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What will the 50 series launch mean for used 40 series prices?

GeorgeStorm said:
Who knows it seems mad to be, but for example people who had a 4090 and wanted a 5090 are happy to spend whatever to get the best, so if they sold their 4090 and are using a temporary card, they don't want to wait months using said card, or could have been doing a new build and had been told to wait till the 50 series released, and again didn't want to wait months for availability to improve whilst the rest of their system is unusable without the gpu.
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I can sort of get the demand for the 5090 though, as that card is for people who have a **** ton of spare money and don't care how much they spend of it on their hobby.

The demand for a used 4090 and 5080/5070ti is just completely odd though.
 
Jono8 said:
But why the sudden rush to waste heaps of money/the sudden need for a 4090 level card?

These people could have had a 4090 for RRP at any point last year.
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If you want a high level card *now* though what are your options? 5090's are either (even more) ludicrously priced, i saw an Ebay completed/sold 5090 Asus Astral for £6,500 recently, or just plain not available.

Previous wisdom would have said to hold of buying an expensive high tier graphics card and its 'normal' price when something new is on the horizon but that hasn't held for the 4000 to 5000 series transition hence a lot of people have been caught out.

Jono8 said:
Then just because you can't get a 5090 for a few months, people are desperate to spend £2000 or more on a used 4090?
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I think it will be more than a few months before you can go to an retailer and find an in stock 5090 at anything approaching that unicorn FE pricing. As long as that remains the case the idea that the 4090 is going to see large drops in its used price is fantasy.
 
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Jono8 said:
Wait a bit?

No one needs one *now*, unless it is for crucial work that has only just come up on the cusp of the 5xxx release.
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It's going to be a while though isn't it...

NVIDIA make more money selling their chips to businesses and AMD aren't anywhere to be seen at the top end.
 
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