1080 price drop?

[Dood4690]

Will the 1080 get yet another price cut in order to compete with the Vega?

[WereCat]

[Max_Settings]

From what we've seen of Vega's performance so far, not the slightest chance in hell.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just because a new card comes out from the competitor doesn't mean prices will drop. The only way a price drop will happen is if the competitor releases a card with a significant enough performance over the card its competing against at the same price. And even then, the price won't drop linearly. So if whatever AMD releases performs 10% better than the GTX 1080 at $500, then it's likely the GTX 1080 will probably drop to like $480.

 

Also even if you consider that Vega can get the same performance boost over the Fury X in workstation benchmarks in gaming, conservatively speaking, it's the same performance boost in games that the GTX 1080 Ti has over the GTX 980 Ti.

 

So basically, I don't predict a price drop.

[CostcoSamples]

It's possible.  BUT there are two problems:

 

1) Vega uses HBM2, which is more expensive than DDR5X.  

2) Vega has a larger die, which makes it more expensive to produce.  

 

Thus, AMD will have a hard time competing on price with VEGA.

[Damascus]

Just wait for Volta to drop, Nvidia enthusiasts will grab the new cards as they come out and sell the 1070, 1080 and 1080 ti's they have accumulated and buy the 2080 etc. 

 

Used market will be good then.

[Jurrunio]

Maybe 1080 prices will drop. Just maybe. Vega benchmarks show that it managed to be neck and neck with the 1080, but since the Frontier cards uses an absurd amount of power, it's likely to not compete well with the 1080 when power draw is considered.