Casecutter What I think is a fair assumption, as by this time in the market prices are historically known to relent from original MSRP. While sure there's no blame for not delivering new-gen stuff, as who/our why offer or upset the waterfall of product while mining was taking it... it's not like gamers would've benefited by that.



But now that it seems AMD has the acceptable volume in channel and their AIB's ebb-n-flow with getting GDDR and seems prices waver up/down. Nvidia said to have faired worse and may have a bulging of inventory. Seems like there AIB's might receive GDDR at volumes but might seem more consistent. Nvidia looks to dwindle down such inventory's at a rate that maintains there price position even if it mean push-back their next-gen parts.





What? Have you read about... if they are doing anything it's a well kept secret.

Yeah but history is no real thing to go by; Pascal and Polaris are older than every gen before it until they got replaced and have just gone through a huge demand spike with only vague rumors on the horizon at this time. Its really not comparable to anything we"ve seen before. And on top of all this, this is also the rare moment where competition only really exist up unto the midrange - a segment already served with last gen (Maxwell) high end hardware which came at price points many didnt want to consider, esp not wiith a dirt cheap 970 up for grabs.This volatile combination simply means that demand is still above the level it has ever been especially at the midrange: the segment where people are equally price and performance aware. And to somewhat lesser extent the high end, where its mostly performance that is the main USP and where competition does not really exist.The only change in the market has been dropping demand of the larger volume purchases for mining, but the demand for gaming is still there, because lots of people have waited it out. And the games actually want that higher performance by now, too, which further fuels the upgrade itch.