Bought a new GPU, should I wait to sell my old one?

[thatjack1551]

Hi, I recently bought a 3070ti to replace my old 2060. My question is if right now is a good time in the market to list the 2060. I haven't really followed the GPU market in a while and I'm sure someone here would have a good opinion I could follow. I was planning on auctioning it off on ebay but if anyone knows of a better place that would be helpful.

[Mumintroll]

Well the price for buying new parts have skyrocketed, mostly the RAM, SSD and GPU.

So there are more people going for older and 2nd hand parts now than a year ago, to be able to afford a pc.

When the RAM hoarding stops by the big tech and AI companies the prices will hopefully fall on new parts.

 

So I think it will be easier to sell your 2060 right now, instead of later.

[spacepickle]

I wouldn't recommend auctioning it off, I'd just list it at $10 below street value and wait for it to sell. As for whether or not now is a good time, this is a 6 year old card and it's just going to keep getting older. We can't predict the future, but as long as nothing crazy (such as a global pandemic) happens it's probably just going to be worth less over time.

[BiotechBen]

Current fair price around me for 2060 is sitting around $160, with founders edition touching $180, so you could sell it pretty easily in the $150-175 range.

Additionally, there's still time to sign up for the F@H sprint, so you could hang on to it and toss it in a secondary slot assuming you have capacity and join the event

[raviol]

Wait a couple of months. It won’t lose value, but the GPU market could get much more complicated very soon. In the worst-case scenario, you won’t get any more than you would today.

[Pusbucket]

17 minutes ago, raviol said:

Wait a couple of months. It won’t lose value, but the GPU market could get much more complicated very soon. In the worst-case scenario, you won’t get any more than you would today.

especially if the new card takes a crap.

[YoungBlade]

The used GPU market over the next year will be interesting to watch.

 

On the one hand, new GPU pricing is rising and will probably get worse before it gets better as Nvidia, AMD, and even Intel divert supply towards more lucrative datacenter customers. This would imply that used GPU pricing will also increase.

 

However, with RAM and SSD prices going crazy, new builds are likely to become less common, which would imply that used component prices will decrease. Buying just a graphics card used when building a new system is fairly common, but those buyers are price sensitive by nature, so they'll probably opt-out of the market altogether.

 

I honestly have no idea which of these two forces will win out in the end. I could see it going either way. We're sort of in uncharted territory, because unlike the crypto booms, consumer components are not being purchased for some new market. The issue is caused by supply farther up the chain being diverted away from consumer electronics and towards datacenter/enterprise. So the rules of this game are different from what PC enthusiasts have seen historically.

[thewelshbrummie]

GTX 16xx and RTX 20xx cards are the oldest that NVidia support with updated drivers. They will lose significant value when that ends, I'd guess within the next 2 years.

 

For context, GTX 9xx and 10xx cards are no longer updated as of December 2025.

 

Unless you need a 2nd card for video outputs selling it is probably the best option and I'd do so before the end of this year.