RTX 5080 new price revealed to start at 12,000! Wait, the party really breaks through the defense this time.

Editor’s point of view: The cost increase is understandable, but the 5080 is 2,500 yuan more expensive than the previous generation at launch, and the 5060 Ti card sells for 5,500 yuan. This is no longer a price increase, but a redefinition of the entry threshold for game graphics cards. Ordinary players should not pay for the AI ​​bubble. Recently, hardware blogger Hardware Tea Talk released the latest quotation of the RTX50 series through domestic channels. The prices across the board have increased significantly, and the increase in high-end models has been particularly exaggerated. Explosions show that the starting price of the RTX5080 in the channel reaches 12,000 yuan, which is an increase of 44.6% compared to the guide price of the public version of 8,299 yuan, which is far beyond the range covered by the increase in graphics memory costs. The base prices of other models have also increased simultaneously. The bottom line of the 5060Ti 16GB channel has directly reached 5,500 yuan, and the installed cost of mid-range machines has increased significantly. Channel wholesale prices have continued to rise. The price of RTX5070 has increased by 800 yuan per week, just one step away from the base price of 6,000 yuan. The two video memory versions of 5060Ti have also increased by 400 and 600 yuan respectively, and the terminal selling price is quickly approaching the leaked price. The source of the price increase comes from two aspects: NVIDIA raised the supply price of GPU and video memory. At the same time, Samsung, Micron, and Hynix shifted their production capacity to high-profit HBM server memory. Consumer-grade GDDR video memory production capacity shrank. Organizations predict that DRAM contract prices will increase by up to 63% in the second quarter. At present, Nvidia's AI chip business is booming, and the dividends in the computing power market are visible to the naked eye. This has also caused many players to question: Is the sharp increase in the price of game graphics cards a passive price adjustment forced by upstream costs, or is it that manufacturers are taking advantage of the AI ​​​​trend to raise consumer-grade hardware prices and pass on the premium costs generated by industry expansion to ordinary gamers? The demands of gamers are actually very simple: they can accept reasonable price increases brought about by rising costs, but they cannot accept unlimited price increases by taking advantage of industry trends. Most of the dividends generated by the AI ​​​​wave go to high-end computing power business. Ordinary PC players do not enjoy the benefits brought by this technological change, but are forced to bear higher hardware expenses. Rising costs should be taken seriously, but the price difference of several thousand has long been out of line with reasonable cost transmission logic. Among them, mid-range graphics cards exceeded 5,000 yuan, and flagship cards stood firmly above 10,000 yuan.