU's due the recent mining craze. If yes this would hurt AMD a lot more than Nvidia.
Nvidia can reduce the price a lot more than AMD and still make a good profit. We know VEGA is an expensive GPU to make and being tied to costly HBM compounds the issue.