Will RTX GPUs forever be overpriced?

[CatTNT]

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

[bleedblue]

Then don't buy them.

 

They're more expensive because aside from the regular CUDA cores, Turing also packs Tensor and Ray Tracing cores.

[dizmo]

Your logic is flawed. A $400 GPU could pay some people's rent for months. The $1,200 GPU wouldn't cover half a months rent at my last apartment.

*shrugs* It doesn't really matter.

Not only that, I refer you to Jayz2cents video on the price.

 

[SupaKomputa]

7nm amd gpu will be more interesting i think.

it would take time for every games supports hardware ray tracing.

[PrinnyExplodes]

The sad part is they are already sold out of preorders in a lot of places. WITH NO PERFORMANCE NUMBERS AT ALL. And Nvidia has 7nm coming out next year (so they claim)

 

I will just wait for AMD 7nm next year and not waste my money

[PlayStation 2]

Prove that they're overpriced without some convoluted "the 1080 Ti wasn't that expensive" explanation.

[prestonplatypus]

Just hang out for some independent benchmarks to decide. If you have a 1080ti its not like your starved for performance. So why not wait and see?

 

If it's good and you want the new tech then buy it, and if not then wait for the 7nm chips.

[JoostinOnline]

Nobody knows

[StronkMan]

why not, oced rtx 2080 ti should be comparable to stock Titan V in FP32 workload

 

same for oced 2080 and stock Titan Xp (different fab tho)

 

and that's about half the price...the more you buy, the more you save

[andrewmp6]

A lot of it is marketing bs making you believe and think you want/need those new cards.Real world they might be what 15% faster then a 1080ti is right now ?The price sure its a lot of money,But someone will buy then at the price and thats up to them really.And there is a lot of cheaper video cards on the market right now if you need a card and budget is half that or less.

[appleache]

they have been steadily rising the price since 900 series because they can, there is nothing you can do about it beside praying for AMD. but to be honest for the die size and feature packed in 2080ti, I think it is actually made toward titan market as some, YouTuber said basically rename titan to rtx. I just don't know how the hell they going to scale it downward on 2060 etc, my bet is that they going to rename some of the Pascal card.

[xg32]

13 hours ago, CatTNT said:

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

except it's not gonna be 50% more, RT looks to be not ready, and for 1200usd we can almost get 2 1080 Tis. It's looking real bad for nvidia for those of us NOT on the hype train.

 

It's still important to remember though if RTX sells enough (they probably will) it will be a success for nvidia, there's no competition on high end and if RTX gets negative reviews they'll just move on to the next gen quicker, the 20xx might end up as a money-grab gen.

 

The worst case I have for RTX is a lower oc'd core clock than a 1080 ti due to higher power consumption and similar performance as the 1080 ti on non-hdr/RT games.

 

If they had enough games supporting RT i'd consider it, but there's no support, and by the time it matters, next gen.

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 hours ago, CatTNT said:

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

I'm going to sound like an ass, but the reality is that high end video cards are luxury items. On top of that, gaming as a hobby is an expensive hobby. You can't afford it? Oh well. You can't afford it. NVIDIA is not obligated to bend over and charge less because some people think it's too expensive. Considering that pre-orders (*shudder*) are sold out, clearly it's not too expensive for the entire market.

 

And in some places, $1200 would pay for maybe 2/3rds of the rent. So there's that.

[Danoniero]

9 hours ago, CatTNT said:

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

Don't bother, honestly wait for next year release when ray tracing will be much more optimized. Don't pay 1200$ just to play 11 games that support it(at the moment). Or at least wait for benchmarks and don't get into pre order wagon, most of it is probably companies buying it for rendering purposes. If you have 1080ti than stick with it for another year.

[Xplo1t]

Never understood why someone would spend a "SHIT TON" of money on a toy.  If anything, the launch of the RTX cards has shown that many PC gamers are in a hobby that pushes them to limits financially.  If the difference between a 1080 Ti and 2080 Ti is $500-600 that should be play money, not a decision between rent and gaming.

[Mick Naughty]

Arent over priced to begin with.

[DildorTheDecent]

>Enthusiast hardware is expensive.

 

Tell me more OP /s

[MadPistol]

14 hours ago, CatTNT said:

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

Apparently not, otherwise you'd be ok with $1200.

 

In all seriousness, if you're unhappy with the price, don't buy the product. That's how capitalism works.

 

Also, go look up some pictures of the 2080 Ti GPU die. It's huge. That's what is costing so much.

[Mazmatig]

Just $1200, and NVIDIA does not force anyone buy RTX card.

[Jon Jon]

Ray Tracing at the consumer level is so new, NVIDIA can essentially name their price.

 

It's a first generation product that probably won't see its potential utilized in terms of RT until the next generation of RT cards hits.

 

It's the price you pay to be bleeding edge, especially with an evolutionary step in technology.

[geo3]

On 8/26/2018 at 11:56 AM, Mick Naughty said:

Arent over priced to begin with.

Except they are.

 

The problem is they have no actual competition so they can charge what ever the fuck they please.  7nm Radeon and Intel GPUs can't get here soon enough. 

[Mick Naughty]

27 minutes ago, geo3 said:

Except they are.

 

The problem is they have no actual competition so they can charge what ever the fuck they please.  7nm Radeon and Intel GPUs can't get here soon enough. 

Seems in line to me. People cry about the titans too. Get it or don’t, why complain about price. Get the cheap stuff and move along 

[riklaunim]

On 26.08.2018 at 5:17 AM, CatTNT said:

I would really love to get the new 2080 Ti, except it’s TWELVE HUNDREDS FUCKING DOLLARS.. 800 for my 1080 Ti was a SHIT TON, 400 more for *maybe* +50% in non RTX games is a very scary investment. That could pay some people’s rent for months

There will be a sale somewhere 2020/2019 when 7nm will show up

 

Also it's not intended to get 2080 Ti to play games. Even AAA titles play well on much cheaper mid range cards... unless you want to max out every setting and use your $5000 PC anyway... Plus note that RTX cards offer new technologies that most games won't be using at all. Only some new and some patched games will take some optimization out of it and even fewer will showcase raytracing at lower resolution.

[-rascal-]

Nobody knows, but given the price history for all of nVidia and AMD's GPUs in the last decade...prices will go down as time goes on.

The yields of the RTX dies will improve = more RTX chips available for board partners = more GPUs can be made.

More GPUs in the market = less *limited stock* price gouging = lower prices.

 

That said, we don't know until the RTX GPUs actually release, and give it a few months.

If AMD is able to release anything that can compete, then prices will reduce further.

 

$1200 is nothing.

A RTX 2080 Ti is $1700+ in Canadian Pesos currency.