Have Graphics Cards Gotten Better or Has The Price Just Went Up?

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theonerm2

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Since the original Titan graphics card prices have went up significantly for Nvidia's top of the line single GPU card. Back in 2010 the GTX 580 was only $500. That's half the price of the Titan in 2013. Now the newest Titan is $1200. Why the increases? Is it really that much better to warrant the increase over what we have gotten in the past or is it just because AMD isn't keeping up?
 
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I've been following this trend for a while now. nVidia has been testing the market to see what consumers will pay, and people are willing to pay more now, so nVidia is charging more. NV has most of the marketshare, so they're largely able to dictate prices. AMD has no answer to the GTX 1070 and 1080 right now in terms of performance, and the RX480 draws similar power to the GTX 1070 while performing around the same as the GTX 1060.
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Well the Titan really isn't designed for gaming, so currently the 1080 is more of an apples to apples comparison. Actually amd is right on nvidias heels in GPU power so its not a monopoly thing. CPUs are a different animal, but allegedly Zen will catch them up we shall see
 
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The GTX 580 is not a Titan. While when it was released it was the fastest GPU on the market it wasn't far beyond its lower models, and AMD had cards that just about kept up. However the prior Titans and the current one are massively excessive in comparison with far more RAM, performance, and also they aren't mainstream so they are limited build and that pushes the price up as well.
 
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Lack of competition ... AMD stopped competing at the highest end long time ago ... Remember The Titan Z ? Nvidia Cut their Prices 37% for OEM , from $2999 to $1830

They can sell the Titan X Pascal 37 % cheaper as well , but nothing is forcing them to do it.
 
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It's both :)
But mostly AMD to blame. They are so impotent in creating decent HW and SW that Nvidia just do what they want in high end market.
They charge the prices because they can :)
Now jokes aside, the latest Titan is indeed more complex than predecessors. It uses newer process node and yields are probably not that high for chips of that size. they are also sold in relatively low quantities so that justifies the price. It is kinda Bentley (or any other true luxury car) of the GPUs. You are getting more, but at significantly higher price.
 
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Well if you look at it for this perspective. In 2007 The 8800 GTX was only$599-$649 when it came out and that the GTX 1080 is $599-$699+ they are in about the same price bracket and both offer similar performance jumps. The 8800 GTX beat 7900's in SLI and the GTX 1080 comes close to sli GTX 980's. So I guess that's kind of similar.
 
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It's better than Broadwell-E according to that benchmark AMD showed... But you know how that goes... AMD only shows the benchmarks that make their product look good. They even made Bulldozer look like it was just as good as a Core i7 2600K. Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devZ8jETRJo And we all know how Bulldozer turned out.
 
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I've been following this trend for a while now. nVidia has been testing the market to see what consumers will pay, and people are willing to pay more now, so nVidia is charging more. NV has most of the marketshare, so they're largely able to dictate prices. AMD has no answer to the GTX 1070 and 1080 right now in terms of performance, and the RX480 draws similar power to the GTX 1070 while performing around the same as the GTX 1060.
 
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