Can see that the EVGA prices on his video are noticably lower than they are on the US website now
The EU EVGA website hasn't had any prices changes to 3080 cards (yet), so is this tariff excuse he mentions USA only?
Basically not sure on the tariffs as far as if any other countries other than the U.S. will be affected.
But really many other countries have been paying higher prices all along because of their higher import and VAT taxes so maybe for some products the U.S. is just catching up to what the rest of the world has been paying for some time. But the supply/demand issues and component price increases and shortages along with higher shipping cost will probably affect prices world wide.
Also was a report that tsmc chips had done away with their pricing discount to customers for large quantity purchases which will affect AMD on all of their product cost and the gaming console market will probably be affected as well. TSMC has already sold out all their manufacturing capabilities through 2022 and does not need to give the discounts to be at full capacity for their production facilities.
It may actually end up being in Nvidia's favor long term to be using Samsung chips as far as production is concerned.
Also if Intel gets their new process fully worked out and full production them having their chip production in house could well be to their advaqntage as well.
AMD has all its eggs and all of its product lines currently in the one egg basket which is tsmc chips and that actually greatly controls how much product AMD can deliver to retail suppliers for all the products they produce which may not be a good thing.
Oh, this is nothing new. Yes, prices are definitely going up, but they'll come back down again, I can wait that long.
Many of those close to the industry are starting to believe that these new prices may well be becoming the new normal and that the new "budget"cards which used to be the $200-$250 cards will now be the new $300-$400 cards and so forth with like price increases across the product stack.
Also with the pandemic, world currency uncertainties, and the basically return to the 2017 era interest in those using these cards for mining many do not see prices retracting anytime soon if ever and actually think we may be seeing the "new normal" as far as price points are concerned.
I need an FE card so it doesn't really matter what the partner models do to gouge people.
Good luck on your quest as the FE cards are some of the lowest production number cards being produced period. Those cards remind me of black Friday sales ad TV's where the store only has two and is expecting 100's of customers through the door wanting one at those prices, A teaser to get you in the store and wanting one while hitting you with the bait and switch to the product they actually make a profit on.
Gamer's Nexus said something similar here:
Gamer's Nexus is one site I trust what they say a lot more than other sources, But there are so many sources reporting the same doom and gloom as far as both prices and stock availability in the foreseeable future I really believe that most are convinced of the validity of the claims.