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GPU price inflation over the last decade
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Soldato
That card was the previous-gen when you bought it. What point are you trying to make 
looking at prices it was £250 when it came out adjusted for inflation is roughly £328 today.
looking at prices it was £250 when it came out adjusted for inflation is roughly £328 today.
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Soldato
6950 wasn't top end.
You had the 6970 then the 6990 over that one, plus AMD cards were always historically cheaper, plus if the above post about not buying that at release but later when it was cheaper, compounds the lower price.
But...........
Even so, today's equivalent, maybe 6700xt? Which is what, £600?
When you factor inflation you are still paying a lot more for today's equivalent.
Covid, Brexit, world economy going to ****?
Or capitalism?
Both maybe?
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You had the 6970 then the 6990 over that one, plus AMD cards were always historically cheaper, plus if the above post about not buying that at release but later when it was cheaper, compounds the lower price.
But...........
Even so, today's equivalent, maybe 6700xt? Which is what, £600?
When you factor inflation you are still paying a lot more for today's equivalent.
Covid, Brexit, world economy going to ****?
Or capitalism?
Both maybe?
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Caporegime
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The 2070 super which was the 2070 refresh was £440 on its best day for one with one of the best coolers available.
The 3080 being £650.
You do know what inflation is right? Back in 1945 a bar of chocolate was a farthing or whatever. A house cost £300.
Now a house costs £300k.
You cannot expect to pay the same price for something forever.
Soldato
We're playing this game are we?
between £587 and £633 today apparently (depending which calculator used), which is basically what I paid for my 6800 11 months ago
between £587 and £633 today apparently (depending which calculator used), which is basically what I paid for my 6800 11 months ago
X1900XTX was a cherry picked/factory overclocked X1900XT with an extra $100 lopped onto the price, it was bleeding edge technology at the time. Surely its equivalent today would be the 6900XT which is retailing at £1500+ so there's still been a four-fold increase in price?
I think mining is largely what has screwed up the GPU market, demand is permanently outstripping supply and miners are willing to pay silly money so gamers either have to cough up silly money or go without.
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GTX580 also a top-of-the line card.
We've now established that between 2006-2011 bleeding edge cards cost about £400, so to go back to humbug's point what's the reason they're £1500 today with middle-of-the-range cards at £500?
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I agree that the newer cards, especially top end are rip off prices. However, it is all supply and demand driven. If no one bought them at the rip off prices the price would come down. Problem is people are and people do by them at said prices.
Miners in particular are driving the prices up but its not the whole story.
Miners in particular are driving the prices up but its not the whole story.
Atleast with motherboards you have a cheaper choice that won't really hamper CPU performance.
It's clear miners are driving the demand when the 3060ti FE sells out in a couple of minutes yet the 3070ti FE is still up 45 minutes later.
I would not compare it to today's £1500 GPUs as it was crappy Fermi refresh with insufficient vram amount.
23rd Feb 2019 I bought my Vega 56 for £207.
Admittedly it was end of life at that point but it was a mega bargain compared to anything you can buy at the moment.
Even more than doubling my budget the available choices in the £500 price bracket are poor in comparison.
Admittedly it was end of life at that point but it was a mega bargain compared to anything you can buy at the moment.
Even more than doubling my budget the available choices in the £500 price bracket are poor in comparison.
At the time it was still cutting edge technology in terms of GPU manufacturing and also the best picked silicon. So for example why weren't they charging £1000 for a GTX580, £700 for a GTX570 and £500 for a GTX560 back then?
People today are saying that the RTX3080 with 10GB is too little memory but it still retails for £700-1000 and it's neither cutting edge or the best hand picked silicon.
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The 780 Ti and 980 Ti both had a UK RRP of £549, and that was considered a huge amount to pay for a graphics card at the time. Just looking at a review of the former and it's saying how much better value an R9 290 is at £300. £300 for the just-below-flagship AMD card, which ended up aging much better than the 780 Ti. Even accounting for inflation, you'd only be just about able to scrape AMD's 5th-tier card for that now, were its RRP actually real.
Soldato
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Smaller nm sizes are costing more and more to produce. 28nm was the cut off point. Up until 28nm, the higher price of each new wafer was off-set by the higher yield of chips that can be sold per wafer. That's not the case anymore. The price has to go up beyond inflation.