A hot potato: More bad news for PC owners looking to upgrade their graphics cards: in addition to the GPUs beingness in extremely short supply, the expected price rises are starting to appear, with EVGA and Zotac becoming the latest firms to brand their products more expensive.

This month, we heard that the Trump administration was imposing a 25 per centum tax on graphics cards imported from China. The cards and motherboards were granted exemptions from import taxes in September, simply that expired without renewal at the finish of terminal year.

The taxes have exacerbated a market already suffering from supply shortages—grabbing an RTX 3000 series or Radeon RX 6000 menu has proved most impossible since they launched. The problem has go fifty-fifty worse equally the value of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin rising, leading to more need from miners; a situation that caused massive GPU price increases during 2022 and 2022.

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Now, The Verge reports that EVGA and Zotac have raised their RTX 3000 serial prices. The latter'due south RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra Gaming has gone from $559 to $629, while the RTX 3080 XC3 Black Gaming leaped from $729 to $799.

EVGA has best-selling the price jump at the top of its website.

"Due to ongoing events, EVGA has fabricated cost adjustments on the GeForce RTX 30 Series products. This change was necessary due to several factors and will be effective Jan 11, 2022. EVGA has worked to reduce and minimize these costs as much as possible. For those who are currently in the EVGA.com Notify Queue system or Step-Up Queue, EVGA will accolade the original MSRP pricing through Apr 16th, 2022 if your purchase position is processed before this date," the company writes.

Zotac's RTX 3000 cards accept seen an even larger cost hike. Most are at present between $xc and $100 more expensive, while the RTX 3090 has jumped by around $350 to $i,900.

Asus last week too raised the toll of its graphics cards and motherboards.

The graphics carte du jour shortages are expected to last at to the lowest degree a few more months. But when availability does finally improve, don't be surprised to detect prices are still inflated.

Brand sure to check out CES 2022 keynotes from Nvidia and AMD.