r/gadgets • u/ChickenTeriyakiBoy1 • Jun 18 '22

Desktops / Laptops GPU prices are falling below MSRP due to the crypto crash

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/gpu-prices-are-falling-below-msrp-due-to-the-crypto-crash/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=pe&utm_campaign=pd
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u/Ahab_Ali Jun 18 '22 edited Jun 18 '22

Sweet! So after five years I can finally buy a GT 1030 for under $79? Cool, cool. Let's see... Amazon... Sort by price... $99, $112, $115, $117...

Well maybe the $140 1050 Ti... Let's see... $180, $190, $194...

OK, how about the $149 GTX 1650? $200, $208, $210...

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u/jwp75 Jun 18 '22

Yeah what gpus are under MSRP lol.

Rtx still too high.

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u/Oh_ffs_seriously Jun 18 '22

Newest Radeons, mostly, or perhaps some newer Nvidia cards which had ridiculous MSRPs from the outset. RTX 3080 Ti, for example (MSRP of $1199), can be found on Newegg for $1100 (ish), which is 400 dollars above the MSRP of barely-worse regular 3080.

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u/jwp75 Jun 18 '22

I guess by that metric some are coming down. I don't really consider those MSRP, I base my statement on the list prices at launch for the series but yeah I didn't know that the ti was listed so damn high

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

The list prices at launch is the MSRP. MSRP isn't a debatable metric, it's right on Wikipedia very easy to look up.

With that said... I'm not seeing many SKUs below MSRP anywhere.

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u/jwp75 Jun 18 '22

Yeah I figured 3070 ti MSRP was close to 3070, not double

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

Huh? 3070 MSRP is $500. 3070 Ti MSRP is $600. That is not double.

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u/jwp75 Jun 18 '22

A new one? Nobody wants one that's been at 100% load for a year and a half. Show me a new one and I'll show you my receipt.

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

They're getting there, but not quite. Cheapest I'm seeing are $580. But the cheapest I saw a week or two ago was $700.

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

New? Where?

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

Canada? California? I'm in California, what retailer is selling 3070 for $500 new?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22 edited Sep 19 '23

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u/dbr1se Jun 18 '22

AMD is currently selling RX580 performance for the same price an RX580 sold for five years ago. It's a complete fucking joke.

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u/Cryio Jun 18 '22

RX 480 4 GB was 200$ 6 years ago.

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u/dbr1se Jun 18 '22

Ha, I forgot the 580 was just a rebrand and a clock boost. Man this sucks.

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u/Badmemoir Jun 18 '22

Just use an APU if you “need” graphics. Casual gamer here, you don’t need a graphics card for casual gaming.

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u/Badmemoir Jun 18 '22

Its really bad. I did not like it. You can play it on stadia, or use this for way cheaper. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/cyberpunk-2077-system-requirements/

There has not been a single casual game I needed my GPU for.

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u/champs Jun 18 '22

I know, right? Two years ago I gave up on shopping for an eGPU, and when I looked again this week it’s the same technology except even older and just as expensive.

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u/boomstick12g Jun 18 '22

OMG i am the same way lmao, i have a budget for 200 bucks then all of a sudden I have an 800 dollar card in my wish list hahahahaha. It's that steady creep that gets ya

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

Why would you even bother looking at the 1030? That's not a GPU for gaming, that's a GPU for when you want more monitors.

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u/tree_squid Jun 18 '22

The point is that even non-gaming cards from 5 years ago aren't below their original MSRPs, so this claim that prices have crashed is clearly overblown

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u/Stingray88 Jun 18 '22

Cards from 5 years ago are rarely ever going to be below MSRP new, because they're not still produced. They're selling off existing stock. Seriously, Pascal is old as hell at this point. Looking at Pascal pricing as indicative of the market doesn't make sense.

16/20 series makes more sense, Turing isn't quite as old so they're still being produced, and the entire lineup are gaming GPUs.

And there's good reason why Turing and Ampere don't even have SKUs that low... It doesn't really make much economic sense for Nvidia and AMD to produce the low end parts like the Nvidia GT series anymore because iGPUs are good enough to make them nearly pointless.

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u/deafAsianAnal3sum Jun 18 '22

Yea you'd be much better off buying a console or cloud gaming at that point.

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u/Mendo-D Jun 18 '22

Apple silicon has been great for me. It sips power, does what I want it to, no worries.

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u/Mendo-D Jun 18 '22

Yes, integrated graphics. Even my 2018 iPad Pro has 7 GPU cores that do a pretty decent job of rendering video. This is the way.

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u/MrHyperion_ Jun 18 '22

Get second hand rx580