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THE FAMOUS TRIO: RX 580's & RX 570's WITH UPTO £150 DISCOUNT!!

I picked up a RX580 from a previous Gibbo forum deal in the summer to go with a 2160p monitor that just happened to have freesync, looks like prices are up another 10% from then even in these special offer deals. I don't see it getting any better in the foreseeable future.
RX480/580 were supposed to be mid range high volume cards around the £200 sweet spot though with the cost of fab time skyrocketing for both memory and GPU cores and the extra demand from mining i'd guess £250+ is the new price for the mid range performance until we get a process node shrink .... and then we'll all want more performance at the same price point.

Just checked out the steam hardware survey for Jan 18 and I can't believe how low the AMD market share is.
There are 10 Nvidia cards for each AMD card logged in steam. ~ 80% vs 8%

RX480 0.47%
RX580 0.18%

GTX1060 13.91%
Only 6% of cards have 6GB ram so a lot of those GTX1060's are the cheaper 3GB version

Either almost all the AMD's are busy mining, or AMD didn't buy much fab time so a surge in mining demand wiped out the cores they ordered.

Physiologically tough time to be buying high end PC hardware given you're paying a premium to stand still, but then look at the Intel drip fed improvements over the last 5 years, often requiring a new motherboard for <10%.... at least GPU's are actually getting faster each year.
Hopefully the GTX2060 or whatever they call it can bring 1080 performance around the £300 price point for the 95% of use not buying the top tier cards.

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decto said:
I picked up a RX580 from a previous Gibbo forum deal in the summer to go with a 2160p monitor that just happened to have freesync, looks like prices are up another 10% from then even in these special offer deals. I don't see it getting any better in the foreseeable future.
RX480/580 were supposed to be mid range high volume cards around the £200 sweet spot though with the cost of fab time skyrocketing for both memory and GPU cores and the extra demand from mining i'd guess £250+ is the new price for the mid range performance until we get a process node shrink .... and then we'll all want more performance at the same price point.

Just checked out the steam hardware survey for Jan 18 and I can't believe how low the AMD market share is.
There are 10 Nvidia cards for each AMD card logged in steam. ~ 80% vs 8%

RX480 0.47%
RX580 0.18%

GTX1060 13.91%
Only 6% of cards have 6GB ram so a lot of those GTX1060's are the cheaper 3GB version

Either almost all the AMD's are busy mining, or AMD didn't buy much fab time so a surge in mining demand wiped out the cores they ordered.

Physiologically tough time to be buying high end PC hardware given you're paying a premium to stand still, but then look at the Intel drip fed improvements over the last 5 years, often requiring a new motherboard for <10%.... at least GPU's are actually getting faster each year.
Hopefully the GTX2060 or whatever they call it can bring 1080 performance around the £300 price point for the 95% of use not buying the top tier cards.

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A lot of steam users in the hardware survey are now Chinese (50%+ although declining again now). That occurred when PUBG came out and when there was basically zero chance that gamers were getting AMD card. Nvidia users (not that they weren't the majority already) increased quickly at the same time as they were the only cards available for gamers.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

You can see it in the graph. Guess when PUBG came out.
 
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@Gibbo any chance of some other manufacturers of 580's on this deal?

Really not keen on Powercolor aesthetics. Wouldn't be a problem if it was in a windowless case but these things are fugly.
 
Thanks, gone for the cheaper 580. Appreciate the gesture in the current environment.
 
muon said:
A lot of steam users in the hardware survey are now Chinese (50%+ although declining again now). That occurred when PUBG came out and when there was basically zero chance that gamers were getting AMD card. Nvidia users (not that they weren't the majority already) increased quickly at the same time as they were the only cards available for gamers.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

You can see it in the graph. Guess when PUBG came out.
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Just had a look, language simplified Chinese ~51%, didn't realise steam was so popular over there. Would have thought the great firewall would say no.
Regardless of the region, almost any gamer spending $200+ on a GPU is likely to have a steam account. Recent AMD cards really don't put up a great show which is a shame, though I currently have an RX580, my last cards were GTX680 and GTX560 TI 2GB SLI. Competition is a good thing, just look at CPU's.
 
A good price considering the current climate but damn, £20 more than that 580 would have netted you a 1070 about 6 months ago. No point in looking back but it highlights how much the market has changed.
 
Last SSD deals I went for were the Sandisk brand, 480GB Ultra II ~£85, 512GB X300 ~£90 & 960GB Ultra II ~ £165. Can we get close to that pricing again Gibbo?
 
Anyone who is complaining about the prices can always use their card for mining while they're in bed at night. This will easily cover the difference in cost after a month or 2. It is very good that OCUK run these promotions to help gamers out, but gamers can help themselves out as well :)
 
no_1_dave said:
Anyone who is complaining about the prices can always use their card for mining while they're in bed at night. This will easily cover the difference in cost after a month or 2. It is very good that OCUK run these promotions to help gamers out, but gamers can help themselves out as well :)
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People shouldn't have to get into mining just to cover inflated GPU prices, it won't help solve the problem, only feed it
 
Wrinkly said:
Last SSD deals I went for were the Sandisk brand, 480GB Ultra II ~£85, 512GB X300 ~£90 & 960GB Ultra II ~ £165. Can we get close to that pricing again Gibbo?
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Not quite those prices but not a million miles away, certainly a lot cheaper than the Samsung and cheaper than the Kingston value drives.
 
Wrinkly said:
Last SSD deals I went for were the Sandisk brand, 480GB Ultra II ~£85, 512GB X300 ~£90 & 960GB Ultra II ~ £165. Can we get close to that pricing again Gibbo?
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I doubt we'll see a 1TB drive for <£200. Would love to be wrong. And for the drive in question not to be slow as treacle.
 
ljt said:
People shouldn't have to get into mining just to cover inflated GPU prices, it won't help solve the problem, only feed it
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They don't have to, I'm just saying they can. At the end of the day people have to accept the prices are ridiculous at the moment and they have 3 options:

1) Don't buy, instead complain even though it won't change anything but keep saying it even though everyone already knows
2) Suck it up and buy at the higher price
3) Buy one at the current price and do a bit of mining on the side to recoup the difference.

Most people seem to be doing a mix of 1 and 2, but mainly 1.
 
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