QOTW: Are you buying a GeForce RTX?

[Rubarb]

Don't get me wrong yes I would love one but at that price? I would want a whole pc for that.
Like many have posted above I simply couldn't justify spending at the most £300 on a gpu.

[Wrinkly]

Nope, they are not worth the money.

[GuruNot]

I currently have a 980 Ti I so was looking forward to upgrading. However, the 2080 seems to perform on par with a 1080Ti; the 2080 Ti is faster but that ~30% performance increase over a 1080Ti comes with a ~60% price increase. And as for the "killer" RTX and DLSS features ... as there is nothing that uses them at launch only time will tell if they are worth considering. I reckon I will be giving the 20xx Series a miss.

[Lordhawkwind]

Absolutely no chance.

[nar53]

Erm no!

[big_hairy_rob]

At my resolution, this would be throwing money away; then again it would be this at any resolution.
Way overpriced

[atomicWAR]

mmmmmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....sorry, still funny.

[atomicWAR]

My first gaming PC was a pentuim 3. It came with a Riva TnT 2, The first and only graphics accelerator I owned by nvidia -> Geforce 256, The card I replaced my TnT 2 with also the first GPU -> Geforce 2 Ultra -> geforce 3 -> Radeaon 9700 Pro -> Geforce 6600 GT in SLI -> GTX 7800 SLI -> GTX 8800 SLI -> GTX 285 SLI -> GTX 570 SLI -> GTX 670 SLI -> GTX 780 SLI -> GTX 980 SLI -> GTX 1080 SLI -> Really big question mark to be answered when sanity returns.

So joking aside this generation is much like the jump form Riva TnT 2 tho the Geforce 256. The 256 was the first "GPU" and on the consumer retail side the first with hardware T&L. The difference is Nvidia knew this was new territory and wasn't quite so big for their britches. I am looking at you Huang...Point being they didn't charge over a grand for their top well only card.

Back in February of 2000 with a launch price of 279 US or 408.53 in present day dollars the geforce 256 was revolutionary. The hardware T&L was all the rage. Nvida is making a similar move with RTX and Tensor cores. The thing about both of these gpus were they were total shifts in how games could be rendered. So Nvidia is asking us as end users to trust them on this unproven tech. For all we know it is another Physx or hairworks. They need to wait at least two gens before asking for this much cash, or never would be best. I get these are big dies but big uber power hungry dies up until the GTX 600 series were the norm with nvidia. Remember when SLI couldn't happen with anything but a 1200+ watt PSU bare minimum? Or when Fermi doubled as a space heater for half your house? Or when Tri-SLI was a brand new Huang baby that still had a hopeful future before it became a cracked out stuttering trust fund baby that had respect for no one or no games.

Gamers made Nvidia who they are and I feel like as of recent, Nvidia forgot as much. We are treated like second class citizens while simultaneously serving as their R&D funding for big data's/AI. If AMD hadn't dropped the ball on the last few GPU launches they might make it out of my back up machines and into living room driving my 4K screen UHDTV. I mean I am glad to see AMD back in the CPU space and I hope they get my money when I build after PCIe 4.0 drops on consumer CPU/motherboards. They likely will unless they release an update to they CPUs that kills over 30% of there performance or intel drops something with 40-50% more power then AMD before then. Until then Sandy-Bridge E has me (frown)...I am looking at you Intel.

[samuraiweasel]

Still running a 660, cant afford better atm.

[Presto86]

No. I won't be getting a new card until 2020 maybe.

[lodore]

There was another model in the morning but its gone,so only this one:

https://www.ebuyer.com/807456-inno3d...108t-1sdn-q6mn

These ones cost £620:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigab...gx-000-au.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-g...gx-34f-ms.html

First is arriving next Monday onwards with 200~300 in stock.

Scan has the Gigabyte in stock already with a free copy of Destiny 2:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/giga...hz-gpu-1683mhz

What is a shame is that Nvidia pushing up the price of the RTX2080 means minimal GTX1080TI discounts! It might be worth waiting longer to see if the GTX2080 eventually drops in price,but we will see.

Shame the MSI card has gone up to £660 now as I have been happy with my MSI cards.

I have read some reviews of the Aorus and have been put off by the build quality.

[AlSomething]

As always with new CPU's and GPU's the top end cards launch first at stupidly high price. Then the mid range cards follow still at a premium price. Give it time the price will drop and only then would I look at buying a card. They have to iron out the bugs first and drop the price for me to consider it as I have other things to pay for (Bill's!). It's sad that AMD don't appear to have competing product in the pipeline to bring the prices down. So for now it's a no but might bag a 1080

[Solex]

At that price point, no way! Nvidia should have made it affordable to us as ray tracing is a new technique to render; you never know AMD may have a better way to do it, hidden up their sleeves. Hence the reason why the boss of Nvidia gave each developer that was working with them those cards to speed it up process and hope it wasn't a bad move. But hey thats just my speculation lol. Btw still running a GTX460, yes it's a old card.

[azrael-]

Short answer: NO!

Slightly longer answer: Just upgraded from a GTX 970 to a GTX 1080, which I got quite a good deal on. I did it to be (reasonably) sure to get good frame rates on my new Acer XB271HU. Sold off the GTX 970 for a good price, btw.

Bonus rant: WTF is nVidia thinking with these prices. Next thing they'll put a fruity logo on their gear to justify the price.

[Corky34]

Bonus rant: WTF is nVidia thinking with these prices. Next thing they'll put a fruity logo on their gear to justify the price.

Purely speculation but it's possible they've priced them high so the majority of people look at the 10 series and think I'll buy one of those, effectively clearing the leftover stock from miners, once 10 series card are no longer available prices may start to fall.

[cheesemp]

Nope - my Rx480 seems to drive my 2K monitor plenty well enough. Rarely have to bring it down from Ultra (and even when I do just by one AA setting). Got to love freesync!