Upcoming GPUs (2016)

[emitchell109]

Looks like I will have a reason to upgrade... Or at least a slim justification!
What are your plans upon release Mirai? Do you have a preferred board developer that you wait/look for? Or do you go with the founders editions?

[MiRai]

Looks like I will have a reason to upgrade... Or at least a slim justification!
What are your plans upon release Mirai? Do you have a preferred board developer that you wait/look for? Or do you go with the founders editions?

Personally, I go with EVGA because of their support and warranty options, but for this launch I would wait a few weeks to see what is actually happening with everything, but either way I won't be upgrading my hardware until the next iteration of GPUs, at the earliest.

People are very confused as to what nVidia is trying to pull, or if they really have enough stock of GDDR5X to have an ample supply of GTX 1080s, because this $100 "Founder's Tax" is really, really odd. I've been reading non-stop about this, and only a few seem to be actually defending this when everyone else is skeptical as to what is actually going to happen. nVidia also couldn't really explain what is so special about a Founder's Edition and why it requires the additional $100 price tag, and why board partners (e.g. EVGA, Asus, Zotac, MSI, PNY, etc) should even bother to price their boards at the MSRP of $599.

nVidia is saying...

• It costs more to manufacture, but that hasn't been true about reference cards in the past since they've always been the cheapest.
• The chips aren't binned (meaning they don't favor better overclocking)
• The new vapor chamber cooler costs more and is better than prior versions of stock coolers, but it has already been shown to be inefficient which ends up throttling the GPUs.
• That they cannot speak for when partner GPUs will be available.
• They used "premium materials" -__-

I'll be these nVidia guys couldn't wait to get off of the stage...