It’s incredible how much the prices have fallen and that’s how it should be. Sure, I bought the 960 close to launch but still the difference is staggering.

The 960 Evo still chugs along albeit it’s a new one because a few months after I bought it, I had to RMA it. I guess that’s what happens when you are an early adopter. I lost a few hours of work when the original 960 Evo decided to stop working but it also taught me to be more paranoia with backups.

  • LeberechtReinhold
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    nVidia GPUs:

    970GTX was 329$ in 2014

    1070GTX was 379$ in 2016

    2070RTX was 499$ in 2018

    3070RTX was 499$ in 2020

    4070RTX is 599$ in 2023

    Probably, the 5070 in 2025-6 will be 650-700.

    • @dangblingus
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      72 years ago

      Lol a 4070 in Canada is $1200.

      • LeberechtReinhold
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        12 years ago

        I mean, in europe they are more expensive, 4070RTX was about 700€ (770$). Different currencies and different taxes. And greed.

        • w00
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          12 years ago

          Nope. FE was 650€ at launch +shipping

        • @dangblingus
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          42 years ago

          Well yeah, but the exchange rate isn’t that bad. Our prices are just astronomical.

        • @MetaCubed
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          32 years ago

          Direct conversion for $599 USD to Canadian dollars works out to about $800. NVIDIA has just decided that they can get more than that out of us with regional pricing

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      Then ya got the 8800GTX in 2006, with a MSRP at a cool FIVE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS, or 900USD in now-money.

      Granted, that was an outlier at the time, but still!

      I opted for 2x7900GT cards in SLI in my first self-built monster machine, for Crysis. 330USD each. That thing was a monster. Ran Crysis at 40-50FPS!

      …bought an Athlon 64x2 4400+ for some 460USD… it dropped to like 200 just a month or so later when Intel’s Core series was a smash hit.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        I bought the 8800GTX because it was the first DX10 compatible GPU available, and that thing was an amazing powerhouse. No need to fiddle with SLI profiles, just raw graphical power.

    • @LightDelaBlue
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      12 years ago

      its hurt i pay back in time a gtx titan x … it was 1000€. for the top of the top. and today the top line is … way fuking more…