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What the heck is up with AMD pricing?

miceormen

miceormen

miceormen

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A week ago the 8gb RX 580 Nitro+ was £300, its lurid blue special edition the same price on a competitors' site. I missed both deals but nvm. Prices then skyrocketed to ~£360 and £390 respectively here and £340 and some places £400+.

Now the AORUS and standard Gigabyte cards are £300 on here and the 8gb 580 Nitro+s are £320 and £350.. whilst an RX570 8gb card is £330.

This doesn't seem to be the reserve of OcUK. All the competitors' prices are similarly discombobulated.

Is demand all over the place because NVIDIA have pumped out 1070ti and 1060 cards (I draw that conclusion given these have dropped from their inflated levels and the 1070 is stagnant)?

I appeciate for those spending what I consider to be silly money on 1080s and Vegas that a £100 price variance isn't much - but for the rest of us paupers that've been royally screwed by mining inflations (the 8gb RX580 was launched at £190!), I'm sure I'm not the only one thats holding back from spending hard earned cash in our favourite shop incase the price swings against us the day we take delivery...
 
OMG miners!!!!! .............................................................................................................................................
 
So is it that amd are flat out making cards as fast and as many as they can or are they holding out for mining to bottom out so they dont get burned?
 
dont forget resellers buy their cards at $$ and then got to factor in the price and time the vendors/distributors have sold the cards to them . Might have 10 cards in stock, 5 of them bought when pound was weak but price was low, 4 when pound was high and price high and then 1 one pound weak and price high ...
 
miceormen said:
A week ago the 8gb RX 580 Nitro+ was £300, its lurid blue special edition the same price on a competitors' site. I missed both deals but nvm. Prices then skyrocketed to ~£360 and £390 respectively here and £340 and some places £400+.

Now the AORUS and standard Gigabyte cards are £300 on here and the 8gb 580 Nitro+s are £320 and £350.. whilst an RX570 8gb card is £330.

This doesn't seem to be the reserve of OcUK. All the competitors' prices are similarly discombobulated.

Is demand all over the place because NVIDIA have pumped out 1070ti and 1060 cards (I draw that conclusion given these have dropped from their inflated levels and the 1070 is stagnant)?

I appeciate for those spending what I consider to be silly money on 1080s and Vegas that a £100 price variance isn't much - but for the rest of us paupers that've been royally screwed by mining inflations (the 8gb RX580 was launched at £190!), I'm sure I'm not the only one thats holding back from spending hard earned cash in our favourite shop incase the price swings against us the day we take delivery...
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Have you seen the prices of the 1080Ti? There are 35%+ higher than last year.
 
Panos said:
Have you seen the prices of the 1080Ti? There are 35%+ higher than last year.
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And have you read his post? He considers 1080 and Vega prices silly, Why would he care about the price of the 1080Ti?

Plus, He is looking to buy an AMD card, an RX 580.
 
It's the inconsistency that I don't understand. Perhaps orbitalwalsh above has it - that this is resellers trying to recoup cost of stock on hand and demand fluctuations or something.

Either way, yes, I'd like an RX580. Just want to play PUBG at 60fps without overspending on a 2 year old, underpowered 1060 or on an overkill 1070ti. With 11xx cards now purported to be a refresh of 10xx series rather than anything revolutionary, it seems like the 580 is where discounts will be strongest (because they'll be based on increased supply at higher end, rather than 11xx making 10xx obsolete).

Just a case of making the investment at the right time, since as has been said.. Prices are all over the shop.
 
It's a bad time to buy them anyway, they will be getting replaced soon and the prices are still high. Wait for the next refresh and preorder to beat the miners
 
miceormen said:
It's the inconsistency that I don't understand. Perhaps orbitalwalsh above has it - that this is resellers trying to recoup cost of stock on hand and demand fluctuations or something.

Either way, yes, I'd like an RX580. Just want to play PUBG at 60fps without overspending on a 2 year old, underpowered 1060 or on an overkill 1070ti. With 11xx cards now purported to be a refresh of 10xx series rather than anything revolutionary, it seems like the 580 is where discounts will be strongest (because they'll be based on increased supply at higher end, rather than 11xx making 10xx obsolete).

Just a case of making the investment at the right time, since as has been said.. Prices are all over the shop.
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It was the same with my 1080ti. Prices were up and down like a yoyo. One week it could a couple hundred or more then down again. I just kept an eye on the prices and then bam when it was at low i picked it up. These days the prices are just up there is no down.

If theres plenty of stock the prices are reasonable when they're in short supply the price goes up as they'd sell out of them and no-one likes empty shelves. Supply and demand.
 
Its the cost of the HBM2 etc... that has got AMDs cards priced high (Vega), plus with the mining bubble bursting, and the ASICs machines here now for that, they are surplus to requirements, so are in plentiful supply, as not being bought now.
 
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Ah wow, I've only managed to find the 4gb for that price. I pretty much just want it to play pubg also lol. Just refuse to pay the current prices
 
With RAM pricing being insane, GPU pricing being stupid too I'm just sticking with old hardware if it keeps going this way I'll just start buying used hardware and not supporting the industry. 2012 2x4GB 1600mhz RAM would be £30 now it's £80 for the equivalent DDR4, my income hasn't doubled!

The only good thing is Ryzen has brought down CPU pricing and you can get mega performance for little outlay, problem is you need RAM to get it to work which then defeats the point of Ryzen.
 
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