Graphics card price drops are great news for AMD fans but less so for Nvidia

Date:
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:16:50 +0000

Description:
AMD RX 6000 GPUs are rapidly dropping in price, but Nvidias RTX 3000 models are still above MSRP.

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The good news for would-be graphics card buyers is that average pricing for AMD GPUs has now dipped considerably below recommended price tags (MSRP), and Nvidia is close to doing so, too.

Thats the conclusion of the regular report from 3DCenter , which gathers data from major tech retailers in Germany (and Austria) for AMD RX 6000 and Nvidia RTX 3000 retail pricing, comparing that to the MSRPs.

AMDs current-gen graphics cards are now pitched at 92% of MSRP as of the
June 19 report, so actually a good chunk under the recommended price tag on average, which is great to see, and a big fall of 10% (they were at 102% of MSRP on May 29, just three weeks before).

Nvidias Ampere GPUs have dropped, but sadly by much less, and are now 102% of MSRP, compared to 106% three weeks ago. Still, these products are very nearly at their recommended price now, at least 2% isnt exactly a majorly inflated price tag. Analysis: You should probably wait longer, if you can

Of course, we should bear in mind the usual caveat here: dont place too much stock (pun not intended) in one single set of figures. Although that said, 3DCenters stat crunching is one of the more regular and reliable bellwethers of the graphics card market to take into consideration.

Moreover, this also matches what weve seen elsewhere in recent times, such as observations of GPU prices dropping made by Toms Hardware (which flagged up this story). And indeed Toms found that prices are positively sinking like a stone with used graphics cards being auctioned off on eBay all part of the big crypto crash and panic thats currently ongoing. Which is all good news
for the consumer looking to buy a GPU for, you know, actual gaming .

To see Nvidias pricing not declining at the same rate as AMD is no surprise really, and that seems to be a function of demand. Quite simply, there are more gamers out there looking to finally pick up an RTX 3000 card at a reasonable price, as witnessed in the recent rankings of top retailers like Newegg in the US (and in fact now, Nvidia GPUs represent the entire top 30 of Neweggs best-selling models, which is even more dominant than before).

Theres a broader sentiment here, though, and it pertains to a larger number
of consumers looking at increasingly old graphics cards (in many cases), and wondering about the wisdom of paying over the odds (at least for Nvidia GPUs, and still some AMD models) for these products, when the next-gen cards from both firms are not that far off , and maybe with Nvidia, possibly just around the corner .

All of which means that its probably worth waiting longer for better GPU bargains to crop up yet, as it seems that price tags will drift down further from here. 3DCenters graph of pricing for 2022 is an entirely downward curve for the whole year, and theres no real reason that we can conceive of why
that wont continue going forward.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/graphics-card-price-drops-are-great-news-for-am d-fans-but-less-so-for-nvidia/


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