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Inflation adjusted price history of nVidia GPUs

andybird123 said:
Yes, but only if they also put what the exchange rate was at the time, would get a bit crowded
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Indeed. In the year 2000, you would get about £0.50 for each dollar meaning the $700 GeForce Ultra 2 would cost about £350. Whereas, now, the $700 1080ti costs at least £700.
 
Completely agree that adjusting for USD to GBP exchange rate just adds another variable into the mix, and takes away from the basic message of the original article, but was kind of curious so took the exchange rate from here (https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/b...rical-spot-exchange-rates/gbp/GBP-to-USD-2017) to have a quick look. I am lazy, so just took the rate on the first of the month listed in the table because I couldn't be bothered looking up the exact GPU launch date for each card.

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8800 . beast back in the day !

http://inflation.stephenmorley.org/

seems my 8800 non ultra was £203, using inflation calculator is £257 @ March 2008 (Second 8800, could find the first i bought at launch day)

had to dig deep into the email for that e-bill!!! would be interesting to see if any users can dig up their bills for the above cards and use the inflation link above
 
Confused Stu said:
Completely agree that adjusting for USD to GBP exchange rate just adds another variable into the mix, and takes away from the basic message of the original article, but was kind of curious so took the exchange rate from here (https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/b...rical-spot-exchange-rates/gbp/GBP-to-USD-2017) to have a quick look. I am lazy, so just took the rate on the first of the month listed in the table because I couldn't be bothered looking up the exact GPU launch date for each card.

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Cheers for doing that. what figure have you taken for the UK£ figures though? I think what is needed to be taken is the US$ Price * the GBP to USD exchange rate of that year * VAT of that year to give us the price conversion of what it should have cost as those US$ prices are without tax.

Then we have to work out the UK£ inflation figure and calculate the inflation increase of the UK£ price at the time to Jan 2017.

This would give a real reflection of what the cost in UK£ should have been at time and what they are relative to what we actually pay. There should also be a column to show the actual UK sale price at the time and then we can compare what the "UK Tax" people have for what we got in electronics.

Now it gets a little complicated as of course VAT changed a few times and the way the inflation figure works of course means they are a little off but this would be penny's. I have done a quick table to reflect that hopefully shows some more details.

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does this take in the rebates some cards given back to people ?

280 for eg ? when they come out the massive price drops made for some to recieve rebates.
 
That is great work. It shows how the UK over/undercharge rate has changed over the years - which is why it is interesting to include this. Would be nice if this was expressed as a percentage. The standard 1080 looks particularly nasty.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
does this take in the rebates some cards given back to people ?

280 for eg ? when they come out the massive price drops made for some to recieve rebates.
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I haven't allowed for this because it is hard to confirm details for all although could be placed in a new column. I don't think it works that easily. Do you then consider the ones that came with games etc. Were the rebates the same in the US? A like for like on the release price I think is fairest overall.
 
dunno just remember the people that brought the nvidia 280 gtx got massive drops just after release of upto £200 off price and people were offered rebates.my mate paid i think it was close to £600 for his and it dropped to £400 ish a month later.
 
Now if you consider you need to add between 1.76% and 9.45% to the US pricing depending on state you buy in the US (Alaska is 1.76% sales tax & Tennessee is 9.45% with lowest and highest accordingly). I can show an average US Sales Tax column and work to those figures if someone needs to compare that as well. So for instance if you brought from Tennessee the figures would look like this:

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To give an idea above then when people state we have the "UK Tax" on electrics compared to the UK we have averages at -1% price compared to Tennessee and +6% compared to Alaska so actually extrapolating that data I woudl say it hasn't been all that bad for US to UK pricing. It appears the UK got stung with the GeForce 2 Ultra & GTX 1080 but did really well in regards to the 8800 Ultra and GTX 285 if you compare the Tennessee numbers.

I am not going to go through every state as that will take forever but just to compare then to the best pricing if you got someone to buy in Alaska for you or was there to purchase electronic goods. Further to that though, if you buy online via somewhere such as Amazon and they don't have physical stores then they don't pay sales tax although again state dependant so you can buy in the US on Amazon US and be sales tax free but you would need to confirm which state. I knw New York for instance takes sales tax from Amazon sales regardless but Illinois doesn't and therefor Amazon purchases for the same products are cheapest there.
 
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