Yes, they are fantasy prices... Logically, the selling price is dependent on more than the manufacturing cost, which seems to be around $300....
I will certainly wait and see.... it will surely get cheaper again, surely when AMD will follow suit again....
No wonder EVGA is no longer interested in manufacturing Nvidia based GPUs when Nvidia is competing and bleeding their partners themselves.
--> Reference for manufacturing costs:
https://tech4gamers.com/nvidia-gef...Not quite. The 300$ (manufacturing costs listed by Gabbel1986) are for a large part of the components but not for all components. So more like 350$ (personally I estimate it more like 400..500$). Furthermore, the card development costs, the engineers want to be paid and there are probably one or two offices, laboratories and licenses that need to be paid. So that's about $500 to $600 that Nvidia has to have. The retailer then adds another 50%, making about 750..900$ until it reaches the customer in the USA. Here in Switzerland everything is more expensive, at least 10%, so 825..990$. With VAT and conversion costs, it's more like 850..1050CHF. The ASUS card here is a higher-quality card, based on similar series, the price would be more like 1000..1200CHF (roughly equivalent to an Asus ROG Strix 3080).
The actual purchase price then depends on supply and demand. Can I afford it? Do I need it? Do I rather buy cheaper but already outdated (4080 has encoder etc. which are not available in 3080/TI, besides 4080 need much less power than a halfway comparable 3080/TI and are quieter)? Or wait until the price comes down? Or another one? Or do I spend even more money on a 4090? If any question had a clear yes, it wouldn't be a question here :-)
Why are the 3080 cheaper? Because they have to go and their direct costs are cheaper because their GPUs and RAM come from older and now cheaper manufacturing processes.
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