News Nvidia Allegedly Readjusts Production Capacity To Make More Ampere GPUs

[Yodl007]

Newegg doesn't sell FE cards, so that's not the MSRP I'm talking about. I'm talking about the MSRP of the AIB partner boards that Newegg sells which are higher than the price of the FE models.

True, but it is a similar situation with AIB cards here - stores selling them for scalper prices. And have in mind that the EU doesn't have the 25% tarriff on them, but somehow they are still more expensive (looking at the both prices without tax).

 

[LolaGT]

Anyone who thinks Nvidia cutting the 2060 and 1050 ti production lines to make Ampere chips(somehow resulting in an influx of cards for less money? hahaha) to benefit the end users are incredibly naïve. They are interested in getting those 3070ti and 3080ti chips out because they can make the most from them.
Nvidia makes decisions based on their bottom line regardless of what group of end users it benefits. You can bet they are in no hurry to get you that 329 dollar 3060. 😉

 

[spongiemaster]

True, but it is a similar situation with AIB cards here - stores selling them for scalper prices. And have in mind that the EU doesn't have the 25% tarriff on them, but somehow they are still more expensive (looking at the both prices without tax).

Not really sure why, but AMD 6700 XT cards are 2x MSRP (mid $900's) on Newegg shuffles while higher RDNA2 models aren't much below that increase. On the AMD side, there is no way to get their cards anywhere near MSRP here. So, don't feel special with the prices you are seeing where you live.

 

[thisisaname]

Is there any definitive proof they did this? Because as far as anyone knows, the $999 price tag was just a rumor.

And with a time frame that short, everyone up and down the supply chain would have to be in the know. A company can't just change its MSRP hours before launch and have every store magically catch up to that.

It came from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/contests/summer-of-rtx/terms-conditions/ when the page first went live the price was $999 only to change later on to $1199.