I've been looking at purchasing a 3080, however, the lowest price I've seen lately is around 1750. Given that the MSRP for founder cards is around 1200, and AIB cards' MSRP goes a bit higher say $1400, and the fact that TSMC is going to bump their price. Does all this mean that 1750 is probably not really inflated anymore and it's likely that it will not go down much further even in the future when stock availability is good?
what do you guys think?
I think i seen some as low as 1500
There is currently no reason to think that cards will fall to the original MSRPs in any time in the short term future.
The chip shortage is not improving and may continue into 2023. Crypto mining is continuing to prove profitable and innovating to find ways around barriers, with no reason to think that the global industry won't continue to innovate against barriers thrown up against it. Demand is high and supply is low.
MSRPs for current get GPUs were set at a time when things were different and they are no longer all that relevant. Eventually the chip shortage will end (probably) and the market will normalise, but don't expect it to happen any time soon.
GPU prices will always go down because its a depreciating asset, depends on your time horizon mate, as newer models come out, the older models become more and more obsolete and thus prices get driven down. If you really want to buy it, now is still a great time since BTC price is unstable (still below ATH for months) and demand for non-LHR cards are lower (so supply has increased hence lower prices) but if youre after a LHR card you may be alright anyway.
With the current GPU climate people are finding that their 3yr old video card is selling for more on the used market than it cost them when it was brand new. I can't recall anything like this happening in the past with the GPU market with the exception of unique models of card that became collectors niche models.
Looks like $1750 is a deal. here's some recent sold listings for ebay.
https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=nvidia+3080&_in_kw=1…
as long bitcoin exists, NO
Newer GPU's have LHR which will bring the prices down.
Thankfully they have found a way around the LHR technique NVIDIA used and you can get around 80% of the full hash rate now thanks to the new techniques.
Have a look at shipping indexes. I think many people are going to be in a world of shock in the next few periods.
I thought it would improve after China banned mining. Looks like availability has improved but prices are still high due to crypto prices. It's not great but you can buy now and mine a bit to recoup costs.
Yes, 3 years from launch date.
I’ve given up. It’s just a straight up rip off now and I refuse to pay more than $1300 for a top end card. Just going to sell my 1080 get a series X and be done with it and enjoy bloody gaming lol.
wouldn't be a bad idea if it weren't for the fact that I'm not really willing to buy my game library all over again
Fair enough if you play your games more than once a guess not.
I was buying a RTX 3080 for someone last year in November and got a Gigabyte one for $1370. I thought that's crazy how expensive that is, when I got my GTX 1080 it was top of the line and was around $1000. RTX 3090 was around $2000! Could not believe people were paying this much for RTX 3080 when it's not top of the line. Upgrading from my GTX 1080 to a 3070 (around $860 at the time) isn't as big a jump as i'd like (play in 1440p) so I decided to hold off for the prices to drop… now I see 3070 selling for more than the 3080 cost me and there's no way I could justify that.
Some of the AMD cards are more competitive pricing-wise but I run a lot of random python audio/video processing stuff that is built on CUDA which require NVIDIA cards to run them and also some obscure game emulation projects that have issues with AMD so unfortunately not an option for me.
NVIDIA have announced they want to bring out the 4000 series next year so I don't see the prices dropping down to MSRP before 4000 series hits and prices shoot up even more. Best bet is to get a 2nd hand 3080/3090 from some rich kid on Facebook market when he upgrades to the 4000 card.
If Nvidia has rate limit them then maybe (Ti cards), crypto is definitely swallowing up the majority of them but until then just have to wait for production to match supply which will likely be early to mid next year, or the release of the 40xx series
Not when people are butt licking crazy about crypto mining
Using GPU to mine ETH is a great way to make passive income. Anyone with a bit of computer knowledge can set up a GPU rig and start hashing.
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It's unlikely they'll reach MSRP, it was never realistic to begin with from what I've read.
There's maybe like 1.5 years before they'll announce the next gen card which is most likely the Super series.
Have my doubts on any company willing to price a 3070Super cheaper than a 3070.
I think it'll probably come to a head in about 2 years time when the casual/affordable gamers decline from being priced out.
It's a sad state to see honestly, an entry level 1050ti is $400, my 7 year old GTX970 only cost me $360 retail and it outperforms the 1050ti.
it will, once supply side catch up, new chip factory building up, will be a long wait…
No.