Question are video card prices headed down yet?

GodisanAtheist · May 20, 2025

DAPUNISHER said:
The 5060 must be cheap to produce, MSI Shadow at the $299 MSRP -

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-Sweet baby Jesus just make used 4060 TIs and 3070's cheap.

jpiniero · May 20, 2025

GodisanAtheist said:
-Sweet baby Jesus just make used 4060 TIs and 3070's cheap.

Both of those are long out of production. Only 3050/3060/4060.

GodisanAtheist · May 20, 2025

jpiniero said:
Both of those are long out of production. Only 3050/3060/4060.

-Yeah that's why used.

I'll take a 4060ti for $175 all day. Fine for the 1080p gaming it would be doing in my Steambox.

ValidUsername · May 24, 2025

dlerious said:
HUB review

One of the comments killed me - "5 years later, we have 3060ti with a 100$ discount. wowee"

marees · May 24, 2025

ValidUsername said:
One of the comments killed me - "5 years later, we have 3060ti with a 100$ discount. wowee"

Good rant/points

If GPUs are almost instantly out of stock at inflated prices after a couple of months stoppage in supply, it means that the market was not anywhere close to being serviced.

If new GPUs can launch and instantly have price hikes to multiple tens of percent above MSRP, it means that the market is not being serviced.

If GPU makers can consistently market a lower-end product as a higher-end one, then it means that the market is not being serviced.

If GPUs already on the market do not lose their value over their lifespan, then it means that the market is not being serviced.

The high prices of GPUs are not due to increased prices in manufacturing*, they are not due to competition with cryptocurrency miners, nor AI farmers**, they are not solely due to scalping***. The RTX 40 series and RX 7000 series did not see price drops as the generation progressed. That leaves one reason - chronic undersupply...

until graphics cards are manufactured in enough supply to satisfy the market, things will never be fixed. We need a total output across all manufacturers of around 50 million units per year to correct things a little and the current trend is heading in the totally opposite direction.

So, What's Next...? The rate of advancement in gaming performance... (Part 2) Is PC gaming dying?!

A couple of years ago, I looked at the rate of advancement of GPUs over time . It's the only way of tracking how the user experiences techno...

hole-in-my-head.blogspot.com

jpiniero · May 24, 2025

marees said:
If GPU makers can consistently market a lower-end product as a higher-end one, then it means that the market is not being serviced.

It's Shrinkflation basically. They are still hitting the price points of earlier times, but with much worse products compared to the top.

Supply of the 5060 Ti and 5070 have been OK, btw.

yinzerniner · May 25, 2025

jpiniero said:
The XT's been in stock at $720 but really anything under $800 goes quickly.

Yeah 9070 XT online stock has settled into roughly 7-10% less than 5070 ti. Regular 9070 is only about 10% less than that so value really isn’t there anymore

I got somewhat lucky at having a few Microcenters around me so nabbed a 9070 XT at 660 pre tax. Think that’s the realistic low base MSRP after the AMD partner rebates have ended.

yinzerniner · May 25, 2025

jpiniero said:
Supply of the 5060 Ti and 5070 have been OK, btw.

Supply has been OK but getting them at NVIDIA stated MSRP is basically impossible. Also they are pretty compromised cards - 12gb for the 5070 is already too little for the power of the board, and the 16gb 5060ti is just a weird combo of decent ram but underpowered chip.

Would’ve made way too much sense to have the 5070 have 16gb and raise msrp by $50 to $600, then have a single 12gb 5060 ti model at $450 actual.

Now the 9060 XT 16gb is coming to eat the lunch of the entire 5070 and below segment

jpiniero · May 25, 2025

yinzerniner said:
Supply has been OK but getting them at NVIDIA stated MSRP is basically impossible.

That's because the stated MSRP is Fake. They've been available at the Real MSRP more or less from the beginning.

marees · Monday at 9:19 AM

It all seems to boil down to this

Despite all the brave talk of going after market share neither AMD (nor Nvidia) seem to be interested in selling to the gaming market. It seems to remain more of an afterthought

marees said:
It is 1440p ultra when you compare it to 5060 ti 8gb
It is 1080p medium when you ask the street price

Running with the hare
Hunting with the hound

jpiniero · Monday at 9:25 AM

marees said:
Despite all the brave talk of going after market share neither AMD (nor Nvidia) seem to be interested in selling to the gaming market. It seems to remain more of an afterthought

They are though. Just not to cheapskates.

coercitiv · Monday at 11:08 AM

jpiniero said:
They are though. Just not to cheapskates.

To quote a recent game NPC on behalf of @jpiniero :

They're not overpriced, you're overpoor.

DAPUNISHER · Monday at 12:16 PM

"Have you tried not being poor?" should be in the advertising.

Here is post 17 in this thread -

HomerJS said:
I just saw an ASUS TUF 3080Ti on the Newegg shuffle for $2239. That should answer the question

In case anyone has forgotten how we got here. Only this time there is no stimulus check or potential mining profits helping to defray the costs.

Paratus · Monday at 9:18 PM

So I visited our local (45 minutes away) Microcenter and was surprised to see a full compliment of 50 series up to the 5090 in stock on the NV side and 7900XT, XTXs, and 9070, and 9070XTs on the AMD side.

Most didn’t have prices I could see except for a 5080 which was selling for $1600 - then it made sense why they had so many in stock.

Checking the website and 5090’s are over $3K

The 9070 and 7900XT were an almost reasonable $699

Thunder 57 · Monday at 9:55 PM

Paratus said:
So I visited our local (45 minutes away) Microcenter and was surprised to see a full compliment of 50 series up to the 5090 in stock on the NV side and 7900XT, XTXs, and 9070, and 9070XTs on the AMD side.

Most didn’t have prices I could see except for a 5080 which was selling for $1600 - then it made sense why they had so many in stock.

Checking the website and 5090’s are over $3K

The 9070 and 7900XT were an almost reasonable $699

I'm glad if this means people are actually refusing to pay these prices anymore.

coercitiv · Friday at 9:58 AM

I hope your seatbelts are still fastened, because there's no slowing down just yet:

jpiniero · Friday at 10:26 AM

coercitiv said:
I hope your seatbelts are still fastened, because there's no slowing down just yet:

AI has become such a buzzword that AI could mean just about every server product they sell.

coercitiv · Friday at 12:40 PM

jpiniero said:
AI has become such a buzzword that AI could mean just about every server product they sell.

I could care less about the AI sticker, I do care about that backlog.

gdansk · Friday at 1:15 PM

The least desirable RX 9070 card is dropping in price from absurd to simply overpriced. A few more months.

Newbian · 2025-06-01T00:10:56-0400

Not from Nvidia's end if they plan on cutting production by 30% for the 5xxx series.

Nvidia reportedly plans to cut RTX 50 series GPU production - OC3D

Nvidia reportedly plan to cut RTX 50 series GPU production to allocate it to new AI GPUs. AI is king at Nvidia, and gamers aren't a priority.

overclock3d.net

IEC · 2025-06-01T13:12:01-0400

Just gotta hope the summer heat cools down gaming GPU demand a bit... but that's probably wishful thinking if nV is cutting production for gamers since AMD/Intel can't hope to make up the difference.

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