When Will Gpus Go on Sale Again

For most two years, netting a PS5, Xbox Series X, or AMD Radeon and Nvidia RTX graphics cards without paying a fortune has been a thing of luck (or a lot of skill). At its peak, scalpers were successfully charging double or even triple MSRP for a modern GPU. Merely information technology'due south looking like the great GPU shortage is nearly over.

In January, sites including Tom's Hardware reported that prices were finally first to drop, and drop they did; they've at present dropped an average of 30 percent in the three months since. On eBay, the most popular graphics cards are only commanding a street price of $200–$300 over MSRP. And while that might nonetheless seem like a lot, some have fallen further: used Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti or AMD RX 6900 XT are currently fetching less than their original asking toll, a sure sign that sanity is returning to the marketplace.

GPU, PS5, Xbox street prices: April 2022

Item	List toll	April 2022	January. 2022	Nov. 2021	Mar. 2021	Dec. 2020
Item	List price	April 2022	Jan. 2022	Nov. 2021	Mar. 2021	December. 2020
PS5 (disc)	$499	$703	$700	$870	$833	$1,024
PS5 (digital)	$399	$659	$680	$806	$754	$990
Xbox Series Ten	$499	$547	$691	$856	$805	$835
Xbox Series S	$299	$249	$259	$346	$432	$471
Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti	$1,999	$ii,398	Due north/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nvidia RTX 3090	$1,499	$1,837	$ii,609	$2,947	$2,985	$2,076
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti	$1,199	$1,168	$one,874	$ane,941	Northward/A	N/A
Nvidia RTX 3080	$699	$1,129	$i,613	$1,773	$2,160	$1,227
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti	$599	$772	$1,179	$ane,208	N/A	Due north/A
Nvidia RTX 3070	$499	$773	$1,086	$1,210	$1,239	$819
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti	$399	$658	$923	$979	$1,226	$675
Nvidia RTX 3060	$329	$485	$711	$749	$828	N/A
Nvida RTX 3050	$249	$363	$539	Due north/A	N/A	North/A
AMD RX 6900 XT	$999	$961	$1,528	$i,577	$1,841	Did not check
AMD RX 6800 XT	$649	$869	$1,269	$ane,341	$1,555	$1,232
AMD RX 6800	$579	$796	$ane,150	$1,395	$1,331	$841
AMD RX 6700 XT	$479	$555	$847	$955	$i,169	N/A
AMD RX 6600 XT	$379	$421	$610	$683	N/A	N/A
AMD RX 6600	$329	$380	$516	$592	Due north/A	N/A
AMD RX 6500 XT	$199	$209	$365	Due north/A	N/A	North/A

GPU prices have dipped significantly since January, let lone last March. Jan. 2022 GPU numbers: Tom'south Hardware

Just as importantly, some graphics cards are actually staying in stock at retailers when their prices are too high — again, something that sounds perfectly normal only that nosotros oasis't seen in a while. For many months, boutiques like my local retailer Central Computers could but beget to sell you a GPU as part of a big PC package, but now it'southward making every carte available on its ain. GameStop is selling a Radeon RX 6600 for just $10 over MSRP, and it hasn't still sold out. Newegg has besides continually been offer an RTX 3080 Ti for just $10 over MSRP (afterwards rebate, too) — even if $1,200 still seems loftier for that card'due south level of operation.

If y'all're willing to pay a markup, there are plenty more than: a quick scan shows me the price flooring of an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti has fallen to around $580, 3070 Ti to $700, and 3080 to around $1,000 at retail, with some retailers boasting an "instant savings" or "instant rebate" rather than lowering their prices across the board. Some, like Asus, say they're passing along savings to customers at present that a Trump-era tariff on GPUs has expired. In Germany, retail prices have dipped to just between 12 and 19 per centum over MSRP, co-ordinate to 3DCenter, which has been tracking those prices longer than anyone.

"At this point you can have a card from any tier for prices people would have jumped for three months ago," says Falcodrin, the full-time GPU hunter I interviewed last December. And Falcodrin is pretty sure the prices volition proceed to fall — because fifty-fifty as supply begins to grab up, demand has fallen off.

"Everyone is unwilling to pay now. Part of that is probably just they got their menu, part of that'south probably tax flavor, and part of it is that U.s. consumer sentiment is as low as it'southward been since 2008," Falcodrin tells The Verge, admitting that his ain business has been crude as cryptocurrency miners close upwards shop and aggrandizement continues to soar.

EVGA's "instant rebate" brings the RTX 3080 12GB down to $1,000, simply that's simply the going rate now.

And then, if Nvidia and AMD's partners want to sell their stock of GPUs, they may presently be competing with ane some other to lower prices again.

With many prices still $200 over MSRP, we're not out of the woods all the same, but nobody's selling GPUs or consoles for double or triple what they're worth anymore. On eBay, only two graphics cards — the RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti — are selling for more than one.5 times their MSRP on average. Another encouraging sign is that the number of GPUs changing easily in a week has dropped by over half since March, suggesting they're much less attractive to scalpers.

How many changed hands in a week? April 2022

Item	Apr 2022	Mar 2021	Dec 2020
Item	Apr 2022	Mar 2021	Dec 2020
PS5 (disc)	759	1,898	three,651
PS5 (digital)	202	422	1,633
Xbox Series X	180	518	1,518
Xbox Series Southward	61	199	960
Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti	23	N/A	Northward/A
Nvidia RTX 3090	192	428	372
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti	126	465	Northward/A
Nvidia RTX 3080	209	556	384
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti	345	341	N/A
Nvidia RTX 3070	234	673	505
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti	275	750	141
Nvidia RTX 3060	206	639	782
Nvidia RTX 3050	30	N/A	N/A
AMD RX 6900 XT	25	63	106
AMD RX 6800 XT	twoscore	91	107
AMD RX 6800	28	28	83
AMD RX 6700 XT	82	165	98
AMD RX 6600 XT	47	204	N/A
AMD RX 6600	99	112	Northward/A
AMD RX 6500 XT	14	Due north/A	N/A
Total consoles	one,202	3,037	7,762
Total GPUs	one,975	4,515	ii,578

I generally filtered out bundles, lots, rigs, and items listed as broken, for parts, as-is, etc.

One matter that might surprise you is that Sony'south PlayStation 5 is still belongings its value on eBay, fetching an average of $703 for the disc drive model, roughly the same as we saw in January and yet 1.4 times its MSRP. That, even though the street price of Microsoft'southward Xbox Series X roughshod twenty percentage during the same menstruation to $547 (just $48 over MSRP). The Xbox Series Southward, meanwhile, is no longer a scalping target at all since it's been readily available for months at its $299 sticker price. Adept!

At the rate prices and volumes are falling, eBay may not be a valuable toll checking tool for long — and that'south exactly the mode we desire it because that'll mean that sanity has returned.

So once more, in that location'due south a decent gamble Nvidia and AMD denote new higher-priced cards before that happens, like the rumored RTX 4080 and RTX 4090, and there'll always be something else to scalp. The Steam Deck is currently fetching an average of over $ane,000 on eBay in instance you're wondering. Fun!

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/19/23031309/nvidia-amd-gpu-price-in-stock-retail-ebay

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