WYP
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Is a graphics card worth that much?
Read more about Nvidia's rumoured RTX 3090 graphics card and its pricing.
Read more about Nvidia's rumoured RTX 3090 graphics card and its pricing.
Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU leak points towards an eye-watering price tag - 24GB of GDDR6X?
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
So is there no 3080Ti at all? Or is just no longer the flagship? Even though I guess it was never the true flagship but the flagship 'gaming card', which is just a silly thing to have to say.
24GB seems almost like a way of justifying the price, or to guarantee that Nvidia has the consumer card with the best of everything, incl memory capacity.
24GB seems almost like a way of justifying the price, or to guarantee that Nvidia has the consumer card with the best of everything, incl memory capacity.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I have this really sneaky feeling that those selling their 2080Ti for £800 in order to get more power per performance are going to be sorely disappointed.
The way this launch is looking? you will pay for every extra frame you get. That has to leave the 3080 at what? a grand? £1100?
The way this launch is looking? you will pay for every extra frame you get. That has to leave the 3080 at what? a grand? £1100?
WYP
News Guru
If older rumours are to be believed, Nvidia are worried about RDNA 2 and plan to construct a larger Ampere card, creating a potential RTX 3090 Ti.
It's hard to know what Nvidia are doing. TBH, if they do a "SUPER" series again, removing the Ti would be a good move. No more, it the RTX 2080 Super better than the RTX 2080 Ti nonsense.
The_Crapman
New member
If they release it as a 3090 and it's not got 2 GPU's on it, it's gonna be a sad day.
NVIDIA will launch the 3090 and 3080 on 1st September according to some leaks.
IF AND ONLY IF RDNA2 AMD cards are better performers for the price than the 3080, it's possible that they will launch the 3080 super/ti to compete with that card for price. the same as they did with the Super line up with RTX 2000 series.
It's almost discarded that AMD RDNA 2 will be better than the 3090. Not even talking about the Titan
lets hope AMD has something good on hands, or NVIDIA will be able to charge as much as they want for performance.
IF AND ONLY IF RDNA2 AMD cards are better performers for the price than the 3080, it's possible that they will launch the 3080 super/ti to compete with that card for price. the same as they did with the Super line up with RTX 2000 series.
It's almost discarded that AMD RDNA 2 will be better than the 3090. Not even talking about the Titan
lets hope AMD has something good on hands, or NVIDIA will be able to charge as much as they want for performance.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
2080Ti's already cost us Aussies $2100, I just did the conversion and that means we'll be paying the same price, hopefully
AlienALX
Well-known member
I don't think there is going to be a Titan. They are so much more expensive than the regular cards now and not much better. The moniker worked with the 700 Titan and the Black, but it started to get stupid after that given they were just gaming cards.
Whilst quite a few gamers I know bought the Black (I mean I had three at one point) after the Maxwell one and the enormous price hike people just flocked to the 1080Ti instead.
It seems to be like they have just renamed the cards. Usually they launch the 80 and 80Ti. 80 first, then the Ti. Sounds like they are going to do the 90 and 80 at thes same time now, and probably ditch the Titan series.
I mean seriously, I paid £1800 for a GPU. There was no way I was going to push that to over 2 grand.
Making me laugh how loads of people on other forums are saying don't buy a 2070s for £400. Like Nvidia are going to come along and sell them a card for that much that performs like it does. Especially when the cooler costs them $100.
I think it will be ages and ages before we see anything with 3 on it costing less than £800. They will hold off for ages to make sure all of their stock sells first.
Whilst quite a few gamers I know bought the Black (I mean I had three at one point) after the Maxwell one and the enormous price hike people just flocked to the 1080Ti instead.
It seems to be like they have just renamed the cards. Usually they launch the 80 and 80Ti. 80 first, then the Ti. Sounds like they are going to do the 90 and 80 at thes same time now, and probably ditch the Titan series.
I mean seriously, I paid £1800 for a GPU. There was no way I was going to push that to over 2 grand.
Making me laugh how loads of people on other forums are saying don't buy a 2070s for £400. Like Nvidia are going to come along and sell them a card for that much that performs like it does. Especially when the cooler costs them $100.
I think it will be ages and ages before we see anything with 3 on it costing less than £800. They will hold off for ages to make sure all of their stock sells first.
KingNosser
Well-known member
Vote with your wallet, hopefully amd can at least be good value, but i doubt it prices are just getting higher it's that simple. I'll for sure wait and see once all the cards are out before I even think of getting any of them.
They have inflated the prices over the years and it's gotten to the point that they do not want to give you value they want to sell less cards for higher prices and still make more money.
I want a good upper midrange for no more than £600 I very much doubt nvidia will be the company able to give it to me and amd while it would be real nice if they had a price war and attempted to gain huge market share, i just can't see it happening.
Thou i at least see things being closer than they have been for a long time now.
They have inflated the prices over the years and it's gotten to the point that they do not want to give you value they want to sell less cards for higher prices and still make more money.
I want a good upper midrange for no more than £600 I very much doubt nvidia will be the company able to give it to me and amd while it would be real nice if they had a price war and attempted to gain huge market share, i just can't see it happening.
Thou i at least see things being closer than they have been for a long time now.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Hopefully AMD can come out with something, Even if it's just 10-20% faster than the 2080 Ti but keep the price in the realms of sanity.
Not sure thats possible for them. Judging by previous flagship prices. They were charging almost same as nV for their fury x cards which we know were not on the same level.
And this first release needs to claw back alot of their R&D costs so Im betting its a pricey card.
demonking
New member
OUCH, then you can add in Asus tax which will drive the whole eco system up.
Completely mental.
Please, please, please can rdna 2 kick nvidia really hard, then Intel come in and add a 3rd option. It's not right that we are getting to this price to play games, that's enough money for an entire family to live off with change. This industry is getting choked by greed, not just by nvidia.
Completely mental.
Please, please, please can rdna 2 kick nvidia really hard, then Intel come in and add a 3rd option. It's not right that we are getting to this price to play games, that's enough money for an entire family to live off with change. This industry is getting choked by greed, not just by nvidia.
Its not being choked. Its being fattened like a bad case of foie gras. The result is tasty products we all want, but have to pay platinum premiums to enjoy.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Unfortunately that is exactly what people have done. Only not to combat the issue.
The problem is, has been, and will always be that people are competitive and even more so with money. People like that warm fuzzy feeling of feeling better than any one else. Or at least better than most. It helps them to sleep at night.
Sadly Nvidia know this all too well. As do many others.
I could sit here complaining about it all but there are positive sides to it. Like, for example in the 70s a TV cost so much you would be paying for it for years. In fact, many used to have to rent them from Radio Rentals because they simply couldn't afford one. Nowadays? every one has a flat panel TV, a half decent kettle and so on.
But yeah. Everything these days is about showing off. That is why cases have gone in the complete reverse and eliminated air flow because who cares about that when you can stuff in a load of hideously expensive RGB right? the more you have the more money you have etc.
It's just human nature. Always has been, always will be.
Oh it's possible alright.
The 290 was massive. The 6970 was huge also, and don't get me started on the 6990 etc.
The problem is? Nvidia. If they are charging £1300 for a GPU and AMD can get 3/4 of the way there? then s**t, why not charge 3/4 of the price? right?
So in a way Nvidia are enabling AMD to sell their GPUs for far more than they are really worth. And I would imagine that is why, and ONLY why, RTG managed to survive under such a shower of s**te. Because even though their products were absolutely appalling for a while they could get loads of money for them.
If Nvidia could sell the GTX 480 for £250 on sale (shortly after launch) with all of that VRM, massive die, enormous cooler etc and not go bankrupt then yeah, that sorta shows you why they have made money hand over fist since. And why they have so much money now.
AMD could end all of that by seriously dropping their own prices but why would they do that? to help us? haha it ain't about us it's about them.
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KingNosser
Well-known member
It's true to a degree without doubt, but it started when people paid £1k for a overpriced phone and then the rest of the industry looked at that and said sod it were charge more as well.
I'm 42 now but I learned as i got older no matter what you have and how much you think it makes you happy it's meaningless in truth, were all guilty of different things but so long as you know the reality of it then you are at least aware of your faults.
The part that makes it worse and shows the greed is all companies involved in price gouging are more than aware that they are doing it.
I'm 42 now but I learned as i got older no matter what you have and how much you think it makes you happy it's meaningless in truth, were all guilty of different things but so long as you know the reality of it then you are at least aware of your faults.
The part that makes it worse and shows the greed is all companies involved in price gouging are more than aware that they are doing it.
looz
Active member
What, no, multi-gpu is more trouble than it's worth.
trawetSluaP
Member
Agreed, I expect the 3090 to be the new Titan.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Unless they had a way to change that....
