With the cost of graphics cards well in excess of a 100% price increase from retailers, why is EVGA boosting their own prices as well? As a gamer, it's difficult when I'm just looking to upgrade from an older GPU!

Memory including DDR3, DDR4, GDDR5 and even GDDR6 all come from 4 manufacturers. Since everything including my toaster comes with some memory inside, the demand has risen and thus the price has increased for RAM alone. Coupled with the high demand for graphics cards means the price for those has increased too.

Hopefully EVGA will have a restock soon.

Slimmer
 "The prices you mention 100% markup are NOT from retailers -- from Third Party Scalpers"
 
evga online store 1050ti is $240?
 
they are all taking advantage of the situation, even newegg,amazon and evga have jacked the prices way up.... v.gamers are what made these cards worth anything and now they cant get one...new xbox/ps is best bet for now

Lol... I don’t get why you whine about these prices when the new generation is nearly less than a month away from release. Wait patiently and prices will settle. For a short while.

Mustang60
that sounds great but the fact is its going to be awhile before the really good new generation cards come out , so its not like its around the corner for them .
 
 
And while Im here I payed 659 for an nvidia evga 1080FTW2 , How much would they have been normally?

Well last March I picked up my 1080FTW for $439 as a B-stock.  So let that sink in to how demand has made prices go insane.

Mustang60
I was guessing around 550 , I payed around 400 for my 470 and 570 and 770 I never had an 80 series card  before .

I remember the  8800 Ultra and the GTX 280 released. Both at higher MSRP than the 1080..Adjusted for inflation, the price to performance ratio has increased by a massive amount. But many folks only see $$$ and don't realize the massive performance gain in the last decade for both GPU and CPU for LESS.   

And by the way , my 770 is still a great card the fans just broke . both of them at about the same time .
One started running slower and not long after that the other one quit working .
 
 Im running on my 470 right now , rocking CIv 6 just fine , ultra at 60 FPS early game , not sure what it will do late game but Im sure it will be good enough .
 
A evga, how bout sticking some new 770 fans in with that new 1080FTW2 I just bought ? :)

That would be great :)

No problem paying 240 for 120 card, no problem paying 800 for a 500 card and def no problem paying 1200 for a 700 card, not whining but loving it, and i hear things are only going to get better (new cards will def make prices better...ha hah ha ha )
 got a evga 980ti so im good for awhile longer (def not buying a new vid card anytime soon, they dont need my $$ anyways)
 
I do fully understand that newegg, evga and everyone else can jack the prices up because there are people stupid enough to pay that much, you/they can blame ddr prices and cripto miners all they want but they are no doubt taking advantage of the situation, prices should be 20 more not 300 more (evga prices are not as bad as others, though they have no cards)
and sticks of memory used to be way more

Long time voyeur (and fan of) these forums - so a very belated hello & howdy here. I'm still amazed how well my EVGA GTX 670 keeps performing for most games and was very pleased with my EVGA card before it. I too would like to upgrade that card - but not gonna pay the outlandish card prices current in the marketplace.
 
PC Gamer and Tom's Hardware have had some great articles on it IMO - 2 days ago: 

A recent talk with Nvidia, and Nvidia's supposed prediction "that the pricing in the market will continue to go up through Q3 of this year most likely before we start seeing any type of relief." "In a  tech community lead Brian Hutchins talked about a visit from Nvidia to Massdrop HQ, in which they discussed the causes for the current shortages. "All new cell phones coming out by Apple and Samsung (and others) last year started using the same memory as graphics cards," Hutchins writes. "Apple and Samsung are willing to pay more for this memory to make sure they get it first and all of it that they need. This has created a shortage of memory for the much smaller companies like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, and EVGA to make graphics cards."

 
I however was pleased to see I can purchase a card (thinking of the 1060 6G) thru EVGA (when stock is available) and the prices seemed pretty affordable.  I actually prefer to do it that way - so will just wait to do so - plus check out the weekly Wednesday sales. But think Nvidia and AMD (and somewhat the card manufacturers) might be walking a semi-greedy biz tightrope here. If the lil mining party ends - then they'll come back to gamers saying they love them again - and some may have moved on to consoles or etc. who got sick of waiting for card price$ to come down.  Intel also just opened a GPU group and revealed a prototype - albeit just in the infancy of development - but still could decide they want some of that revenue in the future as well.
 
 
 
 
 

''Lucky'' enough to find 1080 FTW2 for 670 euros about a month ago.......BUT ram G.Skill 64 GB F4-3600C17Q-64GTZR went for 950 euros!!!!!!
I mean I have built a ''strong'' PC... but without monitor I have reached 4000 euros and about half of that is on Graphics.....Ram and storage..........
 
 

Well now a lot of sources say the memory shortages will last until 2019. So this prices don't show a sign of slowing down.

harmattan

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harmattan
I just sold my 1080 ti (that I'd bough last June for $750) for $1100.  That a 50%+ return on a card that's 8 months old -- insane.  That money is going right in my "Ampere" fund.
 
I can deal with using my trusty "old" 780 ti SC and backing down to 1440p for a few months until this all simmers down.

I'm probably going to end up doing the same thing.

In 25 years or buying/selling components, this may be the first time I actually make money from buying and using something.  Now the question is a) how much will the new card's prices be jacked and b) do I hold on to the profit or get something shinier e.g. a "2080 SC2 Hybrid".

One can only assume the next gen will be just as inflated.   I'm totally fine with waiting on the next gen.  I don't have a backup card and already used the integrated 7700k GPU for a week while I was waiting on my 1080 Ti step up.  It wasn't fun.
 
My original investment (card and hybrid kit) was about $850.  It's definitely not worth it to me to fall back to integrated graphics to sell for maybe a $300 profit.
 

EVGA has the 1050ti 4gb @ 239.00, when I paid 129.00 for it not too long ago. Can you tell me the Markup is from retailers only? Even with rising memory costs, the markup directly from the supplier is ridiculous!

TravisPNW
It's pretty crazy when you think about it.  $699 for my GPU in March 2017... and now it shows $1299.  I paid $250 for 32GB 3200 ram... it's now $450.
 
Glad I'm not trying to build a PC right now.   I said when I built it I'd want to run at least 3 years before I started upgrading parts... still my plan.

 Dang buddy, looks like from your specs you are as future proofed as you could hope to be. Do you have pics of that build posted anywhere?