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
EDIT: Misread your post. You mean the manufacturers? You could be right on that front, actually.
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What are the reasons behind this neverending price rise? I mean aside the mining craze?
large miners buy them by the truck load at wholesale prices.. which means they are not reaching the retail outlets..
mining profits died a death a few months back but as crypto prices have gone up by large amounts recently its become profitable again.. hence the new shortage of cards.. i dont see this getting better any time soon..
trog
ps.. i just had a quick look at 1070 prices on ebay.. they are pretty high.. ebay is always a good place to look for pricing trends..
Glad I got my 1080 when I did.
If anyone came asking for a 1080p + setup right now, I'd probably recommend a pair of RX 580 4GB cards in crossfire. They cost much less then a 1070 or 1080, are in stock, will work on all mainboards with two PCI-E slots and the latest drivers brought huge improvements in frame-time and performance for crossfire setups. Too bad the 1060 does not support SLi (nvidia cunts)... I have nothing to offer clients who are nvidia fans.