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NVIDIA Reportedly Stops Production of Certain "Maxwell" GPUs

This can only be good news as it must mean replacements are not far away.......or nvidia has huge stocks of them that could take a while to sell - probably former.
 
Lol there's always one to completely undermine frustrations and expectations with a comment like "OMG, they're a business what do you expect?"

Time to start listing your Maxwell cards on the bay lads ;)
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Lol there's always one to completely undermine frustrations and expectations with a comment like "OMG, they're a business what do you expect?"

Time to start listing your Maxwell cards on the bay lads ;)
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My 12gb Maxwell cards are going nowhere anytime soon.:D
 
wunkley said:
Weirdly, don't prices usually go up when this happens? I'm glad I bagged 2 980tis for £480 each now. In the world of mad pc hardware pricing I'm quite happy with that.
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Yep, stock dries up faster than demand drops in an ideal situation. The last thing you want is a massive stock surplus and low demand causing fire-sale prices and large write-offs. look what happened to AMD last round, they had to wait months with extremely low 290x prices to try and clear inventory while nvidia made fists of cash selling cheaply produced 980 and 970 cards.
 
D.P. said:
Yep, stock dries up faster than demand drops in an ideal situation. The last thing you want is a massive stock surplus and low demand causing fire-sale prices and large write-offs. .
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Except that is pretty much always what happens..

In fact in recent memory , all the previous Nvidia stuff has been sold off dirt cheap when the new releases have come out.

GTX 480's for £190
GTX 580's for £200
GTX 670's for £160
GTX 680's for £210
GTX 780's for £200-£250
GTX 780Ti's for ~£300 ( possibly less? Cant remember, but definitely saw them for £300)

and that is just from memory + cards I have bought.

It is just what happens.
 
ill stick to my 2x 980TI`s that i just bought until march next year ;)
i think by then these cards will power through anything @1440p ;) i mean hell these new cards coming out are not even BIG Pascal so whats the big deal about them... if there not full ultra high end i dont want to know.
 
Of course but you want to sell as much stock off at high prices before starting the firesale, which is why Nvidia have stopped production to clear inventory. Nvidia can't predict exact demand between now and 1080 launch and so maximum profits will be had when there is only a small surplus 980 GPUs in the inventory to sell off cheaply.
 
ViRuS2k said:
ill stick to my 2x 980TI`s that i just bought until march next year ;)
i think by then these cards will power through anything @1440p ;) i mean hell these new cards coming out are not even BIG Pascal so whats the big deal about them... if there not full ultra high end i dont want to know.
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Yeah, yeah, if they're a bit faster than the Ti's you and many more will want to upgrade regardless of whether they're full top end in the lifecycle. Until a new top end arrives, these will be top end, that's one way to look at it. Upgrade, then upgrade again if you want to but you won't want to stay with the old tech.:p

Maybe they'll do something similar to the 6 series this time, by way of 680, 690 soon afterwards and then later a Titan
 
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Well I've not long had my GTX970 so I'll not be upgrading until big Pascal comes out anyways. I'm sat here wishing I bought the 980Ti but I wasn't going to pay £300 on top of the price of a GTX970 for one though. This time around I'm going to buy what I want as the GTX970 just isn't powerful enough. It runs my games fine but since I've got my Ultrawide the fps are into the 40s.
 
Titan Xs have dried up on E-bay maybe i should have held onto mine longer or is now a good time to sell?

Just Sold my Asus T-X for £800 -80 ebay fees so i get £720
I was a year old i had some use but was used in SLI so not loads of use
 
Gregster said:
Tempted to pop my Titan X on Ebay now and buy an interim card. Thoughts?
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Thought about doing the same a few months back but there's very little point, you aren't going to see a noticeable increase until the 2nd batch of Pascal cards imo.

The 1080 might be faster in some games but I don't think it will be enough to be noticeable. You might be able to make a few quid but I'm not sure it's worth it if the card will still be giving you the top end performance till the end of this year.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Thought about doing the same a few months back but there's very little point, you aren't going to see a noticeable increase until the 2nd batch of Pascal cards imo.

The 1080 might be faster in some games but I don't think it will be enough to be noticeable. You might be able to make a few quid but I'm not sure it's worth it if the card will still be giving you the top end performance till the end of this year.
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Last time we had a die shrink and went from full fat Fermi to mid range Kepler, the difference was quite large. The 680 was a lot faster than the 580 so there is a possibility the 1080 will give a decent jump in performance over a 980Ti.

Obviously no one knows but it would be silly to discount it, based on past history.
 
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