Hardly... when Nvidia is now telling us price for the RTX 2070 Founders Edition as $600, then while partner cards could "start" at $500, prices are looking 35-40% higher for a card that might see somewhere slight or just above this generic GTX1080!
Honestly, I will not surprised if these prices (and not necessarily calling them deals) might start "maintaining" or even go up. Seeing this is a "paper launch" and won't see true benches for like a month. I see Nvidia and their Partners have the upper hand to control inventory levels and price for a month and when true benches show they can then finish off remaining inventories with little to no concessions.
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From that article the only surprising price is the link for a Zotac GTX 1070 Mini which is a low price $296, for a card and that I'm not disputing, but "one outlier is not a trend". This is a card that was just $330 back mid-May 2017; 5mo's after entering the market. Now 15mo's later the price is 10% less! And, yes that's a good price but then all other GTX 1070 are still $375 and more. While it has merit for those in little cases the cooling is know to hold it back and especially when in a small tight case this is intended for. Consider the craze prices of the past this one is a good deal, but not truly a surprise for what it is. When we find see even low grade cards like some of the single blower cards from Asus or MSI, while actual dual fan like even pedestrian MSI Armor and alike are more like 15-20% from the $380 MSRP, then we can call it movement...
NVIDIA priced the 20 series cards so not to impact 10 series prices. They went from ridiculous to ludacris! Time to make a switch to AMD once my current card dies.
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Hardly... when Nvidia is now telling us price for the RTX 2070 Founders Edition as $600, then while partner cards could "start" at $500, prices are looking 35-40% higher for a card that might see somewhere slight or just above this generic GTX1080!
Honestly, I will not surprised if these prices (and not necessarily calling them deals) might start "maintaining" or even go up. Seeing this is a "paper launch" and won't see true benches for like a month. I see Nvidia and their Partners have the upper hand to control inventory levels and price for a month and when true benches show they can then finish off remaining inventories with little to no concessions.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gtx-1080-graphics-card-prices-181349961.html
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From that article the only surprising price is the link for a Zotac GTX 1070 Mini which is a low price $296, for a card and that I'm not disputing, but "one outlier is not a trend". This is a card that was just $330 back mid-May 2017; 5mo's after entering the market. Now 15mo's later the price is 10% less! And, yes that's a good price but then all other GTX 1070 are still $375 and more. While it has merit for those in little cases the cooling is know to hold it back and especially when in a small tight case this is intended for. Consider the craze prices of the past this one is a good deal, but not truly a surprise for what it is. When we find see even low grade cards like some of the single blower cards from Asus or MSI, while actual dual fan like even pedestrian MSI Armor and alike are more like 15-20% from the $380 MSRP, then we can call it movement...
Here's the link to that Zotac Mini.
https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-Compact-Graphics-ZT-P10700G-10M/dp/B01LLAJ8PU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Thank you!