Is This the Beginning of the End for Crypto GPU Price Hiking? - Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 for $209 on Amazon

Raevenlord · Sep 6, 2018

This news post really does serve as a symbolic gesture for the state of the GPU market in the last months (going on to a year now, really). Mainly due to increased demand from crypto users looking to farm and mine their way to financial security and shortages of GPUs, the time to buy a new or even second-hand, latest generation graphics card hasn't been the best. However, now, we're seeing something that wasn't seen for a long time: actual decent pricing in graphics cards. It's still a process, but in that process, this Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 deal at Amazon is the proverbial pin in a haystack.

The Gigabyte AORUS Radeon RX 580 8GB (GV-RX580AORUS-8GD) is available now from Amazon for $209.99 (after a $20 mail-in rebate). If you're in the states and looking for a graphics card that guarantees 1080p performance at max settings, or a decent 1440p experience with somewhat reduced IQ, this could be the graphics card for you - and judging by its Best Seller status, it may very well be the same for many other customers. And for now, there's even stock - how about that. If you're shopping from outside the states and still find this deal mesmerizing (here in Portugal a similar graphics card would go for $410 so... yeah. Take the deal). Here's hoping this is a sign of the incoming times, and not just a freak event.

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kastriot · Sep 6, 2018

I think people will buy them 1st from miners for 100-150$ and when is that source depleted they will buy it from stores.

neatfeatguy · Sep 6, 2018

MSRP on a GTX 1080 is $599. I'm seeing at my local Micro Center all GTX 1080s they stock are at MSRP or far below. One even listed at $449.99 (after $20 MIR).

I wonder if prices will drop any further on remaining stock as the release of the RTX models gets closer?

bonehead123 · Sep 6, 2018

New stuff comes out, old stuff gets cheaper.. eventually

wash,
rinse,
repeat
be happy

Nkd · Sep 6, 2018

neatfeatguy said:
MSRP on a GTX 1080 is $599. I'm seeing at my local Micro Center all GTX 1080s they stock are at MSRP or far below. One even listed at $449.99 (after $20 MIR).

I wonder if prices will drop any further on remaining stock as the release of the RTX models gets closer?

MSRP of gtx 1080 is 499.99, it was dropped a while back. Not 599.

Captain_Tom · Sep 6, 2018

Wow MSRP after Polaris launched 2 years ago lol. However I may get one for mining if it drops $150 since I want the new Assassin's Creed.

Otherwise I would recommend people get those $250 1070 Ti's on eBay...

the54thvoid · Sep 6, 2018

bonehead123 said:
New stuff comes out, old stuff gets cheaper.. eventually

wash,
rinse,
repeat
be happy

Ah, but not when (in Nvidia's case) your new line is $500 more expensive than the previous gen model. You can keep the price tag high on a 1080ti - it's a bargain compared to a 2080ti!

dj-electric · Sep 6, 2018

MIR sucks. I wish they would just get it to 209$ for all

eidairaman1 · Sep 6, 2018

Until third-party 1080 TI 1080 vega64 56 are $400 or less then the prices would be reasonable however they are still not reasonable at this rate

Wastedslayer · Sep 6, 2018

Was at my local Best Buy the other day and they had their XFX RX 580 (4GB) cards marked down to 179.99

Tartaros · Sep 6, 2018

I got my brand new 1070ti for 470€ in june, prices have been going down of a while. Of course I would love to see prices from 10 years ago but we are in a better place than we were last year, it was ludicrous.

JRMBelgium · Sep 6, 2018

The same card still costs 294 euro in my country, that's 340 dollars. Almost 50% more!

Paganstomp · Sep 6, 2018

Got a lightly used Dell GTX 1060 6GB off eBay this morning for $199 for my backup system. Been watching prices drop since the RTX release announcement. Everybody is flogging GPUs. Which everybody knew was bound to happen. The question was when.

Venger · Sep 6, 2018

neatfeatguy said:
MSRP on a GTX 1080 is $599. I'm seeing at my local Micro Center all GTX 1080s they stock are at MSRP or far below. One even listed at $449.99 (after $20 MIR).

I wonder if prices will drop any further on remaining stock as the release of the RTX models gets closer?

$429.99 at NewEgg for GigaByte GeForce GTX 1080

Robcostyle · Sep 6, 2018

Yeah?

690$ for GTX 1070 (non Ti) - how about that? Ukraine is the land of opportunity... hate this country

Redoctober · Sep 7, 2018

Robcostyle said:
Yeah?

690$ for GTX 1070 (non Ti) - how about that? Ukraine is the land of opportunity... hate this country

690$ in Bangkok you can get Strix 1080TI right now.

sepheronx · Sep 7, 2018

GTX 1070ti's are going for about ~$400 - $600 CAD.

I just purchased a GTX 1070 for $400

Fatalfury · Sep 7, 2018

AMD is having a gap of 1& half year..in GPU
and its not like its going to be a perfect release of 7nm on the exact release date.
probably till 2020.

SO until then they need to release 12nm vega or Polaris competing in lower & mid range for the time being..

sepheronx · Sep 7, 2018

If a cheap Vega shows its head, I want it.

Th3pwn3r · Sep 9, 2018

sepheronx said:
If a cheap Vega shows its head, I want it.

That along with a Freesync monitor is probably the best bang for the buck. If you shell out a bit more look into a Dell monitor and a 1080 for 2560x1440 gaming at 144+ hz.

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