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GPU Prices high due to to Christmas?

Robin Gregg

Robin Gregg

Robin Gregg

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Hi Guys,

Just wandering if the 1080ti and the 2080 GPU's are priced high due to Christmas or if this is new trending prices for them?

They look a little to high?!
 
EVGA 2080Ti Black available for £999 on Christmas Special Offer if you look around. 2080Ti and Turing in general is overpriced full stop though, Xmas has nothing to do with it.
 
Legend said:
EVGA 2080Ti Black available for £999 on Christmas Special Offer if you look around. 2080Ti and Turing in general is overpriced full stop though, Xmas has nothing to do with it.
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£999 is way to much for me, I'm still trying to justify £800 for a 2080 or 1080ti but at some point I'm going to need to upgrade from my 980ti.

Looks like it's going to be a waiting game.
 
Robin Gregg said:
£999 is way to much for me, I'm still trying to justify £800 for a 2080 or 1080ti but at some point I'm going to need to upgrade from my 980ti.

Looks like it's going to be a waiting game.
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I agree it's expensive, but it's nothing to do with Xmas. Nvidia have just gone nuts and clearly feel they are justified in asking sky high prices in a market sector they have all to themselves. This is the new norm. Nothing will change unless AMD (or maybe Intel) come along with something that actually competes... and not only that, they decide to price it competitively (they may not). We need to AMD to do to the GPU market what they did with CPUs and Ryzen. Until then, nothing will change. Your only recourse for now is to try and bag a decent second hand 1080Ti for £450-500. I wouldn't expect prices to alter much for the next year or so. I don't see any serious competition coming in that time.
 
Nvidia are the cause of the huge price increases in gpu prices AMD can't compete atm and when and if they do at the high end they will match nvidias pricing. Its discusting and anyone who defends the plus £700 and upwards prices are evil and very likely rich or YouTube samplers who say that a £500 gpu is a good deal. The whole gpu pricing from the last year or two makes me sick to my stomach.
 
wellibob said:
Nvidia are the cause of the huge price increases in gpu prices AMD can't compete atm and when and if they do at the high end they will match nvidias pricing. Its discusting and anyone who defends the plus £700 and upwards prices are evil and very likely rich or YouTube samplers who say that a £500 gpu is a good deal. The whole gpu pricing from the last year or two makes me sick to my stomach.
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AMD will be well aware of the upset about pricing amongst many enthusisasts, and see the opportunity here. If they can come in cheaper they will... AMD could have gone greedy with Ryzen, but they didn't. It's all a question as to whether they actually have an interest in the top end of the discrete GPU market or not, as they only seem concerned with the low to mid range for now. They may well be happy to leave Nvidia to it, in which case we're all pretty much screwed regards pricing for the long run, at the top end anyway.
 
No it's not Christmas, prices are high due to Nvidia and customer brand loyalty.

Nvidia actually has a massive backlog of unsold stock, if you could just stop buying them for a while they would be forced to shift the stock, most likely by cutting prices. But you can't, can you!?

So form an orderly queue and assume the position.
 
Rezident said:
No it's not Christmas, prices are high due to Nvidia and customer brand loyalty.

Nvidia actually has a massive backlog of unsold stock, if you could just stop buying them for a while they would be forced to shift the stock, most likely by cutting prices. But you can't, can you!?

So form an orderly queue and assume the position.
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Don't AMD have anything that's close to the 2080?
 
Robin Gregg said:
Don't AMD have anything that's close to the 2080?
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Technically no. In very certain scenario's the Vega64 can get close but so far it has to be a very Async Optimised scenario. Forza Horizon 4 is the best example of this where the 2080/1080Ti and Vega64 were all fighting over the same sort of performance. Most other scenario's the 2080 and 1080Ti are unchallenged.

However I have run into the scenario of the mere suggestion that a Vega64 could equal a 1080Ti is enough to send the Nvidia fanboy's off the deep end :D
 
1080ti are high due to selling really well once the prices being released for the RTX cards and the fact Nvidia no longer make them. The 2080 haven't changed much really. Places had good preorder prices on them like the TI version.
 
Robin Gregg said:
Don't AMD have anything that's close to the 2080?
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No, that's the Uber high end of the market for less than 2% of gamers according to Steam. Are you playing at 4k? This is exactly why I stayed at 1440p, still feels like a sweet upgrade from 1080 plus I did not want to have to upgrade GPU all the time. I got an ultrawide curved monitor at 1440p instead and am so glad I did now. Nvidia are merciless!

I got the liquid Vega 64 cheap in the excellent ocuk sale last Christmas and it plays all my games at 1440p as well as VR on my Vive. What do you need 2080 performance for? If you're in the top 2%, then price should not be an issue.
 
TBH there aren't really many games that will tax anything more than a 1070, the 1080/Vega64 is still way overkill for most. Requirements haven't moved for years as developers know the vast majority of people spend under £300 on GPUs (and that is unlikely to change), so that's what the target audience is. Basically console specs.

So there isn't really a lot of point in spending more. RTX and DLSS have so far been lackluster in the couple of games which actually support them.
 
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