Wait for RTX 4090 or Buy Now? - May GPU Pricing Update

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00:00 - Welcome Back to Hardware Unboxed
02:55 - Retail GPU Pricing Update
06:36 - Nvidia vs AMD Head to Head
07:40 - Used GPU Pricing
10:42 - Outro

Wait for RTX 4090 or Buy Now? - GPU Pricing Update May 2022

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[quatz]

I find it crazy that it has now come to the point that buying a 1 year old + card at MSRP is classed as being a good deal. What great times we are living in.

[Baggiesman]

The fact AMD increased the prices of their refresh cards, it is a very telling sign of what's about to come in the next generation.

[sulphurous]

Paying around MSRP ranging in the hundreds of dollars for 4-5 year old GPUs second hand that have no warranty and may spontaneously malfunction at any moment... I don't think so.

[TRHardware]

In EU the GPU prices are far from MSRP!

6700XT is 580€ (cheapest model).

Cheapest RTX3090TI is 2150€

[felipeavlopes]

The level of insanity the whole thing reached is unparalleled when you see a 50 series GPU which is supposedly entry level being slotted in the 400-ish bucks tier

[ChadeGB]

Here in the UK all Nvidia cards are still badly inflated, 800 pounds or almost a 1000 dollars US for a 3080. The others cards are just as bad or worse. This is just not a good deal for what is essentially two year old technology. Still rolling along with my 1080ti and wont part with it until I can actually get something worth the money. I'll wait for 4000 series mid range cards and get something twice as fast as this 1080ti.

I think Nvidia/AMD and partners need to be careful, graphics cards are luxury items and the way the economy is at the moment, not just here but around the world, means they're pricing themselves out of the market, they may see a decent amount of sales for a while because of the mining shortage finally easing and people being relieved to once again be able to buy a new card, but there are more people like myself, who aren't going to buy a new higher end card every generation anymore at these prices. Sure I'll get a new card, but it'll be every 2nd-3rd generation and it'll be a mid range instead.

[kodemasterx]

I found a 3080ti FTW edition at MSRP and I did not hesitate to buy it, we all know scalpers are going to pull some BS again when these cards come out.

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

My plan is hold for the lanch of the RTX40XX and if I can't get anything form legitimate retailers I can fall back on the RTX30XX which I think will drop in value.

[benjaminoechsli]

That pricing tier graph is an excellent visual aid for seeing what price point these companies are targeting with each tier of product. Keep that data handy for comparisons with next gen...

[OverlordActual]

Buying neither one sounds like a good plan.

[chartabona]

We're looking at record levels of inflation at the moment, so I wouldn't bet on the 40 series being a great value. Oh sure, it will beat the 3080 Ti in price-to-performance, but that's a pretty low bar.

Edit: "record" as in highest (US) inflation rate since before Nvidia was founded and tech companies started making "3D accelerators" aimed at gamers.

[SciFiFactory]

Btw, I just realized: Thank you sooo much for not having any background music! It is always a pleasure joining you guys and your unboxed hardware. :)

[stevenszmek]

I'll surely wait until some new cards are released and most likely get a current generation card due to price/perfomance/pwr consumtion levels. But as said - i wait and see...

[ThunderingRoar]

Yet so many people were underplaying the impact of mining on the market and saying how the demand from gamers is just that high but the second crypto tanked the GPU prices came crashing down.
Dont forget that we had CPUs readily available for msrp pretty much all the time (except maybe zen3 for the first month or 2)

[DannysTechChannel]

Great update. Very well put together information. Keep up the good work!

[JohnDuthie]

It's so dumb that the $>200 class 60-series has transitioned into a high-end product. Nobody looking for a budget GPU is willing to spend $500

[blueninjanoname]

I must have missed something because I've been checking prices and they're far from cheap, way above what they should be.

[foxabilo]

with electricity set to hit 40p/cents per kWh I think it's nuts that people will be running a 600W card a 4 hours gaming session with a modern CPU and GPU is going to cost $1.60 do that every day and you got yourself an extra 48$ a month...

[Ranmyakki]

Good info, thanks for the video!!
Do you also have, or plan to make, a similar video about the upcoming CPUs compared to current Gen??

[sulphurous]

It all depends on where you live. In Europe for instance, prices are still about the same as Newegg's prices in March (if not higher due to NVIDIA increasing MSRP in Europe on top of VAT and retailer markups) so things remain pretty stagnant here. As such waiting might be the more attractive option, assuming AMD/NVIDIA don't jack up their prices again to the point where you're paying former high-end prices for low-end products. Although considering the 3060 is $500 around here to this day, that may as well already be the case. In either case, such a premium for 2 year old low-end hardware is extremely tough to swallow if you're not on something like a 7-9 year old card.