NVIDIA Launches $349 GeForce RTX 2060, Will Support Other Adaptive Sync Monitors (hothardware.com) 145
MojoKid writes from a report via Hot Hardware: NVIDIA launched a new, more reasonably-priced GeForce RTX card today, dubbed the GeForce RTX 2060. The new midrange graphics card will list for $349 and pack all the same features as NVIDIA's higher-end GeForce RTX 2080 and 2070 series cards. The card is also somewhat shorter than other RTX 20-series cards at only 9.5" (including the case bracket), and its GPU has a few functional blocks disabled. Although it's packing a TU106 like the 2070, six Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) have been disabled, along with 20% of its Tensor and RT cores. All told, the RTX 2060 has 1,920 active CUDA cores, with 240 Tensor cores, and 30 RT cores. Although the GeForce RTX 2060 seems like the next-gen cousin to the 1060, the RTX 2060 is significantly more powerful and more in line with the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 in terms of raw performance in the benchmarks. It can also play ray-tracing enabled games like Battlefield V with decent frame rates at 1080p with high image quality and max ray-tracing enabled. NVIDIA has also apparently decided to support open standards-based adaptive refresh rate monitor technology and will soon begin supporting even AMD FreeSync monitors in future driver update.
Re: Pfft, Nvidia is a badged Samsung minibrand (Score:1)
It's fine for mid range but it's the low end card. With a 2050/2050Ti being way worse if it happens.
They're trying to figure out how (Score:2)
For my money I'll be happy when I can get a 1060 6gb for $200
Re: They're trying to figure out how (Score:1)
Except the GTX 10 series will get the support too.
So that kinda kills your theory.
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The killer feature is supposed to be realtime raytracing, which is what ~half of the chip is more or less dedicated to. You're right that Nvidia had essentially been pushing new monitor tech the past several years, and few people were biting, which is probably why they decided to go in this direction. That, and they're trying to sell their raytracing hardware to Microsoft/Sony to put in their next consoles. If one console supported realtime raytracing and the other didn't, that could be turned into a decisi
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The fucked up part in all of this is, you could have had 1060 for only 249 at launch. GPU companies and their board partners are extremely unwilling to drop prices from crypto boom days, so they barely came down to starting prices back three years ago. Even with 1060 6gb, that they now have warehouses full of and that nvidia apparently had to buy back chips for from board partners because they just weren't selling after crypto boom ended.
Two and a half years later, you're paying about the same price as on l
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GPU companies and their board partners are extremely unwilling to drop prices from crypto boom days, so they barely came down to starting prices back three years ago.
Not true. GPU cards are now below release MSR. But NVidia's new cards have jacked up prices, including this one.
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Only some of them that just aren't selling and they have warehouses full of, like 1060s, and even then, many of them are still above MSRP at release. The cards they made for crypto miners basically.
1070s for example are still overwhelmingly far above MSRP, though well down from crypto boom pricing which added far more premium than is currently asked: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n... [amazon.com]
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Oh, you're talking NVidia. Yes, NVidia loves to screw you, but if that's your pick then it's your bed, don't complain about lying in it.
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It's not just nvidia though. They sold those chips ages ago. It's board partners and resellers too who're trying to get their share.
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Board partners have much less manufacturing lead time than chip vendors, so they don't keep much inventory. NVidia is carrying the inventory, you can see it on their balance sheet (one of the reasons NVidia stock crashed so hard.) NVidia is screwing you and noone else.
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Having seen price charts on the various board components, I have to disagree with that assessment.
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Explain?
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Between the peripherals on the board, the board itself, and the development that goes into various optimizations, the cost of the board is fairly significant. That's what's responsible for much of pricing variation between various boards with same GPU, which can go into hundreds.
Board manufacturers did dump a lot of GPUs back on nvidia when they failed to sell them. That was in news a couple of months ago. But board manufacturers are the ones that actually put the GPUs for sale (minus the FE models). And th
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All sensible, but I don't see the connection with board component prices.
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Cryptoboom's connection isn't to prices of components any more so than cryptoboom's connection to GPUs. Problem is that companies got used to getting a better premium both on GPU end and board end, and neither want to concede this premium.
We've seen a similar problem with HDD prices after Thai floods.
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They just announced the 10 and 20 series cards will work with FreeSync monitors through the VESA VRR standard, so there's something.
This card... is not a great value, it's about what I paid for a 10700 a few years ago. It's going to be a bit faster certainly but eh.
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Correct, NVidia has been systematically jacking their margins. See what AMD announces Wednesday morning, and if there is no joy there than wait for 7nm Navi.
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I'll be happy when I can get a 1060 6gb for $200
You can get an RX 580 right now under $200, more or less the same power as 1060 depending on whether you believe NVidia's paid-for benchmarks or not. Pretty much the best value spot in the midrange GPU market at the moment.
$349 is Mid-Range?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Since when do mid-range graphics cards cost more than a gaming console? Every mid-range graphics card I've bought has been $99 to $199. Low end cards $50+ and high-end graphics cards between $250 and $400.
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inflation and cryptomining were a bitch this decade for PC gamers
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" CUDA lol, what a dumbass. "
Try a GPU renderer. The majority of which seem to like Nvidia flavors moreso than AMD.
Much more common and no one does this with low or mid range cards.
The more CUDA cores you have at your disposal, the faster the renderer will run.
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In reality you can get 2x AMD cards in crossfire for less money than a single Nvidia sucker-investment that can't compete with them.
Which AMD cards in Crossfire versus which single nvidia card?
Also AMD doesn't yet have a DXR solution so it's an apples and oranges comparison, the bits that make these new cards expensive are the tensor and RT cores, if you're not interested in those features then you wouldn't be buying a card like that anyway.
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You're saying Nvidia pays specific game dev shops (activision) to add pseudo-RT "features" that nobody else supports, including games people want to play. (Not activision)
No I'm saying these new cards have a capability that the cards you're comparing to do not have. Realtime raytracing will be huge for gaming but you have to start somewhere.
Go ahead and pay twice as much, I'm fine with your decision, just realize that's exactly what you're doing in the name of "shiny, unsupported feature" - because that's exactly how they rope morons, just like that.
I have a 1080 with no plan to upgrade. I'm not sure why you're calling it an "unsupported feature", these nvidia cards di already support DXR via the tensor and rt cores. More games are adding DXR features and both AMD and nvidia were in collaboration with Microsoft (and together as part of Khronos) in defining the APIs, it has a software
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"Realtime raytracing will be huge for gaming" - meanwhile you recommend paying 2x as much money for an unsupported feature.
No. I don't recommend it. Nor is it an "unsupported feature", quite clearly it is supported and will become more supported over time. I'm not that interested in extreme visual fidelity so the small improvement it currently makes by augmenting rasterized games doesn't seem worth it to me.
You want to justify your mistake, that's fine. I'm ok with your mistakes.
What mistake? I don't think it was that complicated but here it is again anyway:
I have a 1080 with no plan to upgrade. [slashdot.org]
Given that was pretty unequivocal perhaps you're unaware that the 1080 is a card from the previous Gefor
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" quite clearly it is supported" - by 1-2 activision games?
No. [forbes.com]
Just pay twice for everything you buy, because you're so smart and savvy.
Again, I'm not sure you understand what a 1080 is.
Re: $349 is Mid-Range?? (Score:1)
Lol no
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High end CONSUMER cards last generation started at around 375 USD MSRP. That's what 1070 entered retail for.
Competition... (Score:2)
As long as AMD has a hard time competing, NVIDIA can sell their stuff at a premium and introduce "midrange" cards at non-midrange prices.
Hopefully the next AMD generation will be a significant upgrade (especially at performance/watt where they are lagging the most).
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AMD won the console wars. Both Sony and Microsoft consoles are AMD both on CPU and GPU. As a result, their development was heavily focused on those chips, which is why they're very competitive in mid end chips. But their PC high end performance has been awful.
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Nvidia doesn't do real time ray tracing. They do "sorta kinda semi-fake ray tracing" for cheap, that has little to nothing to do with with actual full on ray tracing.
Success rate of which will unfortunately likely be the same as their fur tech they pushed so hard with 10xx generation. Remember that one? Yeah, no one else does either, because it's all but dead.
Why did it die when it did look so damn awesome in games like witcher 3? Because AMD won the console wars, and few companies will invest into propriet
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Problem being that DXR implementation that exists is nvidia only at the moment, and we're not aware of any interest from AMD in implementing it on nvidia's terms any more so than any other proprietary nvidia's features in the past that they "sorta kinda" opened to others.
Considering that essentially every single game with ray tracing had the feature essentially paid for by nvidia, and even then there's almost no one that did it, and those that did had to tone it down hard and go back to rasters because anyt
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Note how you didn't debunk any of my statements, you just made it look like you did. At no point did you argue that AMD expressed significant interest in implementing ray tracing in GPUs beyond token nod to Microsoft. At no point did you debunk the fact that this is a paid feature by nvidia that no one is willing to touch with a ten foot pole without nvidia paying for it.
And the current implementation is the "sorta kinda ray tracing" because it isn't actual ray tracing for most of the scene, and where it is
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I'll literally point you to overwhelming majority of reviews of how the new cards work in the only game that actually supports nvidia's sorta kinda ray tracing. It addresses every single one of your questions in full.
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If you can't find any reviews right now, when literally searching for name of the card and name of technology will get you countless articles and videos, I can't help you.
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>You said you were going to "I'll literally point you to overwhelming majority of reviews", I thought that meant you were going to do that.
And I have. Instructions included in previous post. If you cannot follow them, I cannot help you.
Re: $349 is Mid-Range?? (Score:2)
Several years ago. Right now 0-100$ joke, 100-200$ entry level, 200-500$ midrange and 500+ for high-end.
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High end started in 350-375 range last generation. That was the launch price of 1070.
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BS. The price rise that followed was about crypto boom. And no, we didn't have double digit inflation in two years.
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Every mid-range graphics card I've bought has been $99 to $199. Low end cards $50+ and high-end graphics cards between $250 and $400.
Yes, times change, back in the 90s the highend Voodoo2 went for < $300 and the TNT was < $200. Highend phones used to be priced around there too but as with inflation and the packing of huge amounts of new technology in the price goes up.
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and high-end graphics cards between $250 and $400
Diamond Edge with nVidia nV1 and 4MB of VRAM: $699.
In 1996.
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Also, in the past, Coke was sold for a nickel. How dare they sell it for more today!
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Also, in the past, Coke was sold for a nickel. How dare they sell it for more today!
Not a great example. Coke held the price at 5 cents for 70 years.
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Not a great example. Coke barely improved its performance since it was invented.
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Since AMD has shot itself out of the pc gaming market, and NVidia has a pseudo monpoly atm. The same happened with Intel Processors during the AMD piledriver era.
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Since when do mid-range graphics cards cost more than a gaming console?
Since mid range graphics cards became an order of magnitude more powerful than shitty gaming consoles.
Every mid-range graphics card I've bought has been $99 to $199.
You haven't bought mid-range graphics cards, you've bought low range graphics cards.
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The cost is almost the same as 1070 at launch. They're selling mid end at high end prices.
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Even years ago a 99$ card is a low end card. That said you are more less correct... Mid-range should be 150$-250$. A 350$ seems a bit rich for mid range. That said, could just be the article. It's being compared to 1070ti and 1080 which are older high-end more less. Perhaps it is more accurately being "released" at 350$, and will be on sale for 250$ in the next 6 months or whenever AMD comes out with their next thing....
Either way, not buying a 350$ mid-range card.
Should be $149 (Score:3)
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Should be $149 based on what? You have here a card that outperforms the GTX 1070 Ti and is cheaper. The benchmark here is has been show to be priced at a point the market will happily pay for.
What's your basis for a lower cost? You just hate profits and think it's a good business decision to leave money on the table? Remember the RTX 2060 is only the bottom in the top tier. Expect a lot more cards to come to the market in the next 6 months at your price point. (Rumored GTX 1160)
What happened to /.? (Score:2)
No one asking about Crysis seems that they have moved on or are looking for employment outside of Amazon.
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The last Crysis game came out 6 years ago, and Crytek has one foot in the grave.
Correct price: $195 (Score:5, Insightful)
nVidia is charging about twice what this card is actually worth. Wait a while.
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nVidia is charging about twice what this card is actually worth. Wait a while.
Based on what? The card outperforms the 1070Ti which has an RRP $100 higher than that and the market has shown that it happily will pay the money for cards with that price / performance.
What is your basis for the $195 price mark?
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Linear time.
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And yet we have increased performance at a lower price point, Linear time shows it's just fine. Unless you subscribe to the theory of endless growth.
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What do you think Moore's law is?
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Oooh I know this one. The answer is "not relevant"! What do I win?
And if you think otherwise it would be a good idea to start looking into what has happened in technology development, performance, and dollars in the past 10 years, and then do your favorite activity: extrapolate. You may find you hit the $350 launch price.
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The ass hat. Which you will likely put on your head, being as dumb as you are in thinking that 75% price increase in a single generation for the mid end product is something you can extrapolate from historic numbers.
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There was no 75% price increase. The RTX2060 has a 40% price decrease for similar performance, quite the same as the previous gen cards when rolled out. And while you keep using the term "mid-end" you continue to ignore the fact that just because there's a 60 in the number the product mix has changed and it is not a mid end card though it will be joined by a mid end card with a 60 after it sometime early this year.
If you're going to call someone dumb it pays to actually have a clue first.
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Something that is obviously relevant and related to performance and cost, which is the observable reality for those not desperately astroturfing?
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You finished that sentence early for such a purportedly smart man. Do continue. What does doubling density of transistors lead to?
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amd is in the marketplace..
anyhow. how well does this actually run battlefield v with the pseudotracing effects turned on?
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Given the tepid response to the 2070 and above, I'd say your analysis of the 2060 pricing is spot on.
I wouldn't. The 2070 and the 2080 were underwhelming in performance and priced significantly higher than there lower down competition. I.e. RTX 2070 RRP was higher than the GTX 1080 and only performed marginally better.
By comparison the RTX 2060 is $100 cheaper than the GTX 1070 Ti and either equals or outperforms it. By all accounts this may be the only card that has hit the market at the right price point so far for its new release.
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Missing the point on pricing (Score:3)
A lot of Slashdot comments here are saying the card is too expensive without justifying why. The RTX 2060 matches or significantly outperforms the GTX 1070 Ti depending on the load and is priced at about $100 lower RRP. This is quite the opposite to the ludicrous launch prices of the RTX 2070 and RTX 2080.
At the same time it's worth remembering that this is not a low end card and rumours are the non-RTX line will continue to develop with a cheaper GTX 1160 in the works to say nothing of the even cheaper cards NVIDIA has on the market.
Now with all that said and done, rumours also say that AMD is about to eat nvidia's lunch. AMD has confirmed that Navi won't raytrace but so far every rumour also says that it will double the price performance ratio of NVIDIA's cards, and my guess is when that happens we should actually have a justified reason to call all the NVIDIA cards overpriced including the RTX 2060.
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Because 1) the X60 cards have cost $200-$250 the past several generations, and 2) the bump in performance/dollar is low, compared to what we got last generation.
The most recent rumors I've heard are that Navi will only cover the mid-range, i.e. where the 2060 lives, but for lower cost than the Vega cards. This may lead to a price drop for the 2060 (or more likely, an 1160 reveal), but the 2070+ would remain unopposed.
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Because 1) the X60 cards have cost $200-$250 the past several generations
And? Price / performance has increased and the product mix has changed. The RTX 2060 by all accounts will not be the direct successor to the GTX 2060.
and 2) the bump in performance/dollar is low, compared to what we got last generation.
You subscribe to the theory of endless exponential growth?
The most recent rumors I've heard are that Navi will only cover the mid-range, i.e. where the 2060 lives, but for lower cost than the Vega cards. This may lead to a price drop for the 2060 (or more likely, an 1160 reveal), but the 2070+ would remain unopposed.
Quite possibly. We'll see how it turns out.
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This card is priced almost the same as 1070 on launch two years ago. Linear time exists, as does moore's law.
This is a "mid end card" with high end pricing. Ergo, it's massively overpriced. Ergo current state of nvidia stock.
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This card is priced almost the same as 1070 on launch two years ago. Linear time exists, as does moore's law.
This is a "mid end card" with high end pricing..
And yet in the past 2 years there was a very non-linear behavior in pricing that prevented a massive linear time drop. And by all accounts it's not the successor to the mid-end card. The RTX 2060 will be joined by another xx60 card which will actually be the mid-end card based on NVIDIA's announcements so far.
Ergo, it's massively overpriced.
That will only be shown proven if it fails to sell. I presents a far better value proposition than the 2070 and 2080, and both of those cards are selling very well.
Ergo current state of nvidia stock.
If you think NVIDIA's stock has to do
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>I presents a far better value proposition than the 2070 and 2080, and both of those cards are selling very well.
It's rare to see such a direct admission of being an astroturfer. Thanks. I laughed.
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It's rare to see such a direct admission of being an astroturfer. Thanks. I laughed.
Well if you want to spend twice as much money for marginally incremental performance more power to you. NVIDIA's stocks could use all the help it can get right now.
Or are you somehow delusional enough to think the xx60 series has ever not been the best in terms of value proposition? If so laugh away in your ignorance.
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That moment when you get caught astroturfing, and try really hard to pretend you're not. Because this most certainly isn't xx60 series in anything but name. It's xx70 in terms of price and maybe, perhaps, performance.
Except that it's 1070-ish, while pretending to be next gen, selling point being new rendering mode that isn't implemented pretty much anywhere where nvidia hasn't paid for. 1060 is still where value proposition is. 2060 sold at xx70 prices has the value proposition of xx70 series, which is sign
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Because this most certainly isn't xx60 series in anything but name. It's xx70 in terms of price and maybe, perhaps, performance.
How is that fact astroturfing when it has been the arguement from the beginning including that of reviewers and including that of NVIDIA itself who say RTX are for the foreseeable future premium graphics cards? Your argument is fundamentally the same as mine right up until you got to the following line:
1060 is still where value proposition is.
You're having a different discussion. The topic at hand is the value proposition of the current upgrade choices. Your solution is not to upgrade. Your solution doesn't belong in this discussion. I don't disag
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I must say, you make for a very in depth look at astroturfer's handbook on how to handle being caught astroturfing. Tacit attempt at feigning agreement, gentle attempt to guide discussion away from your astroturfing and noting that "you made the right choice to buy our product". Some serious psychology went into material that was used to train you.
Thank you for this interesting lesson in psychology. It was quite enjoyable.
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I must say, you make for a very in depth look at astroturfer's handbook on how to handle being caught astroturfing.
Whatever man. One day you may be enlightened enough to realise that people who disagree with you aren't on the take and that you're have in fact just been talking shit all this time.
Have a good day.
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Low end card 50-100
Mid range card 100-200
High end card 200+
People do not have unlimited amounts of money, and computer part purchases are compared to other purchases. Inflation is a thing, but people have emotional attachments to certain currency units.
This is too expensive to call mid range based on what average people actually pay for components. It's not about the performance level so much as the price position
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GTX 1060 3 GB had 200 USD MSRP two years ago. This one is 75% more expensive while being positioned as similar mid end product this generation. We didn't have anywhere near that much inflation over two years, we had low single digits one.
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GTX 1060 3 GB had 200 USD MSRP two years ago.
Cool story, when NVIDIA releases a successor you should bring this up. In the meantime the GTX 1060 6GB has an MSRP $70 higher than that, and the founders edition is $300. Then when you look at an RTX 2060 you'll see there's only a minor increase in price for performance that rivals the Ti version of the next model up previously at a price that is $50 lower than that RRP.
If you want to talk about mid-low tier cards why are you in a discussion about a raytracing specialty product? The GTX 1160 will be releas
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Low end card 50-100
Mid range card 100-200
High end card 200+
Oooh cool arbitrary numbers!
This is too expensive to call mid range
NVIDIA agrees with you which is why it is an RTX card and why they said they intend to continue to the GTX series for the mid and low range.
It's not about the performance level
If you're not balancing price vs performance what is your decider? That it gets delivered in a pink box with fairy dust? That it has a RGB LED on the side?
Re: I own an Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card (Score:1)
So?
Any point? Except wasting time?