Considering the ongoing shortages of CPUs that are coinciding with the aforementioned GPU ones, I didn't think so at the time, especially when doubling down on the "miners are the reason cards are so hard to find!" narrative doesn't hold up when one considers more impactful factors like limited production, the Lunar New Year shutting down production altogether recently, shipping of said GPUs, scalper bots buying up all the cards from retailers like Newegg before you can even add an item to your cart and, on AMD's side, having to split up 7nm wafers between consoles, GPUs and CPUs making things even more limited for their offerings.
That's wrong. Card were much cheaper and easier to get from september to december. Scalper prices have gone up by 40-50% in the past 2 months. RIght now mining is driving that massive demand and setting the price. Current prices of GPUs are set by how long it takes to ROI. If Nvidia can suddenly supply 10x as much cards as they can now prices would still stay the same. The only bottleneck for miners right now is space and other compenents. Gamers buy 1 card while miners will buy as many GPUs as they have space for.
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PNY 3070 pre-order on Amazon Italy --> 530 euro.NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 already more expensive than RTX 3060 Ti at some retailers - VideoCardz.com
Photos from a retailer’s warehouse reveal the true price of GeForce RTX 3060 According to leaked photos from a retailer warehouse, the launch stock of the upcoming RTX 3060 graphics card has already reached the stores. MSI GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, Source: Coreteks Those who expected to...
Citation strongly needed.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 already more expensive than RTX 3060 Ti at some retailers - VideoCardz.com
Photos from a retailer’s warehouse reveal the true price of GeForce RTX 3060 According to leaked photos from a retailer warehouse, the launch stock of the upcoming RTX 3060 graphics card has already reached the stores. MSI GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards, Source: Coreteks Those who expected to...
Local prices here aren't a good indication of what US and Europe will get.
Better than Ebay but still not the best, though at that point it's the best they could do closer to MSRP.
good thing you can't get a 3080 for that price unless you get lucky with a best buy drop
There are no tarrifs in Europe.
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1. No it's not, we have been over this. Or are we just ignoring that people are still using bots to buy up every card they can afford and flipping the new GPUs on Kijiji and eBay since most sites have little or no bot prevention so as to best fit your narrative?There are no tarrifs in Europe.
Here's my citation.
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No stock for 3060Ti while in december you could alway buy one in stock for 500-550€. Cheapest in stock 3070 is 1300€ while from launch to mid december I could almost always buy one at for 600-700€ so the real prices have doubled. I know this very well because I was in the market for a 3060Ti/3070. I even bought an FE for MSRP 7 minutes after it launched. That is absolutely impossible right now.
All of this is purely because of mining. Most GPUs nowadays probably aren't even leaving the East as they get bought up by Chinese mining operations straight from the AIBs themselves or large distributors. Zotac recently even bragged about it recently.
I don't get why you're trying to deny this so hard. Do you actually believe that when there are people willing to buy 6-100 cards that this wouldn't impact availability & prices a ton. I have a friend who has 6 3060Tis & 4 3080s mining. That's a lot of cards that left the market for one person. There are probably operations that have 1000s of cards. Such a weird viewpoint to have.
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There was an earlier report of of AIBs complaining that the margins were too razor with the need to make new shrouds. Being able to reuse 3060Ti/3070 designs solves thatMSI GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING X PCB with NVIDIA Ampere GA106 GPU pictured - VideoCardz.com
MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X, a look under the hood This is the first custom GeForce RTX 3060 to be shown without the cooler. MSI GAMING X graphics card is the first dual-fan GAMING model in GeForce RTX 30 lineup. The company has decided to launch GAMING X and GAMING non-X exclusively for...
Interestingly the PCB does have an option of 8 memory chips. I wonder if it's unified with GA104. GA106 configs with 8 chips seem unlikely and the PCB would probably be too complex for GA107 products.
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About 2070 level at $329 - at least it should've been if not for miners.
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Yeah a card with $450 performance of previous gen should cost $250 because reasons.
In the UK at least, it's much easier to get a 3070. I see 3070s in stock online all the time, I've never seen 3080s in stock.
What happened to you liking performance per dollar metrics? It reaches parity with the 3060ti at about $285. What an awful card lol. Barely beating a 2060 (which was already a mediocre card) by 11% on new architectureNewegg and BestBuy GeForce RTX 3060 pricing ranges from 330 USD to 630 USD - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 to be available at 330 USD after all Turns out there will be ‘a chance’ to purchase GeForce RTX 3060 at MSRP. Listing featuring GeForce RTX 3060, the mid-range NVIDIA Ampere graphics card that will be released later today, have already surfaced from BestBuy and Newegg...
Yeah a card with $450 performance of previous gen should cost $250 because reasons.
...yes? $500 in current gen (3070) gets you the performance of $1200 in previous gen (2080ti). Why would what you said be strange?Newegg and BestBuy GeForce RTX 3060 pricing ranges from 330 USD to 630 USD - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 to be available at 330 USD after all Turns out there will be ‘a chance’ to purchase GeForce RTX 3060 at MSRP. Listing featuring GeForce RTX 3060, the mid-range NVIDIA Ampere graphics card that will be released later today, have already surfaced from BestBuy and Newegg...
Yeah a card with $450 performance of previous gen should cost $250 because reasons.
The card will never be available at MSRP price so any performance / dollar discussion based on MSRP is pretty much pointless.
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You've seen the reviews already to say anything about performance per dollar metrics? Or are you just talking out of that thing again?
Perf/price ratio is non-linear. You can't expect the same divider be true for both top end and mid range segments simply because you're not getting 2X the performance for 2X the price, say, between 2070S and 2080Ti.
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Yeah, at it's current perf/dollar (let's entertain the idea of it selling at MSRP for now) it's not an interesting upgrade for any of 1660Ti/S, 2060 or 2060S owners.
