Well according to Gamer Nexus and other notable source on the internet, the memory prices increased of about 30% in august and the percentage became of a net 20$-30$ per 8GB module. It's not about pull over anyone, but it's about doing the same business that competitors are doing. From the standard MSRP of 699$ to the almost 1000$ it's not about loss, it's about increasing the profit.
The increasing demand over the unexplainable "shortage" (a standard factory produces each day about 50 to 60 graphic cards) that lies nowadays, produced a net increase of the prices. 
 
You can't just overcharge a product by 30% just because memories increased their prices by 30%. 
The payrolls to manage were already balanced before this crazyness, and back then the prices were not this high, and so am I suppose to think that so far up to December were they constantly loosing money? I don't think so.
The automotive industry is another story at all, and I can assure you that prices in that segment never had a stable period between one generation and another, but they oscillate always around the average.

I hate to break it to you guys, but the next gen release of Volta and Vega will be magnitudes worse than what you are seeing now.  Before you got to see MSRP at least for a time, because it was before the ethereum/alt coins hit(You can't mine bitcoins on GPU's).  You just had to worry about the price sucking due to the DDR4/GDDR5 ram price fixing that Samsung/Hynix/Micron are engaged in.
 
Now, it's different.  The **** is already pregnant.  Now, it's just all bad.  Nvidia are creating stockpiles, and have been for the last 2 months- but it won't matter.  Crypto miners are getting the first transactions from the manufacturer/factories, before it even touches retail.  And retail has crypto miners on speed dial(newegg/amazon) letting them know when to wipe out their stock before the general public gets their hands on it.  They(miners) are ordering plane loads of GPU's at a time.  Multiple jumbo jet sized plane loads per order.  They are literally printing money with these GPU's, and they have millions of dollars backing them- so guess who gets screwed.
 
The only stopgap we're going to have is if these retailers make a corporate decision not to F over their customer pool to make a quick buck on some foreign mining company that doesn't give a squirt of piss if they live or die as a company.  So far, I've only see Microcenter attempt to try to do this.  They aren't doing gamers any favors- they are still overcharging their ass 20% above msrp, but they should have stock available.  And evga is trying this elite thing, which may or may not work depending on how good miners are at forum bot scripting.
 
In any case, understand that just because bitcoin has fallen, doesn't means ethereum or the alt coins have to the same degree.  And that's all that matters- except it doesn't.  Because that just gives crypto users an opportunity to make more money on the upswing when people buy low.  The only ray of hope we have on the PC side are that China will start charging these ram companies with collusion and price fixing, and that vendors begin to realize that they aren't moving any other stock other than GPU's and PCIE extenders for crap motherboards and they start to act right by their customers.  And our last option will be not to buy GPU's at all.  AMD is coming out with a second gen Ryzen/Vega desktop APU that isn't really going to cut it for miners, but will give regular gamers an actual affordable PC option.  It's called the 2000G series.
 
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-raven-ridge-first-benchmarks-for-ryzen-3-2200g-and-ryzen-5-2400g.html
 
As the level of difficulty jumps for ethereum and others, the miners will need to be prepared with Volta or Vega+, or whatever the fastest coin per watt is they can get.  And they know it's coming.  And they ain't gonna wait around for it to happen.  They'll jump in first and burn the entire GPU and PC market to ash if they have to.
 
Btw, AMD's CEO just complained that GDDR/HBM memory producers are still screwing with them.
 
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4141484-advanced-micro-devices-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su-q4-2017-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single
 
So yea, I'm not hoping for anything other than survival of the PC scene at this point.  These retail companies don't know it yet, but they are slitting their own throats by spreading their legs for every POS miner that calls them.  They're killing all the animals in the forest for their bottom line.  And maybe that's what they want in the end.  It would certainly simplify their supply chain.  But all their eggs will then be in one basket just waiting to be crushed.  We'll see how it pans out, but from what I'm seeing, it ain't.

Are there plans to stock up today?

PRIMIDMEDIA
Thank you Jacob! You saved my life. Razer laptop died on me( never going Razer) building a desktop for the first time and I see all this gpu madness. All I have to say is thank you my clients won’t kill me now!

Get a APU for now till the cards come back and down on price.

repo1979

MarcSam
Well according to Gamer Nexus and other notable source on the internet, the memory prices increased of about 30% in august and the percentage became of a net 20$-30$ per 8GB module. It's not about pull over anyone, but it's about doing the same business that competitors are doing. From the standard MSRP of 699$ to the almost 1000$ it's not about loss, it's about increasing the profit.
The increasing demand over the unexplainable "shortage" (a standard factory produces each day about 50 to 60 graphic cards) that lies nowadays, produced a net increase of the prices. 
 
You can't just overcharge a product by 30% just because memories increased their prices by 30%. 
The payrolls to manage were already balanced before this crazyness, and back then the prices were not this high, and so am I suppose to think that so far up to December were they constantly loosing money? I don't think so.
The automotive industry is another story at all, and I can assure you that prices in that segment never had a stable period between one generation and another, but they oscillate always around the average.

Have you thought that maybe prices have increased on them again. Either way this is the market now and either you pay the price or don't pay. I don't like paying more but it is what it is and i look forward to getting a card soon

Just wait a couple of months. I think it will get better.

Stealth3si

Carbon-12

EVGA_JacobF
Most (likely all) will be for ELITE for the near future. DIY does not require ELITE though.

Ok I'll make 22 more useless post

gz on your 100+ posts dude

I was not there at the time of the reply

I just created a new online currency, back by EVGA and it's customers around the glob.
I'll pay anyone $1 per post if you will transfer some of your "PostCoin" to my account.
I'm going to be a crypto king billionaire. I'll buy EVGA and then I'll be holding all the cards! I might even make everyone Elite!

lucky0slevin
What's ETA on shipping once order is placed? Seems like I placed it yesterday and still not shipping.... still processing for shipping

Usually next day.. you'll prob see the shipped up date this evening.. it is California.

Dark Marauder
I just created a new online currency, back by EVGA and it's customers around the glob.
I'll pay anyone $1 per post if you will transfer some of your "PostCoin" to my account.
I'm going to be a crypto king billionaire. I'll buy EVGA and then I'll be holding all the cards! I might even make everyone Elite!

Make me an Elite when this happens. lol

Tucubanito07
I have been searching for one of these FTW 3 for a long time. Now all miners have them.

Serious miners don't WANT that type of card.
The extra power connection makes it a pain to get into a multi-card rig, and the cost isn't worth the total lack of any improvement in performance when mining even close to efficiently.
Miners are a lot more likely to look at the SC Black or blower models as the lowest cost option.
 
Again, someone with zero knowlege spouting lies out of total ignorance.

The good news (for gamers) is: any new rig built today with these gpu prices will be unprofitable (current BTC, ETH, ZEC). It would take you 1+ year just to cover capex.

Existing rigs are profitable if cards have already paid for themselves. Somewhat less so if you are still paying off cards at last years prices.

Tucubanito07
 

EVGA most know something that other suppliers don't know. I have not seen Asus or even Zotac in stock anywhere. I keep looking everywhere no matter the place. Still nothing. I have a feeling it has to do with Volta.



Plenty of 1050 ti models AND BELOW available on Newegg at MSRP or less - including EVGA (Samsung made GPUs).
It's the 1060 and up cards (TSMC made GPUS) that have been in very short supply outside of the "affiliate" gougers - from ALL manufacturers not just EVGA.
 
 ASIC units, except for "first batch" when one comes out for an algorithm that never had an ASIC option before, tend to be LESS profitable per $ invested than GPU mining is at this time and a LOT less profitable on a per-watt-used basis right now.
 The price drop on most coins over the last couple weeks has me very close to the point of SHUTTING DOWN what few ASIC units I have left (they ARE as they are about to beccome NOT PROFITABLE AT ALL.
The unit involved aren't current-generation though, they're generation-old - and they were in the SAME situation about this time last year before the BIG price jumps happened.
 
 Generation old GPUs like the 9xx series or the HD 79xx/ R9 2xx/3xx series on the AMD side however are still SOLIDLY profitable.
 
 
 EVGA has raised prices - some - but only by an amount consistant with the increase in RAM pricing over the past year.
 
 It would appear that one of the major issues with the current shortage is the switchover at TSMC "around the end of the year" from Pascal GPUs to Volta GPUs - I'd say that kinda counts as a "manufacturing problem".
 The other issue is that both Nvidia AND AMD appear to have badly underestimated the amount of pent up demand by Gamers that appears to have led to the biggest "Christmas sales season" on higher-end machines since before the Great Recession, AND the biggest year of PC sales in general for several years with a strong skew to higher-end machines.

AHowes

MasterMiner
The good news (for gamers) is: any new rig built today with these gpu prices will be unprofitable (current BTC, ETH, ZEC). It would take you 1+ year just to cover capex.

Existing rigs are profitable if cards have already paid for themselves. Somewhat less so if you are still paying off cards at last years prices.

Actually 6 months if the card is making $5 a day.. Though I've heard people talk about 10+ a day with a 1080ti but I believe it's gone down.

At any rate.. would think a normal 9-5 job would pay more haha.

 
 Depending on whether one wants to be a IRS criminal or not, $5 is just raw revenue before taxes.

Taxes are a whole different topic. Suffice it to say there should be more gpu availablity soon. If not, then mining cannot rationally be the culprit.

Some availability here. More single card available later today.
 
Bundle: https://www.evga.com/products/featured-bundles.aspx
DIY: https://www.evga.com/products/diy/