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

[HenrySalayne]

You should give the topic a more meaningful title.

 

In the past prices haven't really dropped. They've dropped a little but only to adjust for the increase in performance of the new generation. For example, the Super model range was only marginal more expensive than the "old" cards (without Super), but "bang for the buck" was the same or even a little better.

 

The prices of Nvidia cards have increased quite considerable in recent years. 1080 Ti did cost the same as the 2080, had more VRAM and basically the same performance (but no raytracing). Because of the current crisis, I would speculate the prices of the 3000 series will be the same as the previous generation, but with a performance increase of roughly 15% to 30%. Thus a 3080 will cost the same as a 2080 Super today, but it will be around 20% faster.

This is all speculation and we'll have to wait.

[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.