What If You'd Bought NVIDIA Stock Instead of an RTX 3080?

$699 on a GeForce RTX 3080 in 2020, or the same money in NVIDIA stock

$12,860

would be worth today — 18.4x the price of the GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA shares

56.39

Held for

6.0 years

S&P 500 instead

$1,743

The GeForce RTX 3080 launched on September 17, 2020 at $699 — and sold out almost instantly.

How we worked it out: Launch price: $699. We put the $699 into NVIDIA stock at its closing price on September 17, 2020 ($12.40, adjusted for later stock splits and dividends) and value those shares at today's price. Launch prices are US list prices before tax.

More “instead of” stories

Past performance does not predict future returns. Not financial advice.