Re: [H] 2080 Ti

2020-07-12 Thread Scott Sipe
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

Re: [H] 2080 Ti

2020-07-10 Thread FORC5
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

Re: [H] 2080 Ti

2020-07-10 Thread lopaka polena
It's not just those. For some reason even some of the older gen video cards have not dropped in price. I got my GF 1080 on sale for $504 on 3/16/17, and they are more expensive now. It seems that nvidia especially is not dropping prices lopaka On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 8:46 AM FORC5 wrote: > anyo

Re: [H] 2080 Ti

2020-07-10 Thread James Boswell
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 especiall

[H] 2080 Ti

2020-07-10 Thread FORC5
anyone have a clue why the 2080Ti cards are so much more $$$ then just a 2080 ULTRA (?) running a 1080Ti, happy I guess but with S 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 n