Prices fall on Nvidia's Maxwell cards, but deals they're not
The launches of the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 didn't make retail inventory of Nvidia's Maxwell graphics cards disappear, and it looks like the first waves of major price cuts are starting to hit those cards as we speak. Those cuts are deepest at what used to be the top end of the market. A glance at Newegg shows GeForce GTX 980 Tis are now selling for anywhere from $430 to $450 at their lowest, and cheaper GTX 970s can be had starting from $240.
These price drops might look good on their faces, so we'll be blunt: there's virtually no reason to buy any Maxwell card for the same price as one with a Pascal chip. The GeForce GTX 980 Ti and the GTX 1070 perform about the same, to be sure, but the Maxwell card doesn't benefit from Pascal's architectural or process improvements. Nvidia's latest chip has some especially tantalizing ...