The price of Nvidia graphics cards in South Africa from 1998 to 2020

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The price of Nvidia graphics cards in South Africa from 1998 to 2020

Evetech recently released its pricing for Nvidia's newly announced RTX 30 Series graphics cards, with the cheapest GeForce RTX 3070 starting at R15,500.

Performing a direct conversion from Nvidia's recommended retail price of $499, even factoring in South Africa's value-added tax of 15%, results in Evetech's prices being over R5,800 more expensive than expected.
 
Papa Smurf said:
In 1998 my monthly gross salary was R2000, same as an Nvidia Card
So i guess its all the same now considering what a new card costs and peoples monthly salaries
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I was working as a part time sub editor in 98 for 2000 per month.
 
Papa Smurf said:
i was fixing cash registers for R2k
EDIT: And now you all grown up as a Staff Writer
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Nope haha, that was a sideline gig to get money when in school :). I went into development, than just normal system administrator after that.
 
Last I checked voodoo cards weren't made by Nvidia but 3dfx. Please check your facts before posting a deceptive chart...


Shaun108 said:
I remember installing a brand new Nvidia Voodoo card to play Doom, Castle Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem.
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Would like to see this mystical nvidia voodoo card.

My first gpu was the Nvidia riva tnt
 
stefan9 said:
Last I checked voodoo cards weren't made by Nvidia but 3dfx. Please check your facts before posting a deceptive chart...
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Overreaction much?
  1. From the article: "To investigate these questions, we compared the launch prices of several major Nvidia (and 3DFX) graphics cards over the past 22 years."
  2. Nvidia reportedly acquired most of 3dfx's assets.
  3. The inclusion of the Voodoo2 has no bearing on the conclusions. Whether it's in there or not, the chart will show that there was a substantial jump in pricing from the Riva TNT and GeForce 256 (i.e. "original GeForce") days to the GeForce 2 and GeForce 3. (Fun Fact that is not pictured: the Creative Riva TNT2 launched at the same local RRP as the first Creative GeForce card back in the day.)
 
stefan9 said:
Last I checked voodoo cards weren't made by Nvidia but 3dfx. Please check your facts before posting a deceptive chart...




Would like to see this mystical nvidia voodoo card.

My first gpu was the Nvidia riva tnt
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Actually 3DFX designed and licensed their chips to various OEMs, they only started making their own cards in the voodoo 3 Era which was one of their mistakes.
 
Bradley Prior said:
The price of Nvidia graphics cards in South Africa from 1998 to 2020

Evetech recently released its pricing for Nvidia's newly announced RTX 30 Series graphics cards, with the cheapest GeForce RTX 3070 starting at R15,500.

Performing a direct conversion from Nvidia's recommended retail price of $499, even factoring in South Africa's value-added tax of 15%, results in Evetech's prices being over R5,800 more expensive than expected.
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We sure do want our '98 salaries back
 
Insane when a R4k card is seen as entry level. It barely qualifies as mid range. I remember buying my first proper 3D card for R2k and it was top of the range. Hopefully Intel can provide some *gulp* proper competition again.
 
Jan said:
Overreaction much?
  1. From the article: "To investigate these questions, we compared the launch prices of several major Nvidia (and 3DFX) graphics cards over the past 22 years."
  2. Nvidia reportedly acquired most of 3dfx's assets.
  3. The inclusion of the Voodoo2 has no bearing on the conclusions. Whether it's in there or not, the chart will show that there was a substantial jump in pricing from the Riva TNT and GeForce 256 (i.e. "original GeForce") days to the GeForce 2 and GeForce 3. (Fun Fact that is not pictured: the Creative Riva TNT2 launched at the same local RRP as the first Creative GeForce card back in the day.)
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Accuracy...The fact that you included a 3dfx card is a sign of laziness...
 
Lupus said:
Actually 3DFX designed and licensed their chips to various OEMs, they only started making their own cards in the voodoo 3 Era which was one of their mistakes.
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Was still always under the 3dfx brand, never under the nvidia brand. So point stands if you are doing chart of nvidia cards, voodoo should be no way close to that chart.
 
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