Nvidia’s RTX 4080 GPU is freshly on the scene, and we’ve seen inventory shortages within the early days of the graphics card – however the excellent news is that scalpers attempting to capitalize on reselling these playing cards seem like largely falling flat on their faces.

As Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) studies, taking a look at gross sales knowledge for RTX 4080 GPUs on eBay within the US prior to now week, they’re barely shifting in any respect, so value gouging chancers hoping to make a fast revenue on them are little doubt beginning to panic – and perhaps rethinking their money-making gambit which is at present crashing and burning.

In reality, RTX 4090 graphics playing cards are approach outselling the RTX 4080 on eBay, based on Tom’s stats, with 3.four of the previous being offered to each unit of the RTX 4080 shifted. In different phrases, getting on for quadruple the quantity of RTX 4090 graphics playing cards are being offered in comparison with its lesser Lovelace sibling.

Tom’s notes that on common simply eight RTX 4080 GPUs are being offered per day on eBay US, and that’s a large approach off what was seen with the RTX 4090; when the flagship launched, at peak it was promoting 64 playing cards day by day on the public sale website.

Evaluation: Reflecting broader emotions on the disappointing RTX 4080

This displays the broad sentiment on the market relating to the RTX 4080 as a badly positioned graphics card – almost as expensive because the RTX 4090 in some circumstances, and but not providing something like the identical efficiency ranges.

Whereas the RTX 4090 was a profit-spinner for scalpers (sadly) – reselling at 54% over MSRP in its launch week on eBay – the RTX 4080 is simply commanding a 30% premium over MSRP proper now (and it’s probably not promoting a lot at that stage both, as noticed above). The RTX 4090 stays at 38% over MSRP at present, nonetheless stronger than the newer 4080, and costs of the Lovelace flagship have even risen just a bit on eBay following the RTX 4080 launch.

This spells out a few issues fairly clearly – the disappointing and poorly acquired RTX 4080 is definitely serving to to push RTX 4090 gross sales, each of recent graphics playing cards off the cabinets (as we’ve seen with stats elsewhere, the flagship has offered over 4 instances as many items because the RTX 4080, roughly), and on eBay.

It’s additionally a transparent lesson for scalpers that simply because a shiny new graphics card comes out, it isn’t essentially going to be a resale goldmine, and even make a lot of a revenue in any respect. Proper now with RTX 4080 fashions, scalpers are likely going to be nervously taking a look at shifting inventory and taking a slight loss, maybe, reasonably than an even bigger loss down the road.

Occasions seem like altering, then, by way of GPU value gouging for brand spanking new inventory now feeling a bit like enjoying with fireplace – not less than with the RTX 4080. And optimistically, these warning indicators might make scalpers assume twice about getting concerned in reselling AMD’s incoming RDNA Three graphics playing cards, which may be cheaper than Nvidia’s Lovelace fashions, however will nonetheless be costly beasts. That does reasonably rely upon how preliminary inventory ranges work out, thoughts you, and the way a lot quantity AMD and its card making companions can muster – as a result of if GPUs grow to be skinny on the bottom, that’s clearly a ripe recipe for scalping.

Let’s hope that some classes have been discovered right here, although, and not less than some of us who’re apparently getting their fingers burnt attempting to flip an RTX 4080 for a revenue might not wish to put themselves by this threat or trouble sooner or later.

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