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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?

Joxeon said:
The best time to buy used is when the new cards are announced as many see the performance of the new cards and panic sell their current ones. After the 3080 reveal there were 2080ti's selling used for £300-350 and I'd imagine in a few months there will be some bargain basement 3080ti/3090 going 2nd hand but the window to snap them up is small as once the new cards are released and out of stock for a while the prices of used stuff will jump up again and also the reviews may not look quite so good compared to what nvidia will show us.
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The best time to buy is actually just before the launch of the next gen where people are often entirely unrealistic about performance improvements. This is what happened with the 1-2 days where you could pick up a 2080 ti for ~£450 before the Turing launch. At that time, rumors were swirling that the 3070 was going to be >20% faster than the 2080 ti. Folks with a 2080 ti panicked and everyone threw up their card at once on resale channels. On day 1, you couldn't find more than 20 2080 tis on Ebay: day 2 there were literally 200+. I was able to grab two nice cards to mess around with SLI.

Then, once the 3070 was released people realized there was virtually no advantage (at least in rasterization) -- and prices shot back up.

Although the days of 2x improvements e.g. 8800GTX are done (by design), you can bet the same is going to happen again this time.
 
harmattan said:
The best time to buy is actually just before the launch of the next gen where people are often entirely unrealistic about performance improvements. This is what happened with the 1-2 days where you could pick up a 2080 ti for ~£450 before the Turing launch.
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I remember that and I wish i had bought them back then. I would have taken two at that price. 2nd worst mistake I made back then, the first being not buying a reference 6800 that was about £50 over MSRP I even have a post about it on here about it. It Aged like milk. :(
 
dowie said:
Though would the official retail price have maybe come down by now, nearly 4 years later, if not for chip shortages and crypto? (I don't know/can't recall what the "normal" situation was here.)
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Under normal circumstances the retail price wouldn't have dropped much, it would just go EOL. Typically what happens with older generations is they co-exist with the new cards for a bit, then get the odd stock clearance sale (I got a GTX470 this way), and then they are just gone. The 2060 is a bit unusual in that due to the shortages it got "resurrected".
 
Darujhistan said:
It's not a good deal I don't care wtheter it's the latest card or not, it's also going to bereplaced by a far better card at a similair price within a few months, that's also why it is a terrible deal.
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Even if nV and AIBs tick up prices 15% (which they very likely will) across the range for Ada, you're setting yourself up for a horrible shock buying a Turing card now. Sticking my finger in the air i.e. educated guess, 4070 is going to cost £550-600 and will perform in the range of a 3080 12GB. So look at it like this: by buying now you're paying £200 for the pleasure of using a card until Ada is released.

That said, we're ~5 months away from actually being able to buy a 4070 (I'm guessing November with the staggered release plan), so again, if you need a card now for the next few months, it's a reasonable deal. If I didn't have a card, would I pay £200 premium to play with a 3080 12gb now? -- probably.

Edit: Just wistfully realizing I've been rationalizing this stuff before releases since Voodoo 5.
 
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Darujhistan said:
No it's not it's a 2 year old card.
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Exactly. Why should anyone buy now with falling prices? Anyone who thinks they will not fall further only has to look at other items that inflated in price during covid in UK with bicycles and indoor cycle equipment, puppies etc all mostly available with falling prices. Why should GPUs be any different especially once mining demand declines? I am also after a campervan and in the UK prices have gone up at least 30% but, I hazard a gues,s over next 12 months their price will fall as well.
 
Troezar said:
So what were the miners that bought so may GPUs mining?
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oh lol - gpu home mining isnt anything like you ever pretended it to be - scalpers were the ones buying up the stock and reslling at massive profit. The same thing will occur with the 4000 series as well.
 
Harlequin said:
oh lol - gpu home mining isnt anything like you ever pretended it to be - scalpers were the ones buying up the stock and reslling at massive profit. The same thing will occur with the 4000 series as well.
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Not all GPUs were sold to home miners. We can all guess who bought what and how they were used but let's not pretend we know. Non-miners were not paying £2k for GPUs, people mining back the difference were, aka miners ;)
 
Troezar said:
Not all GPUs were sold to home miners. We can all guess who bought what and how they were used but let's not pretend we know. Non-miners were not paying £2k for GPUs, people mining back the difference were, aka miners ;)
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I wouldn't bother mate most of his posts are on the Crypto forum he clearly has an agenda.
 
Still waiting for the flood from these miners scalpers..

If its true from what I am reading here from the pure gamers, nobody will be buying these ex-mining cards - therefore there should be shipping containers full not being bought up!
 
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