6600XT and 6700XT price changes

[g67575]

Any particular reason why these cards are suddenly available? The 6700XT is still well above the RRP price, but it has still fallen noticeably.

 

[gpuerrilla]

6600xt was never really above 500..?

 

[g67575]

Did it have stock before at that price? Maybe I just overlooked it

 

[gpuerrilla]

Did it have stock before? Maybe I just overlooked it

The release day had one brand at £329, the next one up was £375 or thereabouts. When the stock dried up there were a few between £400-450. They have been in stock more so than most other launches, its only the restock/replacements that get listed an extra £50 above what they went for few weeks back.

 

[g67575]

It would be hard to recommend a RTX 3070 (aib) card at the moment, with the 6700XT being sold now with decent availability for <£700, £100-200 less than a 3070.

Maybe AMD can finally start to compete on price?

Although the 6800 and 6800xt prices are still awful.

 

[gpuerrilla]

6700XT should be about £500 tops. Even then I would be more of a 6800 (non XT) man but I see more of Lord Lucan.

 

[g67575]

I think £600 for a 6700 XT and £400 for a 6600 XT would be more realistic.

I don't think prices will approach normality, until retailers allow pre-orders again for all cards in a series.

 

[mmj_uk]

You used to be able to buy a top end card for £300, what happened? people surprised at mid-range cards being in stock when they're priced at £500-700?

 

[g67575]

Mid-range is quite subjective, the 5700XT was the highest end RDNA 1 card, but the 6700XT is still around 25% faster. So, I suppose the price would ideally be closer to £500 (assuming a price of £400 for a 5700XT, after it was released). But, you also get more VRAM and higher memory bandwidth, so £550-600 would be an OK price.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Mid-range is quite subjective, the 5700XT was the highest end RDNA 1 card, but the 6700XT is still around 25% faster. So, I suppose the price would ideally be closer to £500 (assuming a price of £400 for a 5700XT, after it was released). But, you also get more VRAM and higher memory bandwidth, so £550-600 would be an OK price.

6700XT should be about £500 tops. Even then I would be more of a 6800 (non XT) man but I see more of Lord Lucan.

So what I said. Its not OK to be any more. Generally though, if you have a card to upgrade from - you can sell this and recoup nearly all the cost anyway...

 

[mmj_uk]

Mid-range is quite subjective, the 5700XT was the highest end RDNA 1 card, but the 6700XT is still around 25% faster.

Not really, companies build low end, mid-range and top end cards and price them accordingly and somewhere along the lines prices have increased across the board by 500% and this started long before governments wrecked their economies with lock downs.

New generations will always be faster but they usually slot in at the same price point as what they've replaced. How have we gone from £300 for a top end card to thinking a companies mid-range cards are cheap at £500.

PS5 has something like a 5700XT GPU and you can buy one for £360 (without disc drive) but a 6700XT is justified at £700?

 

[JediFragger]

I don't think prices will approach normality, until retailers allow pre-orders again for all cards in a series.

I think for quite a while we're in the 'new normal' tbh, prices just don't seem to be dropping if much at all. Spiking again too I gather

 

[Johnny Silverhand]

A 6700XT for 700 is terrible deal. I payed little more than that for my 3070Ti.

 

[Gibbo]

6600 XT has always been available since launch, never been out of stock, sold thousands but prices have increased as per expectations.

 

[4K8KW10]

But whom?
Miners?

I guess normal gamers won't pay double the normal price for this low performance?

 

[4K8KW10]

Mid-range is quite subjective, the 5700XT was the highest end RDNA 1 card, but the 6700XT is still around 25% faster. So, I suppose the price would ideally be closer to £500 (assuming a price of £400 for a 5700XT, after it was released). But, you also get more VRAM and higher memory bandwidth, so £550-600 would be an OK price.

RX 5700 XT is a upper mid-range card compared to RTX 2080 Ti which is up to 40% or so faster.
RDNA 1 didn't have a high-end. It was either cancelled or never in design.

 

[Game]

I think £600 for a 6700 XT and £400 for a 6600 XT would be more realistic.

I don't think prices will approach normality, until retailers allow pre-orders again for all cards in a series.

with the demands on chips from other industries it could be a while

 

[Game]

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[d_brennen]

Not really, companies build low end, mid-range and top end cards and price them accordingly and somewhere along the lines prices have increased across the board by 500% and this started long before governments wrecked their economies with lock downs.

New generations will always be faster but they usually slot in at the same price point as what they've replaced. How have we gone from £300 for a top end card to thinking a companies mid-range cards are cheap at £500.

PS5 has something like a 5700XT GPU and you can buy one for £360 (without disc drive) but a 6700XT is justified at £700?

This guy gets it, vote with your wallets

 

[g67575]

This guy gets it, vote with your wallets

Some buyers will always be willing to pay well above the RRP, often the ones with higher incomes. This seems to be the main factor in determining prices. There's also miners, who are still betting on making their money back (with perhaps 3-4 months left to mine Ethereum), even at graphics card prices associated with 'supernormal' profit levels.

There's also the somewhat misguided belief, that 'you get what you pay for', actually, you tend to get what's in the specification when it comes to computer components. Different brands generally have little /no reflection on the hardware itself.

I think retailers have more power than individual buyers to improve the situation, by offering pre-orders at prices closer to RRP. It may not always be possible to fulfil all orders (oh well, buyers should get a refund), but it would surely bring prices down over time, if a few of the large retailers made this decision. It would also bring the obsessive searching (leading people to que outside shops all night to get a rtx 3080 /3090, sometimes fruitlessly) for a graphics card, to an end.