NVIDIA RTX 30 Founders Edition get a 6% price increase
For the first time since the introduction of the RTX 30 series, NVIDIA has officially increased the pricing of its cards.
With crypto coins dropping in value and better overall availability of cards in January, NVIDIA decided that this is the right moment to increase the prices of their reference cards. This new pricing only affects Founders Edition models sold in European Union so far, but there is information that the company will also be increasing prices in the UK.
The news was first shared on Notebooksbilliger/LDLC Discord group. The retailer has informed its customers that NVIDIA is planning to increase Founders Edition price for NBB (DE/AT/NL) and LDLC (FE/BE/LU/ES/IT) customers.
NVIDIA RTX 30 Price increase, Source: NBB Discord
On average, RTX 30 FE cards are now 5.5% more expensive, which does not sound like a huge increase, yet this means that RTX 3090 FE will cost 100 EUR more, and that’s a big difference.
NVIDIA Founders Edition cards were often the only chance for gamers to obtain NVIDIA’s latest cards at MSRP. This was only possible through NVIDIA’s own store and later select partners (such as BestBuy in US or NBB in Germany). At this time, it is unclear how will this affect the pricing of custom models or pricing in other regions.
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 FE Pricing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | BEFORE | AFTER | Increase |
| GeForce RTX 3090 | 1549 EUR | 1649 EUR | +6.4% |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 1199 EUR | 1269 EUR | +5.8% |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | 719 EUR | 759 EUR | +5.6% |
| GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | 619 EUR | 649 EUR | +4.8% |
| GeForce RTX 3070 | 519 EUR | 549 EUR | +5.8% |
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 419 EUR | 439 EUR | +4.7% |
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Family MSRP before (left) and after (right), Source: NVIDIA Germany
NVIDIA RTX 3070 Family MSRP before (left) and after (right), Source: NVIDIA Germany
Source: NVIDIA Germany , HardwareLuxx
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