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Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread

bishi said:
It was BEEP. If its a scam it'll be disappointing but I won't lose out at least
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The amount of third party sellers there that are graphic card scammers that either have bad rating or were selling 10 p sweets and suddenly started selling 1k graphic cards and people seemed shocked when it doesn't turn up.
 
I do think that second video makes a VERY good point and echoes my own thoughts. Turing certainly makes zero sense from a price/performance point of view... it definitely feels 'off', very rushed, and is clearly directing all but the most die-hard enthusiasts towards the Pascal cards.
 
Legend said:
I do think that second video makes a VERY good point and echoes my own thoughts. Turing certainly makes zero sense from a price/performance point of view... it definitely feels 'off', very rushed, and is clearly directing all but the most die-hard enthusiasts towards the Pascal cards.
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Except Pascal cards stopped m=being made ages ago and stock is almost entirely gone. Gibbo imself posted some warnings, you want a 1080/ti you better act fast.
 
D.P. said:
Gibbo imself posted some warnings, you want a 1080/ti you better act fast.
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Until which time that it is convenient, and all of a sudden stock will appear from no where in abundance once the price has ticked up enough to make it look like a great deal when it's dropped again to £600.

Never trust a sales man, end of story.
 
D.P. said:
Except Pascal cards stopped m=being made ages ago and stock is almost entirely gone. Gibbo imself posted some warnings, you want a 1080/ti you better act fast.
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I don't buy that... as Journey says, classic salesman talk. There are still loads of 1080Ti's out there. Even if they've stopped making them (which again I've not actually seen officially confirmed), they made so many off the back of the mining craze that stock is still out there. It won't last forever of course, but that's the whole point of pricing Turing so high... it's a pretty genuis way of clearing out that stock, and that's all the more likely given the lack of performance bump that Turing brings... 2080Ti aside of course, but even that's priced so sky high that it's out of reach for many.
 
And there doesn't seem to be much reason for the prices of the current Pascal lineup to change much, Black Friday or otherwise. Thanks to the performance and pricing of Turing I can't imagine there being a big drive to cut prices on old stock.
 
Legend said:
I don't buy that... as Journey says, classic salesman talk. There are still loads of 1080Ti's out there.
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How do you know that?

Even if they've stopped making them (which again I've not actually seen officially confirmed), they made so many off the back of the mining craze that stock is still out there.
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I haven't seen that confirmed either.

It won't last forever of course, but that's the whole point of pricing Turing so high... it's a pretty genuis way of clearing out that stock, and that's all the more likely given the lack of performance bump that Turing brings... 2080Ti aside of course, but even that's priced so sky high that it's out of reach for many.
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Or it can simply be that Turing has bad yield due to core size and Nvidia are also hiking prices to increase profits.


If Nvidia were ever worried about excess Pascal stock they would have reduced prices a long time ago. Their profit margin is sky high compared to Vega. Evidently, Nvidia never thought they had excess stock.
 
x-st said:
And there doesn't seem to be much reason for the prices of the current Pascal lineup to change much, Black Friday or otherwise. Thanks to the performance and pricing of Turing I can't imagine there being a big drive to cut prices on old stock.
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The last thing Nvidia want is an over stocked supply chain.
 
By far the craziest launch I've ever known from nVidia, usually don't see stock like this for quite a while!!!

I guess they shouldn't have made Pascal so good (as they're still strong strong cards). Hell I even tried a £130 s/hand 1060 the other week and even that was bloody good using Medium/High settings at 1440p :eek: Was very impressed tbh :cool:
 
I will make a tentative prediction that come black Friday time some new higher end pascal stock will magically appear to be sold on sale at some UK etailers.

The presence of absence of such deals would certainly go a long way towards answering the question about whether there is any considerable residual pascal stock left for sale (for the higher end sku's above 1070ti)
 
Ironically, if the GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti did vanish *poof*, then Nvidia may start losing sales against the better AIB Vega 64's especially at the £449 price point with a load of free games. They only hope they have got is the RGTX 2070 staying at £460 ish for the low end cards, but maybe that is what they want, to get people thinking an xx70 card at nearly £500 is normal ;)
 
The 2*** series has to go down as one of the worst in GPU history. Nvidia forget that these cards need to offer decent value as well decent performance gains. These cards offer very little in that regard.

As for RTX features, you're paying for features that aren't even viable yet. Nvidia talk about the best graphics technology, but where are the games, where is all the content that justifies the exceptionally high price tag for the hardware.

With prices like these Nvidia should be putting some multi-million pound investment into developing games/creating new studios that take full advantage of the hardware.

With AAA developers no longer pushing technology beyond console level, all you get is higher frame rate console ports. That's it.

I honestly think people buying these cards are just stupid with money.
 
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Rock_n_Roll said:
The 2*** series has to go down as one of the worst in GPU history. Nvidia forget that these cards need to offer decent value as well decent performance gains. These cards offer very little in that regard.

As for RTX features, you're paying for features that aren't even viable yet. Where are the games, where is all the content that justifies the exceptionally high price tag for the hardware.

With prices like these Nvidia should be putting some multi-million pound investment into developing games/creating new studios that take full advantage of the hardware.

With AAA developers no longer pushing technology beyond console level, all you get is higher frame rate console ports. That's it.

I honestly think people buying these cards are just stupid with money.
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There's no need for that last sentence. There's too many people with a diverse set of financial and hardware circumstances to tar everyone with the same brush.
 
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