price drop

[Matttaj69]

What do you think, will the prices of "old" RTX 20xx cards drop with the arrival of newer RTX 30 series?

[Haro]

No one knows 

We can't know for sure 

Edited June 8, 2020 by TofuHaroto

[Mamonos]

It's hard to say because it's highly both card-model, country and retailer (i.e. how many pieces they still have in stock) dependent.

 

I will make an example regarding the last generation:

 

In my country, the higher tier models (e.g. 1080 Ti) got an average 20% price drop in the timespan between the announcement of the RTX 20 series and the sale start (August 20th - September 20th). This was initiated by retailers in order to clear out the remaining stock. It shall also be noted that the 20% cut basically brought the price back to the initial MSRP of the cards (which was bumped by high demand from miners).

 

As of today the biggest retailers are already trying to reduce the stocks (especially of 2080 Ti) by reducing the price by 10% to different partner cards at different intervals.

 

 

For lower tier card is different and at least here there is usually no significant price drop for new items since these cards sell quite well (more people can afford them) and it's easier to clear out the stock; the technique is then usually kind the opposite, for a couple of months (or for the first stock) the retailers apply a price increase to the new products to make it more expensive than the older models: tech enthusiasts and people who can afford it will buy the new item anyway, while people that are on a budget will clear out the stock of older models.