Asus and Zotac Massively Slash GeForce RTX 2000-Series Pricing 6park.com

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Anton Shilov
10 hours ago
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In time for Nvidia’s Ampere RTX 30-series launch, graphics cards makers slash prices of existing boards 6park.com

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Nvidia and its add-in-board (AIB) partners are set to release GeForce
 RTX 30-series ‘Ampere’ graphics cards on September 17. But before 
launching something new, they need to get rid of existing GeForce RTX 
20-series products. Apparently, this is exactly what Asus and Zotac are 
doing in some countries. 
Asus slashed prices of its GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics cards by 50% in the Philippines, according to its Facebook page. Zotac also cut down price of its GeForce RTX 2080 Ti board by a whopping 55% in Malaysia, the company announced.
 Furthermore, those who purchased the board on or after August 9 can 
email Zotac and get Adata’s XPG SX8200 256 GB SSD ‘as a token of 
sadness.’
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Other
 makers of graphics cards in different countries have yet to announce 
price cuts on their GeForce RTX 20-series products, but this is 
something to watch closely if you are happy with performance and 
features provided by the previous-generation GPUs. Meanwhile, internet 
auctions are flooded with second-hand Turing cards. For example, it was 
possible to get an EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti board for $565 at press 
time. 
Apart
 from the pending launch of the Ampere family of client GPUs, there is 
another reason why AIB suppliers are inclined to slash prices of their 
Turing-based graphics cards if they have many in stock. Owners of 
GeForce RTX 20-series boards are selling them off on internet auctions 
like Ebay. Competing against second-hand boards is hard even before the 
upcoming next-generation launch, but once the new products hit the 
market, it will get even harder. As a result, it makes a great sense for
 AIB makers to sell off their existing GeForce RTX 20-series boards if 
they have many of them in stock.