How about a Buy/Not Buy 2080/Ti Pricing Poll

2080/Ti Pricing and Your Buying Decision

  • Will purhcase 2080/Ti at inflated prices no matter what

    Votes: 23 9.2%
  • Will wait till prices fall to normal and purchase 2080/Ti

    Votes: 72 28.7%
  • Not buying 2080/Ti even if prices fall back to normal

    Votes: 156 62.2%

  • Total voters
    251

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Simple question, are you going to buy 2080/and or Ti, at current inflated prices? Or wait for prices to come down? Or just not at all, even if prices come down?

Because, if you have noticed, prices are well over MSRP currently, and MSRP pricing was already overpriced.

Therefore, I am curious what our readers are going to do.
 
I purchased at Nvidia so paid their MSRP even though that's an inflated price. Does that count as choice number 1?
 
I will wait couple of months more to see how prices behave and how raytracing + more waves of DLSS perform.. currently the extra ~30% performance means nothing for me if it won't improve anything in a noticeable way my 3440x1440@144hz gaming, at least not at the current price.
 
I see no compelling reason to upgrade from my 1080 since I am at 1440p. Now if RTX features take off and I think they are useful then maybe I will change my mind, but with current prices they better offer something phenomenal.
 
Too much cost for too little gain.

Saw it coming and bought a cheap, used 1080 Ti FE to complement my other 1080 Ti FE.

And while I barely beat out Kingpins single 2080 Ti LN2 Timespy graphics super score, I still beat him! https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/4458558/spy/4443441

FWIW, I'm 30% slower on average at 4K than a 2080 Ti when SLI doesn't work, and when it does I am a lot faster - and both cards cost me less than a new 2080 Ti!
 
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I'm waiting for a hybrid/liquid aio version at it's own MSRP.

I upgraded my 1080 ti with a hybrid cooler kit and it would have been cheaper and a lot less stressful to just wait for one to be sold like that. And I am not in a hurry this time.
 
I get the latest and greatest at launch and sell my year old parts. It's my favorite hobby and relatively cheap. $1200 for the 2080Ti is steep and I hate this current market like everyone else, but I'm getting one regardless. It's close to 40% faster in Kingdom Come: Deliverance at 1440p vs a 1080Ti .... yeah I'm sold. Thankfully the 2080 is such a turd that my Titan Xp should hold resale value nicely. Feels dirty because I know how depressing it must be for first time builders and those on a budget, and it's terrible for PC gaming overall. Sigh... AMD? Intel? Anyone else wanna step up?
 
At $999 I'm thinking about it... Have to see VR performance and added effects first.

My day job involves a lot of ml/AI so I can justify some of that by having access to tensor cores for experimentation.
 
Option 4: I'll wait for prices to come way down and see if games start using DLSS/ray-tracing in meaningful ways...if both happen then I might get the 2080Ti...although I'd prefer to wait for the 3000 series
 
If normal = today's MSRP of FE and AIB MSRP's, then no.

If normal = actual starting MSRP's, then yes for the 2080 Ti, and no for the 2080.
 
Hard pass. 1080ti SLI here. 2080ti is grossly overpriced with RT which is basically unusuable. $1200 card and need to run 1080p. I hope these all rot on the shelves and nvidia learns a lesson.
 
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Been running oc'd 1080ti's since launch, played with a titan V for a month before selling it, and honestly I had no interest in buying the 2080ti yet. In hindsight, seeing that RTX is DOA, I'm glad I'm going to skip this generation. I can get by at 4k just fine for the time being till 7nm lights some panties on fire. This is the first generation I've ever skipped on launch btw.
 
I'm buying the 2080Ti no matter what, but I'm definitely not proud of it. I just need more performance. I would skip this generation if I was on 1440p still for sure.
 
Nvidia just needs to dramatically lower prices and it'll be worth it.

1080ti - 500
2080 - 600
2080ti - 800 <-- should be 700 to match 1080ti launch price.
 
Option 4 - I'll wait 4-6 months and buy a second hand 2080 Ti for under $1000.
 
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Happy with 1080 and skipping this generation altogether. Next generation on a new node with advanced features that might get adoption by that time makes a much better sense and might also provide another Pascal-like performance jump. Only 2080ti for eye bleeding $1200 is more powerful than twice cheaper 1080ti. No memory increase either. Long live 10 series!
 
Not buying now, anyway.

Still using a GTX 760, but I will not support this ridiculous pricing scheme. If I can find a reasonably priced 1070 or 1080 I'll bite, which is probably what nVidia wants anyway. I had seriously thought about getting a 2070 but with prices starting at $499(and lets be honest with ourselves, that's not happening) and performance likely near a 1080 it is a terrible buy. No way nVidia would allow it near a 1080ti when the 2080 barely matches or bests it itself.



The 2080ti should be priced like the 2080, and so on. I understand why some would go for it but that is NOT me. Hell no.
 
Going to hold off until the prices are AT MINIMUM back to msrp. That should also give me some time to see more info about DLSS. Ray tracing is the future, and it's definitely cool, but I'm way more interested is the extra performance DLSS is supposed to bring.

That said, if AMD were to suddenly drop a card out of nowhere that was on par with a 1080ti, I would sell my 1080ti and make the lateral move just to switch teams. Sadly, that's a pipe dream.
 
I mean, I'd buy one today for ~$750

I won't buy one in 4+ months if it falls to that price, I'll just wait til 7nm.
 
I'm buying the msi Gaming X trio at 1200....been saving for a while. Going from a month 1080 to the 2080 ti should give me a nice bump at 1440p
 
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Everyone on the planet wants to upgrade its just Nvidia has it put out reach for a lot of people.
 
I'd rather spend the money on a used 1080 Ti or a Titan Xp (2nd Gen) than for a 2080 or 2080 Ti. The price/ performance ratio isn't worth it.
 
With the 1080ti i've got here neither prices nor the increase performance give me any reason to upgrade to a 2080ti. Probably a 700$ and good DLSS perf and image quality would swing me to upgrade but as it stands bring on the 3080ti (at 700-800$)!
 
Brent,

Not to say I won't read your review of the cards when they go live (because I will read it, one of the few I still read) but I don't really care about its performance in games right now. My main interest is RT and how it performs/looks when it finally arrives. That affords me time to wait for the market to hopefully stabilize and then later get a better picture of how well games adapt to RT and its performances.

I'm totally ok with lowering resolution to increase fidelity, the amount of realism that RT should bring to gaming is amazing and I am excited that we have performance that lets us do this real time.

With that said, as to the poll I'll buy the 2080Ti at MSRP to do this but the current inflated price is just bananas, at least one of my kids needs to go to college lol.
 
I get the latest and greatest at launch and sell my year old parts. It's my favorite hobby and relatively cheap. $1200 for the 2080Ti is steep and I hate this current market like everyone else, but I'm getting one regardless. It's close to 40% faster in Kingdom Come: Deliverance at 1440p vs a 1080Ti .... yeah I'm sold. Thankfully the 2080 is such a turd that my Titan Xp should hold resale value nicely
Really? How much? That is the card I own.
 
I’m going to buy a 2080 Ti come November, but I’m not convinced that the prices will be much lower by then. Right now, the nVidia 2080 Ti FE is pretty much the lowest price here in Denmark for ALL 2080 Ti cards, so unless the board partners get their shit together with some competitive pricing, I might as well go the FE route.

Anyway, we need to wait for the 2080 Ti to actually ship in a week before we can get a handle on the prices. The initial supply will be low, so I’m not sure even a feeble demand will do anything to move the prices downwards.

Remember that the RTX Quadro cards wont ship before Q4, so that points to some constraints on the supply level of that monster TU102 chip.
 
Will wait and see if prices drop but given past 2 gens it won't likely happen so may end up in the last bucket. 1200 is too rich for my blood even though I can have 2 on the way right now but as a matter of principle not indulging this time.
 
I should add in buying because I think the ray tracing features are amazing and I want to support them being implemented. It's not my only reason, but it is definitely a factor. I also game in VR and my 1080 needs upgrading.
 
You should have a fourth option in the poll? I won't buy one at MSRP or the inflated prices but I would consider one if they drop $100 to $200 under MSRP.

I believe they will drop a lot in price when the Pascal cards sell out.
 
I am on the buy side. Once 7nm hits 5nm is supposed to be 2021. You can keep waiting forever.

Also three people use my rig. Four including VR. The dollars / hours of use is crazy low.

This card will also let me max all my current games at 3440x1440. In the future anything demanding should have DLSS. I see no problem keeping this for a few years.

Normal procedure is releasing a Titan at the same price and performance but a shit cooler. I much prefer this route, personally.
 
I splurged and spent $720 on my 980Ti Classified back in their heyday, and that was a hard pill to swallow. No way am I spending a good bit more than that, let alone almost double that, on a replacement for the same tier in the lineup. $700-750 OEM or $730-780 AIB, and I'd bite on a brand new 2080Ti.
 
At 1440p/144hz, my 1080ti ain't broke - so I ain't fixing it. Especially when I could add another used 1080ti AND a waterblock for less than HALF the price of a 2080ti @MSRP... there's just no way.

I think Nvidia's pricing is understandable here, and I'm glad they're pushing the tech forward, but that's a heck of an early adopter's tax.
 
I splurged and spent $720 on my 980Ti Classified back in their heyday, and that was a hard pill to swallow. No way am I spending a good bit more than that, let alone almost double that, on a replacement for the same tier in the lineup. $700-750 OEM or $730-780 AIB, and I'd bite on a brand new 2080Ti.

Using a 980Ti I would buy a 2080ti without even think about it.. it offer more than 100% performance jump even factoring overclock. When I went from 980Ti to 1080ti the performance was a night/day difference.. so for 980Ti > 2080ti can't even imagine not wanting to spend the money on it..
 
Using a 980Ti I would buy a 2080ti without even think about it.. it offer more than 100% performance jump even factoring overclock. When I went from 980Ti to 1080ti the performance was a night/day difference.. so for 980Ti > 2080ti can't even imagine not wanting to spend the money on it..
I dunno. The performance is real, but I can certainly imagine not wanting to spend $1,200 on a graphics card.

Heck, if I were on a 980ti right now, I think I'd still probably choose the 1080ti over the 2080ti from a price/performance perspective.
 
I dunno. The performance is real, but I can certainly imagine not wanting to spend $1,200 on a graphics card.

Heck, if I were on a 980ti right now, I think I'd still probably choose the 1080ti over the 2080ti from a price/performance perspective.

I agree, I dont think many people here realize it's pretty rare a person spends over 1,000 bucks on a single item for their rig. It's like 1,000 dollar plus processors, not very many are lining up to buy one despite just how powerful they are. Especially when some of the features cant even be used yet as well.
 
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