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
Microcenter is a good place for a sanity check since they make you walk in for them. You can get an RX 6600 for about $400.
And I also blame "tech journalists" like Ravenlord here of deliberately spreading the fake news. But I guess that's the price for being on the review list for the next generation of cards...
Just because the msrp now factors in a bunch of other factors doesn't make that statement false or "fake news."
Even if you ignore the increased demand of ETH mining, the increased demand of COVID lockdown, and the supply chain disruption COVID caused, there are reasons the x60 cards are no longer that price.
Inflation alone makes 2016's $250 about $298, and (instigated by the world's least-favourite racist organge baboon) US-China trade war has increased tariffs from 3% to 22% in June 2019, effectively adding an additional 18% on top of inflation. $298 with an extra 18% is $353.
So your "$200" is now $350 even in a hypothetical world without ETH mining and COVID. No, these cards are not any more expensive, it's just that economics and politics have moved the buying power of the US dollar way down. Even if you're not from the US, it doesn't matter. Nvidia and AMD are US corporations so the rest of the world gets their pricing because they're the ones making the GPU.
-power hungry, hot
-launch didnt have enough VRAM on all of the cards except the 3090, and that card was a joke, even now 3070ti still has 8GB vram, when my many year old 1080ti has 11GB. what? I dont care if i ever use it or it "just works", why less vram and ask for more $?
-LHR, you want me to pay inflated prices for a card that is gimped in some way and selling me that as a feature that makes it more appealing how? Are you smoking something at nvidia HQ
Lastly, competition and next gen. Even if the new cards are somehow problematic or not immediately available, why would i spend so much $ now on an older gen card, these things are 2 years old now. Take 50% off the prices and maybe sure, for example, Strix 3080ti available at local microcenter for 1600 USD. Id pay 800 for it, because that is really all its worth at this point, and then id have to buy a new power supply and beef up cooling in my system. And the final point to all of this, if you wanted to kill PC gaming, bravo, you have done it, there goes your market, im not that committed to gaming to spend $1000+ on a piece of tech to enable that
If you are still happy with yours, that is your prerogative, it remains a solid performer for DirectX 11 games in general, but time is ruthless. The 3080 10GB is about twice as fast as your 1080 Ti, the 3090 is about 2.2x faster + they can use DLSS to further boost performance, enabling experiences that your GPU cannot even dream of, while using less resources than yours would need. Budget gamers with an RX 6600 nonXT are getting the same performance you do at games at a quarter of the power.
As for being power hungry.. a little, but its not much different than running something like an overclocked GTX 580.. at least when it comes to my 3070 Ti..
Almost like Nvidia is paying tech sites to say this so they get more advertising
I guess 2 years of no stock had people move to consoles and other forms of entertainment, i wonder how long can they pay employees from that crypto money.
"There is more than strength or pretty graphics to the current generation GPUs." --what does this even mean, who buys a GPU for something other than pretty graphics besides miners, did you mean mining, i've never associated the word strength with a GPU, are you trying to break one in half?
"GTX 1080 Ti is a rapidly aging six year old GPU" --one could argue that Ampere is a rapidly aging 2 year old GPU, and aging at the same rate since time is a constant and equivalent in this same frame of reference on earth.
"lacking virtually all modern technologies and API support" -- you mean like the 1080ti only has a VGA connector on it and it doesn't have SLI, CUDA, 3D Vision, PhysX, NVIDIA G-SYNC™, Virtual Reality, DirectX 12, Ansel..which it does, do you know what an API is, did MS release DX13 and not tell anyone?
"enabling experiences that your GPU cannot even dream of...while using less resources than yours would need" --- what, you mean like playing games for half the cost whilst using less Watts? My 1080ti only dreams of using 600Watts like a 3090ti.
"If you are still happy with yours, that is your prerogative" --OK, thanks
"Budget gamers with an RX 6600 nonXT are getting the same performance you do at games at a quarter of the power" --- no, they're really not. gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1080-Ti-vs-AMD-RX-6600/3918vs4128
But even with inflation, paying more for less RAM, a feature locked card with LHR, its still too expensive at these prices, they are a joke.
You sound like Avram Piltch... "When you die and your whole life flashes before your eyes, how much of it do you want to not have ray tracing? Just buy it!"