A user wants to buy an RTX 3080 for lots of money, but other gamers disagree on whether that is too expensive. How much should one be willing to spend on a graphics card in 2021?
Those who want to game reasonably or at least buy a new graphics card are currently not very lucky, as graphics cards are either unavailable or very expensive. And if you believe Nvidia, prices will remain high until 2022 and we will still have to pay high prices next year.
This has now happened: A user has considered whether he should buy a GeForce RTX 3080 for 1300 US dollars (around 1,100 Euros) on reddit.
While the prices are lower than a few months ago when one could easily pay 1500 Euros for an RTX 3080, they are still significantly above Nvidia’s official MSRP of 729 Euros.
In his post, the thread starter asks whether 1300 US dollars for a graphics card is reasonable: he himself hasn’t bought a graphics card in ages and is now not sure whether the graphics card is worth all that money.
The community debates whether an RTX 3080 is really worth that much money
This is the reaction: The responses vary greatly and clearly show how controversial the prices for graphics cards are:
One user writes (via reddit.com):
The prices for graphics cards are now higher than ever before. If you are wealthy, then [the price] probably doesn’t matter. Otherwise, you are probably better off just waiting.
Others hold the opposite view, that waiting is just as wrong as paying the current prices (via reddit.com):
Waiting. I almost got a 3080 when it came out, but I didn’t buy it because I thought I would get it for 100 dollars over MSRP. 3080s were at 800 and 3090s were 1400.
A year later you can find nothing, and I saw a 3080ti on Amazon for 1600, so I took it. This mess isn’t going to get better anytime soon.
What does the overall picture look like in the community? Overall, the player base is divided when it comes to graphics card prices. Because no one is really sure whether the prices are reasonable, whether to buy now, or whether to wait:
- Some say 1300 US dollars is way too expensive for an RTX 3080, after all, he has to pay more than double the MSRP.
- Others say prices will remain high. If you wait longer, the prices could be even higher in a month.
- A third group explains that graphics cards have become a form of luxury goods. Only someone who already has plenty of money can afford them.
One thing is certain, it is unclear how long prices for graphics cards and other entertainment products will remain so high.
It is questionable how long the prices for graphics cards will remain this high.
This is the current situation: Graphics cards are so in demand that GPUs are being sold for thousands of euros on eBay. This angers many users who do not want to participate in this situation.
Nevertheless, it is currently unclear how long the prices for graphics cards and other electronic devices like game consoles will remain this high. The demand for a crucial component for electronic devices is still high and affects various production sectors.
For greedy scalpers, the expensive graphics cards remain a good business, according to the numbers. With Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series, scalpers are said to have made over 15 million US dollars in profit:
Nasty scalpers are buying up RTX 3000 cards – making 15.2 million $ profit
