Despite the high price of top-end PC hardware in South Africa, local gamers are still buying high-performance components.<\/p>\n
Following the recent reveal of Nvidia\u2019s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, many South African retailers have listed the product for pre-order.<\/p>\n
The high-end GPU starts at around\u00a0R12,500<\/strong><\/a> in South Africa.<\/p>\n Wootware<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>lead developer Matthew Berry said there has been a lot of interest in the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card in South Africa, especially among gamers and hardware enthusiasts.<\/p>\n Previously, the only option for gamers seeking a single GPU for 4K gaming was Nvidia\u2019s Titan X Pascal \u2013 which was only officially available through the company\u2019s online store.<\/p>\n \u201cThe GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is an effective replacement for the GTX Titan Pascal and will become a new favourite for those using Nvidia GPUs for 4K gaming, as well as deep-learning and compute applications,\u201d said Berry.<\/p>\n Berry said mid-to-high-range graphics cards are the most popular among South African consumers, despite the higher price of the hardware.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth budget and high-end markets are robust in South Africa,\u201d said Berry.<\/p>\n \u201cMid-range and higher GPUs tend to be more popular than budget hardware, since there are more integrated GPUs and second-hand options to consider in the lower price segment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs people spend more time gaming, it starts to make sense to consider the higher-end of the hardware spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n The interest in high-end gaming hardware is evident in Wootware\u2019s store, with the most popular\u00a0Nvidia graphics card the GeForce GTX 1060.<\/p>\n The GeForce GTX 1060 is a powerful GPU, capable of running most new games in\u00a0Full HD with a high frame rate, and currently sells for between R4,000-R5,500 locally.<\/p>\n It should be noted that Wootware stocks Zotac and Galax GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards<\/strong><\/a>, which are significantly cheaper than other AIB partner cards.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Despite the high price of top-end PC hardware in South Africa, local gamers are still buying high-performance components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":98750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1771,8679,2163,6224],"class_list":["post-116269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-graphics-cards","tag-pricing","tag-south-africa","tag-wootware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Popular graphics cards<\/h3>\n
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