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Early last year, graphics card makers like Asus announced that they would be raising their prices amid an intensifying GPU shortage. This price hike was partly a result of tariffs imposed on some Chinese products by the Trump administration; the tariffs had been waived for several years but were allowed to go into effect at the end of 2020. Last week, the Biden administration reinstated many of those waivers, and Asus announced yesterday that it would lower its GPU prices as a result.
The price drops will go into effect on April 1 and will apply to the company’s entire lineup of GeForce RTX 3000-series GPUs, including the 3050, 3060, 3070, 3080, and 3090 series cards. “Consumers should expect prices to decline up to 25% on different models throughout the springtime,” according to the company’s statement.
Asus and other GPU makers have revived (or simply continued selling) many older GPU models—including the RTX 2060 and 1660 and the GTX 1050 Ti—to try to address the ongoing GPU shortage. There’s no word on whether we can also expect to see price reductions for these models or if they’ll eventually go away as the availability of newer GPUs improves.
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