Monday, April 18th 2022
AMD, NVIDIA GPU Pricing Approaches MSRP for the 7th Consecutive Month
Pricing for AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards has been evolving positively for the last seven months, experiencing a downtrend that has brought street prices closer to the actual MSRP on the best graphics cards. According to 3D Center's price analysis of the Austrian and German markets, GPU pricing for both AMD and NVIDIA's latest GPUs have reached historical lows - although these lows are still at a premium over MSRP. Anyone looking to buy an AMD graphics card is now looking at an average markup of 12% over MSRP, while NVIDIA cards seem to be holding their inflated values slightly better, and still stand at 119% of MSRP.
The price action comes on the back of months of increasing supply at retailers, alongside reduced demand from Ethereum miners due to falling ETH prices ($2,912.54 at time of writing) and the expectation for Ethereum's passage to Proof of Stake (PoS) through The Merge, which is still slated for later this year. It's also likely that most customers who still haven't bought into the latest generation of GPUs from either AMD or NVIDIA are waiting for the release of Intel's competing Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs, not to mention AMD's mid-year RX 6*50 refresh and NVIDIA's next-generation graphics solutions. An exploding ETH price might bring GPU prices back up again; but until then, and at the rate prices are seemingly (at least locally) falling, it seems that consumers might finally be able to purchase GPUs at MSRP sometime after May.
Source:
3D Center
The price action comes on the back of months of increasing supply at retailers, alongside reduced demand from Ethereum miners due to falling ETH prices ($2,912.54 at time of writing) and the expectation for Ethereum's passage to Proof of Stake (PoS) through The Merge, which is still slated for later this year. It's also likely that most customers who still haven't bought into the latest generation of GPUs from either AMD or NVIDIA are waiting for the release of Intel's competing Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs, not to mention AMD's mid-year RX 6*50 refresh and NVIDIA's next-generation graphics solutions. An exploding ETH price might bring GPU prices back up again; but until then, and at the rate prices are seemingly (at least locally) falling, it seems that consumers might finally be able to purchase GPUs at MSRP sometime after May.
53 Comments on AMD, NVIDIA GPU Pricing Approaches MSRP for the 7th Consecutive Month
Radeon RX 6500 XT notably have gone down from around 5500 to 1700 on both KaBuM, Pichau and Terabyte, even for the pricier ASUS models, and the RX 6900 XT is at around 10K... it's just too much money for graphics cards, but prices have been steadily getting lower here as well. Notably just the high stock/lower end cards that held their pricing, creating this bizarre scenario where an RTX 3050 costs practically half of an RX 6800 XT. The only reason the 6500 XT dropped is probably because it's not selling well (it's an horrible graphics card with an horrible level of performance, low memory and no video encoder - and it's much more expensive than the market for trash in our country can handle).
That aside, our GPUs will never be as cheap as they are in the United States because of taxation issues. Our crooked government likes to abuse its citizens :oops:
Prices are still ridiculous.
The reason we're approaching MSRP is because more and more of those original models (with sensible, albeit hard-to-swallow MSRPs) aren't on the market any more, and they've been replaced by newer refresh models like the Ti models and the 3080 12GB, all of which have scalper-level MSRPs.
So the actual price/performance situation hasn't really improved much at all, it's just that Nvidia are slowly but surely flooding the market with products that have scalping built right into the MSRP!
I've reached the point now where I think I will continue to use my card until it dies and/or driver support ends. When the RX570/580 8GB versions were near end of production (new gen incoming) but lots of stock, they were going for about $180/$220 CAD, basically below MSRP. Since the 6600xt is about 2x the performance of an rx580, I refuse to pay more than $400-$425 CAD for one since new gen is now coming.
I see deals here in the UK for some 3080 at about £850 with people saying how well priced it is, cause the RRP for that card is £830... Yeah and the FE is £650, and is coming up on 2 years old now.
Now nVidia is asking $250 for the RTX 3050 which is the successor to the GTX 1050 ($110 USD) , while AMD is asking $200 for the RX 6500 which is basically the successor to RX560 ($100 USD). Ever since nVidia started asking more and more each year for the same range of GPU's, AMD also followed suit.
I feel like i should just stick to consoles, my last one was the N64 when i was like 14. I got a Swicht last December and i have to admit i been having a blast just like in the NES, SNES and N64 eras.
Let's hope ETH has finally gone PoS by then.
Also, “Inflation”?:kookoo:
In 2014 a GTX 980 4GB was 550€, adjusted for inflation 592,46€ would currently net a RTX 3060 Ti (579,99€) or being generous a RTX 3070 Ti at MSRP (599,99€), if it existed.
Going with power, since prices for electricity went up from 0,25 €/kWh to 0,55 €/kWh around here, it would only be a RTX 3060.
It is not just inflation, after floods, fires, power outages, supply issues, a pandemic, production issues, scalpers, etc. we also (still) have crypto mining and corporate greed.
Tech Corps. are and have been strongly grooming the market for raised price levels in each bracket after crypto might crash and production/supply would get better “after” the pandemic.
RTX 3080 10GB (MSRP 749,99€) currently: 934,99€ [~25%] => RTX 3080 12GB (MSRP 899,99€) currently: 1034,99€ [~15%]
RTX 3070 8GB (MSRP 499,99€) currently: 699,99€ [~40%] => RTX 3070 Ti 8GB (MSRP 599,99€) currently: 789,99€ [~30%]
Entry level cards pre-2020 going between 125€-150€ => RTX 3050 8GB (MSRP 249,99€) currently: 319,99€ [~28%]
Since Pascal, we are paying more in price/heat/electricity than we get in added performance overall. :(