Wednesday, January 10th 2018
NVIDIA "Pascal" and AMD "Vega" Graphics Card Prices Sizzle Stateside
Over the 2018 International CES week, prices of performance-segment and high-end graphics card prices have taken flight on US-based online retailers. Prices of the recently-launched GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ($380-ish launch price) cards are touching, $900; those of the GTX 1080 (non-Ti) are over the $1,000-mark, while the GTX 1080 Ti is out of stock in many places. Prices of the GTX 1060 series is still under the $300-mark, but are beginning to rise. AMD's Radeon RX Vega family is either out of stock, or over the $1,000-mark. A combination of crypto-currency mining craze, coupled with reports of graphics card prices rising over 2018 could be behind this rally.
81 Comments on NVIDIA "Pascal" and AMD "Vega" Graphics Card Prices Sizzle Stateside
The price hike had to do more with availability I guess. GPU shipments should really drop, but that's impossible with mining being a thing.
It's OK for people that already have decent graphics cards, and obviously sucks for those that want to get into gaming.
I haven't even been able to test the GTX 1060 6GB that I have. I'm probably fine for a while if I or anyone else is gaming on 1080p anyways. It's not like there's a big game release in Q1 or even Q2 other than Far Cry 5.
Still I can't shake the feeling that the so called "mid-range" GPUs aren't 200 dollar launch price anymore. They're going to be for 300 in the future. WTF...