RTX 4090 seems to be a bit in short supply from the surface. Last time, I saw that the number of reservations for JD public version RTX 4090 was as high as more than 200,000. This certainly does not mean that there are many domestic players. After all, reservations do not cost money, but this shows that RTX 4090 is indeed very popular. Of course, if you say that RTX 4090 will have a high sales volume, it is indeed unrealistic. Perhaps, except for a few rich NVIDIA fans, there will not be many people spending 12,999 yuan to buy a graphics card . You should know that at this price, you can even use a complete machine that can smoothly run 4K games.
Of course, many people say that as a flagship graphics card, RTX 4090 is more of a face-saving project for NVIDIA. What really needs to be achieved is the RTX 4080 and the lower-end RTX 4070, RTX 4060 and other graphics cards. Let’s not talk about the 12GB RTX 4080 that was criticized by players around the world to be cancelled. After all, this guy will definitely turn into an RTX 4070 to sell in the future. However, in terms of the current market conditions, we confirm that before the RTX 30 is delisted, there is little possibility that the RTX 40 series will be sold well, because the graphics cards of the RTX 30 series, especially the second-hand graphics cards, are really cheap!
NVIDIA's RTX 30 series have actually broken the issue price, and the new and authentic products are already below the official guide price, but this is obviously unattractive to players who have been tortured for two years. In addition to third-party channels, real low prices appear more in the second-hand market. Taking RTX 3080 Ti as an example, most self-operated stores on JD.com and Tmall are still above 7,000 yuan. Third-party channels such as PDD have a price of about 5,500 yuan to 6,000 yuan, which is already relatively low.
But the real low is the second-hand platform. On the well-known second-hand platform in China, the price of the RTX 3080 Ti is incredibly low. Currently, the price of Mining Card is around 3,000 yuan, while the second-hand self-use graphics card for mines is around 4,000 yuan. Usually, this second-hand self-use graphics card also comes with a two-year warranty period. Considering that the performance of the 12GB RTX 4080 is basically the same as that of the RTX 3080 Ti, you can buy the RTX 3080 Ti for less than 4,000 yuan. So why do you still need to buy a graphics card that costs 7,199 yuan?
So when RTX 30 has not really exited the market, RTX 40 may only have purchase value for RTX 4080 graphics cards with 16GB or above, because performance can be truly improved. For future graphics cards such as RTX 4070 and RTX 4060, we can definitely find products in the RTX 30 series graphics cards that are not inferior to them but are much cheaper. Of course, second-hand non-mineral graphics cards are more likely, but it is not ruled out that manufacturers clean up inventory and leak out some new cards with sharp declines in prices.
From our perspective, after RX 7000 is launched at the end of the year, you can consider changing the graphics card. In fact, from the current perspective, in addition to flagship-level products, such as RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, the value of purchasing other graphics cards is indeed not too great. In the future, we will definitely find products in the previous generation of graphics cards that are more powerful than them but much cheaper. Moreover, the price of mining cards has dropped too far now. You can buy RTX 3080 mining cards for more than 2,000 yuan, and the RTX 3090 mining cards are less than 5,000 yuan. This directly reduces the price of normal second-hand non-mineral graphics cards. This is very unfavorable for manufacturers to clear inventory of RTX 30 graphics cards, so everyone can consider buying new cards through third-party channels, or buying some second-hand graphics cards with after-sales guarantee.
