In addition to the recent volatility in cryptocurrency prices, NVIDIA has also continued to increase production. Recently, there is news that it has notified partner manufacturers that GPU costs have dropped. I don’t know if it is affected by this. Some people in Australia have discovered the price of RTX 3080 graphics cards overnight. After a 35% drop, scalpers seem to be starting to sell graphics cards, and the RTYX 3090 in Europe has also seen its lowest price since the middle of last year.
Australia’s RTX 3080 dropped 35% overnight, which is too exaggerated
Australian YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed revealed on Twitter that the price of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC graphics card was 2299 Australian dollars (regarding NT$48,000) yesterday. As a result, some retailers have reduced the price to 1499 Australian dollars (regarding NT$31,300) today. It dropped by 35% in an instant. Although there is still a gap compared to the recommended selling price, it was regarding NT$15,000 cheaper overnight. This collapse is really exaggerated. People who just bought it yesterday will definitely be very angry. Who can stand it? what:
GPU pricing is falling off a cliff right now. Locally the “ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC” was $2299 yesterday, today a few retailers have slashed it to $1499 AUD. That’s 35% off over night.
(kick in the capacitors if you bought one yesterday)
— Hardware Unboxed (@HardwareUnboxed) March 15, 2022
In addition, 3DCenter, which often tracks GPU price changes earlier, also released a statistic that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 has now dropped below 2,000 euros, the lowest price since last August. The following are the past historical price changes:
- €3199 – 2021/5/16
- €1999 – 2021/8/29
- €2799 – 2021/11/21
- €2699 – 2021/12/12
- €2499 – 2022/1/2
- €2320 – 2022/2/3
- €2185 – 2022/3/6
- €1990 – 2022/3/17
This also means that compared to the suggested price of 1,649 euros, it is only 30% more expensive:
GeForce RTX 3090 reaches prices less than €2000 at retailers in ???????????????? for the first time since last August
Some historical (best) prices:
€3199 – May 16, 2021
€1999 – Aug 29
€2799 – Nov 21
€2699 – Dec 12
€2499 – Jan 2, 2022
€2320 – Feb 13
€2185 – Mar 6
€1990 – Mar 17 pic.twitter.com/vymNFbzUcn— 3DCenter.org (@3DCenter_org) March 17, 2022
And this price reduction situation may continue. For example, ETH 2.0 is already on the way, the United States will continue to raise interest rates this year, and war factors will definitely affect the price of cryptocurrencies. I dare not say that it will not rise in the future, but at least Not as crazy as 2020 to mid-2021, plus NVIDIA informs partners that GPU cost price will be reduced by 8~12%the official is going to sell it at a lower price. How can scalpers continue to sell at high prices? Maybe there is a chance to see a large number of graphics card models on sale, but which GPU models will benefit from the GPU cost reduction, which is not specifically mentioned. .
Don’t forget, Intel Arc graphics cards, RTX 40 series are also on the way.
In any case, if you are not really in a hurry to buy a new graphics card now, I would recommend slowing down, because it is still too expensive now. Judging from this trend and this year’s economic instability, graphics cards should continue to increase. Continue to reduce the price, and wait until it is only a little short of the suggested price before starting.
