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Asus made its price rise intentions public last week, EVGA and Zotac have followed suit.
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Asus made its price rise intentions public last week, EVGA and Zotac have followed suit.
Short answer: NO.
Longer answer: That's not how any of this works.
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as said in the article this "should" only effect the US as it's main cause is the new import tariffs
All GPU prices seem to have gone to stupid prices IMO. :(
i remember spending £150 - £200 you got not far from a flagship card, these days it gets you on the ladder.
Betteridge\'s law of headlines applies: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word "no".
If the answer was yes it wouldn\'t be phrased as a question but presented as a fact.
Indeed - although it seems to be affecting most of north america inc Canada too, due to how logistics works for many retailers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pob255
This may all change in a week given Biden is expected to reverse the damage the Trump administration has done the best he can, but the details are obviously unknown.
Very true - also applies to pretty much every YouTube video that uses a similar clickbait style title :)Quote:
Originally Posted by spacein_vader
The list of companies I will no longer be buying products from is getting longer...
Which is better - AMD or Nvidia?Quote:
Originally Posted by spacein_vader
Gonna buy AMD then, I dont like paying too much extra for a few more FPS that barely would be noticed... and also if want to run at extreme FPS, you wont be running at 1440p or 4K for e-sport anyway.
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Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
:p
Who would win in a fight? Asus or EVGA?
(just watched Derek for the first time. I love cats me)
I think currently it gets you a photo of the ladder you may be able to buy if you spend moreQuote:
Originally Posted by Boon72
I read the price hikes are down to gddr6 shortages so I don't think it's a case of scalping from the manufacturer. This is more likely an increase in cost just being passed along. The demand for gpu's is through the roof at the moment, I cant even pickup a 1660 super for my lads computer at a decent used price.
Hopefully this will resolve itself with the take up of gddr6x on new cards
I know there are current shortage problems but I don't really understand the complaints that GPU's are now ridiculously priced (including some of the comments on this thread)
I bought a Radeon 9800XT for around £400 as I remember it around 2003/4 (it definitely wasn't worth the premium over the 9800 Pro but that's beside the point). Rough inflation calcs put that around £650-700. In terms of relative performance mid range vs top end (say comparing to a 9600 XT / Pro back then). I would say the 9800XT would be equivalent to something like a 3080 today? Ignoring the fact they aren't actually available, isn't that around the price of a 3080?
If anything in terms of relative performance I would say cards like the 1060 6GB, 1660 Super amongst others have been better value than many previous generations.
£400 in 2003 is £638 in today's money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champman99
The 9800XT would be the equivalent of the Titan NOT the RTX3090. It was the fully enabled highest end chip of its generation. The RTX3090 uses a salvaged chip:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ga102.g930
A lot of the "top GPUs" now are 2nd or 3rd level salvaged chips. The main difference is the branding. Before the top gaming chip was the full GPU or second salvage. Now the top tier is called a Titan. The second tier is the TI or 90(90 used to mean dual GPU).The RTX3080 uses the third tier bin.
A GTX580 in 2010 was the fully enabled GF110 chip,and was $500. Using US inflation figures that is $600 today,or $720 with VAT,ie,£530ish. Guess what the equivalent bin of GF110 compared to the RTX3080 was:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gf110.g86
It was the OEM GTX560TI,as the GTX570 was a second tier bin like the RTX3090. The GTX580 would be the Titan in today's range.
Also,the GTX1060 and GTX1660 are not great compared to the 6600GT,9500 PRO,8800GT and HD4850/HD4870. The 6600GT was frequently beating the X800 PRO and FX5950! The 9500 PRO was in-between a Geforce Ti4600 and Ti4800,but was priced closer to a Ti4200. The 8800GT was around 85% of the 8800GTX released 12 months earlier for 45% of the price. The HD3870 matched the X1950XTX for less than half the price.
The HD4870 came along and was nearly 90% of a GTX280 for less than half the price. The HD4850 came along and was the speed of the previous generation 8800GTX/Ultra for 38% of the price.
These mainstream GPUs came close to matching the previous generation flagships,or we typically at least 70% to 90% of their speed. The GTX1060 didn't even come close to the GTX980TI,it was about on par with the GTX980 which used the midrange Maxwell chip.
The GTX560TI which was the mainstream Fermi GPU,was the 3rd in the range.
https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-gef...es/perfrel.gif
80% of the performance of the flagship GTX580.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/z...-512-mb/7.html
8800GT was 80% to 90% of the performance of the flagship 8800GTX/Ultra and almost the same at mainstream resolutions.
The 8800GT was 3rd in the G80/G92 range(8800GTS 512MB and 8800GTX/Ultra above it). The 8600GTS which together with the 2600XT were considered one of the worst mainstream generations for years(previous to the 8800GT which essentially replaced it),were roughly half the speed at mainstream resolutions.
All of these mainstream GPUs were below £300,once you add US inflation to the RRP,and today's exchange rates.
Things started to change after that. The Pascal GTX1060 was located 6th/7th in the range - the Titan Xp,GTX1080TI/Titan X,GTX1080,GTX1070TI and GTX1070 were all above it.
https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-gef..._1920_1080.png
Half the performance of the Titan Xp.
The GTX1660TI,was way down the range. So RTX Titan,RTX2080TI,RTX2080 Super,RTX2080,RTX2070 Super,RTX2070,RTX2060 Super and RTX2060. Its 10th in that range.
https://tpucdn.com/review/nvidia-gef..._1920-1080.png
Just over half the performance of the RTX2080TI/RTX Titan.
This generation in theory looks a bit better,but it appears the RRP is a marketing move and the real pricing is much higher(OEMs have been complaining too).
I think the slippery slope was already well underway at that point. The 560, like the 460 before it, was a games oriented consumer card and sacrificed fp64 compute performance for game shading ability. That was fine by me, which is why I bought a 460, but you were actually getting not only less silicon but a beast of a very different nature to the high end.Quote:
Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH
In regards to the thread topic at hand, it will be interesting to see if MFR switch stock priority to areas outside of the US given what should be a cheaper cost.
In regards to GPU pricing of course things have gotten more expensive, but this boils down to more than just Nvidia (AMD, Intel etc) wanting more cash (and consumer pockets not increasing at the same rate).
Supply right now either as a result of Covid and/or mining, new console launch, fab capacity all play apart too. GPUs, as mentioned above, are vastly different beasts to what they were in the DX8/9 era and even within the same release cycle. Whether you use that functionality and whether or not it is value for money is up for debate, but the extra (or wasted silicon) likely isn't going anywhere and so unfortunately we pay for it even if it doesn't translate to traditional 'gains'.
Strange how wages don't rise at this rate?
Wages are constrained by all of the stuff mentioned above. Whilst that pushes UP prices it keeps wages low....Quote:
Originally Posted by Rubarb
A-Level economics was wasted after not using it.... ho hem
since when has it not?
I bought a PN50 4700U for £330 in mid-nov, sent it back unopened in early january. Checked price now , £550 AMZ. Should have had my scalpers hat on!
Scan still list those at sensible prices. Are you sure the amazon price is amazon itself and not a scalper? Also why did you return it? they look like a great piece of kit. I'm getting one for my parents to use.Quote:
Originally Posted by persimmon
Edit: I can't find any pn50 listed on Amazon at all anymore. Are you on the uk site?
Yeah its beyond ridiculous. It makes me wonder if when the GPU/mining fiasco dies back down if even used GPUs will return to their price just one or two months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by loftie
True, but it did help push EVGA in that direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Usernamist