Tempted by one of the Zotac 3070 Ti's. Still a little expensive right now however... I might be swayed by a decent 6800 XT deal if any soon?
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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?
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Tempted by one of the Zotac 3070 Ti's. Still a little expensive right now however... I might be swayed by a decent 6800 XT deal if any soon?
Same here. Waiting just bit longer for decent 6800 XT as prices now entering £700 mark.
Hi there
Got Inno3D to revise my cost, now £789 on pre-order for 3080 10G, first AIB 3080 under £800 for long time.
Sapphire also tweaked, so 6800 XT Pulse now £799 to compete with 3080 10G.
Almost getting there. Shame now it's ageing however one of these would last me a few years after purchase. Not really fussed on the Pulse, any more wiggle room on the Zotac AMP HOLO cards?
Can't seem to find any decent reviews on the Pulse 6800 XT?
Any deals coming up and stock of the Nitro 6800 XT?
We are the cheapest on those.
Any deals coming up and stock of the Nitro 6800 XT?
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Well if there’s any positive to the 3090ti it’s that the lower end cards have finally dropped in price!
ASUS going to cut prices by 25% (United States) hopefully that will trigger big wave of cuts along whole AIB's. IMHO top models like Strix and Suprim shouldn't be more than +£150 from MSRP and very entry models would stick on MSRP
thats generally only because the china usa tariffs have been dropped on a few items that ship to usa
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How we seem to have forgotten what prices used to be!
For many generations of card I set my upper spend at £300. This would normally get me a X070. It was miners that first bumped the price up and I am sure that inflation has added to those prices since then, but we all seem to have completely forgotten that this hardware simply isn't worth even the "cheap" prices we are now prepared to jump at. My guess is that even taking inflation in to account prices are 50% higher than they really should be. It's not helped by peoples (almost obsessional ) willingness to buy new graphics cards.
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Agree on the price observation, I was a £300 buyer also. Disagree for some of the mining observation. I bought my Vega56 on here for £299 after the first popular mining phase after 2017. GPU mining has been around since 2012 (I remember using a pair of HD 7700's and whatever I upgraded to in subsequent years), its way more known nowadays but pricing of cards was generally unaffected until it got mainstream around 2017. You also have scalpers to thank for the inflated prices.
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I completely agree. Currently nVidia report a ~65% margin to the market. There is a long line of people taking money between nVidia and us as the customer, probably the most significant of these is the Fab - TSMC reports a margin of ~50% to the market. The margins throughout the rest of the chain are slim enough that, for our back-of-a-packet calculation, I think we can effectively ignore them.
Currently a 3070 is around £600 - £600 * ~0.35 * ~0.5 = ~£105 cost of manufacture. Obviously this ignores the exponential cost moving forward of miniaturization, considerations about units sold reaching saturation, etc. - but it does give us a feel for what might be coming around the corner. I feel that a £300 retail price tag on something that costs £105 to make is not an unreasonable expectation.
Hopefully Intel's entry to the market will coincide with the move of Eth to proof of stake. I wonder what Black Friday will be like this year.
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I still remember buying a 980Ti at around £600 and that felt expensive at the time.
Those days of pricing are gone forever. A high end model is going to be 4 figures.
Those days of pricing are gone forever. A high end model is going to be 4 figures.
I think with the precedent in the last couple of years we can forget about the £300 "most of what you need" graphics card. I also used to be a sub £300 buyer. Now my mental block has moved to £600 which is sad. It I don't think we'll get anything as low as before but am hoping for a middle ground.
I love all these announcements from companies like asus that they're lowering gpu prices like its out of the goodness of their hearts. Couldn't be the arse is falling out of crypto and they'd be stuck with inventory unless they reduced the prices. 
I love all these announcements from companies like asus that they're lowering gpu prices like its out of the goodness of their hearts. Couldn't be the arse is falling out of crypto and they'd be stuck with inventory unless they reduced the prices.
But of course it's out of the goodness of their hearts, what else would it be? Apart from what you've just mentioned, obviously
But of course it's out of the goodness of their hearts, what else would it be? Apart from what you've just mentioned, obviously
The amount of shafting the consumer has taken since covid and the crypto boom is unbelievable. A good visual to get it into perspective would be a Blue whale shagging a hamster, obviously the consumer being the hamster.
