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Increases in GPU prices

Hg80

Hg80

Hg80

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Hi All,
I know Brexit may have had an impact on this but man, the prices of Nvidias GPUS have gone up hugely since launch.
Take the KFA2 GTX 1080 "Reference Blower" when the card was first announced it was up on your site at £525, now its £600. Thats an increase of over 14% in a few months.

I hope this maybe down to demand and supply?
Are The GPUS likely to return to more favorable costs or have i missed the boat in getting them cheap!
 
let's see pre-brexit 1£ = 1.5$, post-brexit 1£ = 1.3$, inflation 15%, price went up by 15%, sounds about right to me :D
yea brexit and all, but it's just brexit and thats it :D
retailers cannot gouge anymore even if they have low stock, because the price difference would be too much of a deterrent.
 
AlamoX said:
let's see pre-brexit 1£ = 1.5$, post-brexit 1£ = 1.3$, inflation 15%, price went up by 15%, sounds about right to me :D
yea brexit and all, but it's just brexit and thats it :D
retailers cannot gouge anymore even if they have low stock, because the price difference would be too much of a deterrent.
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You have no clue if you think these price increases have nothing to do with Brexit.

Just a hint - etailers have to worry about the exchange rate falling further when buying mass stock.
 
Hg80 said:
Hi All,
I know Brexit may have had an impact on this but man, the prices of Nvidias GPUS have gone up hugely since launch.
Take the KFA2 GTX 1080 "Reference Blower" when the card was first announced it was up on your site at £525, now its £600. Thats an increase of over 14% in a few months.

I hope this maybe down to demand and supply?
Are The GPUS likely to return to more favorable costs or have i missed the boat in getting them cheap!
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a) No competition
b) Demand - Supply.

If you think 1080 is too expensive, buy AMD cards. They have price reduction and you can buy 2 RX480 or 2 R9 390X plus a Freesync monitor for the price of the 1080............
 
eggcup said:
Or buy 2 980ti's for £700 which will give you far more performance than a 1080 ;P
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if maxwell was any good in dx12/vulkan i would have agreed :D
i think a lot of ppl have trouble processing how fast the movement to dx12/vulkan is right now, no one should be suggesting maxwell buy at this point if you ask me, especialy if they plan on keeping the gpu for 2 years or so.
 
AlamoX said:
let's see pre-brexit 1£ = 1.5$, post-brexit 1£ = 1.3$.
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Sterling was 1.5$ for a few hours, the real rate was 1.42-1.44. Lots of people and places keep quoting this 1.5$ when in fact was only there for brief few hours of friday morning.
 
The country wanted Brexit, the country is getting Brexit.

It was fairly obvious that stock markets and the exchange rate would be affected in the event of Brexit.

Brexit is a long term decision, yet the public seem to be occupied by short term effects, as usual.

Anyway, the value of sterling against the Euro is still a lot better than it was a few years ago (yet I heard a report earlier that food prices could be going up by ~20% because we import a lot of food from Europe).

Meanwhile, I'm pleased with my GTX1070, but it's given me the difficult decision if I should upgrade from a 24" 1080 to a 27" 1440 monitor.
 
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1.42 then dropped too 1.29 due too loads of issues.

It was at 1.333 (max yesterday) and it has gone down too 1.313 today.

Tbh when it dropped from 1.42 too 1.29 it made sense that some items would go up (mainly ones that needed too be ordered or ones that relied on dollar rebates) but the fact that it went up from 1.29 to 1.33 and prices for gpu's went up again is a joke tbh.

As of today we have lost 9% ish between the dollar and the pound but gpu's and other items have gone up by 13% or more! it is so very obvious that "supply and demand" is being used to swindle the market not to mention "possible" price gouging.

All we know for sure is if the market goes down by 1% all the prices jump up instantly but if the market goes up by 4% it can be days or weeks before it is changed cause companies make so much money from it.
 
Dervious said:
The country wanted Brexit, the country is getting Brexit.

It was fairly obvious that stock markets and the exchange rate would be affected in the event of Brexit.

Brexit is a long term decision, yet the public seem to be occupied by short term effects, as usual.

Anyway, the value of sterling against the Euro is still a lot better than it was a few years ago (yet I heard a report earlier that food prices will could be going up by ~20% because we import a lot of food from Europe).

Meanwhile, I'm pleased with my GTX1070, but it's given me the difficult decision if I should upgrade from a 24" 1080 to a 27" 1440 monitor.
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The 1070 is meant for 1440p, shouldn't be a difficult decision - besides, everything you can do with a 1080 you can do with a 1070 :D
 
FoxEye said:
I look forward to a time when the word "Brexit" is a distant memory.
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Haha "-exit" has become a meme in itself, appended to everything, bit like "-gate" was after Watergate.

ATM Filipinos are using CHexit after the tribunal ruling that China has no claim to the islands it's been building on near The Phillipines ;)

And of course if other Euro countries start considering referenda...
 
razorpakk said:
The 1070 is meant for 1440p, shouldn't be a difficult decision - besides, everything you can do with a 1080 you can do with a 1070 :D
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The thing is, if I max out The Witcher 3, I'm getting <60fps (around 45fps). I could get a GSync monitor, but prices are high and choice is a bit limitted (ideally I want IPS GSync). I could get a monitor without GSync, but it will mean that I have to start reducing settings in a few games, and it'll possibly shorten the useful life of my GTX1070. I really don't know what the best choice is.
 
OK, because this morning I am motivated to put some maths here and remove myths (eg exit from the EU)

KFA 1080 has £599. VAT 20% is £99. The net amount is £499.
Translating to USD with today's price, the new price in dollar is $658.68. At £1/$1.27 that is $633 per card.

If we hold NV truth to their word that the RRP is $599;
That means that the price of the card to the end market could be this. And is the price to the consumer NOT to the shops, which will buy the card cheaper. I have no idea how much profit margin the NVidia and AIBs allow, but at least a healthy 15% should be in order. (RRP - 15%). But definitely the shops do not buy on RRP.

Now lets put it into perspective. The cheapest USD prices of the GTX1080 in US is similar to the price in UK ($649)

So the weak sterling argument should be thrown out of the window guys. At £1/$1.27 we buy the cards cheaper than in US ($633 against $649 in US), while at £1/$1.32 we buy them not that much more expensive ($658 against $649 in US).

NV, AIBs and retailers simply want to make a good profit here, and everyone is trying to make money, because there is the supply-demand in place. You shouldn't be surprised if you see another £50 added to the card.

So even post GBP to USD conversion we buy more or less the same price as in US.


Weak pound myth.....

All this media "aaaaaa weak pound of 31 years, we are dooooooommmeeeeddddd"

Hold on a sec, look the exchange rate June 2014. I do not remember anyone here been up their arms about the prices of the graphic cards back then, when we paid 30% MORE than anyone else.......
 
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seriously this thread AGAIN?

Jesus learn how to search, this has come up multiple times, do we really need another thread?
 
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