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Well, it isn't much faster than a 1080 Ti, but it doesn't cost that much more either. Last deal on Ozbargain was $873.88 for a 1080 Ti. High end GPUs aren't cheap, unless you measure it per transistor. This thing has billions of transistors, so you are paying a few millions of a cent per transistor.
F that.
AMD is competing in the lower end of the GPU market (upto 1080 performance with it's VEGA GPU's); but can't compete in the higher-end… we all HOPE this will change with 7nm products coming over the next 12-18 months… but who knows really. Nvidia taking advantage of the situation knowing that people will pay a premium for the best product available.
This isn't anything new.
To the time machine!
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/05/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-a…
The GTX 1080, as far as we can tell so far, is going to suffer from a serious dose of Australia Tax when it launches locally on May 27. At $US599 for 'regular' cards and $US699 for Founder's Edition units, those prices translate to $850 and $960 respectively, but Kotaku is reporting local stockists charging up to $1500 for early adopters. This is seriously not on — considering I could almost certainly secure myself one shipping internationally for under $1000 — and it's a good reason to wait a few weeks or months after launch to see prices settle significantly.
For the record, they normalised at $1200. The Aussie dollar's comparatively weaker too, and this is a factory OC card, which means it has the best-binned GPU from NVIDIA. There'll be entry level cards for about 15% cheaper ($900).
I guess what I'm saying is, what are you talking about?
Might wait and see what the RTX 2070 prices look like around Christmas.
Don't even bother, just get a 1080, they are basically comparable and half the price second hand.
At least for now the 2070 looks like a far worse value proposition than the 2080.
Staticice has the cheapest 2070 priced $180 above the cheapest 1080 ($830 vs $650), while the cheapest 2080 is only $40 more than the cheapest 1080 Ti ($1150 vs $1110)…
Why would you buy this when a 1080 can be had for under $700 for less than 10% performance decrease? (I think its about 7-8% performance increase from the 1080 to 2080)
iirc this is quite competitive with the 1080ti
more like 30%
It's starting out that way, but it has enough headroom in it to push that towards 60-70%, even without the RTX features.
Is this thing nuclear powered or something. Why the hefty price tag.