Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards arrive in UK

[shaithis]

£329?! ...shill

Yes, how dare they not just give them away....

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Maybe they can release a GTX1060 with 3.5GB of ram to keep the costs down

Seriously though, one thing you can't ever accuse Nvidia of is stupidity and AMD have pretty much shown their hand at this point. I am wondering if there will be 1060 and 1060ti versions, with something a bit more expensive than $200 but a bit faster to keep AMD looking like the cheap and cheerful option, possibly making that 4GB and the ti 8GB to make an easy upsell to something a bit more profitable.

OFC unless Nvidia can get cards on the shelves it doesn't matter much what they release, though I see Ebuyer are claiming some stock of the 1070: http://www.ebuyer.com/749692-msi-gef...-912-v801-1290 http://www.ebuyer.com/749701-gigabyt...-n1070d5-8gd-b

TPU pretty much said in their GTX1070 review,that the RX480 is 20% to 30% slower than a GTX1070.This would place in between a R9 390X and a Fury.

If that is the performance level of the RX480,AMD or their AIB partners only needs to price it between £200 to £250 to look "better value" than a GTX1070,so this is the issue as the GTX1070 pricing currently,as it really does not exert that much downwards pressure(unless OFC the GTX1060 or GTX1060TI are released).

[dannyboy75]

I definitely won't be buying a 1070 at ~£360, let alone £400. Just checked and my MSI 970 cost me £280, and that was purchased very soon after the 970 was released.

The 480 looks like great value but just doesn't quite have the outright performance for my liking. Presumably AMD will release a 480X or 490 in due course though?

[Ulti]

That price is rather disgusting IMO. I'm not willing to pay more than £329 for a GTX 1070.

[kalniel]

I definitely won't be buying a 1070 at ~£360, let alone £400. Just checked and my MSI 970 cost me £280, and that was purchased very soon after the 970 was released.

The 480 looks like great value but just doesn't quite have the outright performance for my liking. Presumably AMD will release a 480X or 490 in due course though?

Vega is coming next year at the latest, question is whether Polaris has much more to give - we *assume* the 480 isn't a fully enabled Polaris 10, but we said the same about the 380 for ages - a 380X eventually came out much later, and it still wasn't as fully enabled as people hoped for. Not sure why - on the pessimistic front you could say they didn't get it working with enough yield. On the optimistic you might say AMD are hiding the 480X product until nVidia reveal their 1060/1060ti hand and thus there's some hope it will compete with that.

[Mauley]

Pricing and availability on these things are rubbish. I will be waiting to see what AMD does with their Polaris architecture.

[idris]

Nice 10/06 launch of the 1070 for scan.co.uk - they have none in stock:
https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/gpu-nvidia/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070

...£399 for the FE, and anything up to £517.49 for AIB... no thanks!

[eiamhere69]

£329?! ...shill

Yes, how dare they not just give them away....

The trouble is, people forget just how long we've been stuck on the 28nm process, not to mention how stagnant the market has been.

Prices have increased (on already very overpriced cards) Nvidia are making an absolute fortune on these cards (they'll try and state otherwise) The fact is, until AMD can do anything to pressure them, they are free to continue lying and price gauging their loyal customers.

[Lorcaran]

Wait a few weeks for stock to arrive and the demand to lower. All UK stock sold by 5ish? If it's overpriced then why is there no stock?

My 680 cost 480 quid in 2012. Waited this long to upgrade a few weeks longer won't hurt.

[nacasatu]

Had a gfx card die on me recently and sent it back to Scan through their RMA process, still waiting nearly close to a month later for an actual replacement card even though they found fault within 3 days of receiving the card. Will never buy from Scan again, never. A warning to anyone else too, their RMA process is a joke and they won't even reply to support emails asking what's going on.

Oh and it's also considerably cheaper to buy the new Nvidia cards from multiple of places in EU, shop around, no need to stick to UK stores, Sterling taking a nosedive against the Euro, get in from the EU before Brexit and Sterling falls apart completely.

[anselhelm]

Not bad by Nvidia's pricing standards, but I'm still more-interested in seeing the official retailer pricing for AMD's forthcoming Rx480 cards.

[idris]

£329?! ...shill

Yes, how dare they not just give them away....

The trouble is, people forget just how long we've been stuck on the 28nm process, not to mention how stagnant the market has been.

Prices have increased (on already very overpriced cards) Nvidia are making an absolute fortune on these cards (they'll try and state otherwise) The fact is, until AMD can do anything to pressure them, they are free to continue lying and price gauging their loyal customers.

AMD are already doing so.. the release of Polaris at the end of this month for $199 is going to send a mighty shockwave. Vega to follow at the end of the year.

[Tunnah]

My main worry is that if GTX1070 prices are more likely to be £350 to £400 in reality,then that means Nvidia will release a GTX1060TI at £250.

The problem is if it is the same price/performance as the GTX1070,which costs around 40% more,it means more like GTX980/R9 390X level performance.

This is why I am so negative about the GTX1070,if Nvidia makes the GTX1060TI at £250(or a tad less) much faster than a GTX980/R9 390X,it will eat into sales of the GTX1070. However,it will only make it 10% to 20% faster overall than a GTX970. Maybe we will get 25% more??

Its an improvement in price/performance,but not mahoosive.

The only way we can get better price/performance is for AMD to actually deliver on what they are saying with the RX480. The last two new GPU launches they did with Tonga and Fiji were not great - I actually hope they deliver on the hype that has been generated so far and it will be priced reasonably.

But the 1070 is 20% faster than the 980, and it looks to be priced around the same price, well about £20 more, than the 670 was. I paid £330 each for 670s about 6 months after they were released. The 680 at the time was about £550 I think, and the 2 670s trounced it. It looks like the same pattern is happening again.

The x70 cards have always offered a performance gain over the previous x80 card in the range of 10-20% for a fair deal less money. I dunno I just can't see a problem with the 1070, but then again I always thought the hysteria over the 970 having a slower chunk of RAM ridiculous too.

I'm not trying to insult anyone who did care about it, I just personally can't get annoyed about it. I see the cards as absolutely FANTASTIC, but meh I'm easily impressed ha

[retrend]

I think I'm going to get the MSI Game Force X, it's meant to be pretty quiet and good cooling. Would love the sea hawk but it's too much.

[Chaoss]

It looks like AMD will have won this roundd.

[dannyboy75]

Vega is coming next year at the latest, question is whether Polaris has much more to give - we *assume* the 480 isn't a fully enabled Polaris 10, but we said the same about the 380 for ages - a 380X eventually came out much later, and it still wasn't as fully enabled as people hoped for. Not sure why - on the pessimistic front you could say they didn't get it working with enough yield. On the optimistic you might say AMD are hiding the 480X product until nVidia reveal their 1060/1060ti hand and thus there's some hope it will compete with that.

Interesting, thanks. I'm definitely not paying through the nose for a 1070, so think I'll sit tight for now and see how things pan out with 1070 pricing, and AMD