It appears that 2021 will be a pretty difficult year to acquire new graphics cards at reasonable prices. Last month, several industry analysts claimed that GPU stock is going to suffer through until 2022. And yesterday, DigiTimes reported that MSI plans to increase the prices for its GPUs.
DigiTimes claims that MSI chairman Joseph Hsu told investors he expects double-digit growth in graphics card, gaming notebook, and motherboard shipments this year as global demand continues to rise despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s abatement.
What I find really ironic here is that most high-end GPUs are already overpriced. For instance, the RTX3080 is nowhere close to its MSRP, and the same can be said about AMD’s high-end GPUs. At this point, we are looking at prices that are around 2X or even 3X higher than the MSRP. So yeah, things are not looking good for those that want to upgrade their PC systems.
I’ve also heard some rumors about an RTX3080Ti, though I don’t think it’s really worth covering it. I mean, most of you can’t even find an RTX3080 or an RTX3090 right now. So, what’s the point of releasing a new GPU that won’t hit its MSRP (profit I know, it was a rhetorical question)?
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…as soon as one company does, al will do.
I honestly felt a bit ripped off getting an 3070 at MSRP… Everyday that passes I experience whatever the opposite of buyer’s remorse is.
Then go sell it for up to double the MSRP on the used market. If you choose to keep that product, that’s entirely your bad.
You may want to read the comment again 😀 I don’t think you understood it.
XCalibur is telling you that if you are felling buyer’s remorse and are disappointed with the card, just sell the card. It is that simple. No point keeping the card while grumbling about it. If you choose to keep a card that you are unhappy with, it is your bad.
I understood his point correctly then. My point stands, he needs to read the top comment again. You too.
If a few people did not understand the point you are trying to convey, maybe the problem is not with all the readers but the wording used.
Either you felt ripped off and you should then sell the card to get rid of that feeling, or you want to keep the card (is that what you mean by “experiencing the opposite of buyer’s remorse”?) in which case you are not ripped off and are happy.
It’s not either/or.
I felt ripped off at time of purchase, but increasingly happy with it in retrospect.
Tenses, my friend. Very important.
A lot of people seem confused. I’m not sure if that’s a cognitive issue because the statement doesn’t say what they expect and getting mad when they’re called on it, or if I phrased it poorly.
Could be either, after I’ve not lived in an English-speaking country for 3 years so I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m just losing it 😀
Nahh, i understood it and my English aint too hot.
Its kind of crazy that you feel that way… considering what’s going on with the world. I never felt that way for any product. Always regretting whatever i buy.
TV? Next month they announce much cheaper and better ones.
CPU?
Phones?
GPU?
Cameras?
Everything else? Yeah, always the same case. I’m never happy for more than a month. Always regretting not waiting a month longer lol. The way you felt is pretty rare for me 😛 Dare i say – never happened
No regrets here. 3090 @ msrp
Same. I’m glad I got the card when I did now.
Yeah, feel bad for those in limbo. I did a whole build and got all parts before end of last year. Took quite a while of trying.
What gets me is all the forecasts suggest the issue with supply won’t even be fixed this year. That’s insane. When these cards came out I don’t think anyone anticipated things being this bad.
Fix your post, it doesn’t make sense.
To make it clearer: “… [And yet] everyday that passes […]”.
It doesn’t make it clearer, here’s how it should be done: “I honestly felt the 3070 was expensive, but now that they are even more expensive i felt relieved”. Much better
I thought it was perfectly clear. Poetic and borderline elegant. I share his sentiment fwiw.
I guess you are either his alt or his fellow f4g, lmao go to a poetry site dumba$$.
You’re one dumfck. Why don’t you learn to read and eat a d*ck while you’re at it you neanderthal.
Now that’s the poetry i’m looking for, borderline r-tarded.
That’s clear, but it lacks the whimsical observation I was making — namely that one can even experience something akin to the polar opposite of buyer’s remorse.
The part about feeling relief is true, but it’s not really what I’m going for.
The polar opposite of buyer’s remorse is buyer’s satisfaction, duh, in your case it was in hindsight.
Still not quite right. Buyer’s remorse has a temporal component to it (i.e. it sets in over time after purchase) whereas plain old satisfaction is more of a stable, almost binary tribute. It’s not just in hindsight, but over time, too.
Buyer’s satisfaction is also missing a contrastive element (i.e. feeling different in relation not only temporally but relative to how one felt at time of purchase) that is present in buyer’s remorse.
The second point is important because what I feel now isn’t satisifcation… it’s relatively and incrementally better about my purchase.
they want about 800 dollars for 1660 ti
Well its a TI. Its worth the money
it was around 270 a year ago.
Why does this help consumers?
For real guys please don’t buy stuff unless its at MSRP.
msrp does not exist anymore, it is just an arbitrary number thrown at launch to make a product look good, but it does not mean that it last forever. Just as a price can go down with a sale, it can go up too.
True you are right 100% but please do not spend your hard earned cash on it this will NOT be the future for ever we can survive this.
I really do not want people getting screwed over.
on my city rtx 3070 showing $1600 on most sites crazy
maybe look outside your city
hold on …. you saying . MSI is selling GPUs in 2021 ?
??? Hilfreakinarious. Underrated
Haha, that’s the best comment we will probably see today about his topic/news.
10/10 LOL
Alright MSI take the L and bye
I miss pre 2017 gpu prices and availability
get a pre-2017 gpu then!
I already have a gtx 1080,
Even the second hand market have been affected.
A few months ago a used gtx 1080 would range from 200-250 euro now i see people demanding more than 350 for this card
🙁
Wait for Xe-HPG by Intel, it would be powerful and stocks will be fine
Keep dreaming. The DG1 was benchmarked in Firestrike to be around the performance of a GTX 1050, it will be OEM/SI/Prebuilt only, usage is locked to a select few mobos which require special firmware for it to work, and Intel will simply face the same resource shortages as every other silicon fab.
You need to stop drinking the kool-aid and come back to reality
Do most people really need that brand new graphics card? There really isn’t even anything highly demanding or needing some beastly card and RTX still hasn’t shown much of a difference even side by side. There’s always plenty of great cards you can buy used online local classifieds. I wanted to build a new system for a RTX3080 but instead just bought an amazing great system for dirt cheap from someone that wanted to get rid of it because they too just wanted an RTX 3080 system. I got a whole rig for the price of a new video card… sure it’s not the latest and greatest but Im pretty satisfied playing everything 1440p Ultra
Depends on what resolution you are running your games at and if you play VR games also.
I smell some sort of coordination scheming by the cjuice/openjuice, yes there are ethnic interbred cryptojuice with names like Hsu and other famous names you would recognize. What people don’t understand is that at this point in time that all, or the vast majority of higher ups in gov/industry/sjw marxist orgs are either juice/cjuice/masons and allies, so this sort of animal farm mentality towards humanity leads to this wolves guarding the hen house situation and not just in economic matters.
yay, tin foil hat time
f3ggot
what? don’t you use a tin foil to protect yourself from the masons and allies?
you mentally defunct moron. THINK for yourself for once, instead of being a mindless lemming.
What the hell are you going on about?
Well damn
Terrible news.
Haha, Amazingly put.
there has never been a shortage …
Let’s just say this,.. In 2020 with the help of the government, corporations realized how stupid, easy manipulated & malleable people/consumers were/are. Now, all are cashing in on how dense/R3Tarded this species is. Before I forget, while y’all are over there sucking up all this okie doke, don’t forget to enjoy your vaccines… Hint hint, I hear 17 countries in the EU band them but you don’t worry your dumb malleable heads about that e, roll those sleeves up and take the Jab. Good luck you, dumb stupid M*tha Fuqas.
Exactly, these morons casually feeding into all of this BS, waiting on the next order their government overlords give them, dictating how they need to live their lives. And look what going on in America, full blown Marxists/communists have taken over the country and socialism in effect. These shortages have nothing to do with CONvid1984 or any fake pandemic or health crisis. The globalists created all of this. ALL of it. Go get your Fauci, Ouchy now like the good guinea pigs you are.
Nailed IT!!!!!! It was like reading myself. I have so much respect for you man, every line that was said is 100%. HAHA @ Fauci Ouchy. I’m so using that man. Cheers!
MSI isn’t the only AIB who will be increasing prices, Asus has already beaten them to the punch by a few days: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-nvidia-geforce-rtx-shipments-drop
Shipments of new GPUs have dropped by 5-10% compared to late 2020, resources needed to make these GPUs have become increasingly more scarce, international shipping routes are congested causing slowdown in imports/exports, and this is all expected to maintain until 2022.
Devs need to go back to making games compatible with PS3 or Xbox 360 equivalent hardware, graphics are good enough as it is, try to focus on other aspects. I wish the Stalker approach was standard in this industry, make multiple renders for multiple hardware (no, not the development hell which it already is).
Lol and when they do that, lots of people complain “yikes graphics are like a ps2 game”
They already look crap aniways, but the requeriments rarely justifies. I think multiple renders would be a really nice feature for lots of games, without having the game look crap on low settings.
i can wait till msrp price no matter what.
It didnt work out much extra for me to buy a new PC with the GPU i wanted (3060TI) then the current prices of that card on most sites.
To put things in perspective in terms of how everything reelated to GPUs is out of whack right now get this. Here in Russia Asus RTX3070 TUF is being advertised for sale for a whopping price of $1763. And that’s a GPU with a supposed MSRP of $650.
Don’t forget those 2.8 million fake deaths from the fake covid.