Why information technology matters: With the graphics card market in such a country, it would be nice to hear something near products getting cheaper. Sadly, information technology seems the opposite is true. Following recent news that AMD is increasing the price of its Radeon RX 6000 GPUs for board partners, Gigabyte is reportedly the beginning to laissez passer the new increase onto customers, making all but one of its RDNA 2 lineup even more expensive.

Last week brought unwelcome reports that AMD was set to increase the price of its GPUs by x% for its lath partners due to TSMC hiking the cost of fries. It was unknown at the time whether the $20 - $40 jump would be passed onto the consumers—but we should have expected it.

According to Board Channels forums (via VIdeoCardz), Gigabyte has notified partners that it has adapted the cost of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 line in response to AMD's actions. The cards are now between 3% and 6% more expensive depending on the brand and model, with only the Radeon RX 6900 XT unaffected.

The alter ways nosotros can expect up to $31 added to the selling toll of the RX 6600 and XT variant, while the RX 6800 will become up to $47 more expensive. The most significant change will exist for the Radeon 6800 XT, which goes upward by $78. It'south worth noting that these numbers could be fifty-fifty college once other factors, such as aircraft and taxes, are taken into business relationship.

Graphics cards are notwithstanding getting pricier and harder to find, and then making them even more expensive is just going to exacerbate an already bad situation. AMD's latest is already in the shadow of Nvidia's Ampere series—just the Radeon RX 6700 XT is found in enough Steam survey participants' PCs to make it onto Valve's main GPU listing—putting them even further out of reach of everyday consumers isn't going to help boost their popularity.