Nvidia hopes to go head to head with AMD in the GPU department as the company recently unveiled its new GTX 1080 and 1070 cards to compete against the new Polaris-type AMD graphics cards.
However, although the new, all-powerful cards are already out on the market, some observers say that it is best to wait since there may still be price changes. According to CNET, the street value of the GTX 1080 is roughly $599 for the base model, while the special version with aluminum cooling solution has a price tag of $699. However, being new releases, the base Founder's Edition model of the new Nvidia GTX cards can go for sale as high as $899. The same is true for the new GTX's base model iteration, the 1070. The GTX 1070 has a base price of $499 when it launched last week. However, the market value of the base model is only at $380.
In addition, there seems to be some changes to the specs from the time the new cards were originally announced. Ars Technica reports that contrary to what Nvidia first claimed, the new GTX 1080 will support 4-way SLI for better performance. However, it is revealed that the new GPUs have only 2-way SLI support.
Meanwhile, although industry experts agree that prices will go down eventually, most power users have already purchased the new cards, simply because they want to test the specs for themselves. In a recent investor conference, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress addressed concerns that the company may not be up to the task in meeting the high demand for the new products.
The company executive stated, "We'll have supply quite shortly with the [add-in-card] market, and those will be here quite shortly. But over the short period of time between the Founders [Edition] cards, we're seeing a lot of unique price points."
