Experts Argue About the Price of Nvidia RTX 3000
Many people wonder if the new RTX 3000 GPUs from Nvidia will be more expensive than their Turing counterparts. On Twitter, two hardware experts present extremely polarized positions.
- Opinions are divided about the prices of RTX 3000 cards, some say they'll cost as much as their Turing generation counterparts, others say they'll be much more expensive;
- Two hardware experts published extreme positions on Twitter on the prices of Nvidia's cards. Who's right?
At the beginning of September, Nvidia is expected to provide official information about new GPUs from the Ampere family. Maybe then we will also know their prices. For a long time now, possible prices have been discussed in various community forums and threads. The main question that interests us most is whether the new devices will be more expensive than the Turing generation.
This important issue has sparked a fiery debate between two hardware experts on Twitter. First, Don Charlie (@ghost_motley) presented his thesis on the prices of new RTX cards:
According to him, RTX 3000 series GPUs will be much more expensive than the previous generation. This is particularly true of the RTX 3080 Ti (or RTX 3090), which is expected to cost 50% more. A different perspective on Ampere has Mr. Grunt (@Ashraf_Medhat93):
As you can see, in this case the prices are to be the same or similar to the counterparts from the previous generation.
Twitter user explains his thesis with the choice of chipset supplier for Nvidia;s new GPUs - Samsung. Rumor has it that the Korean giant's offer was cheaper than TMSC. RTX 2000 cards were considered to be quite expensive after their launch, and perhaps Nvidia is reducing costs to avoid the same situation.
Who's right in this case? The high prices of Turing cards may have been due to a lack of competition. Ray tracing was a novelty and only Nvidia cards had hardware support for this technology. Nowadays the situation is a bit different, because the new AMD cards based on RDNA 2 technology are also supposed to support RTX. A new player, Intel with its Xe-HP/HPG chipsets, is also expected to enter the GPU market. Thanks to these facts, it can be assumed that Nvidia will not price its new cards too high, although in my opinion they will be a bit more expensive than Mr. Grunt suggests. As the ancients said, "the truth often lies in the middle".
Don Charlie is a Twitter user (@ghost_motley), who often publishes technical news and leaks. More than 1,000 people thought his account was worth watching. His most read entries were for AMD and Nvidia GPUs, but on his profilewe can find everything from mobile technologies and PCs.
Mr. Grunt is a tech enthusiast from Cairo who regularly posts on his Twitter account (@Ashraf_Medhat93).
