NVIDIA could price the next-gen GeForce GTX 2080 at up to $1499 USD

[BiG StroOnZ]

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With graphics card prices as high as they are, NVIDIA could charge upwards of $1500 for its next-gen GeForce GTX 2080

I've been getting ahead of NVIDIA's next-gen graphics card reveal with some exclusive stories and pondering, but with sources revealing to me exclusively that NVIDIA would launch the GeForce GTX 20 series at GTC in May, these thoughts are ramping up.

NVIDIA's current flagship GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is still over $1200 on Amazon, and with news that graphics card prices will not get better this year (right through to Q3 2018), what could NVIDIA price their next-gen GTX 20 series at? $1499. Yeah, freaking $1499

Now imagine that the GeForce GTX 2080 has the performance of GTX 1080s in SLI (which is usually what happens, the GTX 1080 was about as good as two GTX 980s in SLI), and we're talking about $1600-$2000 of 'value' in SLI-based performance. As usual, let's take away the not-so-great multi-GPU scaling in most games and we're going to get around 30-50% more performance with a second GTX 1080.   With this in mind the GeForce GTX 2080 should land at somewhere between 30-50% more performance than what GTX 1080 SLI is capable of, but with lower power consumption and improved performance at higher resolutions. We should expect the GTX 2080 to feature GDDR6 memory technology, which is much faster than GDDR5X which was already much faster than GDDR5.

As it stands, I can't see how NVIDIA can launch the GTX 2080 at its 'usual' launch price of $599-$699, when cards that are SLOWER than it (GTX 1080) are nearly DOUBLE the price. Why would anyone buy the GTX 1080 at $1000, even miners... when the GTX 2080 is $599-$699?

Source: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/61023/nvidia-price-geforce-gtx-2080-up-1499/index.html

 

I'm going to have to say Anthony over at Tweak Town is on the money with this article, of course I believe that $1500 might be a bit of an exaggeration and a stretch, but nevertheless with the mining boom, I do not see how he could be too off base with this article as his estimations are based on fact and previous leaks or articles claiming that the mining boom isn't going anywhere anytime soon and GPU prices will only be on the rise through Q3 2018:

 

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-gpu-prices-will-continue-increasing-through-q3-2018.html

 

 

[NMS]

I can only see this IF they took into consideration mining. Otherwise, the price is way over the top. As I doubt that the new architecture is worth that much.

[Taf the Ghost]

Nvidia is feeding out information so when they launch the xx80 this year with GDDR6, they can charge $1199USD can all it a bargain.

[Antistatic12]

gee wiz, interesting times ahead.
I think the new Nvidia GPU's will launch at slightly above the predecessors MSRP, but will soon jump in price inline with what we have seen with current gen cards.
or
They will just launch with a crazy price to begin with.

It has got pretty crazy when I have seen GTX 1060's for $600AUD.

Imagine working for Nvidia right now, setting the prices for these new cards.
Co worker - "So Gary, how is the pricing for the new graphics cards we are launching next month coming along"
Gary - .................................... um, yeah. About that. *jumps out window, runs away*

[porina]

Just noise from clickbait site. Nothing of value here.

[HOOTSMON]

Surely if they were to do that mining would inflate the price to 2500 or something. No one would buy it. It makes no sense. Even with an RRP of 800 they will be 1500 in the current climate.

[Blademaster91]

Just now, HOOTSMON said:

Surely if they were to do that mining would inflate the price to 2500 or something. No one would buy it. It makes no sense. Even with an RRP of 800 they will be 1500 in the current climate.

Nvidia knows they can charge more and still make record profits off the miners,they increased RRP/MSRP with the 10 series and it still sold out on launch day.

[Trixanity]

I'm questioning the logic here.

 

Are people really expecting Nvidia to double the performance again? 

We are looking at minor node bump to 12nm and whatever architectural improvements they can squeeze in. They compare it to going from Maxwell to Pascal which was also 28nm to 16nm finfet. If we look at Volta it was a 1:1 scaling of increased CUDA cores. 

 

I'm expecting a 70% increase at best if Nvidia can work some magic. 

[HOOTSMON]

2 minutes ago, Blademaster91 said:

Nvidia knows they can charge more and still make record profits off the miners,they increased RRP/MSRP with the 10 series and it still sold out on launch day.

Yeah i was thinking too much from the average Joe's perspective, you're right, hence the pickle we are in lol.

[Blademaster91]

1 hour ago, HOOTSMON said:

Yeah i was thinking too much from the average Joe's perspective, you're right, hence the pickle we are in lol.

I agree though,if Nvidia starts these 2080's at $1499 then i'd hate to imagine what retailers would charge for them if another shortage happens I couldn't see anyone at all buying a $2500 gpu. May as well buy Titan Xp or Volta cards lol.

I'm hoping the article is nothing but clickbait and speculation, if remotely true Nvidia wants gamers switching to consoles and never looking back to PC gaming.

[RotoCoreOne]

Feels like we’re back to the dark ages of tech when everything was super expensive

[NelizMastr]

If this were true at all (which I doubt) then game developers need to take into consideration that a large portion of gamers will be running older hardware, so they can't go overboard with graphics requirements just to please the 1% that pays a few grand for graphics cards. This could very well ruin PC gaming completely in the future.

[asus killer]

This is not news, its click bait.

[TOMPPIX]

someone is getting rich because of this.

[Carclis]

Maybe a bit of exaggeration but I think it's quite likely that the 2080 will be more expensive than the $700 price that the 1080 launched at. A price tag of $800 would not surprise me and assuming the 2080 matches the 1080ti in performance it would still be a good price (although mining prices should drive it up anyways).

[TigerHawk]

don't they mean 1180....? or is 2080 already confirmed the naming scheme?

[Brooksie359]

Idk what this guy is talking about. His reasoning is that they wouldn't sell their new graphics cards for less than older graphics cards with less performance. I call b.s. on that as they have done that in the past so what makes him think that they won't this time? I mean the 1070 was alot cheaper than the 980ti and the 1080 was cheaper than the 980ti msrp as well. The 1060 was also cheaper than the 970 and still outperformed it. This guys logic is kinda cheap tbh.

[kilgore_T]

it might not be "news" but selling a brand new faster card for less than the older slower card doesn't seem like good business sense

[Trixanity]

17 minutes ago, kilgore_T said:

it might not be "news" but selling a brand new faster card for less than the older slower card doesn't seem like good business sense

Well, if that was the case cards should be costing tens of thousands of dollars at this point because graphics cards have been getting and faster and faster for decades.

[raphidy]

This is just speculation, like: I'll wait for Navi, by 2020 it could cost a quarter of a 1080ti with twice performance because infinity fabric. This is so random.

[TidaLWaveZ]

I'm willing to bet $1500 that the GTX 2080 will not even be close to $1500 msrp. It will be closer to half that price.

[mynameisjuan]

You mean the 2080 is going to be ~$600 but retailers are going to fuck us over by charging $2000. 

 

I thought Nvidia said this gen they are blocking mining without a license, zero reason to justify $2000 and to try to keep cost down for gamers. This is all a croc of shit. 

[Commodus]

Rather than artificially hike the price, I suspect NVIDIA would rather keep the price the same and institute a strict "one card per person" rule, even if it means limiting where you can buy one.  I mean, that probably wouldn't stop some from coming back to the same store over and over, but at least you wouldn't have miners snapping up half of a small store's inventory in one shot.

[TidaLWaveZ]

I can see them maybe going up towards $800 just by looking at pricing history of new architectures, but speculating that nvidia themselves will double the price based on current GPU availability is just ignorant.

 

Considering their cards have been selling like crazy, nvidia will not abandon their current strategy(which has brought them tremendous success, look at stock price), which is releasing cards with premium FE option at a higher price and lower msrp models from manufacturers that the retailer can jack the price up on. 

 

[yian88]

There doesnt seem to be a future for PC graphics at this rate, i hope the ban waves against crypto continues, crypto is way ahead of its time and its using tons of power and ruining gpu market for nothing, crypto has no value its all fake, the value of crypto is given by its overhype and people investing mindlessly, it serves no purpose in real society.