The Current State of GPU Pricing: A Concern for PC Gamers

Recently, I've been noticing some extremely good deals on graphics cards, particularly on the AMD RX 6800 XC, which can be found brand new for $500 or used at a great price. However, if you're looking to buy an Nvidia card, prices for the RTX 3060 TI are going locally here for around $250, representing excellent value. Unfortunately, these low prices won't last forever due to inflation, and it's essential to be aware of this trend.

Inflation has been a significant concern lately, with interest rates not being enough to combat high inflation rates. To put an end to this cycle of rising prices, interest rates would need to increase above the current level of 8%. This is crucial because when people stop spending due to inflation, it puts downward pressure on prices. However, companies like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia aim to maintain their profit margins by passing on the costs to consumers.

The current situation with GPUs is a perfect example of this. With the new generation of high-end graphics cards arriving, such as the RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4080, prices are reaching unprecedented levels. The RX 7900 XTX alone is priced at $1,000 for the standard model, while the more powerful variant, the XTX, costs a whopping $1,200. These prices are seen as the new norm by many in the PC gaming community, and it's essential to be aware of the potential for these prices to continue rising due to inflation.

The situation is not unique to Nvidia; AMD is also increasing prices on their graphics cards. This trend is expected to continue unless market conditions change. Companies will keep passing on costs to consumers until they find a way to reduce production costs or increase revenue through other means. It's crucial for PC gamers to be aware of this pricing trend and plan accordingly.

I recently did some parts-hunting, and I was able to get some great deals on graphics cards. This highlights the importance of keeping an eye on prices and being prepared to take advantage of good deals when they arise. However, it's also essential to remember that these low prices won't last forever due to inflation. As a result, PC gamers need to be mindful of their spending habits and plan for the future.

The Financial Talk: Understanding the Market

If you're interested in learning more about the financial aspects of the GPU market, I'd be happy to create a dedicated video on this topic. In this article, I'll discuss the current state of inflation and its impact on the GPU market. I'll also explore how companies like AMD and Nvidia are passing on costs to consumers and what this means for PC gamers in the long run.

The Future of Tech: Where Are We Headed?

It's difficult to predict exactly where the tech industry will head, but it's essential to be aware of trends and changes that may affect our wallets. As I mentioned earlier, inflation is a significant concern right now, and its impact on the GPU market is already being felt. In the coming year, we can expect prices to continue rising due to various factors, including production costs, supply chain issues, and consumer demand.

However, there are also opportunities emerging in the tech industry. New technologies and innovations will continue to shape the market, and it's crucial for PC gamers to stay informed about these developments. By understanding the trends and changes that affect our wallets, we can make more informed purchasing decisions and plan for the future with confidence.

Question of the Day: Ryzen 7 5800 X 3D vs. RX 7900 XTX

The first question of the day comes from M Ray Abbey, who asked: "Ryzen 7 5800 X 3D RX 7900 XTX bottleneck 1080p I'm a streamer and I need more FPS on game I will use a 1080p monitor to 40 Hertz so the XTX should have heaps of Headroom for 1080p in fact I think it's going to be a bit overkill for 1080p but thing is AMD's encoder will do a great job especially since they've got a new updated encoder on the XTX and you can use that for streaming and the 5800 X 3D will deliver some really good frame rates at 1080p so I don't think there's going to be so much a bottleneck as opposed to just the games bottlenecking you where if you can go with a higher end CPU you can go with a 7950x for example if you want to or 13 900k but you're really only going to be getting a little bit more especially if you're already on that 5800 X 3D I think it's going to be absolutely fine for your use case scenario in fact I like the 5800 X 3D from AMD it's my favorite gaming CPU from their front at the moment and on Intel's I like the 13 900k."

In response, I'll say that the Ryzen 7 5800 X 3D is an excellent choice for streaming, especially considering its competitive pricing. While the RX 7900 XTX may seem overkill for 1080p gaming, it's essential to remember that it offers significant improvements in performance and features compared to the standard model. Additionally, AMD's encoder will indeed provide a great experience for streaming, making the XTX an excellent choice.

However, if you're looking to upgrade your CPU, the Ryzen 7 5800 X 3D is definitely worth considering. Its competitive pricing makes it an attractive option, and its performance in gaming is on par with some of the higher-end CPUs available. Ultimately, it's essential to evaluate your specific needs and budget before making a decision.

As we conclude this article, I hope you've gained a better understanding of the current state of GPU pricing and inflation's impact on the market. By being aware of these trends and changes, PC gamers can make more informed purchasing decisions and plan for the future with confidence.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso you guys are asking me where the 7900 XT and the XTX reviews are Unfortunately today I won't have a review ready AMD ran out of samples in Australia and they didn't know that I came back from Japan and so they're actually organizing me a sample to get a review done for you guys so that will be coming in the mail however there is a hot word on the street I have been speaking to some retailers here and also one retailer over in the US and there's some news that I'll share with you guys straight away and that is mainly that if you want to get a 7900 XT or an XTX at MSRP prices then you will have to be very quick because the reference models what I'm being told is the reference models will be the only cards coming in at those 8.99 USD and also the 999 USD prices after that you're going to get your typical gigabyte Eagles your Asus tasks and also your sapphires for example that will come above of the MSRP on both these models so that's a bit of buying advice and I have heard through the grapevine as well that there's going to be at least in Australia relatively no stock of these reference cards so pretty much they're going to sell out straight away for the reference models both on the XT and the xdx because there's just going to be not enough stock in Australia if we move over to the US apparently there's going to be a healthy Supply over there so I think everywhere else in the world is going to really not have many of these samples but then the US will get a good launch for if you want to get the MSRP cards however that aside once these runs of the initial cards run out then it's pretty much left to the board Partners to deliver that pricing which from what I'm hearing it's just not going to happen just like what we're seeing with the RTX 4080 and also the RTX 4090 we're seeing that these cards simply are not coming in a lot of the times at M SRP but if we look at the RTX 4080 as well this uh that's starting to come down a little bit in price here in Australia but it's still well above the 1200 USD even if we factor in 10 GST for example for 1320 US Dollars the cheapest card that I can find on the shelves here is around 1450 US dollars so still needs to come down in ways at least in Australia for the pricing on the RTX 4080 for example but I will state if you want one of these graphics cards then you will need to be quick at least if you want it at the cheapest price it's going to be at least for some time until those stock levels come out and then it circulates in its regular cycle these cards are going to unfortunately be a little bit above MSRP at least that's what I'm being told from people that I've spoke to in the industry now let's talk numbers with both these cards and we're mainly focused on the 7900 XTX because that's am MD's Flagship Cod and I think it does represent even after seeing the numbers better value than that of the 7900 XT however when I saw the presentation that AMD was uh announcing I was a little bit concerned because they were very vague with their 50 to 70 percent uplift in performance and I just thought they didn't give enough information so that sort of automatically made me think it would be around 30 to 40 percent with their numbers and seeing the reviews the majority reviews it looks like it's around 30 to 40 percent in uplift depending on the title and that's still a good number to have over the previous generation product it's just I think a lot of people maybe wanted it to compete with the RTX 4090 but if that was the case AMD I think would be charging around 1300 us at least for this product if it indeed was an answer to the RTX 4090 but what you've got here is an answer to the RTX 4080 and it looks like it's competing very well with rasterization performance to that graphics card now in terms of Nvidia of course they've got dlss and the ray tracing advantages there the whether or not that's worth the extra money ultimately comes down to the tech and enthusiasts themselves do they need that technology and in fact when I reviewed the RTX 4090 I thought that was just performance wise too much even for 4K 120 hertz gaming on an OLED I thought the RTX 4080 however was pretty good but it was overshadowed by the fact that it just had this massive cooler and it was stuck in this weird spot where it really didn't hit value-wise that hard and this is where the 7900 XT X kind of does give a little bit more oomph in terms of that value but of course I can't wait to check this card out and give you guys more raw numbers and see what the verdict is because I do like to take a full tour with the graphics card play games on it for a couple of days as well just see what the general experience is with that graphics card now I do like the fact that it is a smaller cooler that could fit into a lot of mini ITX rigs for example I think the RTX 4080 I would have loved to have seen a smaller model on that now in terms of some of the bugs I've been hearing about where things randomly crash there's black screens and then there's error messages popping up I would hope a lot of those bugs do get quickly ironed out especially on a flagship product but in terms of these gpus and the pricing what we're seeing now is believe it or not when it comes to pricing the previous generation stuff especially if you like buying used there's some really good deals to be had right now if you guys take a look at some of my parts haunts that I've been doing in the last couple of months I've been getting extremely good deals on graphics cards so don't look past an RX 6800 XC for example if it's going brand new for 500 bucks or if it's on the used market for a really good price but of course if you want an Nvidia card there's RTX 3060 TI's that are going locally here for around 250 US Dollars these represent extremely good prices and I just don't think you're going to see these prices stick around forever inflation's only going one way the new numbers are coming out and it looks like we're going through this continual phase of high inflation similar to that of the 1970s because interest rates aren't high enough to combat this High inflation if you want to beat seven or eight eight percent inflation you don't beat it with interest rates that are a few percentage points lower than that you have to get those interest rates above that inflation rate so people then have an incentive to stop spending and so this what this means for the average person is that basically these price increases on these gpus are just going to keep flowing through and it's going to really decimate PC gaming at this pace where we're seeing now a thousand dollar XTX graphics card and a twelve hundred dollar RTX 4080 being hailed as the new norm and that's in ways people blaming Nvidia people are blaming AMD but these are ultimately just companies that want to maintain those High profit margins and in the end they're going to try and get there even if the market doesn't like what they're doing so they're just going to deliver these higher prices test the market and see how it responds that's the worst they can do and if the market responds badly then they will drop the prices but make no mistake about it when high inflation does persist companies like AMD Intel Nvidia are just simply going to pass the costs on to the end user though if you guys like the financial talk and you want to see more of it then do let us know in the comments and I can make that happen and perhaps give you guys a dedicated video on where I think the market will be heading in the next year's time anyhow with that aside I hope you guys enjoyed today's video just an impromptu video I wanted to get something out for you because I know a lot of you guys would be wondering where's the tech yes XTX benchmarks and unfortunately they won't be coming for at least in my opinion another week so if you have any tests that you want to see then do let us know in the comments section below or if there's anything you want me to look at with that particular GPU and I can certainly make that happen anyhow guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below as always love reading those thoughts and opinions just like this question of the day here which comes from the M Ray Abbey official and they asked ryzen 7 5800 X 3D RX 7900 XTX bottleneck 1080p I'm a streamer and I need more FPS on game I will use a 1080p monitor to 40 Hertz so the XTX should have heaps of Headroom for 1080p in fact I think it's going to be a bit overkill for 1080p but thing is amd's encoder will do a great job especially since they've got a new updated encoder on the XTX and you can use that for streaming and the 5800 X 3D will deliver some really good frame rates at 1080p so I don't think there's going to be so much a bottleneck as opposed to just the games bottlenecking you where if you can go with a higher end CPU you can go with a 7950x for example if you want to or 13 900k but you're really only going to be getting a little bit more especially if you're already on that 5800 X 3D I think it's going to be absolutely fine for your use case scenario in fact I like the 5800 X 3D from AMD it's my favorite gaming CPU from their front at the moment and on Intel's I like the 13 600k Even if you're streaming both these CPUs are going to be great hope that answers that question and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now byeso you guys are asking me where the 7900 XT and the XTX reviews are Unfortunately today I won't have a review ready AMD ran out of samples in Australia and they didn't know that I came back from Japan and so they're actually organizing me a sample to get a review done for you guys so that will be coming in the mail however there is a hot word on the street I have been speaking to some retailers here and also one retailer over in the US and there's some news that I'll share with you guys straight away and that is mainly that if you want to get a 7900 XT or an XTX at MSRP prices then you will have to be very quick because the reference models what I'm being told is the reference models will be the only cards coming in at those 8.99 USD and also the 999 USD prices after that you're going to get your typical gigabyte Eagles your Asus tasks and also your sapphires for example that will come above of the MSRP on both these models so that's a bit of buying advice and I have heard through the grapevine as well that there's going to be at least in Australia relatively no stock of these reference cards so pretty much they're going to sell out straight away for the reference models both on the XT and the xdx because there's just going to be not enough stock in Australia if we move over to the US apparently there's going to be a healthy Supply over there so I think everywhere else in the world is going to really not have many of these samples but then the US will get a good launch for if you want to get the MSRP cards however that aside once these runs of the initial cards run out then it's pretty much left to the board Partners to deliver that pricing which from what I'm hearing it's just not going to happen just like what we're seeing with the RTX 4080 and also the RTX 4090 we're seeing that these cards simply are not coming in a lot of the times at M SRP but if we look at the RTX 4080 as well this uh that's starting to come down a little bit in price here in Australia but it's still well above the 1200 USD even if we factor in 10 GST for example for 1320 US Dollars the cheapest card that I can find on the shelves here is around 1450 US dollars so still needs to come down in ways at least in Australia for the pricing on the RTX 4080 for example but I will state if you want one of these graphics cards then you will need to be quick at least if you want it at the cheapest price it's going to be at least for some time until those stock levels come out and then it circulates in its regular cycle these cards are going to unfortunately be a little bit above MSRP at least that's what I'm being told from people that I've spoke to in the industry now let's talk numbers with both these cards and we're mainly focused on the 7900 XTX because that's am MD's Flagship Cod and I think it does represent even after seeing the numbers better value than that of the 7900 XT however when I saw the presentation that AMD was uh announcing I was a little bit concerned because they were very vague with their 50 to 70 percent uplift in performance and I just thought they didn't give enough information so that sort of automatically made me think it would be around 30 to 40 percent with their numbers and seeing the reviews the majority reviews it looks like it's around 30 to 40 percent in uplift depending on the title and that's still a good number to have over the previous generation product it's just I think a lot of people maybe wanted it to compete with the RTX 4090 but if that was the case AMD I think would be charging around 1300 us at least for this product if it indeed was an answer to the RTX 4090 but what you've got here is an answer to the RTX 4080 and it looks like it's competing very well with rasterization performance to that graphics card now in terms of Nvidia of course they've got dlss and the ray tracing advantages there the whether or not that's worth the extra money ultimately comes down to the tech and enthusiasts themselves do they need that technology and in fact when I reviewed the RTX 4090 I thought that was just performance wise too much even for 4K 120 hertz gaming on an OLED I thought the RTX 4080 however was pretty good but it was overshadowed by the fact that it just had this massive cooler and it was stuck in this weird spot where it really didn't hit value-wise that hard and this is where the 7900 XT X kind of does give a little bit more oomph in terms of that value but of course I can't wait to check this card out and give you guys more raw numbers and see what the verdict is because I do like to take a full tour with the graphics card play games on it for a couple of days as well just see what the general experience is with that graphics card now I do like the fact that it is a smaller cooler that could fit into a lot of mini ITX rigs for example I think the RTX 4080 I would have loved to have seen a smaller model on that now in terms of some of the bugs I've been hearing about where things randomly crash there's black screens and then there's error messages popping up I would hope a lot of those bugs do get quickly ironed out especially on a flagship product but in terms of these gpus and the pricing what we're seeing now is believe it or not when it comes to pricing the previous generation stuff especially if you like buying used there's some really good deals to be had right now if you guys take a look at some of my parts haunts that I've been doing in the last couple of months I've been getting extremely good deals on graphics cards so don't look past an RX 6800 XC for example if it's going brand new for 500 bucks or if it's on the used market for a really good price but of course if you want an Nvidia card there's RTX 3060 TI's that are going locally here for around 250 US Dollars these represent extremely good prices and I just don't think you're going to see these prices stick around forever inflation's only going one way the new numbers are coming out and it looks like we're going through this continual phase of high inflation similar to that of the 1970s because interest rates aren't high enough to combat this High inflation if you want to beat seven or eight eight percent inflation you don't beat it with interest rates that are a few percentage points lower than that you have to get those interest rates above that inflation rate so people then have an incentive to stop spending and so this what this means for the average person is that basically these price increases on these gpus are just going to keep flowing through and it's going to really decimate PC gaming at this pace where we're seeing now a thousand dollar XTX graphics card and a twelve hundred dollar RTX 4080 being hailed as the new norm and that's in ways people blaming Nvidia people are blaming AMD but these are ultimately just companies that want to maintain those High profit margins and in the end they're going to try and get there even if the market doesn't like what they're doing so they're just going to deliver these higher prices test the market and see how it responds that's the worst they can do and if the market responds badly then they will drop the prices but make no mistake about it when high inflation does persist companies like AMD Intel Nvidia are just simply going to pass the costs on to the end user though if you guys like the financial talk and you want to see more of it then do let us know in the comments and I can make that happen and perhaps give you guys a dedicated video on where I think the market will be heading in the next year's time anyhow with that aside I hope you guys enjoyed today's video just an impromptu video I wanted to get something out for you because I know a lot of you guys would be wondering where's the tech yes XTX benchmarks and unfortunately they won't be coming for at least in my opinion another week so if you have any tests that you want to see then do let us know in the comments section below or if there's anything you want me to look at with that particular GPU and I can certainly make that happen anyhow guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button for us and also let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comment section below as always love reading those thoughts and opinions just like this question of the day here which comes from the M Ray Abbey official and they asked ryzen 7 5800 X 3D RX 7900 XTX bottleneck 1080p I'm a streamer and I need more FPS on game I will use a 1080p monitor to 40 Hertz so the XTX should have heaps of Headroom for 1080p in fact I think it's going to be a bit overkill for 1080p but thing is amd's encoder will do a great job especially since they've got a new updated encoder on the XTX and you can use that for streaming and the 5800 X 3D will deliver some really good frame rates at 1080p so I don't think there's going to be so much a bottleneck as opposed to just the games bottlenecking you where if you can go with a higher end CPU you can go with a 7950x for example if you want to or 13 900k but you're really only going to be getting a little bit more especially if you're already on that 5800 X 3D I think it's going to be absolutely fine for your use case scenario in fact I like the 5800 X 3D from AMD it's my favorite gaming CPU from their front at the moment and on Intel's I like the 13 600k Even if you're streaming both these CPUs are going to be great hope that answers that question and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye\n"