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Why are GPUs so expensive?
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The 2080 Ti is ~30% faster than my old 1080 Ti.
The cost is ~double.
Now, I am a free-market guy. Sellers ask what they want, and buyers decide if they are willing to pay.
I'm not willing to pay so much extra money for so little improvement.
Are you a troll? If you'd like, I will add you to the list of trolls.
And for you to calm down, I had used AKG K511 headset and it's extremely bad. Happy that I got rid of it.
Your GTX 1080 Ti doesn't support any Raytracing, so its raytracing performance is 0. RTX 2080 Ti is infinitely faster in Raytracing and much more future-proofed.
Same to you old mateKeep up the good work.
Merry Xmas Greg.
Wrong again.
You would get along well with Trump with the sheer amount of fake news you spread
The 2080 ti can do something that I don't care about.
In the future, ray tracing may be more widely implimented and the hardware might be able to get the job done without wrecking frame rates...THEN...it might interest me.
The 2080 ti is not worth my money.
I assume you are being sarcastic, because the roll of honor for the 2080ti owners thread seems to say otherwise.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-owners-thread.18828886/page-83#post-32682737
Sorry I didn't see this, till after I had posted.
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It's the same every gen so nothing new? The 1080ti was only a 40-50% increase over a 980ti for a massive £700-800!!! Replacing a GPU EVERY gen has been an extravegant thing to do for at least 15 years.
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980Ti was a decent upgrade compared to the previous cards in that series though.
The 2080Ti is overpriced for what it is for sure, all of the cards pricing has gone up a lot. The next series needs to bring a good jump in all ways and again we will probably have upper mid range cards looking best price/performance, AMD kind of already doing that with the 5700XT. And the next gen consoles will show up our overpriced GPUs (price/perf wise) unless we go back to good jumps again with less stupid pricing, the Nvidia 3070 should be around 2080Ti level tbh.
RTX is not "the same". It is the worst generational "upgrade" I have seen from nvidia.
980 Ti launched for $650 and the 1080 Ti launched for $700.
$50 more for 40-50% more performance increase is value..particularly when compared to $400 *more* for 30% more performance.
RTX offered us the 2080 at the 1080 Ti price point and gave us the same performance at the same price...years after the 1080 Ti launched.
This is not what progress looks like.
And I know that upgrading every generation is seldom worth it, it's just that RTX was terrible from a performance per dollar upgrade perspective.
Had the 2080Ti been $700 I probably still would have waited another generation to upgrade or at least waited for launch prices to come down. But 1k? No freaking way Nvidia.
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2070 super trades blows with 1080ti.
I can't remember exactly how much they were but weren't 1080ti's around £900 at one point or another.
2070 super cost me £430 new on black Friday.
I also believe people who are complaining about gpu prices being too expensive need to just get in touch with reality.
A mobile phone costs over £1k these days too. Go back 10-15 years and they were like £300 top end.
People spend £300 or whatever it is on a Dyson hair dryer or £500 on one of their cordless hoovers.
You want to talk about progress. A house today costs a hell of a lot more than they did 30+ years ago.
People on this very forum are spending £50 on a light bulb and buying 20 of them at a time. Just because it links to WiFi and changes colour, etc.
If you can't afford a GPU then you need to just buy a 1080p monitor and use a 1660 super or get a console.
Nobody cares if they aren't value for money neither are iphones. They still sell in the millions. You don't see people complaining about the cost of them.
My home is worth 3 times what it was when it was built 20 years ago and that's how much I had to pay for it too. I didn't complain or wait for prices to come down. I bit the bullet.
Buy what you can afford.
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I think the 1080Ti FE was around £700 range ignoring price gouging (I had one from new).
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Just because people buy them doesn't mean it's worth the money. I have no interest in Apple stuff when you can get similar/better while paying less.
I think it's more the fact that companies see how much people will spend on certain things and take advantage of it these days.
The "super" stuff came as a response to AMD and the 5700XT. Competition.
The 2080 (non super) offered the same performance as a 1080 ti for the same money...years after the 1080 Ti hit the market.
A lot of us don't do any of those things.
My phone cost me £99 in 2012 and I still use it. I don't have a hairdryer
I don't have a Dyson. I spent about £4.50 each on the most expensive lightbulbs in the whole house.I would however agree that the top-end card doesn't have to obey value-for-money metrics. The top-end card has always been for those who have no spending limits.
The mid-range pricing is also going up-up-up, and in that segment people do care about vfm. Mid-range cards being £350+ now is a total joke.
And I tell you what hasn't been ever-increasing in the last decade... many people's wages. If we all earned 5x what we earned 10 years ago it wouldn't be so bad!