if a 1080 performs and costs about the same as vega 64.. i cant see that nvidia is ripping anybody off..
a 2070 isnt a bad price.. it should perform w
ell enough for most people with reasonable expectations.. ray tracing is for the future not the present.. and in truth nobody has to pay these top end prices to play games so whats the problem.. there isnt one..
trog
It is when the performance/$ didn't improve one bit (even got worse) compared to older X70 cards.
With the current innovation, We might as well see a $150 gt 2030 and 400$ 'RTX' 2060.
Ray tracing might be the future. in 4 or even 5 years. have you even seen BF5 RTX graphics ? outside of still images its just full of noise because of the extremely low sample rate, how much games can you buy with ray tracing usable ? how much games support DLSS months from launch? I would like to think a smart buyer chose a product by the futures it can currently deliver. not PR from the company who bought us the GPP and tried to sweep it under the rug. might as well buy products only based on '3rd party' - first party payed review that is released before embargo lifts (Intel somebody??)
for the guy commenting on the R9 295X2, the R9 290x was 549$ for a very competitive card. or would we like to talk about titan-z and the $3K dollar price. no one cares about halo products when they are just that. but we should care about actual products that any one of us here might buy.
its absurd that the gaming scene in the recent years becoming the playing field of people with rich pockets.. look at freaking monitors. you can buy a 55" UHD HDR OLED for a lower price than top of the line 27" inch lcd 'gaming' UHD Gsync monitor.
So a random forum poster somehow knows how to better pricing than the collective wisdom of the board of multi-million tech company. I say you submit your resume to Nvidia right away since you are more than qualified to make the call over there regarding pricing of Nvidia GPUs. Let us know how it goes.
'collective wisdom of the board of multi-million company" from the same people that bought you the near economical crisis. like so many places on earth where the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer. or so many places where rich powerful figures hold all of the power while people have no food in the stores.
Any way, Its not about "knowing better than.," its about - as a customer, to know when 'they' (collective wisdom of the board of multi-million company) are trying to screw you. I would like to think we are allowed to show opinion.
There is difference in making a profit and using your power as the top dog to drive competition out of the window (as intel tried to do with amd for years) and look at the product stuck now. without AMD we would still be on 4c/8t on the mainstream platform. like everything in life, nothing is black and white, so is free market vs regulated market. no extreme of any of the sides is good for us.