Wednesday, March 19th 2025
NVIDIA Adjusts GeForce RTX 50 Series Pricing in Europe; Slight Reduction Result of Favourable Exchange Rate
Graphics card price watchers have highlighted refreshing downward motion in Europe, apparently affecting three out of the four GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. VideoCardz received a couple of email tip-offs from its pan-European audience, prompting the publication of a short investigative piece. NVIDIA's slight adjustment of official pricing for GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 models is the result of a strengthened Euro. The US dollar's value has dropped by roughly 3.9 %; according to recent detective work, focusing on German trends. Team Green's "generous" reductions have arrived roughly two weeks after a stabilization of the USD-EUR exchange rate.
Curiously, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is an outlier here—NVIDIA did not reduce its German guide price (€879 + VAT) for this upper-mid-range offer. A Founders Edition does not exist at this GPU level, so Team Green has tasked its board partners with the creation of so-called "MSRP conformant" alternatives. One of VideoCardz's tipsters has observed various GeForce RTX 50 series models simply "rotting on shelves," due to potential buyers balking at unreasonable retailer-implemented price hikes. NVIDIA's minor changes (4.3 to 4.6 %) are unlikely to make a noticeable impact across the Euro zone.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series pricing (for Germany)—launch price to current price
Source:
VideoCardz
Curiously, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is an outlier here—NVIDIA did not reduce its German guide price (€879 + VAT) for this upper-mid-range offer. A Founders Edition does not exist at this GPU level, so Team Green has tasked its board partners with the creation of so-called "MSRP conformant" alternatives. One of VideoCardz's tipsters has observed various GeForce RTX 50 series models simply "rotting on shelves," due to potential buyers balking at unreasonable retailer-implemented price hikes. NVIDIA's minor changes (4.3 to 4.6 %) are unlikely to make a noticeable impact across the Euro zone.
- RTX 5090: €2329 —> €2229 (-4.3%)
- RTX 5080: €1169 —> €1119 (-4.3%)
- RTX 5070 Ti: €879 —> €879 (0%)
- RTX 5070: €649 —> €619 (-4.6%)
37 Comments on NVIDIA Adjusts GeForce RTX 50 Series Pricing in Europe; Slight Reduction Result of Favourable Exchange Rate
All I am saying is, let's not pretend that these GPU's are primarily being bought by gamers, that is bs and a straight up lie.
People should start voting with their wallets, instead of pouring money into nVidia's callous pocket, especially, when the new gen of cards have beyond mediocre performance uplift.
PC Gaming is starting to become a very expensive, luxury hobby.
Till 2028 some of of 4090 might have melted connectors only that, if power gate not gonna let voltages to mess up other components on the card, I would add some of those yet to come repair costs to it.
IMO is a powerful card on weak PCB design.
Most people will do fine with midrange cards. Yes AIB costs are cutting even more now and maybe 9000 and 5000 series, will have more issues than the already present ones.
Sure every company needs to stay profitable to be viable in long term and to be able to keep developing new products.
But what nvidia has done for very long time is about as healthy for the whole as cancer expanding at the expense of everything else.
Without gross abuse of market position and monopolistic often at minimum semi-illegal tactics we would have had more real advance in graphics cards with more performance and features per money... Instead of advance being measured in how much higher rape&robbery prices every new release brings.
And if you claim graphics cards make only small parts of nvidia's profits, even those AI/datacenter etc profits are in the end ripped from back skin of every consumer!
So not "fake news" at all.