Nvidia’s GTX 1080 Sold out within hours after launch
If you’re PC gamer looking for the latest and greatest video card, you’re out of luck. NVidia’s latest flagship GPU, the GTX 1080, sold out on pretty much all sites it’s been made available on, within hours.
On Amazon and other sites, as one could easily predict, the GTX 1080 can now be found at jacked-up prices from third party sellers. At the time of this writing, you can get one for $970 on Amazon, but people recommend to wait for a few weeks until prices fall back to a more reasonable price of approximately $600.
NVidia claim that the GTX 1080, built on the new Pascal architecture, is up to 3 times faster than last generation’s GPUs. Their benchmarks show that the GTX 1080 runs games such as the Witcher 3 or Rise of the Tomb Raider with almost twice as much relative performance as the GTX 980. It’s also “VR ready”, whatever this might mean. What the heck do I know, I have a GT640M on my laptop, I think it can run Doom (the one from the 90’s).
The GTX 1080 is offered by a bunch of manufacturers, but so far all the prices I’ve found are in the $900 area.
Probably also shaves with extreme precision
Would you pay more than retail to be one of the first to get your hands on the GTX 1080?
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Personally outraged at prices in Europe.
You jump from 699 Dolars for the founders edition to 789 Euros, which is actually equivalent to around 879 Dolars.
What the actual *** European Union?!
And it’s not in just this, it’s in everything! Every kind of product!
*** you and your damn thieving tax laws!
In contrast to the EU price tags don’t have to include tax in the US. So while you will be charged exactly 789 EUR in a store counter in EU you will never pay ‘just’ $699 in a US store. Based on the state tax you will be charged more likely something around ~$770. Of course its still cheaper in the US then EU (Hardware/Games) but it is not as bad as simple price tag comparison…
On the flip side just compare prices for food and other day to day stuff… You’ll find that you pay triple the price for e.g. Milk or Butter here in the states compared to e.g. Germany. Now you can choose if you rather pay 100 bucks more for a GPU once a Year, or 20 bucks every time you go to a super market…
Source: A german dude who moved to the US three years ago.
this card has hardware DRM built in just for the sake of playing 4K content. you know the future ain’t bright when they shove that *** down customers’ throats and they don’t complain.
I have a gtx580m in my laptop and thats more than enough for me,
depends on personal prefences but imo i dont think u should pay more then 300$ for a gpu
so just wait for the price to drop and play games u own that work with the hardware u own waiting for it
i bet you’re playing dota2, lol, csgo or…. uh.. point blank.. haha obviously you don’t need new GPU
I don’t know about any of you, but I’m not an early adopter. I have a GTX970 so I’ll wait for the non-reference GTX1080Ti until I make my decision.
Just some clarification.
NVidia said the 1080 had “only” twice the performances (which can be translated by “faster”) of the previous gen hardware.
the “3x” was about efficiency, which is only means the card would consume 3 times less energy to get same performances of previous gen hardware.
And the sold out situation is a joke. In france, Nvidia only put on sales around 40 cards -_-‘
Anyway, the 1080 is the card most of us would want, but which almost none of us can afford. People will probably be looking for a 1070 instead.
>almost none of us can afford
LOOOOOOOOOOL
It’s not that expensive…..
still using intel hd 4000 here lol
And all of this so that “gamers” can play StarCraft 1, online games, retro games and Minecraft. Magically, you can’t play the new games with the previous gen cards anymore.
Love it how my comment got deleted for no apparent reason.
Watch as it happens again.
Your previous comment was put on hold for moderation because you used curse words. Be polite and see how your comments then magically surface on the site instantly.
I can’t wait for Polaris and watch past hardware drop. Both used and new.
By the end of the year so much good hardware is going to be so cheap that anyone should be able to get into PC gaming with about 200-300 bucks.
Salty
How is being excited for price drops being salty?
Highly unlikely. And that would be only true for first world countries.
They said it launched at 9am EDT. idk just refreshed the page and ordered one at like 9:10.
I always buy video cards that are about a year old. By then they are around 250 to 300 dollars and still pack a punch. You don’t need to spend any more than that to play most games.
Gonna wait for GTX 1080 Ti 😀
Will wait for the next iteration of the pascal architecture, gtx 1185 Ti, in a year or two, when a all teething aches are solved out.
Until then, a gtx 980 amp is good enough for most games and fHD.
And nvidia sells the 1080 for 789€.
I’ll probably wait for the OC’ed 1080’s before getting one and ill deal with that until the real pascal cards come around.
I have no idea why people buy reference cards when in a couple of weeks time u can get a superclocked card with acx for $50 more from evga and the others.
i think 2x RX 480 (2x $200) on crossfire is better.
haha. i have a gtx950 from last year. and i been playing doom (the one from the 90’s) for at least a week now.