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$19.95 postage without eBay plus, though there is a free trial everyone should either still have or be eligible for :)
I'm personally still waiting a bit longer but this is quite cheap for this card.
MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Armor OC 8GB $629.10 Delivered (eBay Plus) @ PcMeal eBay
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What's happening then?
To add, NVIDIA is rumoured to have sent out invites for a press event.
So to be clear, we won't be getting new graphics cards then, just possibly some news about new graphics cards?
Could be the announcement of the new cards, which would presumably be released shortly afterwards.
While this is an OK price for a 1080 in the current climate, there's talk of further price drops later this month, and the cooler on this is a noisy PoS.
If you can wait, wait. Compare prices in late-July and early-August to something like $600-$700 for the 1170 (~ 1080ti performance) and $750-$900 for the 1180. The variance accounts for how much retailers attempt to gouge early adopters.
Essentially good value would be a 1070ti dropping close to (or below) $450, and a 1080 dropping to close to (or below) $500.
You're still basing this on rumours like you did on the other thread. Pure speculation. No one knows what the performance of the 1170 will be, you simply can't use old figures based on previous generation improvements. You may very well be right, but there simply isn't enough information out there yet to say what you are saying.
I agree the cooler on this probably isn't very good, better than a blower at least. I am also waiting for later this month /early next month to see what happens, but maybe someone out there wants a 1080 today and that's why I posted this.
All fair comments when you're on the periphery, though it's not too difficult to guess the performance improvements that will come from GDDR6 and architecture tweaks. The rest will come down to how much they want to push TDP compared to the current generation, and how much this more efficient 16nm (aka 12nm) process is compared to what was rolled out for Pascal.
The Titan V gives some insight into this, namely the way it packs in ~40% more CUDA cores AND then a stack of tensor cores while rated at the same TDP as the 1080ti, but it's running clocks about 10% slower when under load.
Even if we ignore the tensor cores (or assume they will be implemented in an equivalent fashion in the 11 series as they were in the Titan V), that puts the 1180 at 1080ti performance just if it were using the same TDP, and no changes to core architecture. Add in a conservative 10% bump for architecture changes (remember that this will better support async compute and have superior compression tech), a 10% bump for the increased effective VRAM bandwidth (between the compression tech and GDDR6 despite a likely 256-bit bus) and you're looking at a 20% increase over the 1080ti conservatively, if the config holds.
Chances are the 1180 will not have the same config: the die bump will likely be smaller, but most of that will come through less tensor cores proportionate to the Titan V, while pushing for higher clocks (as has always been the case when you look at the Titan series, and will always be the case when you consider fab development), so that 20% could hold, or it could blow out to 30-40% with similar or better clocks than the 1080.
Virtually every piece of the puzzle is out there to calculate what we'll see, the only piece that's missing now is the core architecture updates. Do you think they will be a backwards step, when the process fab is completely mature?
In addition to comments about the loud cooler, I believe that Armor cards don’t place the heatsink over the memory chips which is a significant shortcoming in my experience, particularly for miners and overclockers.
Also, there are bad reports about armor cards generally running hot. Cooling is becoming more important with these smaller nodes for maintaining best performance.
I wouldn’t consider buying an Armor card.The card is the Gaming X PCB shipped with a cheaper and inferior cooler. Great for people who want to replace the cooler with a waterblock, not so good if you use it as is.
Rumoured 20% drop in current gen GPUs expected in the next few weeks.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msLoFWaWjTI&t=630s
GPU news is around the 10 minute mark.
Yeah drop faster. I will buy a 1080 ti
So many Nvidia cards prices are dropping..
I expected these discounts to halt after June but it seems they just keep on dropping.
C'mon Aug 21!!