Monday, January 17th 2022
NVIDIA's Custom RTX 3090 Ti Graphics Cards Reach $4,000 Pricing in Europe
NVIDIA's RTX 3090 Ti is hot on the presses, and while actual product availability is anyone's guess, the card has already been made available for order (in extremely limited quantities, as one might expect). That said, the lack of a clear pricing messaging from NVIDIA seems to have left the door open for truly egregious pricing practices, which are likely added to at every step of the supply chain from the green team's AIB (add-in-board) partners and their custom RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards. Case in point: European, Swiss retailer Top Preise has started listing the latest NVIDIA halo card at a cool, not at all jaw-dropping average of €3,600 ($4,000). This is easily the highest-ever-pricing practiced on a consumer-level graphics card, so if anything, 2022 seems to have at least brought us that particular record-setting. Of course, pricing of a single retailer doesn't prove a pricing trend; but the fact that the cards are priced at untidy values does seem to indicate these aren't placeholder values.
This is much the case as has happened with NVIDIA's recent launch of the RTX 3080 12 GB - that card too didn't receive public MSRP guidance from NVIDIA, leaving its board partners - and retailers - to carve whatever pricing philosophy they deem adequate, considering the current state of the market, expected demand for NVIDIA's latest and greatest, and, of course, additional profits. Considering how the RTX 3080 12 GB has been found in store shelves for around $1,700 (remember the original MSRP for the RTX 3080 8 GB was set at $699), an upgrade to the RTX 3090 Ti would be a very expensive, $2,300 proposition for a relatively small performance improvement.
Sources:
Top Preise, Tom's Hardware
This is much the case as has happened with NVIDIA's recent launch of the RTX 3080 12 GB - that card too didn't receive public MSRP guidance from NVIDIA, leaving its board partners - and retailers - to carve whatever pricing philosophy they deem adequate, considering the current state of the market, expected demand for NVIDIA's latest and greatest, and, of course, additional profits. Considering how the RTX 3080 12 GB has been found in store shelves for around $1,700 (remember the original MSRP for the RTX 3080 8 GB was set at $699), an upgrade to the RTX 3090 Ti would be a very expensive, $2,300 proposition for a relatively small performance improvement.
111 Comments on NVIDIA's Custom RTX 3090 Ti Graphics Cards Reach $4,000 Pricing in Europe
Back in the days I also did waste my cash on expensive OP crap, not anymore. Patience, try it.
In the meanwhile you can blow your money on expanding your games library in sales, renovation, furniture, clothes, etc.
I got absolutely no problem sitting it out. :)
The Titan RTX launched for 2500$, a pretty insane price that was justified with unlocked professional features and full tensor core performance for example. The 3090 launched at 1500$ (with partner models allowed contrary to titan tradition and then supply, demand and mining sent everything to shit but let's focus on the 1500$) without any of these professional features unlocked and even the tensor core performance was limited like usually. It slotted in the place of the 2080ti.
Now, on the hills of Lovelace (supposedely coming out on the second half of this year, I'm betting on Q4 together with RDNA3 from AMD) they're releasing a 3090ti barely any better than the original 3090 (there's not much room to improve really) with the same bullshit limitations but with an insane mark up!?
Does nvidia want people to hate them!?!?!? What's the value here, win a couple of benchmarks? Publicity? Don't they read or watch what everyone is saying, this shit is insane! Is it just a flex - it's because we can fuck you that's why?
Seriously, what's going on over their heads, it's not like they'll be able to produce a large quantity of them anyway because the demand for halo products, particularly with prices like this, is small and this is a highly binned chip, what's the advantage of announcing something like this? This just doesn't make any sense
It's funny isn't it? The faux outrage Nvidia caused by introducing the Titan cards because people felt it was just an excuse to push prices up to 1K.
Then Nvidia say they were surprised how well they sold...
With your new rig are you not quite eager for a new GPU?! , No offense intended a 980 Ti is a solid card but it's already been a effective purchase at this point, hard to say needs updating without sounding presumptuous but from my perspective my GPU needs replacing soon too.
Anyway how high would you pay in price, and what would you fairly expect to get IE 3080Ti or higher or lower.
Works out to about 114CHF with the current exchange rate.
I need this card to last forever.
or yes ... 1chf ... the Poseidon was 525chf, but that one i did win it in a local store giveaway :laugh: "one time a lucksack all time a lucksack"
Nvidia has listened, and here is their offering.
As stupidly-rich (or just stupid) as 3090Ti buyers may be, the added middle-finger from Nvidia is that they are highly likely to launch their RTX 4080 and 4090 cards in September.