MSi GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM LIQUID X 24GB GDDR6X Graphics Card Expired

Bill of materials on this is a bare minimum of $200 for the chip itself (could be as high as $300+ if silicon wafer prices aren't stable, which is hard to tell, and 5nm yields aren't good, which is hard to tell), A bare minimum of $100 for the GDDR6X as GDDR6 non-x spot prices are currently $75 for 24GB, and probably about another $200 for all the support components, PCB manufacturing, cooler, assembly, QC testing and packaging. Then a widely variable amount for shipping and tariffs to whatever particular country. Add around 5-10% to final shipped product cost to account for general manufacturing/distribution loss, RMAed units, etc.

Of course, I have no idea what Nvidia actually charges their 'partners' for the chips and for licensing. Assume the BOM cost would be for Nvidia made "founders edition" cards and not AIB cards like this, which I hear have pretty thin margins.

The amortized cost of manufacturing facilities, operational costs, ongoing customer support, driver development, continuing R&D, marketing etc is HUGE, but also vague and hard to account for on a per-product basis. I'm sure Nvidia factors that in... heavily... into what they ultimately charge their "partners".

Regardless, this is not a cheap card by any means, but it does probably cost Nvidia themselves around $650 to manufacture and distribute and my guess would be that they would wholesale it to big retailers at around $1300, but that's gonna be a difficult number to find conclusively. I'd say it's roughly a 50% profit margin for an individual Nvidia "founders edition" card, but most of that profit gets reinvested into the company, and a considerably lower, probably on the order of 10-20%, profit margin on partner cards for a company like MSI. There's a reason EVGA gave up, despite historically high GPU prices.

That seems to be the norm for RTX 40XX series. Have you seen this card cheaper?

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