King Dranzer :
renz496 :
The 2080 and 2070 might be expensive but i'm not sure about 2080ti. I think majority of people want 2080ti to be priced at the exact same price as 1080ti while offering 50%-60% more performance. but the thing is right now the competitor canmot even touch 1080ti. There is no pressure for nvidia to drop 1080ti price. So it is more logical for nvidia to charge even more for 2080ti. But ultimately if nvidia did price 2080ti at $700 it does not good for consumer either down the road.
The day Pascal series is either out of stock or not being bought anymore NVIDIA will have to lower its price on RTX series especially RTX 2080Ti(to around $800, we cannot expect NVIDIA to drop its price to $700 at any given point). Till then we have to wait. All this is caused by two main reasons. First being that AMD is unable to compete with NVIDIA. Second but equally important the Crypto-currency mining because of which NVIDIA had to delay Turing launch by months only to clear already manufactured Pascal GPU. If both of these factors were answered then RTX 2080 and 2070 would have launched long ago and at much meaningful price of $450 and $650 respectively and now RTX 2080Ti would have launched for $750.
In 2016, there was no Ryzen. Tossed Intel into panic mode.
With 7nm in the upcoming mix, Nvidia is probably eyeing AMD closely. Nvidia doesn't own ray tracing and just because they have a process in working with it doesn't mean it can't and won't be done better in the future. and as an aside, other than a very limited range of programs that can utilize it, who needs live ray tracing? Much like buying a VHS player...or "pre-ordering" when there were only 4 movies you could buy for it....all insanely overpriced because they knew they could milk the greed and ego of those that just "Had to be 1st".