Are low-mid range cards also over priced?

Goose · 19 Jul 2021 at 16:43

A mate of mine wants me to build him a new gaming PC but i'm out of the loop having not bought any components in quite a few years. I reckon he'll be wanting to pay £300-400 for the graphics card but i've no idea if cards in this price range are over priced in the same the high end ones are.

Thanks

jaybee · 19 Jul 2021 at 16:45

Goose said:
A mate of mine wants me to build him a new gaming PC but i'm out of the loop having not bought any components in quite a few years. I reckon he'll be wanting to pay £300-400 for the graphics card but i've no idea if cards in this price range are over priced in the same the high end ones are.

Thanks

All graphics cards world wide are currently over priced in any tier.

dave28 · 19 Jul 2021 at 16:45

Yes is the short answer, £300 will get you the last generation of cards and not the good ones either.

MCFC_ANDY · 19 Jul 2021 at 18:41

£150 will get you crayons and paper to draw your graphics

Tetras · 19 Jul 2021 at 19:16

Goose said:
A mate of mine wants me to build him a new gaming PC but i'm out of the loop having not bought any components in quite a few years. I reckon he'll be wanting to pay £300-400 for the graphics card but i've no idea if cards in this price range are over priced in the same the high end ones are.

Thanks

Cards like the 3060 Ti and 3070 were supposed to be in this price range, and the 1660 and RX 5500 (now £350+) were sub-£200 parts.

D1craig · 19 Jul 2021 at 19:35

gtx X70 series cards before pascal could be had for under £300. now they are over £500 msrp. actual available stock is over £650.

ASMB · 20 Jul 2021 at 23:41

Radeon 6600xt and 6600 are said to be out next month, might be worth checking the price and availability of them, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and non-XT launching on August 11th (fudzilla.com)

Quartz · 20 Jul 2021 at 23:47

Goose said:
but i've no idea if cards in this price range are over priced in the same the high end ones are.

Yes. Paul's Hardware has just done a video on this (US prices, mind):

pp111 · 21 Jul 2021 at 10:09

You didn't notice they all are? All cards at the moment are way, way over-priced. I don't think it's possible to get anything at less than about double what you should be paying for it.

MCFC_ANDY · 21 Jul 2021 at 11:06

Quartz said:
Yes. Paul's Hardware has just done a video on this (US prices, mind):

christ he takes ages to get to the point

Quartz · 21 Jul 2021 at 11:35

MCFC_ANDY said:
christ he takes ages to get to the point

I think you're supposed to go straight to the section about the card you want rather than wade through the whole thing.

MCFC_ANDY · 21 Jul 2021 at 11:47

yeah thats true for sure, though as a whole thing i felt like shouting at screen "get on with it" :cry:

no_sleep_til · 23 Jul 2021 at 01:08

i've just had a look at a price for a similar card to mine (2060) and it varies from about £80 to £150 from what i paid in November last year

ASMB · 23 Jul 2021 at 01:58

Found this interesting on mid range cards, but it also suggests that AMD and Nvidia will be ready to release 7000 and 4000 series next summer (to create a demand for new cards which they can charge higher prices for) if prices for 3000 & 6000 meet MRSP as they want to keep selling cards at higher than MRSP, (138) Nvidia RTX 3060 Flood in August: Drowning RX 6600 XT & Manipulating Supply till Lovelace - YouTube

MCFC_ANDY · 23 Jul 2021 at 04:54

knowing amd they will drop the ball as usual along the way, going back crawling to budget amd users, they have history of cocking things up sadly

chrcoluk · 23 Jul 2021 at 06:06

Short answer yes.

I got my 1030 GT new for £30, good luck finding a £30 GPU brand new today thats not one on borrowed time for driver support.

Then you have the 50/50ti/60 tiers that should be £150-250 range.

Gibbo · 23 Jul 2021 at 20:46

ASMB said:
Radeon 6600xt and 6600 are said to be out next month, might be worth checking the price and availability of them, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and non-XT launching on August 11th (fudzilla.com)

The price I’ve been quoted I’ve actually refused the stock and will stand my ground until the prices improves otherwise we probably won’t even bother listing it.

We’re pushing hard at the moment for 3060 deals, got some cards sub £500 now but we’re pushing to get prices ideally sub £400 on the 3060.

ASMB · 23 Jul 2021 at 21:02

I know that price of GDDR6 has shot up and with 3060 having 12GB of it sub £400 cards will be reasonable in this market for an AIB with a good cooler

~>Dg<~ · 23 Jul 2021 at 21:13

Gibbo said:
The price I’ve been quoted I’ve actually refused the stock and will stand my ground until the prices improves otherwise we probably won’t even bother listing it.

We’re pushing hard at the moment for 3060 deals, got some cards sub £500 now but we’re pushing to get prices ideally sub £400 on the 3060.

must be frustrating then again i seen some 3060ti the other day quite a few of them going for 369. so some people are getting them at the right prices. get the whip out.

BigBANGtheory · 23 Jul 2021 at 22:21

Every GPU component is over priced currently and hardware vendors are more than happy to up their margins at every opportunity

At some point surely we are going to hit market saturation and see a return to normality, either that or the high end hardware gets ever more thinly spread and you simply don't see modern demanding titles. I mean once you can do 4k @120hz its really only VR that's pushing those boundaries