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Will the Price of the 2080ti Fall?

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I realise this is speculative and based on what nVidia thinks is best for its shareholders, rather than what the end punter feels is a fair price, but what does anyone think?

Personally, I'm probably in the market for a GPU. I could afford a 2080ti, but I couldn't stomach the guilt of telling my wife that I'd just dropped a thousand quid on a graphics card. I'd probably stretch to £800 (grudgingly). Other than that, it's the 2080, which at £650 for a basic model is already a galling price. In the end, the prices might simply mean I decide not to buy anything at all.

I'm sure there are many potential customers like me who nVidia is failing to attract and maybe the increased sales volume would result in greater profit. Who knows?
 
It's not something NV do, at least this early in the lifecycle, but I wouldn't be surprised to see FE 2080 Ti's closer to £950 at some point. They're still in short supply at the moment I believe. While debates over pricing are valid, from business perspective they have to optimise profits from a product that does have supply issues. If supply improves a lot I expect they'll have to drop the price to sell them in higher quantities.
Thing is, if the reduction happens towards the end of this year the question then will be is it worth waiting for next gen? Even £950 is a lot to spend if a new much improved RT range is not too far away.
THink of the 2080 as a more efficient 1080 Ti + 10% (apparently) + DLSS and RT to play with. Not a bad option given what else is available in the market atm (ie, 1080 Ti's now too highly priced to consider).
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
I realise this is speculative and based on what nVidia thinks is best for its shareholders, rather than what the end punter feels is a fair price, but what does anyone think?

Personally, I'm probably in the market for a GPU. I could afford a 2080ti, but I couldn't stomach the guilt of telling my wife that I'd just dropped a thousand quid on a graphics card. I'd probably stretch to £800 (grudgingly). Other than that, it's the 2080, which at £650 for a basic model is already a galling price. In the end, the prices might simply mean I decide not to buy anything at all.

I'm sure there are many potential customers like me who nVidia is failing to attract and maybe the increased sales volume would result in greater profit. Who knows?
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Nope.
 
DarrenM343 said:
It's not something NV do, at least this early in the lifecycle
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Apple got caught out recently and though they've not exactly slashed the price of their iPhones, they've been making a lot of noise about it. I don't know if Apple will increase carrier subsidies or something in order to make their products easier to pick up on a monthly contract, and maybe nVidia will end up adding sweeteners (which admittedly they are already doing with the included games) in order to maintain the high base price.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
I realise this is speculative and based on what nVidia thinks is best for its shareholders, rather than what the end punter feels is a fair price, but what does anyone think?

Personally, I'm probably in the market for a GPU. I could afford a 2080ti, but I couldn't stomach the guilt of telling my wife that I'd just dropped a thousand quid on a graphics card. I'd probably stretch to £800 (grudgingly). Other than that, it's the 2080, which at £650 for a basic model is already a galling price. In the end, the prices might simply mean I decide not to buy anything at all.

I'm sure there are many potential customers like me who nVidia is failing to attract and maybe the increased sales volume would result in greater profit. Who knows?
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no chance not anymore.
 
It would have to drop to £250 before i'd buy one. I don't know how anyone can justify spending hundreds on a piece of tech that depreciates by 20% every single year!

WTF would you?
 
2x2080rtx £1300 feels more cost effective for me than a single 2080ti and scaling seems really good in most titles. Can you use DLSS and RTX in NVlink?
 
I think they would only do this if there were competition from other GPU manufacturers, and as I understand it AMD Navi will be mid-range initially rather than a 2080ti rival. So could be a while yet unless they end up with a glut of stock, which seems unlikely.
 
with so many reports of gddr6 failing prematurely, it would be madness to consider a preowned, out-of-warranty 2080ti (granted it's in a year or two though)
i suspect many 2080ti owners are going to be stung by the low resale prices because of this.
 
Prices would only ever fall if they weren't hitting sales figures by some margin or competition came along that made it look like a really bad option. Even then nVidia is very reluctant in "cheapening" their products.
 
Surely there's a principal here. I'd rather cut my nose to spite my face than buy an RTX at a reduced price when it should have been cheaper in the first place!

We're not talking about a pair of half price jeans here, it's a monopoly and they're taking a long time to release lower tier products to take advantage of peoples hunger for higher performance.
 
Assuming you don't have something equivalent, just get a £400 Vega 64 (while it's still at that price) and enjoy life! With 7nm Turing/whatever's next, you'll likely see 2080ti performance go for half the current price. No way is the 1 year of ownership worth £1k! As it stands, it's unlikely they'll reduce 2080ti price much in the meantime.
 
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