RTX 2080 and 2080Ti board partners pricing (Asus & MSI)

[ouroesa]

I seem to have stumbled upon some of the first pricing for the RTX2080 and RTX2080Ti of board partners. Saw the below on a South African hardware seller's site; all pricing is in ZAR (1USD = 14.64ZAR at time of writing).

 

The cheapest RTX 2080 is the Duke version by MSI listed for around $1,130 going all the way up the the  MSI RTX 2080Ti Gaming X TRIO OC going for about $1,810. This pricing seems to be 'a tad' excessive in my opinion. 

 

https://www.evetech.co.za/Search.aspx?s=rtx 

Spoiler

 

[r2724r16]

3 minutes ago, ouroesa said:

This pricing seems to be 'a tad' excessive in my opinion. 

It's way more than "a tad" excessive. $1800 USD for a graphics card that performs less than 50% better than a 1080 Ti for almost 2.5 times the price. 

[ouroesa]

4 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

It's way more than "a tad" excessive. $1800 USD for a graphics card that performs less than 50% better than a 1080 Ti for almost 2.5 times the price. 

Agreed, hence the quote marks. This rings especially true when you can get 3 new 1080's for that price. 

[SansVarnic]

-= Moved to Graphics Cards =-

[ouroesa]

6 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

-= Moved to Graphics Cards =-

My bad, thought this was news?

[Froody129]

That’s just SA. We get massively ripped off when it comes to graphics cards, and the retailers always artificially jack up prices for a good while after a new release. For example our 1080ti’s have always cost about $1000, and are only coming down now 

[i_build_nanosuits]

14 hours ago, ouroesa said:

My bad, thought this was news?

we've had the pricing for many models on pcpartpicker for canada and USA for almost a month now...lol

 

Canada:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=427,424&sort=price&page=1

 

USA

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=427,424&sort=price&page=1

 

and it's been like that since the conference in germany i think the next day they were there