1080ti price increase

[slashy16]

I am in the market for a second 1080ti graphics card and noticed prices have gone up in the last 6 months.
I purchased a EVGA 1080ti FE(ITX Case needed blower) for $849 Canadian in March and now the cheapest I can find is 1029-1100cad. What is the reason for the price increases? Mining? Are these prices temporary?

 

[Elfear]

Mining and lack of competition from AMD have caused the price inflation. No end in sight for either of those issues that I've seen.

 

[wilds]

Slickdeals has a good deal on
a 1080 ti right now. Not sure if you can do it as I live in USA.

 

[24601]

Memory prices are up 300+%

Price increases are obvious for products that use large amounts of memory, especially leading edge memory like 11gbps GDDR5x

People don't generally buy 1080 Ti's for mining.

It's the same reason the Vega 56 and 64 are so far above MSRP.

Add to that the Canadian PC parts retailers/e-tailers generally tend to be extremely price gouge-y anyways compared to the direct USD to CAD conversion and you have a bad time.

The USD to CAD conversion rate was 1.35x in March, which means that the 1080 Ti would have been 700 USD x 1.35 = ~945 CAD before taxes at direct conversion.

The USD to CAD conversion rate is 1.288x today, which means that the 1080 Ti would be 700 USD x 1.288 = ~ 901.6 CAD before taxes at direct conversion if those other things I'm talking about weren't happening.

 

[4K_shmoorK]

Where are you looking for cards? The EVGA 1080 TI Black Edition is $919 CAD. AIB cards with thicker coolers and more features tend to be more expensive. Custom cards are much closer to $750 ($966 CAD) at retail here in the US, only falling to $700 on a sale.

 

[Elfear]

People don't generally buy 1080 Ti's for mining.

True, I forgot the 1080Ti uses GDDR5X. Still mines at a decent level but hash rate per dollar is much poorer than the 1070, 480, or other cards.

 

[tential]

Mining and lack of competition from AMD have caused the price inflation. No end in sight for either of those issues that I've seen.

Yup, it won't change but there are deals that bring it back to MSRP or lower like ZGR states. It's an INSANE deal on sale.

Slickdeals has a good deal on
a 1080 ti right now. Not sure if you can do it as I live in USA.

Gotta love living in the states. We get all the deals.

True, I forgot the 1080Ti uses GDDR5X. Still mines at a decent level but hash rate per dollar is much poorer than the 1070, 480, or other cards.

I mean, if you can make some money back off your high end Nvidia GPU you might as well. They're expensive, every dollar counts to get it back. Even if the profit isn't as great, you still do VERY well for buying the GPU RIGHT at launch and mining. Now that you can mine on nvidia gpus, there is a huge incentive to pick them up ASAP and learn to mine whenever you can.

So it's a price increase, but you can offset it with mining/great deal.

Since you're in Canada, you will most likely just get screwed price wise, since we pay so much less in the US, so I dunno what an actual good deal is for you. You'll most likely depend on mining and the eth/CAD conversion rate.

 

[Rifter]

Living in Canada blows computer price wise, I know because I'm Canadian too. My recommendation is if you live close enough to the border just order it from usa website, shipped to a freight forwarding company just across the border and then go get it. This is what I do as I live in Surrey just 30min from USA border. Can fill up on gas while down there to make the gas to go get it pretty much free as well.