Moore's Law GPU pricing

[AngleOff66]

 

I know it is a bad idea to buy a gpu and not be able to run it. In my case I'd need a new PSU etc etc. And I really want to see the new AMD stuff coming out. How often does a GPU arrive DOA?  and some of the used gpu prices if they drop as far as he is estimating could be very good indeed. Almost worth the risk?

Edited July 18, 2022 by AngleOff66

[1Sascha]

Paul from Paul's HW put it pretty well in his recent video: Relax and let the companies sweat it out.

 

From what I understand, NVidia could already be in a bit of trouble since they seem to have "over-ordered" on 5nm components, thinking they could still sell to silly miners in late 2022/early 23. I also hear there might be a bit of an over-stock situation going on with 30xx cards right now and that NVidia has announced a sale (at least in the US) on higher end 30-series cards (3070 and up? 3080 and up? not sure). There's also the fact that GPU prices seem to have collapsed a bit in China where mining was pretty popular and where people, apparently, are flooding the 2nd hand market with their mining GPUs at the moment.

 

I'd still have to pay a €100+ premium over MSRP on all the 30-series cards I'd consider (3060 Ti, 3070, 3080) - which I find unacceptable, especially in the current situation. So I'll just keep my 2070 Super for now, set my price-alerts at just under MSRP and wait.

 

S.

[dburne]

https://www.techpowerup.com/296824/nvidia-to-introduce-official-high-end-rtx-30-series-price-cuts

[1Sascha]

1 hour ago, dburne said:

https://www.techpowerup.com/296824/nvidia-to-introduce-official-high-end-rtx-30-series-price-cuts

^ this.

 

And that:

 

[Drano]

I saw a price cut that happened mid last week. It was brief for the most part. I bought and then cancelled an EVGA FTW 3080 12GB from Best Buy when I got a notification next day from Newegg I could get a Rog Strix 12GB (the card I really wanted) for the same price of $799 and that should be here in a couple of days. So I can finally complete the build I started going into the pandemic! I've been doing a twice daily check for over a year that was mostly a pretty depressing thing to do! Even tho I have the card coming I still checked the usual suspects this morning. I found EVGA and Asus had no stock of these cards--tho still showing at the same price. Some of the prices had gone right back up to $1099 where they'd been for weeks. It's not like Ebay is a fountain of used cards--at least not yet. Oh there's some there but they're looking to get more or not much less for a used card than you can currently buy one NIB. Sorry if you plunked down over $2K for one of these but you're just not gonna get that now!

[JV69badatflyski]

When Etherum 2.0 will be fully active, going from prof-of-work to proof-of-stake, (in Aug if everything goes as planned), there will be tons of GC's on the second hand market and the prices of new ones will also automatically drop as there won't be such a demand from the miners anymore...because there won't be any Eth miners anymore...

[Voyager]

If you can play how you want, wait. 

 

Even if RDNA3 does not play well with Il-2, it will keep the nVidia card prices from being lunatic. Plus, with the used mining GPUs coming, that should push next generation's mid range cards into same pricing. 

 

Honestly, if the RX 7900 XT general performance numbers are good, I may well go for it, even if it performs comparatively poorly in Il-2, just to get higher performance in the other flight sims I do. 

 

But, we will see. 

Edited July 18, 2022 by Voyager

[AngleOff66]

So even with these "sales" how close are these new prices to msrp or below msrp?

 

It is last gen (some of the 40 series may be delayed?).  I would want to see lower prices still.

 

Cmon AMD/Intel give us some good stuff to drive prices lower.  Did I just say that about intel?

Edited July 19, 2022 by AngleOff66

[dburne]

1 hour ago, AngleOff66 said:

So even with these "sales" how close are these new prices to msrp or below msrp?

 

It is last gen (some of the 40 series may be delayed?).  I would want to see lower prices still.

 

Cmon AMD/Intel give us some good stuff to drive prices lower.  Did I just say that about intel?

 

I thought they dropped the 3090 cards significantly below what was MSRP.

I just checked my card - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra from EVGA - it is now 1299, pretty sure I paid 1899 at the time for MSRP from EVGA. That is a big savings in my book. And they are in stock even.

 

Heck you can even get the 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra now for 1499. MSRP for that was 2199. In stock as well.

The downside to that is resale value of our 30xx cards has now dropped signicantly.

Edited July 19, 2022 by dburne