Tuesday, March 29th 2022
ASUS To Drop Graphics Card Prices by 25% from April 1st in the U.S.
ASUS has announced that it will be dropping the prices for almost the entirety of its NVIDIA RTX 30-series graphics card stack. The news comes on the back of finally descending channel prices for the latest GPUs, alongside the U.S. Trade Office decision last week of excluding integrated circuit boards from the added taxes in the China-US Trade War. As an ASUS representative told Tom's Hardware, users should expect an "up to 25%" price reduction to be applied throughout its RTX 30-series stack (from the RTX 3050 through the RTX 3090 Ti). Interestingly, there was no mention of AMD's graphics cards in the announcement.
After more than a year of inflated pricing, there may be a light in the tunnel - although it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern whether it's the RTX 3000-series family behind the veil or NVIDIA's next-gen solutions. No other AMD or NVIDIA board partner made a comparable announcement, but one would expect them to follow ASUS on the downward pricing trend or risk sitting in larger unsold inventories than they're comfortable with. Of course, this remains a problem for ASUS throughout the world, should the company not extend the price-cut to other regions other than the U.S.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
After more than a year of inflated pricing, there may be a light in the tunnel - although it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern whether it's the RTX 3000-series family behind the veil or NVIDIA's next-gen solutions. No other AMD or NVIDIA board partner made a comparable announcement, but one would expect them to follow ASUS on the downward pricing trend or risk sitting in larger unsold inventories than they're comfortable with. Of course, this remains a problem for ASUS throughout the world, should the company not extend the price-cut to other regions other than the U.S.
30 Comments on ASUS To Drop Graphics Card Prices by 25% from April 1st in the U.S.
Yeah, nice try...
lol Asia had it first, a week early too,
www.lowyat.net/2022/269385/asus-rtx-30-price-drop-malaysia/
Better wait at least a year then to see where it goes. It goes the bates 9000 infuriation way, but still we can outsmart it.
Hopefully the April fools part doesn't prove to be true :(
Nvidia execs have talked recently about how they expect the supply situation to improve every quarter this year. Perhaps Asus is anticipating more supply alongside a price cut from Nvidia (which has been rumored), and when you add the new tariff exemptions, means they can meaningfully cut prices. The supply will have to be quite a bit better in order for cards to actually stick around on store shelves at lower prices, but Intel may soon help there in the midrange, at least.
Asus Rog Strix 3060 Ti - €699
Asus Rog Strix 3070 - €799
Believe the lowest for the 3070 Strix was €700 at launch.
3070 Noctua Edition is currently €784, which seems a steal. Shame the shroud is brown tinted as well.
I guess that 3dmark players will still get those though by sponsors.
and just a few days early for an April fools joke too :)
Wich is still my plan, but it's most likely gonna be a 4000 series card.
Need to see prices, reviews, deshroud compatibility etc etc. Heck who knows what the 3070 price will by by that point.
If its truly true, the better aprils fools joke would be " Haha! You thought we were joking!"
ASUS: Prices are dropping up to 25% after April first from the RTX 3050 through the RTX 3, zero....niner.....zero....Ti
Me: I can't hear you, you're trailing off and did I catch a niner in there? Were you calling from a walkie-talkie?
ASUS: It was a cellphone.
Me: You know what? Don't. Not here, not now.
For some reason I just don't believe them. If memory serves me right, weren't they the first to jack prices and other AIBs followed suit?