Why are graphic cards not getting cheaper?!

[xthetenth]

On the other hand, the demographic that actually buys Titans will tell themselves whatever they need to hear to justify buying titans.

 

[Zodiark1593]

On the other hand, the demographic that actually buys Titans will tell themselves whatever they need to hear to justify buying titans.

While taking a look at the time on their Rolex.

 

[Timmah!]

It watered down the Titan name. They were prosumer cards, but the Titan X lacks some crucial capabilities. It should've been the 980 Ti while the 980 Ti should've been the 980. The 980 should've been the 970 Ti. If Maxwell 2 can't do prosumer tasks well, don't release a card in your prosumer brand. Price them the same as they are now ($1000 980Ti) who cares, but they lost some Titan prestige when they decided to release a Titan on an architecture that has no DP.

I agree with this.

Overall, interesting topic about something that bugs me as well. I totally agree with most of what Russian Sensation said, IMO the most blame for the rising prices is Nvidia trying to go full Intel or Apple or something....and getting away with it (except the case of Titan Z i guess...)

I bought my GTX590 in 2011 for 610 EUROs. It had 2 fully unlocked Fermi GF110 GPU cores... these days, that much money is about 150 EUROs short of getting you 980Ti, which has single GM200 core, not even fully unlocked....
this upcoming dual-chip card is very likely not going to be under 1500 and even at that price we can consider ourselves lucky its not 3000 again....

its really sad state of affairs and not a good time to buy GPUs at all.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Actually they have gotten cheaper, you should see how much an SGI Maximum IMPACT video card cost (it required 3 boards for 1 complete setup) cost.