GPU prices go boom

ver01@ · 19 Feb 2018 at 12:33

I am seeing more and more mining rigs going up for sale. Silly prices but easy to haggle down.

ubersonic · 19 Feb 2018 at 14:00

ver01@ said:
I am seeing more and more mining rigs going up for sale.

It makes sense now, you can sell a card used for more money than it will make in a year of mining.

ver01@ · 19 Feb 2018 at 14:11

ubersonic said:
It makes sense now, you can sell a card used for more money than it will make in a year of mining.

Indeed, especially with some cards making a loss

andybird123 · 19 Feb 2018 at 19:32

ver01@ said:
Indeed, especially with some cards making a loss

Such as?
Scratch that, it doesnt matter, its nonsensical to suggest anyone is going to pay over the original sales price for a gpu that no longer makes a profit

Guest2 · 19 Feb 2018 at 21:29

£1600 for some of the 1080 Ti's on flebay!!

Diagro · 19 Feb 2018 at 21:36

TNA said:
But gamers will always be there, mining could be gone tomorrow. Hence it makes sense that if they care about money, they must care about gamers. Last I checked gamers make up for half or over half their revenue. Nvidia are not stupid, as much as they want to maximise the amount of profit they can make out of gamers, they do not want to do anything to scare them away, as this will be bad for them in the long term when it comes to making money. That is what I think anyway.

Not really. Lots of gamers have grown up and those are the ones that have money. Like me, many have left the scene due to the moronic prices.

AiiR · 19 Feb 2018 at 22:48

https://gyazo.com/d88a18a234073e8a3bd8bc777af671d8

It's stuff like this that pains me.

Wommers · 19 Feb 2018 at 23:16

I dillied and dallied on upgrading my machine for some time and now I'm stuck. Really wanted to make the jump to 4k gaming by first getting building a ryzen system then waiting for volta to come out but at current pricing that's totally unrealistic. At 1080p I'm ok and most games run @ 60fps (i5-750 @ 3.8ghz, 12GB DDR3 and MSI R9 390 gaming). I was keen to jump into getting an Xbox 1 X but when comparing the R9 390 to the GPU in the console it's quite similar really, so I'm kinda stuck. The kicker for my system is going to be the CPU, as long as consoles continue to drive AAA game development I should be ok I guess.

Andygully · 20 Feb 2018 at 07:37

AiiR said:
https://gyazo.com/d88a18a234073e8a3bd8bc777af671d8

It's stuff like this that pains me.

Wow it really is getting silly hopefully it ends soon.

TNA · 20 Feb 2018 at 09:19

Diagro said:
Not really. Lots of gamers have grown up and those are the ones that have money. Like me, many have left the scene due to the moronic prices.

Hence why I said "After all they do need to make sure they are able to offer cards to PC gamers as we are a huge chunk of their overall revenue".

MooMoo444 · 20 Feb 2018 at 09:28

God knows what the next generation is going to cost. Naturally they will price it higher than the current one.

pigeonguyuk · 20 Feb 2018 at 11:57

Havent been keeping an eye on prices lately as haven't been doing a lot of gaming due to personal reasons. I paid £750 for my 1080ti strix and can see its now listed at nearly £1000. Without trolling through 98 pages of posts, whats caused such a demand/increase on price?

chroniclard · 20 Feb 2018 at 12:12

pigeonguyuk said:
Havent been keeping an eye on prices lately as haven't been doing a lot of gaming due to personal reasons. I paid £750 for my 1080ti strix and can see its now listed at nearly £1000. Without trolling through 98 pages of posts, whats caused such a demand/increase on price?

Several reasons, prices have gone up anyway, miners bought all the cards, exchange rates.

200sols · 20 Feb 2018 at 12:15

pigeonguyuk said:
Havent been keeping an eye on prices lately as haven't been doing a lot of gaming due to personal reasons. I paid £750 for my 1080ti strix and can see its now listed at nearly £1000. Without trolling through 98 pages of posts, whats caused such a demand/increase on price?

Lack of supply and high demand basically. People blame 'the miners' but its a combination of things, shortage of RAM, Nvidia stopping production of old chips to focus on new ones etc.

pigeonguyuk · 20 Feb 2018 at 15:32

Looks like im going to sell my card then as these days GPU getting little to none use so makes sence and then rebuy newer generation later down the line once prices settle. Hopefully have access to members market soon

willhub · 20 Feb 2018 at 16:09

Am I expecting too much expecting a top end GPU from AMD or Nvidia to realistically cost 350 max and to get maybe a second below top end for 250 or less? That's how it used to be. I remember getting an X800XT PE for 200 quid and that was the most powerful GPU at the time with an amazing 16 pipelines and now the equivilant high end would be 800 quid.

Combat Fighter · 20 Feb 2018 at 16:30

willhub said:
Am I expecting too much expecting a top end GPU from AMD or Nvidia to realistically cost 350 max and to get maybe a second below top end for 250 or less? That's how it used to be. I remember getting an X800XT PE for 200 quid and that was the most powerful GPU at the time with an amazing 16 pipelines and now the equivilant high end would be 800 quid.

Short answer.

Yes.

willhub · 20 Feb 2018 at 17:18

How is a normal person supposed to afford a GPU? Anything above 300 is extortion. AN 800 quid card these days is no where near worth that, more like £350

Combat Fighter · 20 Feb 2018 at 17:39

willhub said:
How is a normal person supposed to afford a GPU? Anything above 300 is extortion. AN 800 quid card these days is no where near worth that, more like £350

The markets been this way for quite some years now so I’m not sure why your too surprised really.

The prices your quoting is like from 10+ years ago! Lol

willhub · 20 Feb 2018 at 17:45

Doesn't matter how long it lasts for, the surprise will never cease. It's absolutely ridiculous, next level insane, probably cost them 40 quid to manufacture.