GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Prices are climbing
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cryohellinc
When your Already Overpriced previous gen has better price/performance ratio to your current gen, there is something Very wrong.
The current situation is a perfect case study on term - Monopoly.
Glottiz
Where is this price graph from? Is that new card prices? Well obviously prices in stores will increase because these cards are longer in production. Look at used market for 1080Tis.
In my country on craiglist-like website you can get used 1080Tis with 2 years of warranty left for as low as €400 if you are lucky, but usually they are around €500.
cryohellinc
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Glottiz
cryohellinc
Noisiv
https://geizhals.de/?fs=rtx+2080+&in=
Buying beat up second hand 1080 Ti for (500 euros) 83% of it's realistic current market value (600 euros)
IS INSANE
:)
Brand new RTX 2080 starts are €739
fantaskarsef
Of course 1080TI prices are on the rise, it's not at all surprising as they are rising to what's the market "standard", the cost of a 2080. Because without RTX, you're still fairly well off buying a 1080TI and not a 2080 as long as there are new ones (not miner's cards) available.
Glottiz
cryohellinc
KissSh0t
Noisiv
https://geizhals.de/inno3d-geforce-rtx-2070-twin-x2-n20702-08d6-1160va22-a1908655.html
certainly true for the biggest etailer out there: Amazon
I have zero desires to keep in touch or to become a penpal with the previous owner of my hw. Nor would I even look at 2nd hand gfx card, if it wasn't less than half its price.
2nd hand 1080Ti for 500 euros, 400 if I am lucky... gimme a break
brand new 2070 is €520
alanm
First time in GPU history, that prices would rise on an older EOL card. Its a damning indictment of the RTX line. People still see the 1080ti as a better card (for the money) than its RTX equivalent (2080), whether rightly or wrongly.
Glottiz
cryohellinc
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+1 to that, had the same impression. Just shows you yet again, that Monopoly is BAD because Nvidia can get away doing stuff like that. It's anti-consumer, to say the least.
While it won't perform the same (1080Ti still being a tad bit faster in raster, I agree with your point.)
1080Ti>2080 will switch only when heavily promoted features of RTX (mainly (in consideration of horrible ray tracing performance even on 2080Ti) for the DSR feature) will become widely available and implemented. With a current (non-existent) pace of Nvidia, that won't happen any time soon.
There is a good chance that whole RTX will flop, same way PhysX did back in the day. Great feature on paper, not so great (considering the resources needed) in reality. After a decade, we have only a couple of titles with full PhysX support, and it doesn't seem like it will change in any way any time soon.
My bet is there will be an RTX alternative which can be used by various manufacturers at the same time, in the style of Vulcan.
Glottiz
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Gents, the arguing needs to end here okay?
cryohellinc
@Glottiz
The only childish thing here is your reaction to truth in combination with kiddish attempts to insult me.
Stating that nobody has issues with second-hand hardware, is a blatant lie. Your sample group of 1 friend won't cut it either, that's hardly an evidence.
Second-hand hardware breaks, and it breaks often. If you have never stumbled upon that yourself, good for you, as for the majority of people that's clearly not the case hence why you need warranty.
HeavyHemi
cryohellinc