GPU Purchase Timing

[koopa990]

Do you all  believe the used market may be better later this year? Or will it not make a major difference? I currently have 2070, and I want to get an Nvidia Card that is 12GB minimum. I am doing some gaming, video editing, and AI stuff such as Upscaling and art generation.

[Hinjima]

3 minutes ago, koopa990 said:

Do you all  believe the used market may be better later this year? Or will it not make a major difference? I currently have 2070, and I want to get an Nvidia Card that is 12GB minimum. I am doing some gaming, video editing, and AI stuff such as Upscaling and art generation.

The market itself should stay fairly similar but the cards listed will keep up with whats new. So instead of seeing a lot of 3070's and 3080's you might see more 4070 Supers and 4080's etc etc.

Obviously there will still be people selling GTX 1060's.

 

[koopa990]

Just now, Hinjima said:

The market itself should stay fairly similar but the cards listed will keep up with whats new. So instead of seeing a lot of 3070's and 3080's you might see more 4070 Ti Supers and 4080's etc etc.

4070 Super seems promising.

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, koopa990 said:

Do you all  believe the used market may be better later this year? Or will it not make a major difference? I currently have 2070, and I want to get an Nvidia Card that is 12GB minimum. I am doing some gaming, video editing, and AI stuff such as Upscaling and art generation.

Well the 3080 12gig is going to 400 usd so thats an option.

 

But yeah the usual used marlet drop comes quite quick after scalpers run into excess stock and can no longer scalp. So id say 6-9months adjustment time probably. Just check it on and off every month or so or when you hear about scalpers losing money/ai crash/store stock increase and get a scalped/ai gpu from money desperate people/corps

[Hinjima]

Just now, koopa990 said:

4070 Super seems promising.

Sure.  There will probably be a few more 4070 Super listings later this year compared to right now. 

I can't promise anything of course. I am not magic.

[koopa990]

Just now, jaslion said:

Well the 3080 12gig is going to 400 usd so thats an option.

 

But yeah the usual used marlet drop comes quite quick after scalpers run into excess stock and can no longer scalp. So id say 6-9months adjustment time probably. Just check it on and off every month or so or when you hear about scalpers losing money/ai crash/store stock increase and get a scalped/ai gpu from money desperate people/corps

You think the 3080 is a huge jump from my 2070? Compared to 1060 to 2070

[jaslion]

8 hours ago, koopa990 said:

You think the 3080 is a huge jump from my 2070? Compared to 1060 to 2070

Its a nice jump but not a truely massive jump

[koopa990]

Update, 3-9-25: I am considering RTX 3090 TI. As for the 4070 super TI, I may or may not discard that option.

[saintlouisbagels]

11 hours ago, koopa990 said:

Update, 3-9-25: I am considering RTX 3090 TI. As for the 4070 super TI, I may or may not discard that option.

You're going to have a rough time finding the 3090 Ti at a reasonable price. That card is going to be very valuable and highly sought after in the used market for the next several generations because of that beautiful 24GB of VRAM.

 

I've personally had a lot of luck and zero effort finding RTX 5070 Ti at MSRP. BHPhotovideo does a Waiting List system for their inventory, and ASUS sells the PRIME model for $750 - which is what I'm eyeing for my upgrade from the 2080 Ti. According to TechPowerUp is a 204% relative performance difference which sounds pretty good considering that I've been using the same card since early-2019.

 

Only reason I haven't made the jump is because I locked myself into 12 months of World of Warcraft which runs natively on MacOS lolol.

[koopa990]

2 hours ago, saintlouisbagels said:

You're going to have a rough time finding the 3090 Ti at a reasonable price. That card is going to be very valuable and highly sought after in the used market for the next several generations because of that beautiful 24GB of VRAM.

 

I've personally had a lot of luck and zero effort finding RTX 5070 Ti at MSRP. BHPhotovideo does a Waiting List system for their inventory, and ASUS sells the PRIME model for $750 - which is what I'm eyeing for my upgrade from the 2080 Ti. According to TechPowerUp is a 204% relative performance difference which sounds pretty good considering that I've been using the same card since early-2019.

 

Only reason I haven't made the jump is because I locked myself into 12 months of World of Warcraft which runs natively on MacOS lolol.

another thought process: I changed my mind- I might get the regular model instead

[ewitte]

On 2/15/2025 at 7:49 PM, koopa990 said:

Do you all  believe the used market may be better later this year? Or will it not make a major difference? I currently have 2070, and I want to get an Nvidia Card that is 12GB minimum. I am doing some gaming, video editing, and AI stuff such as Upscaling and art generation.

As stock stabilizes and enthusiasts get what they want it will be nearly impossible to scalp the cards.  I would give it 6 months.  Top tier cards like the 5090 will likely not drop as close to MSRP as other cards.  I'd say the best we can hope for is about 2300-2500 for some budget 5090 models and about 10% over MSRP for 5080 and below.  Nobody in their right mind is going to willingly pay $1k for a 70-tier card unless it is making them money! Unfortunately, everything will likely be 10% higher and they will blame tariffs.  Tariffs however are on Wholesale price so they actual cost to them is probably like 5% the MSRP but they will still ask for 10%...

 

Also, used cards will come back into the market as people upgrade to any AMD/Nvidia card.

[koopa990]

On 3/10/2025 at 9:04 AM, ewitte said:

As stock stabilizes and enthusiasts get what they want it will be nearly impossible to scalp the cards.  I would give it 6 months.  Top tier cards like the 5090 will likely not drop as close to MSRP as other cards.  I'd say the best we can hope for is about 2300-2500 for some budget 5090 models and about 10% over MSRP for 5080 and below.  Nobody in their right mind is going to willingly pay $1k for a 70-tier card unless it is making them money! Unfortunately, everything will likely be 10% higher and they will blame tariffs.  Tariffs however are on Wholesale price so they actual cost to them is probably like 5% the MSRP but they will still ask for 10%...

 

Also, used cards will come back into the market as people upgrade to any AMD/Nvidia card.

I see... So, you are saying a 3090 card costs around $1,000~ is not good?