Thursday, July 14th 2022
NVIDIA to Introduce Official High-End RTX 30-series Price Cuts
NVIDIA is working with its board partners to introduce price-cuts for the higher-end of its GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics cards, in addition to game bundles. This would see the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti drop in price from $1,999 to $1,499, a 25% price-cut. The RTX 3090 (non-Ti) sees its price cut from $1,499 down to $1,299, or a 13.3% cut. The RTX 3080 Ti slides from $1,199 down to $1,099, an 8.3% cut. The RTX 3080 12 GB will finally be available at or below its MSRP of $799, while remaining inventories of the original RTX 3080 10 GB sticks to $699.
In addition to these price-cuts, NVIDIA is bundling "Ghostwire Tokyo" and "DOOM Eternal" Year One Pass (base game + two DLCs), with these cards as part of a game bundle. NVIDIA is competing with not just a sudden drop in demand stemming from the crypto-currency mining crash; but also crypto miners flooding the market with used cards.
Sources:
Benchlife.info, VideoCardz
In addition to these price-cuts, NVIDIA is bundling "Ghostwire Tokyo" and "DOOM Eternal" Year One Pass (base game + two DLCs), with these cards as part of a game bundle. NVIDIA is competing with not just a sudden drop in demand stemming from the crypto-currency mining crash; but also crypto miners flooding the market with used cards.
129 Comments on NVIDIA to Introduce Official High-End RTX 30-series Price Cuts
A wise choice with all the mining cards flooding the used marked these days. With the economic situation around the world, gpu demand is properly also going to be lower than when 3000 launched. It's my guess at least.
I can just look at myself, I was considering RTX 4080, but now im not sure I would go for one. Do to increasingly unpredictable economic consequences of inflation, war and so on.
Then I see the price cuts and they are nothing more than cuts of the extra premium consumers had to pay all this time for the hi end parts. In other words, Nvidia is cutting from the extremely profitable products, some of it's profits.
Pity. Nothing to see here. I guess Nvidia believes that anything under $650 is well priced.
They know where to stick it.
3080's start at around $670, for 10 and 12 GB cards.
3080 Ti's start at 770.
3090's are about $970.
AMD literally made HEDT not needed for many people. With there 12 and 16 core CPUs for AM4. 5950X has the compute power most people need including me and going threadripper is significantly more expensive.
bus. It used to be useful to do that.
3090 TI 999$
3090 875$
3080 ti 699$
3080 12GB 599$
3080 10GB 499$
3070 ti 425$
Now we talking about correct price
If only huh, then they will panic and drop even more.
3080Ti's $1099 SRP will only be $100 less but it's understandable (certainly they don't want to give the message to the consumer that even Nvidia themselves think that 3080Ti must be lower priced than RX6950XT SRP by setting a $999 SRP for example and also 3080Ti is so close to 3090 as far as usable GA102 die that they don't want to prioritize 3080Ti's production because they can make more money with 3090 while being more bulletproof vs 4080 due to memory advantage)
So next is 3090Ti model (which is the most troublesome) that from now on allegedly will occupy the former 3090 price $1499 and last RTX 3090 in the middle ($1299).
But they can just drop the prices without announcing any new SRPs following the strategy that AMD had the last months.
Since AMD already the last months is selling much lower than SRP most of it's models, (unless it wants to change strategy if their stock level is low or at least satisfying) they can respond with lowering their SRPs at the current AMD street price level, making Nvidia's announcement a complete failure!
It probably won't happen, but it may be an opportunity for AMD to try to pass the message that they are more consumer-friendly company in relation to Nvidia (without essentially lowering their real street prices at all)