Gtx 1080 TI value going forward?

Shinzra · 18 Sep 2018 at 15:40

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to ask, I currently have a gtx 1080ti, and with the new release of the 20 series, I must admit I am quite tempted to look into maybe getting a 2080 or 2080t.

But before I make that decision I want to wait, check out some reviews, see what happens over a month or 2 etc. Currently the 1080ti in various brands is going for around £500-550 on ebay, do you think it will hold at this value for the next say 1-3 months or will it shoot down?

Cheers all

Legend · 18 Sep 2018 at 15:44

It won't shoot down. 20xx pricing is not going to drop, so that will level off pricing of the 1080Ti. Depends what retailers do in order to try and shift cards, as obviously cheap deals there will have an impact on second hand value. Will hold pretty steady though I'd guess.

matt1 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:17

I predict they'll drop a bit with people off loading their 1080Ti's for the upgrade, I would imagine second hand prices will drop to around the £450 mark, can't see them going lower than £400. It does depend quite a lot on how the new cards do in the reviews.

Marine-RX179 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:24

matt1 said:
I predict they'll drop a bit with people off loading their 1080Ti's for the upgrade, I would imagine second hand prices will drop to around the £450 mark, can't see them going lower than £400. It does depend quite a lot on how the new cards do in the reviews.

But the thing is that with the mental pricing of the 2080 and 2080ti, I suspect lots of 1080ti owners will probably just decide to hold onto their cards instead of dropping for £1200+ for the 2080ti or "upgrading" to 2080 with tiny bit of higher performance at the cost of few hundred pounds extra after selling their card.

Jono8 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:25

It really all depends on how the 2070 and 2080 perform.

Marine-RX179 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:32

Jono8 said:
It really all depends on how the 2070 and 2080 perform.

Or how the 1080ti would perform in new games after the release of 2070/2080?

Remember the Kepler cards (780/780ti etc) got neglected by Nvidia with questionable (lack of) performance for new releases for nearly 9 months after the launch of 970/980? They only provided the some driver performance optimisation for some games after peoples' uproar and backlash for so long.

kevman · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:32

If 2070 is lower performer than 1080 ti and 10 series stock becomes short prices could go up

Jono8 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:38

kevman said:
If 2070 is lower performer than 1080 ti and 10 series stock becomes short prices could go up

True, but if the 2070 is on a par or outperforms the 1080ti for ~£550( basing that on the relative price to the 1080), prices will naturally plummet on the 1080ti.

Marine-RX179 · 18 Sep 2018 at 16:43

Jono8 said:
True, but if the 2070 is on a par or outperforms the 1080ti for ~£550( basing that on the relative price to the 1080), prices will naturally plummet on the 1080ti.

Yea. Nvidia ain't stupid, they are not going to shoot themselves in the foot; they are taking their sweet time and carefully executing their scheme on how to milk the consumer dry this time round.

If Nvidia or Jen to be precise has the ability to time travel, he would go back in time to tell his younger self to further cripple down the spec of the 1080ti

Shinzra · 18 Sep 2018 at 19:52

Yh I am going to wait for the reviews tomorrow, for me and my current income, the 2080Ti is probably not something I could afford, but the 2080 would be appealing depending on how much better it is over my current 1080ti, my monitor is 1440p so at that resolution if its only a 5% increase or something like that, not really going to be worth say a extra £250 to pay after the 1080ti sells.

However if with the Dlss and everything else, its starting to perform 15-25% faster then at that stage its tempting.

Gerard · 18 Sep 2018 at 20:32

Be interesting to see how many 1080ti or Titan X owners do a sidegrade to the 2080. Besides ray tracing it will probably make next to no sense but I bet some will do it regardless.

hyperseven · 18 Sep 2018 at 20:56

Gerard said:
Be interesting to see how many 1080ti or Titan X owners do a sidegrade to the 2080. Besides ray tracing it will probably make next to no sense but I bet some will do it regardless.

well there's aways hardware async which those cards don't have.

Gerard · 18 Sep 2018 at 20:57

hyperseven said:
well there's aways hardware async which those cards don't have.

Worth the cost though? Selling a card, then slapping more or less double your sale price together to get one? Only 2080's in stock tomorrow anyway, the ti's are behind by a few days.

Donnie Fisher · 18 Sep 2018 at 21:09

If the table to benchmarks from the other thread is correct, then it pointed towards 2080ti being 30-40% better that 1080ti, and 2080 being 10-15% better (very very roughly if i read it right). I personally doubt that the 2070 will therefor better the 1080ti in the normal games that exist at the moment.

Which leads to the big IF point about RTX in my mind ... whether games will implement it such that they significantly improve the performance over and beyond the non-RTX performance ... and if they dont, then to me, there is little point moving away from the 1080ti I have at the moment.

kevman · 18 Sep 2018 at 21:32

Donnie Fisher said:
If the table to benchmarks from the other thread is correct, then it pointed towards 2080ti being 30-40% better that 1080ti, and 2080 being 10-15% better (very very roughly if i read it right). I personally doubt that the 2070 will therefor better the 1080ti in the normal games that exist at the moment.

Which leads to the big IF point about RTX in my mind ... whether games will implement it such that they significantly improve the performance over and beyond the non-RTX performance ... and if they dont, then to me, there is little point moving away from the 1080ti I have at the moment.

I think the number of games that implement it is all down to nv either in sheer clout or monetary incentive they offer. It's an investment for them to capture more market share

Psycho Sonny · 18 Sep 2018 at 21:49

if the 2070 is faster and more efficient then yes the 1080ti will plummet in value

Firestar_3x · 18 Sep 2018 at 21:51

Psycho Sonny said:
if the 2070 is faster and more efficient then yes the 1080ti will plummet in value

How much is a 2070 going to cost new?

matt1 · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:07

Psycho Sonny said:
if the 2070 is faster and more efficient then yes the 1080ti will plummet in value

I look forward to finding out, would imagine they'll be pretty similar but they'll be the price premium on the 2070.

Gerard · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:08

Psycho Sonny said:
if the 2070 is faster and more efficient then yes the 1080ti will plummet in value

Than the 1080ti? Not much chance of that. For their lineup to make sense from the leaked benchies 2070 would have to be in between 1080 and 1080ti.

chaparral · 18 Sep 2018 at 22:12

Marine-RX179 said:
Remember the Kepler cards (780/780ti etc) got neglected by Nvidia with questionable (lack of) performance for new releases for nearly 9 months after the launch of 970/980? They only provided the some driver performance optimisation for some games after peoples' uproar and backlash for so long.

If I remember right the main problem I had with my old SLI 780ti setup was they didn't have enough memory (3GB)