Gigabyte Z490 VISION G review
Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2020
Lamptron HM101 review
Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD 500 GB review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Hero review
Intel Core i9-10900K processor review
Intel Core i5-10600K processor review
ASRock Z490 Taichi review
ASUS ROG Maximus XII Extreme review
MSI MEG Z490 ACE review
NVIDIA: GPU prices will continue increasing through Q3 2018
You guys all have been able to observe the graphics card price spikes the past half year. Though things are a bit more steady and stable it seems that the trend might continue for a while. Nvidia now as well mentions that GPU prices will continue increasing through Q3 2018.
The news reaches us through dsogaming through hardware seller Massdrop, the pricing in the market will continue to go up through Q3 of this year. In specific, a discussion post on a GTX 1080 Ti on Massdrop from tech community lead Brian Hutchins talked about a visit from Nvidia to Massdrop HQ, in which they discussed the causes for the current shortages. As we've reported for a while now, it's now stated by green team, the two main reasons causing the GPU prices to increase each and every month are the mining craze and the graphics memory shortage.
“While NVIDIA was here they also let us know that the pricing in the market will continue to go up through Q3 of this year most likely before we start seeing any type of relief,” Hutch says. “So, unfortunately, the end to this is not right around the corner and we have not seen the worst of it yet.”
Miners are still purchasing every new high-end graphics card they can get their hands on and as a result of that, all NVIDIA and AMD partners have a hard time filling up inventory and stock. On the other hand, Apple and Samsung are willing to pay more for the memory that will be used in their smartphones. Factories are using the same production lines for the memory that is used in graphics cards and in smartphones and this has created a shortage of memory for companies like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, and EVGA to make graphics cards. From the looks of it, things are not going to improve in the next couple of months.
NVIDIA: DirectX 12 Is Huge Improvement for Gaming - 03/21/2014 08:12 AM
Microsoft today introduced DirectX 12 at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. DX12 is Microsoft's latest version of the graphics API that is the dominant standard in the grow...
NVIDIA: New consoles will never match PC graphics - 09/26/2013 04:24 PM
NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Content and Technology Tony Tamasi mentioned in an interview that game consoles leapfrogging PC graphic capabilities are definitely a thing of the past. Tamasi said Mic...
NVIDIA: Era of fully-custom console hardware is over - 01/18/2013 06:28 PM
NVIDIA Ceo Jen-Hsun Huang states that that fully-custom hardware for video game consoles is no longer feasible. Huang explains that with the power delivered by today's CPUs and GPUs, it no longer mak...
NVIDIA: Project Denver is ARMv8 with added secret sauce - 11/12/2012 09:59 AM
In a conference call last week with financial analysts, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that the company's Project Denver, aka NVIDIA's upcoming desktop processor, is a full-custom ARMv8 archite...
NVIDIA: 30 Tegra 3 smartphones coming - 05/27/2012 10:41 AM
NVIDIA released information that there are 30 Tegra 3 based smartphones on the way in 2012, double as much as the Tegra 2's design wins. NVIDIA GM Mike Rayfield also added that many of these phones wi...
pegasus1
Senior Member
Posts: 1047
Joined: 2012-11-06
Senior Member
Posts: 1047
Joined: 2012-11-06
#5522799 Posted on: 02/25/2018 11:53 AM
Ha ha ha to the haters who said " Don't buy a 1080Ti on release day for £695".
Ha ha ha to the haters who said " Don't buy a 1080Ti on release day for £695".
Brit90
Senior Member
Posts: 109
Joined: 2016-11-08
Senior Member
Posts: 109
Joined: 2016-11-08
#5522800 Posted on: 02/25/2018 11:53 AM
Can someone tell me who is doing the price gouging?
Nvidia/AMD; do they put the trade price up because of Ram shortages?
Are the Retailers adding extra money to the original price to screw over customers?
Who is turning the £300 cards to £600? Who is making that extra £300 profit?
Can someone tell me who is doing the price gouging?
Nvidia/AMD; do they put the trade price up because of Ram shortages?
Are the Retailers adding extra money to the original price to screw over customers?
Who is turning the £300 cards to £600? Who is making that extra £300 profit?
pegasus1
Senior Member
Posts: 1047
Joined: 2012-11-06
Senior Member
Posts: 1047
Joined: 2012-11-06
#5522802 Posted on: 02/25/2018 11:56 AM
Can someone tell me who is doing the price gouging?
Nvidia/AMD; do they put the trade price up because of Ram shortages?
Are the Retailers adding extra money to the original price to screw over customers?
Who is turning the £300 cards to £600? Who is making that extra £300 profit?
Market forces, those at each level will charge the maximum they can whilst still generating sales. There is a price/volume ratio that varies according to supply and demand. It's the same for all businesses.
Can someone tell me who is doing the price gouging?
Nvidia/AMD; do they put the trade price up because of Ram shortages?
Are the Retailers adding extra money to the original price to screw over customers?
Who is turning the £300 cards to £600? Who is making that extra £300 profit?
Market forces, those at each level will charge the maximum they can whilst still generating sales. There is a price/volume ratio that varies according to supply and demand. It's the same for all businesses.
spex_2
Member
Posts: 48
Joined: 2010-05-27
Member
Posts: 48
Joined: 2010-05-27
#5522804 Posted on: 02/25/2018 11:57 AM
i had saved up 3000€ for this years upgrades, cpu / ram / gpu.
but guess what? i bought a nintendo switch and 8 games, four 8tb hdds for my home server, a new mobile phone, a 4k screen and a new server case and psu. the rest of the money will go down the drain for beer, fun and my girl. my pc`s can age from now on, i don`t care. i wont blow out my money for them, at the current pricing.
it seems like jim sterling say`s: "they don`t want a lot of money, they want all the money!!" so i give them no money until i must buy cus my systems are dead in the gutter.
i had saved up 3000€ for this years upgrades, cpu / ram / gpu.
but guess what? i bought a nintendo switch and 8 games, four 8tb hdds for my home server, a new mobile phone, a 4k screen and a new server case and psu. the rest of the money will go down the drain for beer, fun and my girl. my pc`s can age from now on, i don`t care. i wont blow out my money for them, at the current pricing.
it seems like jim sterling say`s: "they don`t want a lot of money, they want all the money!!" so i give them no money until i must buy cus my systems are dead in the gutter.
Click here to post a comment for this news story on the message forum.
Senior Member
Posts: 7843
Joined: 2011-07-20