IMHO its all about yields and how many P100 chips NVidia have stockpiled since they started producing them in Q1 2016 (?). Somewhere in Nvidia the finance team got their calculator out and they already know how many chips Nvidia need to shift prior to Volta launching when considering the competition from Vega, this will determine the price of the 1080ti.
If stock pile is low then prepared to got rinsed, if stock pile is big then prices will move downward once Vega launches because they will need to shift volume prior to Volta arriving. My suspicion is that the 980ti launched with a big inventory of chips to shift and thats why the price was reasonable.
If stock pile is low then prepared to got rinsed, if stock pile is big then prices will move downward once Vega launches because they will need to shift volume prior to Volta arriving. My suspicion is that the 980ti launched with a big inventory of chips to shift and thats why the price was reasonable.