Prices here in Japan are ridiculous on all graphics cards. They're still fairly niche for people into gaming, certain creative pursuits, and, I suppose, crypto. They're also in short supply so they go to a lottery system in many sellers and to scalpers at the rest. Even then, the price can be what feels like spending double or triple that. I have a 20xx (2080, I think)? and I just don't see myself upgrading anytime at all soon. It used to be that it was cheaper to use something like NewEgg (who have their own problems, apparently), but as the JPY and USD went further apart, that stopped being worth it. Sorry, makers of new games, I can't afford to buy a PC good enough to buy your games.
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A reminder that tariffs are actually a thing.
A 25% tariff on a $600 item is $150. Even taking into account the tariff applying to the import cost instead, sales margins aren't the majority of the cost. The tariff is applying to the wholesale cost to import the product, sales margins are then added on top of that.
I haven't seen a single thing from AMD about whether the MSRP was set taking the tariffs into account or not. If not, then that should only apply to the devices imported before that went into effect. And everything after would be at least 25% more, more like 30% taking into account sales margins are based AFTER import costs.
Yep Trump added terrifs on gpus last term too
When you have thousands of possible upstream causes, but the end consumer effectively only sees and cares about two (availability, and price) then of course it's all going to look the same. When you have a fever, cough, and shortness of breath it could be COVID, or pneumonia, or influenza, or just a cold, looks pretty similar when you have limited symptoms to work with.
Especially to the perpetually online edgelords on places like lemmy and reddit. Might as well just accept any and all conspiracy theories without evidence as well while we're at it, because they're apparently just as valid as plausible economic reasons when there is limited data. I miss when the tinfoil hat people without a shred of evidence were pushed out of society instead of being given the same platform as evidence-based conclusions.
What the hell are you ranting about? It's common knowledge that he did last term as well.
In 2018, the U.S. government under former president Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on certain products made in China. This included graphics cards, motherboards, SSDs, and other products that rely on printed circuit boards. The Trump administration then suspended tariffs on products such as 'graphics processing modules' and 'unfinished logic boards' in September 2019 till January 2021. The Biden administration did not remove the import rule altogether, but continued to temporarily suspend it using a temporary exclusion process.
I'm getting to the point where i would love to replace my 3070, it getting quite long in the tooth, but cant see doing that for at least another generation or two with these prices!
My 3070 does everything I need.
It does for me too, but it's starting to get older, had to turn down helldivers!
And what makes you think, things will improve in a generation or two? I think the NVIDIA master plan is eventually for everyone to use GeForce now, AMD will probably offer some kind of alternative to that with physical cards, but most likely they will continue being overpriced.
No, things will be worse.
But at least the performance increase will be larger!
Boycott those greedy jerks. That’s the only way they’ll understand.
Stick with your old GPU, or buy secondhand.