Whats going on with GPU pricing?

[Pulpypanda]

I've been thinking of upgrading my Graphics card for a little while and i think i may have settled on getting a GTX 1070, But viewing the current GPU prices on the new Nvidia line of GPU"s I've found that they are either out of stock or well beyond MSRP some are peaking at $500-600 USD in the case of the 1070, which is far beyond the MSRP. What are your thoughts? Should you buy now or wait and hope prices drop? 

[The Sloth]

Canadian or American? 

[Pulpypanda]

USD  thanks for the catch.

 

[vong]

2 minutes ago, Pulpypanda said:

I've been thinking of upgrading my Graphics card for a little while and i think i may have settled on getting a GTX 1070, But viewing the current GPU prices on the new Nvidia line of GPU"s I've found that they are either out of stock or well beyond MSRP some are peaking at $500-600 in the case of the 1070, which is far beyond the MSRP. What are your thoughts? Should you buy now or wait and hope prices drop? 

It's because of the demand that the price is increased. Wait for the new architecture to be announced and the 10 series will plummet.

[Pulpypanda]

1 minute ago, vong said:

It's because of the demand that the price is increased. Wait for the new architecture to be announced and the 10 series will plummet.

The same thing could be said for the 9 series and it has stayed relatively stable in comparison.

[Ryoku]

2 minutes ago, Pulpypanda said:

I've been thinking of upgrading my Graphics card for a little while and i think i may have settled on getting a GTX 1070, But viewing the current GPU prices on the new Nvidia line of GPU"s I've found that they are either out of stock or well beyond MSRP some are peaking at $500-600 in the case of the 1070, which is far beyond the MSRP. What are your thoughts? Should you buy now or wait and hope prices drop? 

There's a few reason for the terrible pricing.  First Nvidia Fucked up and priced their Founder Edition GPUs higher then what they expected the board partners to price theirs at, but no good board partner is going to sell their gpu's cheaper then the Founders editions (reference gpus) as they are going to see their gpus as better then them.  Another reason is AMD has no GPU out in the highend to compete with nvidia so they can just sell them at whatever they want too.

 

I'm in the same boat as you been wanting to upgrade but fuck paying $800 CAD for a regular 1080, so I'm waiting for AMD to hopefully shake things up.

[vong]

Just now, Pulpypanda said:

The same thing could be said for the 9 series and it has stayed relatively stable in comparison.

The 980 Ti plummeted when the 10 series was announced. I paid $1200aud for a 980 Ti a bit after they came out then when the 10 series was announced and they dropped below $1000aud.

[Robots (2005)]

1 hour ago, vong said:

The 980 Ti plummeted when the 10 series was announced. I paid $1200aud for a 980 Ti a bit after they came out then when the 10 series was announced and they dropped below $1000aud.

still worth tho, not like the 980 ti is gonna be considered a bad card. maybe in 2020 lol 

[LabRat]

you have it all backwards. the prices on cards have been dropping steady for the past month.  AMD's new cards must be fast approaching. sign up for newegg's email newsletter.

[RadiatingLight]

What do you mean?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487265&cm_re=GTX_1070-_-14-487-265-_-Product

 

[LabRat]

you don't know how to shop.