Good price on a RTX 2070 and in stock. Best price for local is $699+ free delivery for a Gigabyte Windforce 2x at Centrecom as at right now if you don't mind forking out a little more.
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Nvidia is also releasing the 3000 series in less then 2 weeks so its kinda silly buying any "high end" card at the moment..
Prices are going to drop like crazy when AMD and Nvidia bring out their new high end and then later on mid to low end stuff.
Need to stay strong.
This isn't a super or Ti either, so is two years old now, unless I'm mistaken.
Prices are going to drop like crazy
Are they, though? I mean, anytime this year?
It seems that a lot of people are holding out to buy 2000 series cards and that demand might keep prices high?
I don't know. I'm just wondering.
I feel like prices won't drop significantly until partner cards are released, so it can make sense to buy now if you spot a good deal (mainly if you don't have a graphics card and you're building your first PC).
People always say they drop like crazy, but they just seem to disappear from sale all together. How much longer after the 20xx series were released could you buy a brand new 1060 or 1070?
If prices drop more than $25-$50 in this price bracket, then a retailer has significantly stuffed up gauging the market despite being informed by suppliers of rough street dates for next gen.
Stock is being very tightly controlled by NVIDIA, so only sheer arrogance would persuade someone to be buying in volume right now.
Hold up and wait for the 3000 series. Whatever stock is left of the 2000s will drop in price a bit before they’re cleared out.
I say whatever stock is left because nvidia are not producing the 2000 series anymore, so you won’t see discounts on that series. Just stock being cleared out.
I mean, how much discount can we expect on 2000 series? Is it worth waiting a month, or even 2 or 3 months to save maybe $50? I don't know. I'm genuinely conflicted, but at the moment I'm holding out. I have all the parts for a PC sitting here, except a CPU and GPU.
It'll be the 3080, 3080ti and 3090 that gets released which would be spec'd higher than the 2080 ti and priced accordingly. At least in the short term I agree with what you say. I don't think it'll be much difference to price for anything 2070 and below at least for a while. If you need a graphics card now, then I reckon just go for it - gotta make the most of lock down right?
More likely the 3070, 3080 and 3090 will be announced, though release dates may be staggered by 1-3 weeks.
3060 not far behind though, perhaps with an announcement in the first week of October.
Understandable to be conflicted. I also have all parts besides CPU and GPU. I've recently been super hyped to build a new computer these last few weeks and have been doing immense research. I'm also an incredibly impatient person and want everything now — but considering the fact that this item isn't even a Super, and seeing prices of Super's (whether second hand or not) go for around $600-700, I would most definitely wait it out. Also considering that the announcement of the new 30x series is in less than 2 weeks - there's absolutely no reason to purchase anything less than a 20X Super unless you're very desperate to upgrade right now and don't care about potential price drops.
And? Have a look at where performance numbers are today, and the feature sets still to be used.
Developers and covid have made it a slow burn, but Turing ultimately wound up being a close-to-Pascal level jump, with DLSS further extending that.
The 2080 Ti is an issue of the size of the chip and the economics of that, not gouging. The rest of the series had expensive VRAM prices to deal with at launch. Take the 2080 Ti out, and the value proposition is fine, just not a series that you should have immediately bought into as a Pascal owner.
Don't continue to live in the narrative that helped sell a huge glut of excess Pascal cards that everyone ordered during the crypto-craze: Turing was an amazing leap on essentially the same silicon density.
I don't know enough about the PC industry to really understand what you are saying here. Could you dumb it down for me, please? :)
Are we looking at reasonably priced cards in the near future or is it only going to get worse? I'm not looking at buying a top-tier card (I'm not much of a gamer and nor do I have a big budget). Just something for 4K video editing and 3D CAD modelling (Solidworks and Fusion 360).
The 3090 will be an expensive card, but everything else (read: 3080 and under) should be the same or cheaper, at least the models that don't significantly up the amount of VRAM.
They're all capable of your non-gaming use case, though you might want to check if you need a Quadro card instead for your CAD work (though probably not).
A 3060 should be $400-$450. Power usage may be higher than usual at the very top end, due to low yields on larger chips on a Samsung 5nm/7nm process that really isn't that competitive with TSMC (the company that usually makes NVIDIA chips) at present, but even that is speculative.
@jasswolf: Thanks for the advice, and no, I don't need Quadro. I'm guessing the "Super" cards come out later in the life cycle of a series and are only a relatively minor step up? So I'm probably looking at either a 3060, 3070 or 3080 if they are very reasonably priced, or just settling for a 2070 Super or 2080 Super if they are discounted enough.
@Duckman: And the new Ryzen CPUs coming out is yet another variable. It's a difficult and confusing time to be trying to build a new PC haha.
@Duckman: This is where yields will become a factor, as we might be looking at a 3080 that is a 68 SM chip, but that could be cutdown from 84 or 96 SMs on the full chip. It's also still possible that the 3080 is only cutdown from a 72 SM chip.
If it's the 84 SM option, then the Super/Ti series won't be out of this world and price drops won't be huge, but anything else, and a 3080 Ti might be great value in time.
What's less clear is where the 3060 and 3070 fit into this picture, but Ampere's feature set will make Turing a bit useless for raytracing and high frame rate gaming, so you probably only want to invest in the RTX 3000 series.
Ryzen 3000 vs Ryzen 4000 is a question of what you have now, and what you need soon. If you have 6th or 7th Gen Intel, I could make a case for you to wait for Ryzen 5000, compete with TSMC 5nm process, huge core counts and DDR5 RAM.
Do want, but also do want to hold out until new AMDs are released.