From Asia comes a report that Nvidia will officially drop prices for fast cards like the Geforce RTX 3080 Ti later this week. The RTX 3090 Ti is actually already being sold at a significantly lower price.
It is becoming apparent that Nvidia and its partners want to use the summer to clear out the warehouses filled with RTX 3000 graphics cards. So it doesn’t seem to be a one-off action that the RTX 3090 Ti Founders is currently being offered at a significantly lower price.
Price cuts for RTX high-end?
Like the Chinese Website Benchlife reported, it is possible that there will be an official price reduction this week, even if the date is not yet entirely certain. If you look at the current German Nvidia websiteyou can still see the Founders Edition prices from January 2022. At the beginning of the year, Nvidia had increased the prices for its FE cards by 5-6 percent, effectively raising the RRP.
| Old MSRP (USD) | New MSRP (USD) | percentage difference | absolute difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3090 Ti | 1,999 | 1,499 | – 25.01% | – $500 |
| RTX 3090 | 1,499 | 1,299 | – 13.34% | – $200 |
| RTX 3080 Ti | 1,199 | 1,099 | – 8.34% | – $100 |
| RTX 3080 12GB | So far no RRP | 799 | ||
| RTX 3080 10GB | 699 | No change | ||
| RTX 3070 Ti | 599 | No change | ||
| RTX 3070 | 499 | No change | ||
| RTX 3060 Ti | 399 | No change | ||
| RTX 3060 | 329 | No change | ||
| RTX 3050 | 250 | No change |
The price cuts reported by Benchlife are said to only apply to high-end cards. The RTX 3090 Ti is supposed to officially drop from $1,999 to $1,499, which would be a hefty price drop of 25 percent, or $500 in absolute terms. We remember: The Geforce RTX 3090 Ti is currently sold exclusively at NBB as a Founders Edition. 1,899 euros are called here, which is at least 350 euros below the previously announced RRP of 2,249 euros. If the report is to be believed, the RTX 3090 Non-Ti will be $200 or 13.3 percent cheaper. The RTX 3080 Ti is still missing, it should range from 1,099 US dollars in the future and thus be 100 USD or 8.3 percent cheaper.
According to Benchlife, the 12 GB version of the RTX 3080 will have an official MSRP of $799 in the future – to date there is no MSRP from Nvidia. The $699 for the 10GB version of the RTX 3080 is here to stay, as are the prices of all of Nvidia’s other cheaper cards. So the price reduction focuses solely on the high-end cards from the RTX 3080 Ti and it will be exciting to see how the board partners pass on such a price reduction – if it comes. Benchlife suspects that these fast and expensive cards in particular are still increasingly in the sender’s warehouses. It is also suspected that Nvidia wants to use it to prepare for the launch of the RTX 4000 graphics cards. There is no confirmation of the rumored price reductions yet, but if the information is correct, there should be news soon.
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