Monday, October 29th 2018
EVGA Announces the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti BLACK EDITION GAMING for... $999?
Well this here is something that we don't see every day (read, never): an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card for $999. NVIDIA did announce pricing starting at that value for this particular graphics card, but pricing, as always with NVIDIA's Founder Editions, has always creeped towards the company's self-set $1,199. EVGA, however, has just put up a product page for their GeForce RTX 2080 Ti BLACK EDITION GAMING, a dual-fan solution (much like NVIDIA's own Founders Edition) with EVGA's iCX 2 cooling expertise that's being marketed at the unicorn-like $999 price-point, with a limit of 1 per household.EVGA says this particular graphics card features the first-ever Hydro Dynamic Bearing (HDB) on its fan design, for lower noise and greater lifespan of the rotating parts of your graphics card. This graphics card also comes with interchangeable trim pieces for multiple colors to be applied at will.
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Ultimately, 2 monitors is a niche already, and more than 2 is a niche within a niche. Given the market situation, putting in more than 3 display controllers per GPU is a hard argument to make.
1250 EUR :kookoo:
EDIT: for completeness sake, it is this card, and it is not on the EU shop (yet?) www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-2281-KR
The more nuanced part of my logic has me realizing that I currently game at 1080p and will probably upgrade to 1440p instead of 4k. So all I really need right now is a 2070 or 2080 at most and can easily save a grip of money.
$999 EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti BLACK EDITION GAMING, 11G-P4-2281-KR
$1199 EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC BLACK EDITION GAMING, 11G-P4-2282-KR
As TPU reported, the A variants ( TU102-300A) are meant for higher-spec models, such as factory-overclocked cards. The TU102-300 (non-A) variants are meant for non-overclocked models.
Card / Core Speed / memory Speed / FPS achieved
ZOTAC RTX 2070 AMP Extreme / 2085 MHz 1990 MHz / 145.4 fps
MSI RTX 2070 Gaming Z / 2015 MHz / 2015 MHz / 144.5 fps
Palit RTX 2070 GameRock / 2040 MHz / 2020 MHz 143.1 fps
ASUS RTX 2070 STRIX / 2040 MHz / 1990 MHz / 142.7 fps
NVIDIA RTX 2070 Founders Edition / 2040 MHz / 1985 MHz / 138.7 fps
EVGA RTX 2070 Black / 2025 MHz / 1995 MHz / 137.4 fps
PCpartpickers current pricing on the Black is $1069.99 on amazon / $1076.98 on newegg ... still $200 cheaper than the Zotac Ti which is 14% faster than the Reference card. The MSI Trio led the Ti pack with 226.6 fps in the OC test closely followed by the EVGA FTW at 225.2 and the Asus Strix down at 225.0. The reference card was 194.5 OC'd. So we are we are looking at a 14% performance difference for an 18% increase in price for the Zotac.
pcpartpicker.com/product/pKrmP6/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-11-gb-black-video-card-11g-p4-2281-kr
As for the BIOS swap .. as always "not recommended" unless instructed to do so by your manufacturer.
We have watched the 2070 drop and to a lesser extent the 2080, now that AMD shot their volley, we can expect supply to catch up with demand and start seeing price drops. However given the Radeon's parity with the 2070 ... we can't expect too much. Eventually supply will exceed demand, and the better 300A GPUs will drop to $1150ish. At that point buying a AIB card is the better option than a $999 reference card. If the tariiffs go away that may get them under $1,000. Not something I'd recommend, but at least justifiable ... to an extent. The 2060 and 2070 are reasonably priced, I'm not there yet on the 2080 and the Ti.