GPU price drop coming soon?

[Bubbahead]

Found this article from tech radar

https://www.techradar.com/news/gpu-prices-could-soon-drop-below-msrp-triggering-a-surge-of-gamers-building-pcs

As someone who was hours away from dropping $900 on a MSI 3080 do you think it's worth the wait to see if there's a noticeable drop or should I just build the new system and not look back?

[Marhier]

Depends if you can afford it or not.
1) Is all the money you have for the PC?
2) If you made a saving on the card, would it go to improve something else in the PC, or would it just be a saving?
3) How long have you been waiting?
4) How long are you willing to wait?

I've seen about a thousand videos, from all tech YouTubers, stating the prices are going to come down, which they have, but they're still not at MSRP, and likely not to fall to that level for a while, as there's potential for more drop in supply.

It's like waiting to upgrade you PC... Should I wait for the next gen.... That comes out, but then should I wait for the next gen... I vicious cycle.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Depending on where you are, prices are already about as good as they are going to get.

 

A 3080 at $900 now is unlikely to fall in price by more than another ~$100. So what do you value more, that $100, or having an operational system? For me it was the latter, so I recently pulled the trigger on a 3080 and don't regret it.

[SupaKomputa]

whan ethereum 2.0 finalized, there would be a surge of used mining gpu at discount, forcing the new one to go below msrp.

new generation will push older gen cheaper. plus theres a new kid in town, Intel.

[Bubbahead]

29 minutes ago, Marhier said:

Depends if you can afford it or not.
1) Is all the money you have for the PC?
2) If you made a saving on the card, would it go to improve something else in the PC, or would it just be a saving?
3) How long have you been waiting?
4) How long are you willing to wait?

I've seen about a thousand videos, from all tech YouTubers, stating the prices are going to come down, which they have, but they're still not at MSRP, and likely not to fall to that level for a while, as there's potential for more drop in supply.

It's like waiting to upgrade you PC... Should I wait for the next gen.... That comes out, but then should I wait for the next gen... I vicious cycle.

Currently running a 6700k and 1060 6gb

Looking a putting together a 12600k and 3080 build. 

If it's a $100-200 drop across the board I'd likely going to a 3080ti and/or a level up in CPU. So while it would be an upgrade it will be fairly marginal compared to the total %

[IkeaGnome]

38 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

plus theres a new kid in town, Intel.

I'm not saying they wont effect prices. I think they'll help lower prices. However, they don't have a 3070, 3080 or 3090 competitor. I don't expect Intel to effect those prices hardly at all. If it does it'll be a happy accident. People wanting 3060 performance have 2 options(maybe). People wanting 3070 performance but don't want 3070 prices can look towards 3060, A750 or 6600. A little bit of sacrifice on performance for a much better value. If that causes 3070s to drop, 80s and 90s should somewhat follow. 

TL:DR I don't see Intel directly effecting high end consumer cards.

[Darknighterror]

51 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

. However, they don't have a 3070, 3080 or 3090 competitor.

Isn't the "best" intel gpu supposed to be a 3070 competitor? But nonetheless i fully agree with you on the effect on the prices. Especially considering that we are talking about kinda "low" volumes (Intel wants to sell 4M GPU's by the end of the year, but thats for ALL there new GPU's including the laptop ones).

[IkeaGnome]

10 minutes ago, Darknighterror said:

Isn't the "best" intel gpu supposed to be a 3070 competitor? But nonetheless i fully agree with you on the effect on the prices. Especially considering that we are talking about kinda "low" volumes (Intel wants to sell 4M GPU's by the end of the year, but thats for ALL there new GPU's including the laptop ones).

Intel is saying 3060, and with a $350 MSRP, that's what they're going to get compared against. 3060 and probably 6600. 

[jones177]

NVidia's MSRP has not changed.

Partner cards will be higher depending on the features.

There is also a vast difference between cards.

It is not just about cooling like it was with the 20 series.

 

My Reference EVGA XC3 Ultra 3080 ti is about 10 frames down on the EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti.   

 

MSI 3080s are the same.

A Ventus is a budget 320 watt card. It is only worth about as much as the Fe card. The Gaming X Trio is a middle of the road card at 340 watts and worth a to more than the Fe. The Suprim X at 370 watts and is a premium card.  It can compete with budget 3080 tis.

 

So if your MSI is a Ventus it may go down to FEs pricing. The 12gb version it $840 on Newegg right now.

[TexasBulldog74]

I finally bought.  Too much speculation and my view is were seeing what was produced in china 1-3 months ago finally hitting our shores and shelves BUT they got locked down hard again for covid about a month ago so I personally think that you have maybe another month worth of choice and decent prices before they dry up again.

 

That is purely my speculation.  I paid $999 for my evga 3080 FTW3 Ultra, if i risked waiting i might of saved $100 but i felt there was more risk of them going back up due to supply and demand.

[cat milker]

I wouldn't say a price drop, but prices are trending downward. I would just go for it because in the current economy they could spike back up

[phil7990]

20 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

whan ethereum 2.0 finalized, there would be a surge of used mining gpu at discount, forcing the new one to go below msrp.

new generation will push older gen cheaper. plus theres a new kid in town, Intel.

So basically we all have to wait till the 4000 series is out and that should allow the 3000 series to drop? Here in europe, the 3060ti tuf is still 700 euro's. If you see, 2070 and 1070 would have costed 500 euro's by now. If the 3060ti are within the 500, that would be a nice time to buy.

[Darknighterror]

1 hour ago, phil7990 said:

Here in europe, the 3060ti tuf is still 700 euro's.

To be fair, at least here in germany that price is only for a few cards. I could buy different models of the 3060 ti's for 600 € with prices dropping regularly to 550. But maybe we are just lucky

[phil7990]

6 hours ago, Darknighterror said:

To be fair, at least here in germany that price is only for a few cards. I could buy different models of the 3060 ti's for 600 € with prices dropping regularly to 550. But maybe we are just lucky

I don't know but there was in the beginning some troubles with other cards and their capacitors, don't know if you followed that but I think it's all cool now. However gygabite is still a bit meh to me and I want to get it right this time. My XFX RX590 is really starting to annoy me. Oh well, atleast I have a working graphicscard. Anyway how, I don't know how brands like msi and evga are. I heard they were good but they too had cards in them with different capacitors. The tuf one was the only reliable one. Used to have MSI and my motherboard is msi as well so... But don't know which type of card I need to aim for. You got the ventus but I don't thrust that one, I think the Trio x is the best one.

[Bubbahead]

Well I pulled the trigger and got the MSI 3080.

I passed on the 20 series because of the improvement to cost ratio just wasn't there. So I just waited on the 30s and by the time they released you couldn't buy a GPU for anything close to MSRP.

With my luck GPU prices will bottom out the day mine arrives

[dogwitch]

so i see poor research on link.

their source was Germany gpu market only.

crap story was going around hard. Seeing no one check the source.

also on person on eth... please stop. you're guessing  hard.  Every date etch dev have given have been broken.