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Newegg blames tariffs for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 price hikes (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe someone can correct me if there is a flaw in this idea, but you can get last gen for significantly cheaper when new gen releases. I bought 3070 founders edition for ~$350 soon after 40 series dropped

[–] isildun 3 points 3 days ago

I’m upgrading my PC from 2017 (GTX 1070) this year and the GPU market is a bloodbath. I managed to get a 5080 via a Newegg ~~scam~~ combo after sitting there and refreshing… for days. Even the combos would sell out almost instantly upon going up.

The lack of availability of 50-series combined with lackluster generational performance growth (4090 is better than 5080) means that used 40-series cards either kept or even gained value. New 40-series cards don’t exist anymore since nvidia stopped production months ago to focus on 50-series.

5070(ti) launches later this month and the rumors I’ve seen are that it will be just as bad as 5080/5090.