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When the Gpu's prices will go down ?

Gerard said:
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. :eek:
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Yeah, incredibly frustrating. I'm sitting on a 2070S because I refuse to pay these prices and when they go down, my GPU will be pretty much worthless. Were it not for the pandemic and crypto, I'd be sitting on a 3080 already and happily skipping 4000 series.
 
Gerard said:
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. :eek:
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Thing is some people seem to like it. I would never have paid £695 for a 3060 as I saw some did
 
SpellowHouse said:
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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I was a £150-250 buyer until mining boom (when I spent £270 on a used 1070ti) but times move on. If people are willing the pay the prices then they are 'worth' it.
I was thinking the other day one way you can look at it is the depreciation over time as a price to pay for gaming. So say you buy a card for £700 and sell your old one for £350 every year. You are paying roughly £1/day to game on that card instead of the old one (ignoring any change in electric cost or mining profitability if you do that). I do think something like Xbox series X/S is better value though, as it's closed the gap on PC gaming a lot (online, 4k resolution, gamepass, mouse and keyboard support etc) compared to the old days of consoles.

Possibly we didn't know how good we had it back in the day when you could drop £240 on a flagship GTX280 soon after release.
Although, I do think we need to acknowledge that the pace of development in hardware starts to tail off. By this I mean, if you view it in absolute terms, modern cards are a LOT faster than older cards. In a lot of industries, a massively better product is expected to cost more money. We don't expect houses to just get bigger every couple of years for the same price (crap analogy because land is more of a finite resource), we don't expect cars to get (massively) faster for the same price. 20 years ago creating a GPU that was 50%+ faster than the previous generation wasn't that big a deal, but now that needs a massive investment.
 
Gibbo said:
OcUK I believe is now the cheapest on Asus cards in UK/EU. :)
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Getting there, Gibbo. But still, the Asus TUF Gaming 3080 10GB is still £200 over launch price. I think this has a long way to go yet. ;)

Mind you, credit where credit is due, you are actually beating second-hand prices on FleaBay now, so at least folks don't have to run the risk of buying a worn out, no warranty mining card.
 
nomadd said:
Getting there, Gibbo. But still, the Asus TUF Gaming 3080 10GB is still £200 over launch price. I think this has a long way to go yet. ;)

Mind you, credit where credit is due, you are actually beating second-hand prices on FleaBay now, so at least folks don't have to run the risk of buying a worn out, no warranty mining card.
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just seen that 2nd places are slashing prices now. with warranty of 2 years. so we will get realistic pricing everywhere very soon.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
just seen that 2nd places are slashing prices now. with warranty of 2 years. so we will get realistic pricing everywhere very soon.
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Yeah, just for laughs I had a look at "Buy it now prices" for that Asus LHR 10GB 3080 - some jokers out there still want £1250-£1350.. I think they will have a very severe wake up call about now. :)
 
nomadd said:
Yeah, just for laughs I had a look at "Buy it now prices" for that Asus LHR 10GB 3080 - some jokers out there still want £1250-£1350.. I think they will have a very severe wake up call about now. :)
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Were selling the 3080 12G for £995 so totally crazy prices that second hand stuff when were selling the next model up for 30% less, you can even buy a 3080Ti from us for less.
 
looked on Facebook market place and people still want ££££ for cards, way over what you can buy brand new on here.
 
Troezar said:
If prices stay high don't buy ;) If you don't need it for work you don't "need" it. If everyone thought like that priced wouldn't be high.
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Yep. If in past people thought not buy as prices going up & up then same thinking maybe should apply if prices going down then don't buy until reach bottom unless really need a GPU.
 
VeNT said:
5700 XT even.
why didn't they make a 5800? wtf.
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I think the 5700XT was as far as they could push it. I'm just hoping Intel are looking to buy market share. The low to upper midrange is where the biggest impact will be felt in PC gaming if their first wave of cards are affordable. That's the biggest threat to AMD and Nvidia, if Intel become a credible GPU manufacturer. That's a guaranteed loss of market share to one or both of them.
 
With component prices apparently being way up to manufacture, I can only see them making a loss if they undercut. Happy (very happy) if they did that just to gain market share like you say. However the realist in me thinks the shareholders and raja wont want that.
 
Prices will only go down once the market is saturated either through used 30 series from ex-miners hitting the 2nd hand shelves or Covid related production issues to be alleviated.

Sadly £200-300 over MSRP (current state of play) is here to stay till 2024/2025 at least
 
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