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

[CTR640]

Blame those cancerous miners. It's hard for nVidia now to sell their GPU's at normal price and they are used to these absurdly priced GPU's.

From €1370 GTX1080Ti, they might think: Lol fck that, if dumb people are willing to buy GTX1080Ti for €1370, we'll be selling GTX2080 for €1499"

And you know what? It's a true story because here GTX1080Ti's have been costing €1370.

I'm fucking done if the prices continue raising like this.

[JediFragger]

[mynameisjuan]

36 minutes ago, yian88 said:

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.

"Hey man, my computer cracked this code", "cool, Ill give you $5 for that code", "But its just a fake number", "dont fucking care, its money now, deal with it"

 

Got to love how bullshit can start out of no where for no reason. 

[linustouchtips]

and with that a great sadness fell over the valley

[DildorTheDecent]

The 1080 was as good as two 980s in VR.

 

So a 2080 will only as fast as two 1080s in VR probably. Actual benchmarks and game performance will result in 1080 SLi stomping the 2080 I assume.

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

Well sayonara new PC, sayonara.

Console here I come.

I think I'm going to change my username to "NintendoXbonesPS4"

if this goes on.

[Kukielka]

1 hour ago, yian88 said:

ruining gpu market for nothing

Last time I checked GPUs are selling like hot cakes, just because YOU dont get to buy a GPU for a reasonable price, doesnt mean that noone is buying gpus. In fact, the GPU market is booming like never before.

 

If anything cryptos are boosting the market as a whole.

[Kukielka]

1 hour ago, CTR640 said:

Blame those cancerous miners. It's hard for nVidia now to sell their GPU's at normal price and they are used to these absurdly priced GPU's.

Why would they even bother? Money is money, in fact, they make more cash than ever before.

[CTR640]

2 minutes ago, Kukielka said:

Why would they even bother? Money is money, in fact, they make more cash than ever before.

I know. But isn't there a limit? If GTX2080 would truely costs $1499, then what about the low and mid range GPU's?

Consoles would be a much better choice and PC gaming will starts declining. Not everyone got the cash to pay $749 for a mid range GPU.

[mynameisjuan]

30 minutes ago, Kukielka said:

Why would they even bother? Money is money, in fact, they make more cash than ever before.

Retailers are, Nvidia is not. 

[dizmo]

Haha, I don't consider that news at all, it just happens to be on a news site. It's an opinion piece and nothing more.  

 

The 1080 was a massive improvement over the last generation, yes. However this is the exception, not the rule. We won't see massive gains like that every generation. The status quo is NOT to double improvement, it's usually getting the performance of the greater tier card. 

 

The idea that cards will cost that much is assanine. Look at what Nvidia has the MSRP set at. It's still low. The prices are high because of retailers, not manufacturers. They will make more money keeping their same pricing structure, because they will move more volume. That's extremely basic economics. 

 

TL;DR - This is a huge load of BS.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Why are people confusing market price with MSRP?

[Trixanity]

21 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Haha, I don't consider that news at all, it just happens to be on a news site. It's an opinion piece and nothing more.  

 

The 1080 was a massive improvement over the last generation, yes. However this is the exception, not the rule. We won't see massive gains like that every generation. The status quo is NOT to double improvement, it's usually getting the performance of the greater tier card. 

 

The idea that cards will cost that much is assanine. Look at what Nvidia has the MSRP set at. It's still low. The prices are high because of retailers, not manufacturers. They will make more money keeping their same pricing structure, because they will move more volume. That's extremely basic economics. 

 

TL;DR - This is a huge load of BS.

I don't think it's even retailers. I think it's the supply chain between manufacturers and retailers hiking up the price along the way to make a quick buck.

[RagnarokDel]

This is how you kill the PC gaming industry

[Eduard the weeb]

what about when it will eventually drop again though ? and also when do the slower ampere cards begin to actually become cheaper like 100-250 dollars ?

[thorhammerz]

38 minutes ago, dizmo said:

That's extremely basic economics. 

Linus Tech Economy Tips .

[dizmo]

18 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

I don't think it's even retailers. I think it's the supply chain between manufacturers and retailers hiking up the price along the way to make a quick buck.

I kind of doubt it. A retail store is less likely to take on the inventory if there's that much of an increased risk. Interesting thought though. Who knows. I'm glad I enjoy hunting for used bargains and am largely unaffected by this

[Juviegar]

GT 2030 for me it is.

[TacoSenpai]

Back to the console peasant farm

[AnonymousGuy]

This is an opinion piece, not news.

 

The problem is that I don't think anyone really *wants* to stop miners.  Tighten up the supply chain, eliminate middlemen and distributors,  enforce strict per-address per-credit-card limits, etc.  No one does it because the gravy train is too good right now.  Boy though will it be exciting when shit crashes and ebay gets flooded with thousands of 1070's and 1080Ti's.

[mynameisjuan]

2 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

The problem is that I don't think anyone really *wants* to stop miners.

Retailers dont because they are making bank. Nvidia sure does because they are getting the shit end of the stick with upset customers telling them to increase production and on top of it all get no extra revenue from this because they are still selling at MSRP to retailers.

[Mira Yurizaki]

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Boy though will it be exciting when shit crashes and ebay gets flooded with thousands of 1070's and 1080Ti's.

Part of me believes that those people will still price gouge any way they can. Sure there might be some people willing to sell the card at the expected used price range, but considering the still high demand for them after the fact, I wouldn't be surprised if all of them get priced at MSRP on eBay.

 

You know people will just gobble that up because "muh 60 FPS" is stronger than "maybe I should wait"

[AnonymousGuy]

1 minute ago, mynameisjuan said:

Retailers dont because they are making bank. Nvidia sure does because they are getting the shit end of the stick with upset customers telling them to increase production and on top of it all get no extra revenue from this because they are still selling at MSRP to retailers.

Nvidia could stop this shit in a hurry if they really wanted to.  Why do you think you pretty much never see Intel CPU's on sale (even last-gen)?  Because Intel has control of it, same as Nvidia.  Right now they're just happy they're selling every bit of silicon they fab and are willing to take what they're currently getting in $.   They don't jack up the MSRP because they want/need to play the narrative that they're helpless good guys and that their business model isn't currently built on something that has +/- 40% swings in a single day (for the investors of their stock).

[mynameisjuan]

9 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Nvidia could stop this shit in a hurry if they really wanted to.  Why do you think you pretty much never see Intel CPU's on sale (even last-gen)?  Because Intel has control of it, same as Nvidia.  Right now they're just happy they're selling every bit of silicon they fab and are willing to take what they're currently getting in $.   They don't jack up the MSRP because they want/need to play the narrative that they're helpless good guys and that their business model isn't currently built on something that has +/- 40% swings in a single day (for the investors of their stock).

First is bullshit they can stop it. What? You expect them to pull factories out their ass when new factories are currently being setup for the next gen? You realize that cost money right? They would lose millions for literally a temp fix. And even then, retailers can still bump prices up. 

 

Second is since AMD doesnt care at all with competing with Nvidia, people were already buying out the stock of GPUs. The demand just made it worse. But since Nvidia is still only making money off MSRP, they are not making more than they would have. 

 

[AnonymousGuy]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Part of me believes that those people will still price gouge any way they can. Sure there might be some people willing to sell the card at the expected used price range, but considering the still high demand for them after the fact, I wouldn't be surprised if all of them get priced at MSRP.

 

You know people will just gobble that up because "muh 60 FPS" is stronger than "maybe I should wait"

Everyone's cards become less and less valuable for mining as difficultly ramps up.  The ramp up accelerates with new card releases. If you look at AMD cards, no one is gaming on them right now so you don't have anyone who is going to hang on to them for 4 years like you'd see with non-miners.  Then you have the currencies themselves with stupidly large value swings where your  ROI time jumps from 12 months to 24 months in a week.  That's *a lot* of pressure to sell what you have quickly and en masse.

 

It's a fire-exit stampede waiting to happen.  Also keep in mind the number of people who want to even buy these used cards is fixed.  It's not like there's 50% more gamers this year than 3 years ago.