Video Card Prices to Rise

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Digitimes is reporting that we will likely be seeing video cards in the mid and high-end SKUs going up $5 to $20 in end user cost due to the soaring prices of vRAM for GPUs. Of course the cryptocurrency mining demand have already so greatly impacted the market, I am not sure anyone would notice a "price increase" for the manufacturers as hard as the retailers are ignoring MSRP.


Graphics card vendors including Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) benefited from the cryptocurrency mining demand and their shipments dropped only mildly in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Meanwhile, graphics card upgrade demand has been picking up in the gaming sector thanks to the recent release of the blockbuster game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Demand has been especially strong from China due to the game's strong popularity.

Some graphics card vendors believe the price hike will only have limited impact on demand from the cryptocurrency mining sector, but could undermine graphics card sales in the gaming sector.
 
Azphira said:
After you reach the $800-1200 mark, who the hell really cares about $5-20 anymore. :(
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This is becoming a shitty time for GPU's. Can't find any AMD cards and if you do they're about $200 higher than they should be thanks to miners. Because Vega is slower than they should be, Nvidia decides to hold off on releasing Volta and now the current line is going up in price.

Guess I shouldn't be whining too much. Games aren't any more demanding than they were 4 years ago and my 290x is still handling things.
 
Looks like I'll be milking my triple GTX680's for a few more years...

Bitcoin price is already falling. How much do cryptocurrency prices have to fall before GPU prices will fall also?
 
Since FC5 and Metro are the only two games catching my interest this year (that I am aware of now), I am going to sit it out for awhile given DRAM prices and vid card prices.
Will have to make due with what I have.
 
Geez, Video cards are already 3/4 of the price of your build anyway. Now its just going to double the price of a full on build.
Buy all core components for $800, buy GPU for $700......this is getting out of hand.
 
MacLeod said:
Games aren't any more demanding than they were 4 years ago and my 290x is still handling things.
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Games aren't more demanding, but VR is.

Upper-tier video card prices have stayed high for over a year. Usually you see a price drop a couple of times a year, but for about 18 months I haven't seen anything that made me think 'buy now'. Vram and cryptocurrency are probably the big reasons, but I think another factor keeping the prices high is the arrival of VR. It's subtle, but I think the pressure is there. I've been satisfied with my Sandy Bridge i5 and GTX 770 video card, but I think VR put all of us on notice that it was time for a big upgrade. I've been saving, and there have been some really tempting deals in the monitor space, but I'm not looking for a new monitor.

I thought sure I was gonna buy a GTX 1070 ti this holiday season, but the prices didn't budge.
 
Looks like it'll be a while before I upgrade from the 1050 I bought while "waiting for GPU prices to stabilize." On the bright side, I'm definitely getting my $110 worth... :p
 
Sure am glad I bought my Vega 56 for $469 when I did. :) Yeah, it is the reference model but, I really do not notice the fan noise and the card is quite fast in and of itself. I am not doing crossfire ever again, that I know of, and I am not paying $700 or more for a single card, no thanks.
 
yuppers, EVGA GTX 1070 Ti FTW just went from $499 to $529 at the Egg

SomeoneElse said:
Geez, Video cards are already 3/4 of the price of your build anyway. Now its just going to double the price of a full on build.
Buy all core components for $800, buy GPU for $700......this is getting out of hand.
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I found your use of 'past tense' rather interesting :cool:

I have two sticks (2x8GB) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3400 I might part with, $2k if anyone is interested. Also might part with my new 1070 Ti for the right price ... thinking $15k but hurry before the prices go up again
 
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There will now be a GPU trading exchange were GPU are bought and sold as a commodity... GPU price ticker at the bottom of CNBC and Bloomberg.
 
Lifelite said:
Dammit cryptominers. Why couldn't it be sound cards instead of GPUs :p
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I hear ya, but just to play devil's advocate, cryptominers could ask the same of gamers that are buying up GPU's to play games.

The reality is a lot of GPU owners are doing both nowadays, especially with the proliferation of EZMODE 1-click miners.

What people tantruming about prices and supply/demand could benefit to get through their heads is that GPU's are general computing devices now, and no longer the sole property of teenagers immersing themselves in gay videogames with aliens every night.
 
odditory said:
I hear ya, but just to play devil's advocate, cryptominers could ask the same of gamers that are buying up GPU's to play games.

The reality is a lot of GPU owners are doing both nowadays, especially with the proliferation of EZMODE 1-click miners.

What people tantruming about prices and supply/demand could benefit to get through their heads is that GPU's are general computing devices now, and no longer the sole property of teenagers immersing themselves in gay videogames with aliens every night.
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HEY MAN IT WAS OURS FIRST!

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"but could undermine graphics card sales in the gaming sector."

Could? Sure it already has, big time. Would love to see stats on how many people have to buy mid-level cards now because upper end ones are so expensive.

Glad I bought mine about 13 months ago before things exploded. Prices have jumped a good 100% since.
 
Using my office account to purchase a new card for home use is becoming more tempting.
 
So I guess the used GTX 980Ti I got a year ago for $250 then RMA'ed it and got a GTX 1080 in return really did pay off! Still nothing worth upgrading too for my uses and I spent a fraction of the money!

For real though, why can't they just make more? I don't get why they act like prices being so high is just something they can't do anything about!
 
Very happy with my $220 R9 Fury from the Egg. I feel like I stole it compared to how prices hiked up as the year went on in 2017. And my HD 7950 is still holding up for my wife's rig. I guess AMD is happy to continue and capitalize on what would have otherwise been some serious price cuts on Vega by now.
 
Thank goodness I do not play the latest games.. Looks like my GTX 950 will hold me over for another couple of years :D
 
Good thing I'm still more interested in gameplay than graphics. These prices are just getting out of hand.
 
Dont buy anything till consumer volta.
Nvidia is milking pascal so hard its embarrasing. Should have bought nvidia stock. Their margins are going to be amazing because they can delay their volta release and refine process further before ramp up with no competition from Amd.
 
I'm in the same boat, was going to upgrade my 970 over the past year,
kept on waiting on prices of 1080ftw2 to fall, but it has gone up........

So, waiting on volta , but you know 2080/1180 volta will be $600 plus
just for the base card !

maybe getting a xbox one x is the answer to NVidias price gouging
 
Weren't RX580's around the $199 mark when they first came out? at least from my memory ..
I was looking at upgrading last year... and for some reason, ended up not pulling the trigger.. and then POOF.... mining took off again, and RX4xx's vanished.. and RX5xx's skyrocketed...

Problem with GPU / chip manufacturers making more... miners would just freaking snag them all up... Supply/demand laws are out the window on this nonsense.. Miners are greedy.. .. just like Wall Street..
Throw in a little collusion and you have inflated prices..

Sucks for gamers..
 
I'm currently running a GTX970 and I looked up my order date on Amazon. November of 2014. 3 years is by far the longest I've ran a card. However, there is no way I'm paying what they are asking for with regards to the new cards.
 
ncjoe said:
maybe getting a xbox one x is the answer to NVidias price gouging
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It's not gouging. They're running a business, and are legally obligated to maximize value for shareholders.

Nvidia didn't bump prices anyway. It's all the points in between the fab and the store: the manufacturer/OEM, the distributor, the retailer - all adjust the price due to supply and demand.
 
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ncjoe said:
I'm in the same boat, was going to upgrade my 970 over the past year,
kept on waiting on prices of 1080ftw2 to fall, but it has gone up........

So, waiting on volta , but you know 2080/1180 volta will be $600 plus
just for the base card !

maybe getting a xbox one x is the answer to NVidias price gouging
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try $800 for Volta 1180 -- simply because they can. It'll be a monster on memory bandwidth with GDDR6 --- rumors put GDDR6 40%-70% + faster than GDDR5 for mining purposes.

So you'll probably see your typical 35% increase for gaming, and maybe 50% + faster for mining. Combine significantly faster with significantly less power use on the Voltas and you have a miner card made in heaven.

Nvidia will have no reason to sell them for $600 when they will be faster, more profitable, and more energy efficient for mining than the $700 1080TI, (and most of the consumption of these cards is miners -- not gamers) ---- so figure they'll sell the 1180 for more than a 1080TI (or at least more than 1080TI MSRP of $700). Nvidia already knows they can get $800 for 1080TI in this environment - they are sold out EVERYWHERE right now at $800 --- Add all this together and there's now way Volta 1180 will MSRP much below $800.


.......unless crypto currency mining dies.
 
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