P.S. The OP has 2 pictures with huge price comparisons, where are they been from? What web site has so many links to actual listings? Maybe I can buy tehre

Guess iL be sticking with my 1070 for awhile.

This is the part where those still on 1080p at 60Hz can at least have some silver lining. Meanwhile my 1080 Ti weeps because I'm insane enough to throw 144Hz/1440p at it in world where GPUs are pitifully behind due to a monopolized market, and games are about as optimized as your bowel movements after having McDonald's. I assume at 1080p/60Hz a GTX 1080 can still make the cut for a little while longer, at least if you turn off resource hogging BS settings like SSAO varieties.

Please don't pre-order.

nhlkoho:

Sure it's expensive but what's the difference between the top tier GPU and what AMD and Intel do with processors? Intel and AMD both have processors for $1,800+.

The difference is that the vast majority of people do not need the features they come with or are even able to make use of them. Almost everyone who can play games can benefit from a better graphics card, however.

MegaFalloutFan:

P.S. The OP has 2 pictures with huge price comparisons, where are they been from? What web site has so many links to actual listings? Maybe I can buy tehre

Its https://geizhals.eu/, a tech price comparison page primarily for germany and some (small) other parts of europe.

Lol at the pricing range in the UK from £1050 to £1400 only difference being the coolers WTF hahaha.

Kasp:

I just hope they optimize the new wave of consoles for 144hz gaming and minimal input lag, I'm done with PC Gaming.

And 4K as well, I'm sure. Yeah like thats going to happen. Consoles have mediocre hardware at best, and that won't change. Noone is going to pay a thousand bucks for a console with high-end hardware to run up such performance numbers. Not to mention that console gaming and PC gaming are fundamentally different. Controllers just cannot be compared to a keyboard and a mouse. So many genres that you just can't do on a console properly. Well, the majority of them even. FPS on consoles suck so badly, they keep trying however, but that doesn't make it good. Nevermind mouse-centric games like strategy. But here is a neat trick if you don't want to pay >1000$ for a graphics card: Don't! Buy a 1080Ti instead, or a 2080 (non-Ti). Just because someone is offering you a new high-end model at high-end prices doesn't mean you have to buy them. Just get over the names and assume that a 2080 is meant to replace a 1080Ti, and the 2080Ti is a new part of the lineup, a true high-end. Don't see it as a price increase, but a shift in the lineup. It'll make you far happier that way.

nevcairiel:

Its https://geizhals.eu/, a tech price comparison page primarily for germany and some (small) other parts of europe.

They're from Austria, that little country next to Germany with all kinds of weird people in it 😀 They offer a general overview for the German market, but also EU wide to some extent (OC UK, some Polish stores etc.)

Fox2232:

Don't call them weird... Austrians are mixture of German, Czech, Serbian, Hungarian, ...

If anything I got the right to call them weird 😀 But yeah a mix of pretty much everything around As for geizhals.eu itself, I always check and usually put my stuff together there. Really detailed also.

For me at the moment, I don't need the upgrade. I can play all my games at max settings with my 1080 Ti @ 1440p res and still get well in excess of 60fps. If I was on a 4k monitor I would want to upgrade but for now, I don't. Having said that... when I get a few new games that I can no longer run smoothly ( 60fps+ min ) then I'll be looking to upgrade. I just hope when that time comes the prices drop down a bit..

Neo Cyrus:

This is the part where those still on 1080p at 60Hz can at least have some silver lining. Meanwhile my 1080 Ti weeps because I'm insane enough to throw 144Hz/1440p at it in world where GPUs are pitifully behind due to a monopolized market, and games are about as optimized as your bowel movements after having McDonald's. I assume at 1080p/60Hz a GTX 1080 can still make the cut for a little while longer, at least if you turn off resource hogging BS settings like SSAO varieties.

Your 1080Ti is struggling @ 1440p?

There are games maxed out that bring a 1080Ti to below 60fps @ 1440p, like Total War: Warhammer 2's campaign map. But that's pretty much dependant on what settings you use, as usual.

£1400 for a AIB card that has it's own branded cooler but no OC or anything. I could build a whole new PC for that type of money and it'd be High-End. £700 for the parts and £700 for a good gfx card.

nhlkoho:

There's no way you bought that on release then. My 8800GT cost $349 new. The GT models were more of the 970/1070 line also

the 9800gt came out it july 2008 and I bought the card in September of 2008 for 139$ and I have receipt still there is no way in 2 month it drop over 200$, and there 70$ i got in discounts was from the cpu and motherboard being bundled, which wouldnt even make the prices diffrence but I got it from 139$ from new egg and back then there was no "market" sellers and we talking an evga card prices then and now are night a day, and they keep going up each gen and each gen it seem to be more extreme the prices even if more in line with 970/1070 there price difference between now and then is still over 100$ series wise

airbud7:

I had a choice between a new 2080 or breast implants for my GF... GF looks really good Bro! y'all want to see pictures? ....:D

Natural breasts are far better imo... but nice joke :P

yasamoka:

Your 1080Ti is struggling @ 1440p?

To deliver over 90 fps, yes. To hold 60, no. Modern games don't really hold anywhere near 144 fps if you turn up a few graphics settings... or at least the ones I like. I tend to leave xxAO varieties off because that's such a resource hog, and turn down shadows when it's one of those cases where actually does use GPU power. The one thing I won't ever turn down is texture resolution; if it's anything that stabs me in the eyes it's low res textures. But wait, it gets dumber. FF15 for example is often CPU bottlenecked, so I might as well crank up the the graphics, but then it's often GPU bottlenecked depending on the location. I get frame drops into the 60s, turn the camera the other way and I'm suddenly sitting at 120 fps. I hate Square Enix. I wouldn't be surprised if there's random shit being rendered out of view like under the ground, like the demo (which was pretty much a cut of the final product) did. I'm still using my ancient i7-4770K at 4.2GHz core/cache. I'm actually CPU bottlenecked in even more games these days if I don't leave Hyper Threading on. Sad. Bigly. I never gave it much thought until I ran into the issue since I was on 60Hz monitors for an eternity. I didn't think modern games would be this stupid with draw calls, or whatever the hell is clogging the CPU. Meanwhile the optimized console versions of many of those games are getting 60 fps at 1080p on a 1.6GHz miniature potato that was meant for shitty tablets. I'm going to go ahead and say the PC versions have no optimization.

airbud7:

I had a choice between a new 2080 or breast implants for my GF... GF looks really good Bro! y'all want to see pictures? ....:D

I guess for the sake of her back you invested enough for dual GPU support? No sideways tilting of her back? 😀

No chance of getting one on a bakers wage, im happy with my Evga 1080ftw @1440p.

DW75:

I expect a meme with an "RTX OFF" pic with some woman with A cups and an "RTX ON" pic with another one with triple D cups to appear any minute now.

The difference would be RTX OFF = Tomb Raider (1996) and RTX ON = Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018). 🙄