It's kind of crazy. I bought a 970 GTX in 2014 for $350. I'm not a huge gamer and don't have any great need for the latest and greatest. $350 is as much as I have ever spent on a graphics card.
The 1080Ti was released in 2016 and seems to compare pretty darn well to all but the very top end of the 2080 series. And for my modest 1080p gaming needs, the 970gtx still does OK. I've had a hankering to build a new AMD system, so might wait to see what the Ampere series that's apparently coming out later this year will look like. Scott On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:30 PM FORC5 <fuf...@cox.net> wrote: > > thanks for that, looks promising > > fuf > > On 7/10/2020 10:06 AM, James Boswell wrote: > > They're not insubstantially faster than the 2080 Super for one, there's > > some halo product $$$ going on, and also the die the thing is built on is > > ABSOLUTELY GIGANTIC, 775mm^2, can't be far off the maximum reticle size. > > cost per unit won't be cheap on Nvidia's end. > > > > However Ampere can't be especially far away at this point, so don't jump > on > > a Turing right now. :) > > > > On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:46, FORC5 <fuf...@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> anyone have a clue why the 2080Ti cards are > >> sooooooooooooooooooooo much more $$$ then > >> just a 2080 ULTRA (?) > >> > >> running a 1080Ti, happy I guess but with > >> SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much spare time ATM buying > >> stuff seems to be my new hobby. > >> > >> just updated my box to a BeQuiet dark base > >> 900, very heavy but nice case but then I > >> bought the extra stuff to convert it to rev 2 > >> ( with the Qi charger) with no glass. not > >> into RGB > >> > >> soon to be completely banana crazy. > >> > >> resistance is NOT futile > >> > >> fuf > >> > >> >
