GTX 1080 Aftermarket Cards

[MontyInHD]

So the 1080 released yesterday and I've been looking at some of the aftermarket cards which may I say look amazing. The one issue is that they seem rather expensive.

Could we see a drop in price after the pre-order for these cards have ended, and how soon would this usually be?

Thanks for all help provided.

 

[dantheman0809]

Well... these cards are in pretty high demand.The price for the evga model at least seems to be somewhere in the $650 range, which is between the founders and reference edition and seems relatively reasonable priced, imo.
You would probably need to wait until other companies comes out with more models so that competition drives prices down, but for that to happen you'd need to wait for other companies (ie msi, gigabyte) to release their own versions of the card

it's a brand new card, so you shouldn't expect prices to drop anytime soon unless higher competition arises or some flaw in the card is discovered

 

[MontyInHD]

Well... these cards are in pretty high demand.The price for the evga model at least seems to be somewhere in the $650 range, which is between the founders and reference edition and seems relatively reasonable priced, imo.
You would probably need to wait until other companies comes out with more models so that competition drives prices down, but for that to happen you'd need to wait for other companies (ie msi, gigabyte) to release their own versions of the card

it's a brand new card, so you shouldn't expect prices to drop anytime soon unless higher competition arises or some flaw in the card is discovered

Well I've been looking at the water cooled MSI card which looks awesome, but is around £680 preorder, so Im just wondering if the prices will change after preorder?

 

[photonboy]

Well... these cards are in pretty high demand.The price for the evga model at least seems to be somewhere in the $650 range, which is between the founders and reference edition and seems relatively reasonable priced, imo.
You would probably need to wait until other companies comes out with more models so that competition drives prices down, but for that to happen you'd need to wait for other companies (ie msi, gigabyte) to release their own versions of the card

it's a brand new card, so you shouldn't expect prices to drop anytime soon unless higher competition arises or some flaw in the card is discovered

Well I've been looking at the water cooled MSI card which looks awesome, but is around £680 preorder, so Im just wondering if the prices will change after preorder?

Supply and Demand.

Companies do not drop prices if cards are selling well. It's just common business sense. Sometimes prices INCREASE if orders suddenly deplete stock.

 

[dantheman0809]

Well, I would speculate no, unless the card doesn't sell well they'll probably keep it at that price.

 

[InvalidError]

Could we see a drop in price after the pre-order for these cards have ended, and how soon would this usually be?

Prices won't drop until supply exceeds demand, which may take a few months. AMD's Polaris which should be officially announced at Computex next week may help that along, depending on how soon Polaris 10 and 11 will become available and how well they perform.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I thought AMD was not playing in to the more top end cards and would just be mid range at best ??

''AMD's upcoming Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 graphics chips won't be powering high-end graphics cards, according to recent comments by AMD. In its latest financial report, the company noted that Polaris 11 would target "the notebook market," while Polaris 10 would target "the mainstream desktop and high-end gaming notebook segment."

just another wait and see deal I guess ?? but may not be in the league as a 980/1080+ more toward a compete with a 970 /960 tier cards ??

we see how well sales of ther 300 cards are to the 900's no one really looked at AMD at all

 

[InvalidError]

I thought AMD was not playing in to the more top end cards and would just be mid range at best ??

AMD will be in the (very-)high-end later this year with Vega/HBM2. The 1080 is not quite top-end either, there is still room above that for a 1080Ti and whatever the Titan variant will get named.

Depending on how well the R9-490/480 perform and how they get priced, they may still put a significant dent in 1070/1080 sales. Some leaks put the R9-480 in the neighborhood of Titan X territory, imagine if that ends up priced only somewhat higher than the R9-380.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I dought it - there 300 cards were just a no thought [sad thing is I liked AMD cards the hd 7000 series was hard to beat and it showed ]

it would be nice to see AMD do something i'm so close to full abandonment of them now it aint funny .. they really need a breakthrough / break out parts , badly and stop with all the ''next year '' jazz we can oily go so long on waiting for next year that seems to never come

 

[azzazel_99]

Not sure what prices you're talking about. Evga's sc1080 with the acx cooler is only $649 which is $50 less than founders edition and only $50 above the msrp. It cools AMAZINGLY and allows great overclocks!!!! $650 for the new king gpu is a bad ass price. I would not expect to see ANY price drop until the 1080ti comes out at the end of the year or next year.

 

[photonboy]

I thought AMD was not playing in to the more top end cards and would just be mid range at best ??

AMD will be in the (very-)high-end later this year with Vega/HBM2. The 1080 is not quite top-end either, there is still room above that for a 1080Ti and whatever the Titan variant will get named.

Depending on how well the R9-490/480 perform and how they get priced, they may still put a significant dent in 1070/1080 sales. Some leaks put the R9-480 in the neighborhood of Titan X territory, imagine if that ends up priced only somewhat higher than the R9-380.

My estimate puts the R9-480 to be about 10% faster than a GTX980 though that's based on the current GPU frequency estimate for Polaris.

I simply took the GPU cores of the R9-390 and R9-480, then multiplied by the 30% GPU boost estimate. That came to 1.17 or 17% faster than the R9-390 which puts that roughly 10% faster than the GTX980.

I doubt it could be much faster considering the rumored $200MSRP.

If the price and performance are close that's a pretty sweet card, though I think closer to $240 is likely with an R9-480X closer to $300.

 

[InvalidError]

I doubt it could be much faster considering the rumored $200MSRP.

Not a rumor anymore, confirmed by AMD at Computex.

 

[sshortguy1]

according to the sales of the gtx 1080s they're out of stock everywhere so the prices won't change until at least a yr or so , amd side the r9 480 will be a slight faster than than the previously r9 390x

 

[azzazel_99]

Newegg has some in stock 1080

 

[sshortguy1]

I already have 2 that was the limit but just checked and they're out of stock already