- The rumors of the supply chain suggest the increased prices of NVIDIA for GeForce GPU
- Blackwell Gaming GPUs could be established during an increase in prices from 5% to 10%
- Trump’s new agreement with China on tariffs just happened, but rumored walks could already be on their way
A gloomy cloud of potential price increases is around the GEFORCE graphics cards of Nvidia, despite the news that there has been an escalation with Trump’s rates, which have been a great concern about the price of those (and others) GPU.
The Tom Hardware highlighted a Digitime report (the Taiwanese site, so it takes into account the translation problems of the Chinese) that argues that NVIDIA recently increased its prices for “almost all its products”, with partners who walk with their own prices simultaneously.
The report claims to have information on the supply chain in Asia that indicates that this is the case, and that NVIDIA faces “multiple crises” in terms of its general business, with graphics cards (gefort models) affected and AI products.
Digitimes gives an example of an ASUS RTX 5090 model that has just increased the price by 10%, while some of the other Nvidia graphics cards face price increases between 5%and 10%. The serious business of the AI GPU is worse, with up to 15% of prices, they tell us (obviously, sprinkle a lot of seasoning with all this).
The causes of this problem include the direct prohibition of the AI GPUs sold to China (which includes RTX 5090, although it is a high -end consumption board, it is also excellent for AI tasks), as well as the new commercial tariffs of recent times. In addition to that, another point to keep in mind is that NVIDIA has transferred the production of Blackwell chips (RTX 5000) to the American TSMC factory, which has also inflated costs.
Analysis: uncertain and turbulent times
That is an unfortunate combination of factors, although as noted from the beginning, there has only been a development in terms of Trump rates imposed on China (and vice versa) in the form of a 90 -day break (and a reduction in 115% for imports in both markets).
However, if the previous talk of the supply chain is true, these price increases are already in the system. In other words, prices can still increase in game graphics cards anyway. There is still a lot of uncertainty about where these commercial wars are going in the near future, despite this undoubted positive relief for the situation.
In addition, tariffs are not the only element in this price equation, because there is also the cost of NVIDIA rejigating their production plans for Blackwell GPUs. In more general terms, Nvidia graphics cards are still difficult to find, at least anywhere near their recommended prices, and it does not seem that this situation will change soon.
However, we have some hope for the future. When the interruption of production sits, and if commercial tariffs are addressed with a longer term positive policies to resolve the battle between the United States and China, we should begin to improve GPU prices. However, there is still some way to go before I started feeling more optimistic about this.
Meanwhile, AMD will attack with competitive prices when your RX 9060 XT graphics cards are rumored in (theoretically) just over a week. However, it is speculated that the network team may not go as low as I would ideally like with those RDNA GPUs. With the current price of NVIDIA, there is not much pressure to drive AMD to think about more affordable price labels, of course. (Unfortunately, we don’t lack rumors to that sense, but we would take them with a salt fist, to be fair).
