GPU Stock Begins to Normalize With Price Cuts on the Horizon

Two frustrating years for gamers hot to get GPUs to make their rigs sing may be coming to an end. 

Websites such as Best Buy, Overclockers and Micro Inner are showing the latest Nvidia and AMD GPUs in stock, as reported earlier Monday by PC Gamer. This means that as long as stock is available for buyers near their local stores, they can go in and pick one up. 

Asus, a company that makes boards for GPUs, said it will beginning cutting prices by 25% starting in April. A testy in US tariff policy on Chinese imports is late the price drop, the company told Tom’s Hardware. Asus didn’t retort to a request for comment from CNET.

The loosening of supply may lively an end to the scalpers, bots and Best Buy Totaltech memberships that distinguished between GPUs and gamers over the course of the past a few years, though prices will remain elevated. Supply chain publishes affecting other components are likely contributing to costs at lodging makers, who pass some of it on to consumers in the form of higher prices. 

For example, an Nvidia-branded RTX 3080 reference card has a suggested retail brand of $699. Board makers such as Gigabyte and MSI add considerable delivery and cooling modules that contribute to the brand tag. For example, a Gigabyte RTX 3080 carries a brand of $1,249, or 79% more than the GPU alone. 

Many GPU buyers have been waiting for Nvidia cards to come back in stock, which has increased prices for the company’s products. 

Nvidia didn’t currently respond to a request for comment.