Sunday, August 7th 2022
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Prices Momentarily Slashed by Half, to $1149
In a sign that NVIDIA board partners are getting desperate to clear inventory of their high-end GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics cards to make way for the next-generation, EVGA momentarily offered its premium custom-design GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 graphics card at nearly half its original price. The company listed the RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 at $1,149, a $1,000 "instant discount" from its $2,149 original list price, which is nearly $1,500 down from the card's street price before the crypto-mining crash of Q2-2022.
This could have been a one-off discount, as the other RTX 3090 Ti cards from the company's lineup are priced slightly higher, with the faster FTW3 Ultra priced at $1,199; and the FTW3 Black at $1,399. Prices of high-end graphics cards have been in free-fall for the past couple of months, with the Radeon RX 6900 XT frequently spotted under $1,000; and the RX 6950 XT oscillating around the $1,000-mark. The likes of the RTX 3080 Ti can also be had around this price; while the RTX 3080 is now firmly under $1,000, sometimes spotted near its launch price of $699.
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VideoCardz
This could have been a one-off discount, as the other RTX 3090 Ti cards from the company's lineup are priced slightly higher, with the faster FTW3 Ultra priced at $1,199; and the FTW3 Black at $1,399. Prices of high-end graphics cards have been in free-fall for the past couple of months, with the Radeon RX 6900 XT frequently spotted under $1,000; and the RX 6950 XT oscillating around the $1,000-mark. The likes of the RTX 3080 Ti can also be had around this price; while the RTX 3080 is now firmly under $1,000, sometimes spotted near its launch price of $699.
40 Comments on EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Prices Momentarily Slashed by Half, to $1149
Like I said in another thread, they would need to put already existing cards in such low prices as to lure people in buying them, even then it's kind of a gamble.
If people bite and buy those cards at very low prices, they won't buy the next gen cards.
If the already existing cards are priced badly, no one will buy then but rather wait for the next gen cards next month, and you will be sitting on a pile of cards.
And the more and more time passes, they (old gen cards) will be harder and harder to sell, so if they want to sell them, they better sell them cheap and fast.
More importantly, if it doesn't run well on a 3080, the 3090Ti isn't going to change that in a meaningful way. You just spent an extra $450 to still fail.
I would say 3080 10GB = 4060 Ti 10GB and this renders 3090 Ti +$799 more expensive for 23,45679% faster at 4K and 2.4x frame buffer, well 4060 Ti 160 bit may get severely bottlenecked at 4K. That remains to be seen.
trog
The fix was to cap the framerate in the menus, but the real question is why did the problem only affect EVGA hardware?
I'm not arguing EVGA has never made a mistake (hardly, they seem to be on a roll some days), just that I am unaware of any known flaws with this particular series.
Also New World caused more than just Ampere EVGA's to die. IIRC, it was pretty much any VRM that was built asymmetrically.
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