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The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Review - Comment Thread

If it's a paper launch then all bets on pricing are out the window.....

Makes me wonder what we're going to see out of the soon released AMD products.... I don't expect anything, but maybe there will be some surprises that convinced Nvidia to do an early paper launch???? :ph34r:
 
Why is a $900 Canadian top tier card surprising to people? The GTX 980 Ti has been selling for $850-900 from launch until the 1080 was announced.
 
If it wasn't, it was awfully close to the dollar's recent nadir....

After perusing SKYMTL's review (and others, looking for benchmarks that included a GTX 970), I am far more conflicted than I was yesterday! Performance is certainly there, but the price. My god, the price. As sswilson said, '$1K is where a top of the line dual GPU offering belongs, not a single'. As I intend to stick with 1440p for a few more years, a (used) GTX 980 Ti looks, on first glance, like the better buy.
 
SugarJ said:
Why is a $900 Canadian top tier card surprising to people? The GTX 980 Ti has been selling for $850-900 from launch until the 1080 was announced.
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The surprise is becasuse this is a new trend that started with the GTX Titan when it launched in 2013. Prior to that single cards did not reach that kind of pricing even with the R9 290X or Nvidia's previous flagship video cards. It seems that Nvidia is mostly the one setting the trend of pricing video cards at near four digit pricing and in my opinion it is not justified. I don't remember the GTX 480/580 or the older video cards being priced at $999. Even some dual video cards such as the 4870 X2 and others I recall were nowhere near $1000 even when the dollar was at very low levels.
 
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lowfat said:
1080 isn't a top tier card. It is a higher midrange G*106 chip. The G*108 is the top tier chip.
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The GTX 1080 is a top tier card just like GK104 was with the GTX 680 until the flagship or higher-end parts can be released.
 
lowfat said:
1080 isn't a top tier card. It is a higher midrange G*106 chip. The G*108 is the top tier chip.
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It is a top tier card. It will continue to be Nvidia's top card until the ti comes out in a year or so. Just because we know that in a certain amount of time they will have a better card out doesn't make this one any less of a top tier card.

Now as for the price, I think the real issue is the "founders edition" price. If it wasn't for that and they just had it listed at $599 us then you would not see nearly as many people complaining about the price. As that would be almost the same price as the 780ti's were when I got them, about $775. Is this expensive, sure it is not the cheapest car on the lot, but it is the best. It just comes down to seeing two things, first what the US prices will actually be for the board partners. Second, how much the stores are going to try to screw us over on pricing, like it looks like Canada Computers is doing by having the price an extra hundred more than current exchange.

Frankly the idea of having a more expensive card the only one available at launch is like a slap in the face of their loyal customers.
 
ipaine said:
I think the real issue is the "founders edition" price.... it looks like Canada Computers is doing by having the price an extra hundred more than current exchange.

Frankly the idea of having a more expensive card the only one available at launch is like a slap in the face of their loyal customers.
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I take the opposite view, being more outraged by (apparently) outrageously high exchange rates. Frankly, having only one card available at launch is (I think) smart as it could improve availability and take advantage of anyone incapable of waiting a few weeks for partner boards to become available, thereby increasing profits. Anyone who is "loyal" to a multi-national company might as well tattoo sucker on their forehead. :whistle:

Edit: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition Early Adopter Tax Goes Away
 
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