Get Your Hands on an Nvidia RTX 3090 for $999, Its Lowest Ever Price: Real Deals

InvalidError said:

The only reason AMD and Nvidia didn't jack up prices to the moon is because they have contract pricing with their AIBs which greatly limit their ability to alter pricing after the fact. AMD and Nvidia did jack up pricing on each subsequent SKU launches once they realized there was no apparent ceiling to how much crypto-miners were willing to pay.

Yea... try again, minor adjustments to pricing was solely due to a jump in material costs from worldwide shortages on silicon and other materials.
Not to mention contract pricing does not affect what they can personally charge for cards on thier own site to users.

Fates_Demise said:

Yea... try again, minor adjustments to pricing was solely due to a jump in material costs from worldwide shortages on silicon and other materials.
Not to mention contract pricing does not affect what they can personally charge for cards on thier own site to users.

Right right... 2gb of extra ram on the 12gb 3080 was $500 more? Nvidia was the king of scalping the last two years.

Anyone that thinks Nvidia screwed over gamers has misplaced their anger. Ampere cards routinely sold on the aftermarket for 25% to 100% higher than MSRP, model dependent. Over the last year, Toms provided supporting data that highlighted these price trends. In any market, a product which you can purchase and then immediately resell for a significant profit is the antithesis of “screwed” by the manufacturer. Significant demand because of inflated crypto yields and reduced supply side material, shipping and production shortages caused by the pandemic led to significant consumer price increases. A better target for your ire are the disingenuous retailers (e.g., Newegg, Bestbuy, Amazon, etc.) that allowed scalpers to purchase multiple graphics cards.

Rest assured, market forces are working as they should. Nvidia will soon release the RTX 4000-series that promises significant performance increases. AMD is releasing a similarly situated card. Intel is now entering the fray. The crypto market is crashing; cards are widely available; price per performance is falling; and everything will soon be right with the world. It is a great time to be a gamer and most will be able to acquire a powerful graphics card for a reasonable price in the upcoming months.

Of course, all that flies out the window if you want the RTX 4090 the day it comes out. Again, it will see high demand and likely low supply, with inflated early adopter prices, until the next big dog arrives; a vicious cycle that persists ever since the Canopus Voodoo 2 release and we were playing Quake 2 Glide.

well good for those that into semi pro stuff.

Sitting here remembers the memes about 2080Ti owners crying over the 3070 and wondering if this going to be a repeat? :unsure: