ASUS reveals the European MSRPs of its RX 6500 XT graphics cards

[WYP]

It looks like AMD's $199 MSRP may not make to retailers.



Read more about ASUS' official European RX 6500 XT Dual and TUF MSRP prices.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Nice wedge of ASUS tax; purely because they know no matter how much they add, people will buy them.

 

[Warchild]

Nice wedge of ASUS tax; purely because they know no matter how much they add, people will buy them.

Unfortunately, there are so many weak willed people today, that this is not limited to ASUS. Pretty much any PC hardware manufacturer can do the same, and the availability factor trumps performance, price, and value greatly.

 

[AlienALX]

Nice wedge of ASUS tax; purely because they know no matter how much they add, people will buy them.

I don't think it's Asus tax. I think that is going to be the RRP no matter how much you dislike it.

Every one else will follow suit.

Unfortunately, there are so many weak willed people today, that this is not limited to ASUS. Pretty much any PC hardware manufacturer can do the same, and the availability factor trumps performance, price, and value greatly.

I think most of it is simply down to popularity. PC gaming is so popular now that companies know they can over charge. If I rewind back 10 years when every one hated PC gaming and was using an Xbox 360? parts were cheap. Games were half the RRP of console games and you didn't have to pay a monthly sub to play them online.

Now? games are the same or more. Even though they pay 0 in license fees. As I say, with popularity comes greed and prices surge.

I wouldn't even say this will be down to weak will. This is the cost of entry. IE, this is the card you need to be an entry level PC gamer. Without it you are a bit screwed really.

That said I hope it teaches every one at each end of the spectrum a lesson. You're all getting scalped no matter who you are.

 

[dazbobaby]

We desperately need intel and the Chinese to hurry up and compete, at least entry and mid-level cards should drop in price.

 

[AlienALX]

We desperately need intel and the Chinese to hurry up and compete, at least entry and mid-level cards should drop in price.

That isn't going to happen. It would have, had the U.S govt not forced AMD to stop providing them with tech, but since then? they have no chance. There are Chinese GPUs already, they are absolutely terrible. They're made for military stuff though, so the chances you could game on it any way are practically 0.

Your saviour, should you decide to accept it, is Intel. Cross your fingers, toes, legs and anything else you can find and pray.

 

[Piskeante]

This prices are considering there are still stupid people buying this kind of GPU for mining. So they expect high demand, which increases prices.

I know people buying GPUS for mining that didn't know that ETH is going PoS in like 5 months, and that the future of crypto mining is almost dead. They will not ROI their GPUS, they don't have a plan for post ETH 2.0, and that are paying high prices for electricity.

Ignorant people everywhere...

 

[ImprovizoR]

It just isn't worth it. There's no two ways about it. It was barely worth it at €200.

 

[AlienALX]

This prices are considering there are still stupid people buying this kind of GPU for mining. So they expect high demand, which increases prices.

I know people buying GPUS for mining that didn't know that ETH is going PoS in like 5 months, and that the future of crypto mining is almost dead. They will not ROI their GPUS, they don't have a plan for post ETH 2.0, and that are paying high prices for electricity.

Ignorant people everywhere...

From what I had heard it was universally accepted that 4gb was no longer enough for mining.

So it's just all out scalping.

 

[Piskeante]

From what I had heard it was universally accepted that 4gb was no longer enough for mining.

So it's just all out scalping.

Well, that's considering noone is actually mining anything else, which IMO, is not true. You can actually mine a lot of coins. And considering how efficient this things are in terms of power consumption, it's possible to take some profit if your electricity cost is low enough. There are still people mining coins with RX 570 and 580 with 4gb, but not in good profit, that's for sure.

 

[Warchild]

Well, that's considering noone is actually mining anything else, which IMO, is not true. You can actually mine a lot of coins. And considering how efficient this things are in terms of power consumption, it's possible to take some profit if your electricity cost is low enough. There are still people mining coins with RX 570 and 580 with 4gb, but not in good profit, that's for sure.

Given the cost of electricity right now, dont see that happening.