Thursday, August 1st 2024
NVIDIA's Supply Cut Could Spark Price Hike for RTX 40 Series
According to a report from The Economic Daily (via ITHome), NVIDIA has reduced the supply of high-end RTX 40 GPUs by up to 50% in preparation for the upcoming RTX 50 Blackwell launch. This supply cut primarily affects NVIDIA's higher-end models, ranging from the RTX 4070 to the RTX 4090, and is intended to free up production capacity for the new Blackwell cards. NVIDIA is likely strategizing to create an ideal market environment, this would typically involve high demand for new products and minimal competition from rivals and its own existing lineup. Consequently, AIB partners like ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte are expected to raise prices on their RTX 40 offerings.
Despite these potential price hikes, most high-end RTX 40 GPUs currently sell at or near their MSRPs. For example, the RTX 4070 is available at $549 on Amazon, alongside the RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at their respective MSRPs or lower. The RTX 4080 SUPER can be found below its $999 official price, while only the RTX 4090 consistently sells above its $1,599.99 MSRP. Given these circumstances, consumers considering a high-end GeForce GPU purchase might want to act soon, as market conditions for buyers could potentially worsen in the near future.
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Despite these potential price hikes, most high-end RTX 40 GPUs currently sell at or near their MSRPs. For example, the RTX 4070 is available at $549 on Amazon, alongside the RTX 4070 SUPER and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at their respective MSRPs or lower. The RTX 4080 SUPER can be found below its $999 official price, while only the RTX 4090 consistently sells above its $1,599.99 MSRP. Given these circumstances, consumers considering a high-end GeForce GPU purchase might want to act soon, as market conditions for buyers could potentially worsen in the near future.
41 Comments on NVIDIA's Supply Cut Could Spark Price Hike for RTX 40 Series
Specifically speaking scalpers can only make prices high when demand is high if no one is buying then demand is gone no price increase.
Most of the time Nvidia just slows down production to limited amounts to make artificial "limited supply" to keep their prices the same.
Handhelds are 90+% going with nvidia. Wait for switch 2 and see the sales compared to other handhelds
So yes the Switch has a huge lead but I look at handhleds the way I look at Vehicles. More young people ride those electric scooters than drive cars, That has led to a run on Car Companies.I forgot to mention software. What I am talking about is AMD software package with more knobs and levers you can shake a stick at. To the point where Hyper RX is just using the ones best suited to the Application. I don't have to use MSI Afterburner and take a hit on performance so that I can see my FPS, Micro Stutter, 99%, Average Frame time, Board Power of the GPU, Voltage and so on.
But you don't need msi afterburner, GFE has all that build in.
4080 for $949
4070ti for
$673.20 at Amazon
7900xtx for $909
7900xt $689
currently.
quickly buy some Nvidia gpus so Nvidia's stock doesn't plummet further in a bear market that started and already 20% dip witha ViX index that hit 40 ( seen last during pandemic times)
Even when I believe a lot of it was because of the Eth bull-run-PoW market.
These fake shortages are designed to breed even more FOMO. Don't buy it. GPUs are going nowhere, you'll get your sweet deal. Be patient.
Also, even an RX 7800 XT would be a lot better than a 6700 XT. Even the RX 7700 XT doesn't look bad.
Example: some game is a laggy & stuttery mess at 20...30 FPS. Will 7800 XT solve my problem? No, it'll be just a less laggy & stuttery mess at 30...50 FPS. Now, considering I bought something that's 5 times faster, it's 100...150 FPS which is perfectly fine. I can even enable more eye candy at this point.