Question Will GPU's eventually cost as much as a car, one day?

[fordongreeman]

Because of crypto mining, will even an entry-level GPU from AMD or Nvidia cost as much as an average new car?

This seems PROFOUNDLY UNFAIR to people who want a GPU for gaming and/or professional applications such as 3D rendering and design.

I paid $2,000 for my RTX 3080 from a seller on Ebay earlier this year. The MSRP of the RTX 3080 is around $799

When the RTX 4000 "Ada Lovelace" line of GPU's come out late 2022 or early 2023, I hope I don't end up having to pay something like $8,000

This is absurd and ridiculous, maybe Nvidia should engineer their next line of LHR cards to make doubly sure that it is completely and utterly impossible to circumvent.

 

[USAFRet]

When the RTX 4000 "Ada Lovelace" line of GPU's come out late 2022 or early 2023, I hope I don't end up having to pay something like $8,000

You only pay that if you choose to pay that.

 

[fordongreeman]

You only pay that if you choose to pay that.

99.99% of people (gamers and professionals alike) are not going to pay that much for something that should cost well under $1,000.

Unless you're a multimillionaire and have so much money that it is burning a hole in your pocket.

People aren't stupid.

I don't want to have to wait 10 years and 5 GPU generations to finally be able to obtain a flagship GPU at a sensible price.

 

[punkncat]

This current GPU market pricing isn't going to last. The current pricing scheme is unsustainable and based in a production that is surely going to change. Most people expected things to correct before now.

 

[USAFRet]

I did not have any other choice.

That was it's going price anywhere and everywhere.

You had the choice to not buy one.

I fully agree that the current situation sux.
However, someone in the mining community could make the same argument against gamers.

 

[USAFRet]

99.99% of people (gamers and professionals alike) are not going to pay that much for something that should cost well under $1,000.

Unless you're a millionaire and have so much money that it is burning a hole in your pocket.

People aren't stupid.

If people don't, then the scalper community dries up.
Problem solved.

However, that is not what has happened over the last couple years.

 

[hotaru.hino]

This is absurd and ridiculous, maybe Nvidia should engineer their next line of LHR cards to make doubly sure that it is completely and utterly impossible to circumvent.

Sure, we could do that, but in order to make it "utterly impossible" to circumvent, we'd have to roll back the last 20 or so years of design advancements to when GPUs were solely focused on doing specific math functions that just so happened to help with graphics.

 

[fordongreeman]

Will GPU price and availability still be a problem when the next generation of GPU's from both AMD and Nvidia rolls around?

 

[USAFRet]

Will GPU price and availability still be a problem when the next generation of GPU's from both AMD and Nvidia rolls around?

Crystal ball says - ¯\(ツ)/¯
But probably, yes...

Why?
The previous couple of years has show what is possible to the scalpers. They are not likely to ignore that.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Will GPU price and availability still be a problem when the next generation of GPU's from both AMD and Nvidia rolls around?

You can do two things to fix the problem:

• Make the GPUs undesirable
• Oversaturate the supply

Given the current state of things, both of these are impossible.

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

There is still many other factors involved other then Gpu production and scalpers that will keep prices high.

 

[lordmogul]

If they will cost as much as a car?
I'd say 2 grand is already the price of a used car
And the fact that cards have become more expensive in general doesn't help with that.
For a long time the top car was always in the 600-700 range (think Geforce 8 - 700) but in the last couple gens we had cards in the 1200-1500 range. And that is MSRP, not actual sales price.
And those cards used to go down to around 60-70% after 18 months, so a 3080 should be around 400-500 now. Should.

 

[InvalidError]

On the plus side, AMD's RDNA2 APUs should turn on the heat for Intel to release IGPs with equivalent graphics power so we may be 2-3 more years away from integrated graphics becoming significantly more competitive.

 

[Sheol Azure]

The asking price of a rtx 3070 in Canada is more than I paid for my car so I think we're already there.

 

[AG90]

The situation is absolutely getting ridiculous. At this point the best option is to buy a pre-built PC just for the sake of getting the GPU for "cheaper", and sell most of the other hardware.

 

[Sheol Azure]

The prebuilt ones I've been looking at have the same problem from when I tried building one 3 years ago before COVID-19 excuses; the GPUs suck.