Pricing

[RandomTextbook]

Are GPU pricing actually taking a turn for the better?

[SmileyTheOne]

Yes

[Chris Pratt]

Yes, but not dramatically. It's a light at the end of the tunnel thing. That was always expected anyways. Demand is not unlimited, so as long as they're manufacturing GPUs, eventually supply normalizes. It's coming a bit sooner due to crypto tanking and China cracking down on crypto (less demand). However, there's still component shortages, worldwide logistics is still jacked, and in North America, you still have to contend with the tarriffs. That means even once supply normalizes, GPUs are still going to cost more than they did before.

[Montana One-Six]

Yes. Linus explained it during the last WAN show pretty good.

 

I have been looking in Europe (especially Germany) for Ampere, mainly 3080, pricing and availability since December (as well as 3080ti recently).

Prices have gone down on the 3080 a lot over the last month. I'm talking about ~2000€ or more (depending on model and retailer) with basically zero availability to ~1500€ or less (depending on model and retailer) with some - decent availability (depending on retailer and pricing). Generally about a 500 to 1000€ price drop on most 3080 cards across all retailer in the last month. Which now the prices have been somewhat stable over the last week or two but many retailer (especially those that don't have the lowest price) just don't sell that much anymore which is evident by the increased stock they have. For example the retailer alternate.de (pretty big online retailer in Germany) has about 15 different cards in stock since last week which was unheard of a month or two ago.

The 3080ti story is a little different. Those came on the market for high prices about 2000 to 2700€ depending on model. Those just didn't sell at those prices for the most part and prices went down not even a week after release by about 500€. Even after that those didn't sell well so they went even further and right now prices are between 2000 and 1500€ depending on model. Those also have been stable for the last week or so but stocks are a lot higher overall (pretty much all retailer) than for the 3080.

 

It looks like most retailer don't want to lower their prices even further right now even though some (3080) or most (3080ti) have plenty of stock. It looks like they are trying to ride those high prices a little bit longer with the hope to sell a few more to customers that just cannot wait any longer but eventually those prices will come down in the next few weeks. Since making less money is still better than making no money at all.

 

If that is any indicator on what other markets in other parts of the world can expect, my guess would be that prices will come down globally over the next few month to sane levels.