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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

‘Moore’s Law’s dead,’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says in justifying gaming-card price hike

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moores-laws-dead-nvidia-ceo-jensen-says-in-justifying-gaming-card-price-hike-11663798618

“We are very, very specifically selling into the market a lot lower than is what’s selling out of the market, a significant amount lower than what’s selling out of the market,” Huang said. “And I’m hoping that by Q4 time frame, sometime in Q4, the channel would have normalized, and it would have made room for a great launch for Ada.” To critics, Huang said he feels the higher price is justified, especially since the cutting-edge Lovelace architecture is necessary to support Nvidia’s expansion into the so-called metaverse. “A 12-inch [silicon] wafer is a lot more expensive today than it was yesterday, and it’s not a little bit more expensive, it is a ton more expensive,” Huang said.

Personally, I don't think it's a good enough reason but I do think more and more that RDNA 3 will be just as costly but we will see.

As I said the other day, while there's no doubt that the chips are more expensive to make (TSMC raising their prices to reap more profits from the chip shortage and Nvidia having to pay a premium for using their latest process node, more noticeable because they got there from the cheaper Samsung 8nm fabs), AMD has two things going for them to minimize the price increase, and that's using the not so expensive 5nm process and going with chiplets, giving them more chips per waffer.

If RDNA3 are as expensive as Nvidia it will be only because AMD wants, not because they need to be that high.

Well, AIB's have much more negotiating power with AMD than they have with NVidia, so AMD needs to give them a higher share to keep them happy. The question is here how much this negates the cost cutting measures that AMD did with the 7xxx GPUs, but I guess there's still some wiggle room left. I expect the new GPUs to release with prices comparable to the 6x50 releases, which would still undercut NVidia  by quite some margin.

JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Radeon RX 6000 “RDNA 2” GPUs Get Official Price Cuts Prior To Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” Launch

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-6000-rdna-2-gpus-official-price-cuts-prior-to-radeon-rx-7000-rdna-3-launch/

Around 20% decrease for most GPUs. Some higher some lower.

I checked it and there are already some discounts. I think it's the first time I've seen 6700XT cards for less than 500€.

Just Tuesday I was on Mindfactory and found the 6700XT for 440€ (bit more expensive now at 465€), and the 6700 non-XT for 400€. Considering the 6600XT/6650XT (which is actually cheaper than the 6600XT now) is only 30€ cheaper than the 6700 non-XT, I consider that one a better buy right now.