Unsure if I want to open any GPU can of worms but maybe it helps someone..
CPL also have the MSI Gaming X for $1,199 on pre order.
Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16GB Graphics Card $1179 Delivered ($0 SYD C&C) @ PCByte
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No argument but boy was that long ago.
Edit - some comments in there did not age well haha
yeah i was gonna to buy it hoping it would go lower but i can wait haha
weren't these sub $1k a little while ago?
Yep but everything being dragged up. My concern of I were hanging about would be last gen basically selling out which would leave anyone suck with new gen..
Let's HODL on the new gen too!
I think you did open the can of worms. :-)
I did and seems I copped some salt haha!
So much for the HLOD people hey…
i bought in august last year and never saw the massive drops around the corner, so i have no regrets
And, most importantly, you enjoyed using it.
@scuderiarmani: exactly, only having a vega 8 for the past 6 months wouldve been incredibly tedious, especially for blender/cad
@scuderiarmani: HODL people will be dead and buried once 50xx series is out.
They'll get heart attack with their $500 budget.
It is still a lot cheaper compare to the same month last year. So long term holder win.
And it make sense to wait if the new gen is only 6 months away, remember when 3070 was released for $800-$1000 with the performance of 2080Ti?Of course some of us disagree with the current price and decided to hold further or choose cheaper option to by pass the time.
It is free market after all, remember to "vote with your wallet" and resist the temptation. Sometime, it is just not worth the money.
You buy what you can afford, when you can, when you need it.
If you waited a year, you had nothing or something probably not meeting your needs…. Why put up with it for $100 or so?
If you just upgrade for the sake of upgrading, well, you'll get ripped off, but each to their own it's their money, they are entitled to spend it how they want.
I could have stuffed around, but I paid slightly higher than RRP for a TUF 3080 within 2 months of launch from a local B&M store. No regrets when they virtually doubled…. No stress looking every day too…
I'd never go around predicting the market, though if I had to bet months ago, I saw this exact mess coming. I wasn't holding onto false hopes AMD was gonna save us LMAO. Can check my history.
@scuderiarmani: The problem is we are not putting it up for $100, but $1000 or even $1800. The market price is overinflated after 1080ti.
@scuderiarmani: you'll keep getting negged as people like rod only got $500 on his budget. so why bother giving them your advice. Nvidia won't be selling 5070 Ti for $500 in 2 or 3 years so they just keep day dreaming forever.
@[Deactivated]: Yep, living in the past. Times have changed. Upper end GPUs for $5-700 is never going to happen.
@[Deactivated]: it's possible they will drop, although i agree unlikely to go back to 2016 levels if only due to increased money supply (inflation).
currently gpu manufacturers are hodling themselves while sales volume plummets, trying to force the market to accept the new pricing. will they win? probably, but it's not certain.
4070 ti has actually caught my eye, with similar performance to the 3090 while being more power efficient.
as for the price… well its not the greatest but its similarly priced to the 3090 atm so i might as well.
only issue is actually getting the funds together for a gpu lolIm a hodl person coz i have no urgent need for a video card and dont think its worth the price. Were i to need it for a 3a title immediately i woulda bought one already. Agree to vote with wallet.
I got an ex-mining 3080 for $550 (needed a repad and paste) a couple of months back, so I was pretty happy with how my HODL worked out
that's not HODL, that just buying from ex miners from abused cards. HODL means buying brand new 5070 super with warranty for $500.
I got an ex-mining 3080
Also encouraged their behaviour.
Not good, not good.@SickDmith: If its ex mining then the miner had stopped mining, so supporting the end of their "behaviour"
@Lonewolf1983: No, you're supporting their pocket after they earn heaps of $$$ from mining.
Should had let their cards rotten in their storage.
Buying from Nvidia new from the stores support local jobs and further innovation.
I caved on the $999 Asus tuf top edition, glad i did now! this will last me atleast 2023, lets see what 2024 refreshes bring
I got a new 3080 12gb for under $1k during the 4090 announcement and I remember seeing people saying the 30 series will half in price after the 40 series comes out lol
Same dills probably said the same and sold their 2080tis for $600 too….
I got this card 6 months ago too. Very happy with it
Where is your neg?
At almost $1200, wouldn't you be better off going the newer 7900XT? (which was had lately for low $1400s)
If I remember the 7900xt vs 6900xt perf numbers right, so should be pretty similar price/perf scaling.
The result will change with price movement, so better to do your own maths.
Very happy with my Sapphire 6900xt Extreme Edition for $1k. 250fps+ on Warzone 2
Random question, but what settings are you using and what cpu? I struggle to get above 140 on lowest. Putting to max gives me 80-110 but I get severe stuttering
Nah… I'll take it at $500.
Cool story mate.
good luck with that
I remember seeing 6900xt's for $900 awhile ago. At this price you might as well go for the 7900xt which ive seen for $1,439…and theyll drop even further now that the 4070ti is out
I've heard lots about what will happen and lost faith in that. Also I think for those stuck at 1440p for the next 5 years saving the money may still make sense (given the 7900 xt was that price for one day at one place)
It was $1,150 about a week ago. Ordered one then.
Seemed like a better deal than paying $1500 for the cheapest new gen.Agree entirely
It also depends on power consumption and energy cost. It could be only small difference as I never did the math.
For the few of you with Mac Pros, Mac with eGPU, or Hackintosh, keep in mind the 6900XT is the best GPU supported natively on MacOS. Not sure if Apple will add 7000 series support on Intel moving forward due to the transition to ARM.
Yup- also keep in mind that you can’t use a 6700 series. Only 69xx, 68xx, or 66xx.
At these prices I will just keep my gtx1080 until it dies.
Same
Same
Same here
I wish the RTX 3080 12Gb drops down to around $1K, well that or if the 6950XT drops to around $1K again, I'm going to bite on either one.
These were $1000 as long as 6 months ago lol
Yeah, too bad we dont have a time machine aye?
idk how that makes this a deal
I guess every deal comes after always need to be cheaper than the previous one to be a deal right?
@Masticccc: you tell me? If the baseline for a 6900XT to be considered a deal was $1000 6 months ago, do you think it's a deal at $180 dearer 6 months later?
@Yeahbudsimmons: I guess all the deals during covid peak should be deleted, considering they are x2-x5 times pricing before the pandemic. 3 months, 6 months or even 10 years later doesn't decide whether the price should go up or down, it's the situation at the time deciding it.
I haven't done the cost per frame, AND this isn't the best deal these have been, sure, but it's not horrible and if my GPU died this moment, I'd probably buy something 'like' this, if the value isn't worse than the awful current options out there. Otherwise I'd probably go used.
Yep I think that's right and my opinion too. It's the best deal right now imo.
This is not a deal. There is no longer mining, covid is down (hopefully it stays like that), there is plenty of stock in the warehouse and people are not spending due to recession and high interest rates.
Price should only go down and not up. The only reason it stays this way is when customers show they are ready to pay this much and upvote deals like this and show enthusiasm to retailers. Its either corporates give up and lower the price or consumers give up and pay more. We consumers get to decide.
finally a comment in here with some HODLing commonsense 😁👍
I didnt HODL, i ended up buying a used card with still warranty remaining. Not giving a cent to these corporates until the rates come down.
Be an influencer and spread the words as wide as you can, then it'd work. An individual's decision to HODL is like a needle in a hay sack, but when many more customers listen to this and stop buying, that will make a dent in the corporation's revenue chart. This is the only way that they will barge
@Smilence03: True, but I am sorry mate, I done my part since the last 2 years along with RodM and Jimmy and many other true fighters. Spent enough time on this. Time for me to stop I guess. The world will balance itself eventually for the good or bad.
Half right. I mean you state people aren't spending then suggest they are buying cards. The manufacturers aren't setting wholesale prices based on ozb upvotes. There is still plenty of cash out there and whatever you may feel about people buying cards, they're still buying them.
Its a generic answer. People not spending does not mean every soul alive is not spending. Graphics card sales is all time low currently. Just becuase they are selling out does not mean a lot has been sold. They are literally dripping latest gen GPUs to sell older models. AMD is not even having cards to RMA the bad 7900XTX thermal cards. They just want the prices to remain high. Both companies are price fixing. Someone should open a law suite like they did a decade ago.
As mentioned by a few others this isn't a deal. Either the same card (or equivalent entry-level 6900 XT) was $1,149 last week and the week before, so this one's just gone up by $30 for no additional value.
6900 XT prices have been trending down massively for the past 6 to 9 months, seemed to have hit their bottom about a month ago with the random Amazon deal and $1k to just under $1k deals around or just before Black Friday.
There are now newer generation cards (7900 XT and 4070 ti) which have close/similar fps performance to price ratios which still have a fair amount of stock, and have been trending down in price since release. Older generation cards like this shouldn't be going up in price when new ones are being released. The fact that this was $30 less last week (with stock on hand) really highlights that this isn't a good deal. Not one of the crazies saying to HODL until like $600, but compared to new release cards these aren't really worth picking up.
That random amazon deal was back on August so not really 1 month ago, but besides that you are right. Finally I see someone neg the deal with a good and thorough explanation, not another "6 months ago was 999$ so this one shouldn't" blah blah blah.
I believe that the Ozbargain guidelines say that neg voting is appropriate when something can be found cheaper somewhere else. I don't believe that what something cost a month ago, previous expired deals or speculation about future prices constitutes a neg vote under the guidelines. A quick check on Staticice, eBay and Amazon and I can see the next cheapest 6900XT available to buy right now is $1299. Therefore, if someone was for some reason looking to buy a 6900 XT right now, they will be well informed to know of this deal as it seems to be the cheapest around and the appropriate response would be an upvote or no vote at all.
With regard to your analysis. Multiple Youtube commentators predicted this situation at least 3 months ago, that previous gen cards would fall then go back up again after the release of the next gen cards because supply of the older cards dries up (they are not making these cards anymore) and everyone realises that the new gen cards are overpriced. Now that all the fence sitters have seen that 7xxx are unaffordable they are all scrambling to find themselves a 'cheap' 6900xt only to realise there is limited supply left. Supply and demand - supply is down and demand just went up therefore price can only go up.
no deal.
After missing out on the earlier sub-$1K deals, I'm very glad I bought a used (un-mined though) 6800XT for $700 becasuse it's still a beast and will do me okay for a good while
Good work sir.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/716625 - they need to bring back this deal or lower