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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/19\/23031309\/nvidia-amd-gpu-price-in-stock-retail-ebay<\/a>
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For nearly two years, netting a PS5, Xbox Series X, or AMD Radeon and Nvidia RTX graphics cards without paying a fortune has been a matter of luck (or a lot of skill<\/a>). At its peak, scalpers were successfully charging double or even triple<\/em> MSRP<\/a> for a modern GPU. But it\u2019s looking like the great GPU shortage is nearly over. <\/p>\n

In January, sites including Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/a> reported that prices were finally beginning to drop<\/a>, and drop they did; they\u2019ve now dropped an average of 30 percent in the three months since. On eBay, the most popular graphics cards are only commanding a street price of $200\u2013$300 over MSRP. And while that might still seem like a lot, some have fallen further: used Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti or AMD RX 6900 XT are currently fetching less<\/em> than their original asking price, a sure sign that sanity is returning to the marketplace.<\/p>\n

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GPU, PS5, Xbox street prices: April 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Item<\/th>\nList price<\/th>\nApril 2022<\/th>\nJan. 2022<\/th>\nNov. 2021<\/th>\nMar. 2021<\/th>\nDec. 2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<\/tbody>\n
Item<\/th>\nList price<\/th>\nApril 2022<\/th>\nJan. 2022<\/th>\nNov. 2021<\/th>\nMar. 2021<\/th>\nDec. 2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n
PS5 (disc)<\/td>\n$499<\/td>\n$703<\/b><\/td>\n$700<\/td>\n$870<\/td>\n$833<\/td>\n$1,024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PS5 (digital)<\/td>\n$399<\/td>\n$659<\/b><\/td>\n$680<\/td>\n$806<\/td>\n$754<\/td>\n$990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xbox Series X<\/td>\n$499<\/td>\n$547<\/b><\/td>\n$691<\/td>\n$856<\/td>\n$805<\/td>\n$835<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xbox Series S<\/td>\n$299<\/td>\n$249<\/b><\/td>\n$259<\/td>\n$346<\/td>\n$432<\/td>\n$471<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti<\/td>\n$1,999<\/td>\n$2,398<\/b><\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3090<\/td>\n$1,499<\/td>\n$1,837<\/b><\/td>\n$2,609<\/td>\n$2,947<\/td>\n$2,985<\/td>\n$2,076<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti<\/td>\n$1,199<\/td>\n$1,168<\/b><\/td>\n$1,874<\/td>\n$1,941<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3080<\/td>\n$699<\/td>\n$1,129<\/b><\/td>\n$1,613<\/td>\n$1,773<\/td>\n$2,160<\/td>\n$1,227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti<\/td>\n$599<\/td>\n$772<\/b><\/td>\n$1,179<\/td>\n$1,208<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3070<\/td>\n$499<\/td>\n$773<\/b><\/td>\n$1,086<\/td>\n$1,210<\/td>\n$1,239<\/td>\n$819<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti<\/td>\n$399<\/td>\n$658<\/b><\/td>\n$923<\/td>\n$979<\/td>\n$1,226<\/td>\n$675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3060<\/td>\n$329<\/td>\n$485<\/b><\/td>\n$711<\/td>\n$749<\/td>\n$828<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvida RTX 3050<\/td>\n$249<\/td>\n$363<\/b><\/td>\n$539<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6900 XT<\/td>\n$999<\/td>\n$961<\/b><\/td>\n$1,528<\/td>\n$1,577<\/td>\n$1,841<\/td>\nDid not check<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6800 XT<\/td>\n$649<\/td>\n$869<\/b><\/td>\n$1,269<\/td>\n$1,341<\/td>\n$1,555<\/td>\n$1,232<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6800<\/td>\n$579<\/td>\n$796<\/b><\/td>\n$1,150<\/td>\n$1,395<\/td>\n$1,331<\/td>\n$841<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6700 XT<\/td>\n$479<\/td>\n$555<\/b><\/td>\n$847<\/td>\n$955<\/td>\n$1,169<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6600 XT<\/td>\n$379<\/td>\n$421<\/b><\/td>\n$610<\/td>\n$683<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6600<\/td>\n$329<\/td>\n$380<\/b><\/td>\n$516<\/td>\n$592<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6500 XT<\/td>\n$199<\/td>\n$209<\/b><\/td>\n$365<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Just as importantly, some graphics cards are actually staying in stock <\/em>at retailers when their prices are too high \u2014 again, something that sounds perfectly normal but that we haven\u2019t seen in a while. For many months, boutiques like my local retailer Central Computers could only afford to sell you a GPU as part of a big PC bundle, but now it\u2019s making every card available on its own<\/a>. GameStop is selling a Radeon RX 6600 for just $10 over MSRP<\/a>, and it hasn\u2019t yet sold out. Newegg has also continually been offering an RTX 3080 Ti for just $10 over MSRP<\/a> (after rebate, too) \u2014 even if $1,200 still seems high for that card\u2019s level of performance<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re willing to pay a markup, there are plenty more: a quick scan shows me the price floor of an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti has fallen to around $580, 3070 Ti to $700<\/a>, and 3080 to around $1,000 at retail, with some retailers boasting an \u201cinstant savings\u201d or \u201cinstant rebate\u201d rather than lowering their prices across the board. Some, like Asus, say they\u2019re passing along savings to customers now that a Trump-era tariff on GPUs has expired<\/a>. In Germany, retail prices have dipped to just between 12 and 19 percent over MSRP, according to 3DCenter<\/a>, which has been tracking those prices longer than anyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point you can have a card from any SKU for prices people would have jumped for three months ago,\u201d says Falcodrin, the full-time GPU hunter I interviewed last December<\/a>. And Falcodrin is pretty sure the prices will continue to fall \u2014 because even as supply begins to catch up, demand has fallen off. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is unwilling to pay now. Part of that is probably just they got their card, part of that\u2019s probably tax season, and part of it is that US consumer sentiment is as low as it\u2019s been since 2008,\u201d Falcodrin tells The Verge<\/em>, admitting that his own business has been rough as cryptocurrency miners close up shop and inflation continues to soar. <\/p>\n

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EVGA\u2019s \u201cinstant rebate\u201d brings the RTX 3080 12GB down to $1,000, but that\u2019s just the going rate now.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

So, if Nvidia and AMD\u2019s partners want to sell their stock of GPUs, they may soon be competing with one another to lower prices once more.<\/p>\n

With many prices still $200 over MSRP, we\u2019re not out of the woods yet, but nobody\u2019s selling GPUs or consoles for double or triple what they\u2019re worth anymore. On eBay, only two graphics cards \u2014 the RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti \u2014 are selling for more than 1.5 times their MSRP on average. Another encouraging sign is that the number<\/em> of GPUs changing hands in a week has dropped by over half since March, making them much less attractive to scalpers.<\/p>\n

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How many changed hands in a week? April 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Item<\/th>\nApril 2022<\/th>\nMar 2021<\/th>\nDec 2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<\/tbody>\n
Item<\/th>\nApril 2022<\/th>\nMar 2021<\/th>\nDec 2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n
PS5 (disc)<\/td>\n759<\/td>\n1,898<\/td>\n3,651<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PS5 (digital)<\/td>\n202<\/td>\n422<\/td>\n1,633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xbox Series X<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n518<\/td>\n1,518<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xbox Series S<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n199<\/td>\n960<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti<\/td>\n23<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3090<\/td>\n192<\/td>\n428<\/td>\n372<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti<\/td>\n126<\/td>\n465<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3080<\/td>\n209<\/td>\n556<\/td>\n384<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti<\/td>\n345<\/td>\n341<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3070<\/td>\n234<\/td>\n673<\/td>\n505<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti<\/td>\n275<\/td>\n750<\/td>\n141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3060<\/td>\n206<\/td>\n639<\/td>\n782<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nvidia RTX 3050<\/td>\n30<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6900 XT<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6800 XT<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n91<\/td>\n107<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6800<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6700 XT<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n165<\/td>\n98<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6600 XT<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n204<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6600<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n112<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AMD RX 6500 XT<\/td>\n14<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total consoles<\/td>\n1,202<\/td>\n3,037<\/td>\n7,762<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total GPUs<\/td>\n1,975<\/td>\n4,515<\/td>\n2,578<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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One thing that might surprise you is that Sony\u2019s PlayStation 5 is <\/em>still holding its value on eBay, fetching an average of $703 for the disc drive model, roughly the same as we saw in January and still 1.4 times its MSRP. That, even though the street price of Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Series X fell 20 percent during the same period to $547 (just $48 over MSRP). The Xbox Series S, meanwhile, is no longer a scalping target at all since it\u2019s been readily available for months at its $299 sticker price. Good! <\/p>\n

At the rate prices and volumes are falling, eBay may not be a valuable price checking tool for long \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly the way we want it because that\u2019ll mean that sanity has returned.<\/p>\n

Then again, there\u2019s a decent chance Nvidia and AMD announce new higher-priced cards before that happens, like the rumored RTX 4080 and RTX 4090<\/a>, and there\u2019ll always be something else to scalp. The Steam Deck<\/a> is currently fetching an average of over $1,000 on eBay in case you\u2019re wondering. Fun!<\/p>\n