Monday, September 20th 2021
NVIDIA & AMD GPU Prices Up 7% Since August in Germany
The prices for NVIDIA Ampere and AMD RDNA 2 GPUs have increased 6% - 7% in Germany since August according to the latest report from 3DCenter. The report covers the period from January 2021 to September 2021 where prices reached 304% and 214% of MSRP for NVIDIA RTX 30 and AMD RX 6000 cards earlier this year before coming down to 150% and 153% respectively. We had hoped that this trend might continue downwards but these reductions have started to reverse with prices steadily increasing since early August. The latest period from August 29th to September 19th saw NVIDIA RTX 30 series prices increase from 159% of MSRP to 170% while AMD RX 6000 cards rose from 164% to 174%.
These price trends can be fairly closely attributed to the changes in supply as shown with the addition of an availability trend line to the graph in this latest report. The card which has experienced the largest price increase relative to MSRP is the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT which now sells for double the recommended € 649 price at € 1299. The least affected card is the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti retailing for 26% above it's € 1199 MSRP at € 1511.
Source:
3DCenter
These price trends can be fairly closely attributed to the changes in supply as shown with the addition of an availability trend line to the graph in this latest report. The card which has experienced the largest price increase relative to MSRP is the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT which now sells for double the recommended € 649 price at € 1299. The least affected card is the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti retailing for 26% above it's € 1199 MSRP at € 1511.
38 Comments on NVIDIA & AMD GPU Prices Up 7% Since August in Germany
IF the 6700XT was MSRP ($480), the card is only (on average) 6% behind a 3070 and (on average) 6% faster than a 3060Ti.
IF 3060Ti at MSRP is $400
IF 3070 at MSRP is $500
I don't really see the problem with the pricing of the 6700XT at MSRP price points. Sure, it could maybe be $30 less and sit right at the middle point at $450 since the card seems to land right in the middle of the performance gap of the 3060Ti and 3070.
As it stands right now in the US, Nvidia is priced lower than AMD - if you can find them.
As to why AMD cards are priced higher here.....? I don't know. Maybe it's supply constraints. Maybe it's because AIB are screwing people over? Maybe it's because retailers are still riding the high price train?
Right now, as I said in my original post, at local Micro Center stores it is cheaper to snap up a 3060Ti over a 6700XT. It's even cheaper or at a similar cost to get a 3070 (if you're lucky enough to get one) over a 6700XT.
I still stand by my suggestion that if the 6700XT was more at MSRP ($500) and with it's current availability at Micro Center, I would have happily picked one up and been on my merry way.
I do also find it interesting that folks in other countries see the opposite that I see here in the States when it comes to pricing between Nvidia and AMD and also availability of the two brands.
And I haven't said anything about RT or DLSS :roll:
I can't really comment on DLSS. I have a 3060Ti, but I have zero games that I play that make use of it. I'm sure a lot of people are in the same boat, have the hardware, but don't have the software to utilize it. Right now it's just like Nvidia Physx...it's there, but it's not necessary to run games and not all games support it. It's hard to make an argument that DLSS is so great because it's got limited support out there.
Furthermore, corporations have dug their claws into the global government causing major gov. mandates of all sorts, facilitating government spending excuses into the trillions, inviting massive inflation & more increases.
Those new fabs will still take a long time until they produce a single waffer.
This post was just too "conspiracy theory" to me