Insane GPU prices in 2022 WTF?

If folks would stop opening their wallets / using their credit cards on release day paying MSRP or above perhaps this nonsense would end.
It would, it's a mathematical certainty. Problem is people aren't going to do this any more than they are going to stop paying taxes. 🙃
 
1200$ to 160$ for a video card? No fucking thank you.

What the hell has pc gaming become? Playground for rich kids/adults. It really is sickening that a video card costs that much. It's just not worth it at all to me. And to a bunch of people. Buy a used 3080 at 500 to 700$ and be happy with 60 to 80 fps in ultra 4k. Do you really need 120+fps at 4k? Me thinks no. I have my monitor (QN90B) 43inches playing game at 4k/ultra and getting 60 to 80fps. I am totally fine with not paying 12 to 1600 for an extra 50fps. LOL I'm good.

Can't wait for a 60/70 version to cost 700+ LOL whattajoke! Whats the 5 series gonna cost? 2k plus? My pc gaming days may be over yo!
 
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While I'm not the target market for a $1,200-1,600 gpu, I will counter you... that $1,600 gpu will last 4-5 years ( maybe more ), without the need to upgrade.
 
To counter the counter… I’d rather spend $500 on 3 total GPUs every 2-3 years over a 7 year or so span and always have recent technology and features. So could do $1500 over 5-6 years on 3 cards. Lots of ways to go about it. Could even do $700ea on cards every 3-5 years which is what I’m looking at.
 
jlbenedict said:
While I'm not the target market for a $1,200-1,600 gpu, I will counter you... that $1,600 gpu will last 4-5 years ( maybe more ), without the need to upgrade.
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So will a 3080 to be frank. If you're someone who is professionally gaming, then money means jack to you anyways. The 4 series isn't some paradigm shift in cards here. Just a unnecessarily priced video card for the next single gen.
 
The figures are bad for Nvidia on RTX 4000 series. Much fewer people than expected are buying those cards.
The 4080 should be at less than $1000. Especially compared to AMD RDNA 3.
Furthermore Nvidia have a pile of RTX3000 cards that are not bought at the rate expected.
I am quite sure this will happen at Nvidia at the beginning of 2023, probably january :
Drop in prices for RTX 4000 :
4080 at $1000, 4070Ti 12GB (4080 12 renamed) at $700, 4070 12GB at $500.

And RTX 3000 will go for sale at whatever price needed to get rid of all of them, I mean from 3080 up to 3090Ti.
And this will also happen to lower en RTX 3000 cards. And AMD will follow.

So I think people who want to pay much less should wait January or February 2023, because what I mentioned will happen for sure. You'll get a 3090Ti for probably $800.
 
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The figures are bad for Nvidia on RTX 4000 series. Much fewer people than expected are buying those cards.
The 4080 should be at less than $1000. Especially compared to AMD RDNA 3.
Furthermore Nvidia have a pile of RTX3000 cards that are not bought at the rate expected.
I am quite sure this will happen at Nvidia at the beginning of 2023, probably january :
Drop in prices for RTX 4000 :
4080 at $1000, 4070Ti 12GB (4080 12 renamed) at $700, 4070 12GB at $500.

And RTX 3000 will go for sale at whatever price needed to get rid of all of them, I mean from 3080 up to 3090Ti.
And this will also happen to lower en RTX 3000 cards. And AMD will follow.

So I think people who want to pay much less should wait January or February 2023, because what I mentioned will happen for sure. You'll get a 3090Ti for probably $800.
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A 3080 for 550$ is much more value than a 4080 at 1200$ minimum right now.
 
Jandor said:
Furthermore Nvidia have a pile of RTX3000 cards that are not bought at the rate expected.
I am quite sure this will happen at Nvidia at the beginning of 2023, probably january :
Drop in prices for RTX 4000 :
4080 at $1000, 4070Ti 12GB (4080 12 renamed) at $700, 4070 12GB at $500.

And RTX 3000 will go for sale at whatever price needed to get rid of all of them, I mean from 3080 up to 3090Ti.
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When I look by sold by Newegg video cards, 3080 up to 3090TI:

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709 601357247 601357248 601399539 601385735 8000 4841 4131

They seem to be 100% sold out
 
Facebook Marketplace near me Boston has a good amount of 3080s for 550$ used though. Boston Microcenter has plenty of 4090s and 4080s in stock. Only for physical pickup.
 
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jarablue said:
Facebook Marketplace near me Boston has a good amount of 3080s for 550$ used though.
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Yes, but that a different problem for Asus/MSI and co. and Nvidia-AMD, used market competition versus pile of theirs partners inventories.

It made something's similar but something's different, for one many buyers are new with warranty and a return policy only in many markets, which make possible to sell a new card at quite the price despite deals in 6800xt-3080 used.

AMD seemed to have a much bigger stock of high end cards issues than NVIDIA and even them seem that the aggressive pricing and pushing the 7900xt much later will have work to clean the inventory by the end of the year.

Only 2 model of 6900xt still around:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6900xt&N=4841 4131

same for 6800xt, a single one at a ridiculous high price:
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=6800xt&N=4841 4131
($880 for a 6800xt is arguably worst than $1200 for a 4080, so it does not really count that it is not sold out)

Around Black Friday there was great choice a great price, seem to have cleaned up.
 
I don't know. If I needed a 3080 or 3090 for cheap money, my ass would definitely buy off of Facebook Marketplace. 525$ for a 3080? Yessir all day long.
 
jarablue said:
I don't know. If I needed a 3080 or 3090 for cheap money, my ass would definitely buy off of Facebook Marketplace. 525$ for a 3080? Yessir all day long.
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I paid $525 for evga rtx 3080 xc3. i might sell it and downgrade. i dont game as much.
 
With the 7900 XTX reviews out, I think 4080's are now going to start selling. People were probably waiting to see how AMD does and I think the expectation was that the XTX was going to beat the 4080 in raster by a good amount and then lose in RT but not by much. Turns out it's only on par with the 4080 in raster and a 3090 Ti in RT. Combine that with some other small things like drivers/media engine or w.e/nvidia mindshare and I think people would rather just pay the extra $200 to get a 4080 over the XTX.
 
jarablue said:
I don't know. If I needed a 3080 or 3090 for cheap money, my ass would definitely buy off of Facebook Marketplace. 525$ for a 3080? Yessir all day long.
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Use FB to purchase ? Better get to know the fraud investigators at the post office. I purchased a 2080Ti and the seller sent me a phony tracking number and sent the package to someone else. FedEx fraud officer says it happens all the time. Very sophisticated scam.
 
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With the 7900 XTX reviews out, I think 4080's are now going to start selling. People were probably waiting to see how AMD does and I think the expectation was that the XTX was going to beat the 4080 in raster by a good amount and then lose in RT but not by much. Turns out it's only on par with the 4080 in raster and a 3090 Ti in RT. Combine that with some other small things like drivers/media engine or w.e/nvidia mindshare and I think people would rather just pay the extra $200 to get a 4080 over the XTX.
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A lot of people are waiting on decent priced cards. The 4080 is priced above what the 3090 used to sell for in the first 3-4 months and the price/performance ratio is really bad on the 4080. Most of the people who are willing to spend 4080 money are in the same bracket that are willing to spend 4090 money. If I needed an upgrade now then I wouldn't touch the 4080. It would either be 7900xtx or 4090 out of the cards released so far. Basically the 4080 isn't selling well because a lot of people are either waiting on 4090 in stock, a price drop or for the cheaper cards to drop.
 
Where's the rtx 4050/ Rx 7400? If you want cheaper sku's you know Nvidia/Amd will take care of us.
 
After seeing the RX 7900 XTX reviews, I hate to say it, but AMD isn't helping the situation much, if at all.

The performance trades blows with the 4080 - right up until ray-tracing gets involved, and then the 4080 dunks on the RX 7900 XTX like the Radeon 9800 XT dunked on the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra in SM 2.0 games.

RT is admittedly not the primary selling point, but I'd rather not bet wrong with a friggin' $1,000 graphics card.

So you know what? Forget camping out at Micro Center tomorrow morning, used 3090s under $800 are still a better value per dollar spent, and at this rate, I'm just going to wait it out with my $500 PS5.
 
I doubt people going to be camping out for 7900 cards. I think they learned their lesson with the 4080 launch. My MC not even show much stock ATM. Only 2 different 7900xt and 1 7900xtx.
 
vegeta535 said:
I doubt people going to be camping out for 7900 cards. I think they learned their lesson with the 4080 launch. My MC not even show much stock ATM. Only 2 different 7900xt and 1 7900xtx.
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So I ultimately went anyway out of curiosity (and knowing Micro Center's return policy, and also a conveniently timed check), arrived around 7:30am after a 35-40 minute commute...

There were people lined up, but not too many. Definitely more than the 70 or so cards they had (35 XTXs, about the same count of XTs), but there'd be more lineup and more disappointment were this anything like the 3080/3070/3090 launches.

Meanwhile, there were 4080s at checkout, too. One was being bought, but I could've sworn another was being returned.
 
Why did I order a 4090 and not complain about the price?

- Inflation is high. Coming of of the pandemic and hoping for normality after the mining craze Putin said "Hold my beer!" and launched a war in Europe.
- Cost per transistor is going up. Gone are the price reduction by each process node change. This will not improve infact it will keep rising with each node change in the future.
- Disposal income. Gaming is still a cheap hobby.

Would I like the price to be lower?
Yes.
But I am buying a luxury item for a hobby not an essential comodity for survival.
So I could choose not to.
But I choose to do so.
And as an adult I take for responsibility for my actions.
Again this is a non essential item if the price is to high for your liking do not buy.
 
I bought RTX 3080 for $525 on here, iIm thinking about selling it for 525 and pay difference get rtx 3090 or rtx 3090ti used of course.

its been thought in back my mind, I'm figure I can pay few hundred more performace and get total best while i can.
 
Gulkor said:
I bought RTX 3080 for $525 on here, iIm thinking about selling it for 525 and pay difference get rtx 3090 or rtx 3090ti used of course.

its been thought in back my mind, I'm figure I can pay few hundred more performace and get total best while i can.
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Probably not worth it. You will pay hundreds for a relatively small bump in performance.
 
Furious_Styles said:
Probably not worth it. You will pay hundreds for a relatively small bump in performance.
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Thanks for honestly! I will look into seeing if paying $100 upgrade from 12th i5 12600k to i5 13600k will ensure i wont need upgrade cpu for 4-5 years minimum
 
Gulkor said:
I paid $525 for evga rtx 3080 xc3. i might sell it and downgrade. i dont game as much.
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Holy cow, that is cheap. You must be in the USA? I found a seller willing to take $700 for an Asus RTX 3080 12gb. I thought that was a pretty good deal. The cheapest I've read/found in my country is $650 (used).
 
Gulkor said:
I bought RTX 3080 for $525 on here, iIm thinking about selling it for 525 and pay difference get rtx 3090 or rtx 3090ti used of course.

its been thought in back my mind, I'm figure I can pay few hundred more performace and get total best while i can.
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I think that and RTX 3060 with 12Gb is fare enough now and in the near future, like 2/3 years to come as long as you're on a FHD screen on a 1440P with DLSS.
And that's saying you're going to play on recent games and those to come.
Don't be fooled by the specs on most demanding 3D games, ultra settings, 4K and impeccable rendering at 144Hz. This is probably not what and how you're going to play.
 
Jandor said:
I think that and RTX 3060 with 12Gb is fare enough now and in the near future, like 2/3 years to come as long as you're on a FHD screen on a 1440P with DLSS.
And that's saying you're going to play on recent games and those to come.
Don't be fooled by the specs on most demanding 3D games, ultra settings, 4K and impeccable rendering at 144Hz. This is probably not what and how you're going to play.
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I play newer games, i havent played non of newest demanding titles. I play games like COH1,COH2, COH 3 when it releases February 2023 :D, I have played metro 2033 but not pc edition i should download and try it.

I've learned older i get the less interesting new games are coming out, im excited for all games coming out, trying get my mojo back for games lol.
 
Gulkor said:
I play newer games, i havent played non of newest demanding titles. I play games like COH1,COH2, COH 3 when it releases February 2023 :D, I have played metro 2033 but not pc edition i should download and try it.

I've learned older i get the less interesting new games are coming out, im excited for all games coming out, trying get my mojo back for games lol.
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Frankly, I only play occasionally a new 3D demanding game once every 2 or 3 years. I used to play more 20 years ago. To much time to spend. Would need 2 or 3 lives to make everything I'd like to.
However I use graphics cards for 3D renders for my works. And the improvements due to graphics' cards power, have been incredible during the last 10 years.
For instance I may install Flight Simulator on a PC as I it may be of use, as I may get some time to pass the licence to fly ultralight planes next year.
 
Jandor said:
Frankly, I only play occasionally a new 3D demanding game once every 2 or 3 years. I used to play more 20 years ago. To much time to spend. Would need 2 or 3 lives to make everything I'd like to.
However I use graphics cards for 3D renders for my works. And the improvements due to graphics' cards power, have been incredible during the last 10 years.
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I understand 2-3 lives to do everything, I'm 36 my gaming slowed down around year ago, the closer i get 40 the less games i play it seems like, its almost like my gaming has dropped to 2nd-3rd place in my life.

whats funny to me, I was so excited have update system pretty much, i went from Alienware 15 r3 i7-7820hk + GTX 1070 Mobile to I5-12600k+RTX 3080. I bought acer predator 27" 1440p 165hz G-sync for $249 with 2 year warranty.

I feel RTX 3080 will last year or two. will look at RTX 5000's and RX 8000 series. if the prices are bad, i will look for rtx 4080 or something along them lines. figure buy used with warranty is better then paying retail+tax. I have bought used parts from forums here and havent had problem. this forum is my place buy awesome 2nd hand parts for cheaper then buying retail+tax. I would rather buy stuff 1 year later due to price drops.
 
I don't completely understand the prices for the GTX 1660, RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT. Is it the pandemic, the Ukraine war or an after-effect or the huge GPU shortage that lasted a while?
 
Look like the story could continue in 2023:

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There so little Ampere stock left that super overpriced from China card are creeping up Newegg best selling list, still insanity today:
https://www.newegg.com/d/Best-Sellers/GPUs-Video-Graphics-Cards/s/ID-48

How can a $1,570 + $50 shipping from Hong Kong top the best selling list, followed by a $410 Zotac of all brand 3060TI
 
"Hugs ad for 3050 I'll never buy"


I built my last box. Prices can go up all they want. I don't buy Chinese yarn for my new hobby
 
wandplus said:
I don't completely understand the prices for the GTX 1660, RTX 3050 and RX 6500 XT. Is it the pandemic, the Ukraine war or an after-effect or the huge GPU shortage that lasted a while?
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I suspect those cards are only there at the moment because manufacturers want to justify the higher price classes to consumers, so they see no need to actually meet demand for the low-end, hence driving up prices.

Seems that both nvidia and amd rather like the luxury of ignoring the low-spending costumers.
 
I dunno man, I think being a best seller on Newegg after AMD basically dumped all of their last gen stock might not mean what people think it means. It's probably more like being the tallest 4th grader than being the tallest man on earth. Dipshits on reddit thought they would see sub 500 6800 xts and sub 600 6900 xts, turned out once they got close everyone bought them out, myself included. Buying any new card priced at or near 1000 dollars that isn't the 4090 seems silly tbh. 7900 XT and 4080 are a joke at their respective prices.
 
I did pretty good, I bought Evga RTX 3080 XC3 10gb $525 shipped, i did pretty well, i always try buy last years model and save money.

I forgot add im running 27" 1440p 165hz has g-sync, i picked it up for $240 with 2 warranty
 
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i really hate the way prices of GPUs are all over the place. This is coming from my perspective of trying to sell a few cards and not either lose a ton of money or feel like a scalper with the "market price"
 
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