1080s are still starting at around £470-£500, 1080Tis from about £650.

I suspect they're just going to be total wankers and kick the 2080 off at £600+ and the 2080Ti from £800+

By all accounts the supply chain is still swimming in unsold 10xx cards so if they pitch the 20xx series higher across the board it makes the 10xx cards look viable as they're the 'cheaper option'.

This is what happens when there's no (meaningful) competition. Intel only woke up when AMD punched them in the gut with Ryzen.

1080s are still starting at around £470-£500, 1080Tis from about £650.

I suspect they're just going to be total wankers and kick the 2080 off at £600+ and the 2080Ti from £800+

I remember the Titan costing £699 and eyebrows being seriously raised.

Then again who am I kidding? firstly I wouldn't want a new GPU having paid £650 for mine a year ago

Oh.

What the fuck even is this.

Nvidia isn't a charity and by your own admission have little meaningful competition so yeah, of course their new, shiny shit is going to cost the earth. Now maybe if they were the only suppliers on Earth of insulin or clean water I could get worked up about that, but come on. These are high end gaming graphics cards for nerds with more money than sense and/or a desperate need for e-peen. No-one has to buy this stuff. If you don't like the price, wait for them to get cheaper like the rest of us. Nvidia exploiting people with more money than sense doesn't make them "wankers." It makes them canny businesspeople. If you want to get annoyed at capitalism there's a million things more worthwhile to get excised over.

Did I miss some posts here that merited such an aggressive response?

Sorry. I'm a bit grumpy right now, I'm going through some Stuff which is clearly getting on top of me. Mea culpa.

Nvidia are a company with a long history of anti-consumer practices, so this is very much just par for the course for them.

Can it run Crysis though?

That rig must be able to crack out some serious emails.

And as many as THREE chrome tabs, SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Can it run Crysis though?

I doubt it, it has some tiny little passively cooled Quadro GPU.

So what you're saying is, you're only a £1 GFX card from playing Crysis?

...maybe? And the mere trifle of losing my job for installing random software on a secure workstation, of course.

What do you do on it that can't be done on a macbook pro?

Seriously though, what do you use it for? Is it just a case of "it was available, so why not."
What do you do on it that can't be done on a macbook pro?

I doubt it, it has some tiny little passively cooled Quadro GPU.

How many virtual machines within virtual machines could you run on that? Could you emulate every major version of windows within a load of iterated VMs?

Compiling Android.

I'd be interested in the delta in build times between a typical macbook pro and THE BEAST!!!

I found a StackOverflow of someone saying in 2016 that their i7 laptop with 16 GB of RAM took two hours to compile just AOSP.

A clean top-of-tree local source build on my machine is around 30 minutes. And Android is far bigger now than it was in 2016, and I'm compiling a lot more than just AOSP. So "a lot faster."

Why would you iterate them?

I reckon you could virtualise and run every major Windows release with 16GB of RAM, easy.

Nested is the word you're looking for.

I found a StackOverflow of someone saying in 2016 that their i7 laptop with 16 GB of RAM took two hours to compile just AOSP.

Recursive works, but the feature is called Nested Virtualization. PC Steps did an experiment a while ago to see how deep they could go ( ) and the answer was "not very far".

[edit] Here it is: https://www.pcsteps.com/508-nested-virtualization/

The Titan V isn’t a gaming card. It’s a professional grade workstation card for people who need GPU compute for their jobs, and is priced according to that market. Under my desk in work is a 72 core Lenovo workstation with 200 GB of RAM; that cost a pretty penny too, but it doesn’t mean squat for the gaming PC ecosystem.

Oh yeah I was more thinking about silicon and components, rather than the specific model.

Any way seems the stock cooler for the 2080ti has been revealed..

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_di ... n_cooler/1



This makes a lot of sense. I know two guys who bought Titan V, and their first statements within a day of ownership was "The stock cooler is totally insufficient now".

This made sense, as even on my Titan XP it struggled to keep it cool and you could gain an extra 15% performance by slapping the FE under water. Which worked, and I barely had to do anything (it just boosted higher without a very large shove and was able to maintain itself properly without any throttling).

So I was kind of wondering what Nvidia were going to do about this going into the future. Seems they have completely redesigned it, which is nice. Hopefully it can keep the entire thing cool enough for decent overclocking, without having to spend silly money on WC stuff.

Why would they want to keep it cool for overclocking, surely that is down to the owner?

I must be dim, if all hardware overcloaks...

I must be dim, if all hardware overcloaks, then isn't that it's standard mode of operation. I assumed over clocking was push stuff passed what it was set at.

All hardware now has boost/turbo clocks.

You can push it farther yourself