Everything else is gone. Why no love for the 1070 Ti?
Those 1080s look pretty much free these days.
At MSRP, 1070ti is a much better deal than the 1080, it’s almost as fast and much cheaper. People missed that because prices inflated immediately upon its release.
Hell I paid that for a FE non-ti and never once regretted it.
Quaro
1910
Price is good. I really hate the blower style cards though. Hmn.
I think I paid $360 for my 1070 last Feb after a $20 rebate and it came with For Honor. Sold my 970 for $150 so that wasn’t such a bad upgrade.
The 1070ti is much faster than the 1070, it’s pretty much a 1080.
No doubt, but for me I try to hit the middle. Going over $400 for a video card just isn’t something I’ll do these days.
Quaro
1914
So it was a moot point anyway. The 1070 Ti was never actually in stock except for a few minutes. It’s just been glitched all day.
Total side thing but really interesting(and long article) about mining and its effects on a small town in Washington with cheap electricity. Pretty amazing stuff. Shows how and why GPU’s are nowhere to be found right now.
SlyFrog
1916
“The commercial miners now pouring into the valley are building sites with tens of thousands of servers and electrical loads of as much as 30 megawatts, or enough to power a neighborhood of 13,000 homes.”
This is truly fucking sad. We’re destroying the world more quickly for magical imaginary coins that do nothing.
Menzo
1917
Wrong. Those imaginary coins let you buy meth, child porn, and sometimes even the unlock code for the ransomware on your computer!
That is a fascinating article, and the first I’ve read that did even a half-decent job of explaining how blockchain works.
Yes, great article Jason. Reading this it sounds like the more people who mine the harder it becomes to generate bitcoin and with halving day coming again in 2020 unless the price of bitcoin continually aligns then there will hopefully be a time in the future when margins are sufficiently cut that it no longer becomes viable to mine coins and still make a profit, at least at a consumer level if not at an industrial level.
Seeing used Vegas on eBay at the $700 Buy-It-Now threshold! If this continues, we might near MSRP in a few months.
Mining cards are around the corner it seems…
Skipper
1922
I wonder what about them makes them mining specific?
stusser
1923
Hopefully, cut-down CUDA-only cores that can’t be used as GPUs and thus sell much more cheaply.
Only 5GB of RAM on the card, compared to the 11GB that comes on a 1080ti. That should lower costs and alleviate production bottlenecks related to RAM supply.
Also, looks like a much more robust cooler than the blower-type that Nvidia normally puts on their reference cards.
