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Super aggressive pricing. Not sure if they are selling those at a super low margin or they were ripping people off with the previous gens... Anyway, thank you
by pier25 6y ago
Super aggressive pricing. Not sure if they are selling those at a super low margin or they were ripping people off with the previous gens...
Anyway, thank you AMD for the competition.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoWell, 2 generations ago the MSRP of the 1070 was $379 and the 1080 was $599, so I'd say we've just gotten used to the higher prices which they successfully normalized.
- pier25 6y agoThe 1070 costs more than that even today: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=GTX1070 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=GTX1070
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoThat's sorta fair - we're assuming that these cards won't be marked up like crazy either - I imagine the MSRP will be wrong here too. I bought a Gigabyte 1070 for ~$450 USD at launch.
- kenhwang 6y agoAgreed, seems like Nvidia is preemptively trying to fend off AMD with an extreme show of force. This level of performance/pricing is much higher than even AMD's most optimistic estimates for performance/efficiency gains for their next generation.
- berryjerry 6y agoHow is that aggressive pricing? Those are the same prices they have used for previous generations.
- pier25 6y agoSee for yourself: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=GTX1070 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=GTX1070 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=RTX2070 https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=RTX2070 People are going to get a massive jump in performance for just $500. I don't think we've ever seen this before.
- berryjerry 6y agoA massive jump in RTX performance.. which no one actually uses. They didn't even show regular performance comparison.
- pier25 6y agoYeah, at least that's the claim. We'll see how that holds up with real world benchmarks.
- Wubdidu 6y agoHardware Unboxed tested an RTX 3080 and it seems like the performance improvements are not just in ray tracing: https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA It looks pretty impressive.
- pier25 6y agoGreat video. Thanks for sharing!