If you look at the price history for the 1080 on camelcamelcamel, right now it's stabilizing at around $775. So $649 is definitely a better deal, although frankly BOTH deals are overpriced, but we all know why. *cough* bitcoincrazedidiots *cough* :P
UrVAITguyIf you sign up for 'notify me when available' on vendors (B&H photo, newegg) and/or manufacturers websites (nVidia, EVGA, etc) you can get one at MSRP or much closer to it, quite easily.
ag11600What’s the standard for “quite easily”? I signed up for EVGA’s site and got one notification that was sold out by the time I made it to the site.
BobertToday on Newegg.com, you can get the ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX-GTX1080-A8G-GAMING 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card for $649 after a 20 dollar rebate card. :)