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Nvidia realized they can charge whatever they want and are taking full advantage of that. Hopefully Intel, AMD and used cards are able to bring them down a peg.
by Entinel 4y ago
Nvidia realized they can charge whatever they want and are taking full advantage of that. Hopefully Intel, AMD and used cards are able to bring them down a peg.
- neogodless 4y agoI'll be on the sidelines waiting to see how this turns out. When there was a monthly income from mining and selling ETH, with payback that could be counted in a few months, insane GPU prices made sense for miners (or combo gamer/miners.) Without that, it's down to gamers with high discretionary income, and how well alternatives are priced. For example, if you can get an RTX 3080 or 3090 for less than $600, you might not consider the RTX 4080 or higher. If AMD releases competitive parts and undercuts their prices (I'd bet on this), these parts will likely take longer to sell, and drop in price. Almost certainly, with Nvidia's overstock of RTX 3000 cards, they simply want the RTX 3000 to look good in comparison, and get sold, while they control the supply of RTX 4000 cards (perhaps only producing a relative trickle until the RTX 3000 are gone.) Then they could adjust prices to meet the market, and again the RTX 4000 "lower" prices will seem better (if only in comparison to the previous prices.) (Disclaimer: I paid $800 for an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB, and mined enough ETH to pay it off, and then stopped mining. I wanted it for gaming, but I did not think the price was reasonable.)
- meragrin_ 4y ago> Hopefully Intel, AMD and used cards are able to bring them down a peg. Really? RX 6650 XTs are already in the same price range as RTX 3050s. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change in the short term unless AMD does something really bad for their business.
- LegitShady 4y agowe'll see what AMD announced november 3.