In July, the price of cryptocurrency continued to fall. Coupled with the Chinese government’s mining ban, the price of Chinese graphics cards collapsed. The market appeared to be selling at 30% or 50% off. Logically speaking, since there was a ban, Chinese graphics cards should not return to the upward trend (after all, mining is no longer possible). But in fact, the opposite is true. According to Chinese media reports, all graphics cards have increased across the board since September. Among them, ASUS has increased the most, reaching 600 yuan, about NT$2,500. Yuan.
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According to MyDrivers tracking the prices of graphics cards from multiple AIB partners, it was found that graphics cards from Asus, Gigabyte and other brands have increased in September, with Asus the most. Compared with August:
- ASUS RTX 3070 Ti goes up by RMB 600 (approximately NT$2,500)
- ASUS RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 increase by 300~400 yuan (approximately NT$1,300 ~ NT$1,700)
- ASUS RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3060 and RTX 2060 increased by RMB 200 ~ 350 (approximately NT$850 ~ NT$1,500)
You might want to say that the older GTX series should be fine, right? Yes, the GTX 1660 series and GTX 1050 series have also increased by 100 ~ 150 yuan (about NT$430 ~ NT$640).
Gigabyte graphics cards have also increased in price, but the extent is smaller than that of Asus. At most, the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Ti have increased by 200~400 yuan (NT$850 ~ NT$1,700).
As for why the price increased so much in September, MyDrivers said it should be related to the shortage of chips. The supply of NVIDIA RTX 30 series chips in September decreased by more than 30% compared with August, and therefore the number of graphics cards will also be significantly reduced.
But having said that, it is quite strange that AMD does not have this problem. It is speculated that it may be because NVIDIA has added CMP series mining cards, which leads to insufficient chips.
The recent increase in graphics card prices is not only in China, but also in Europe and the United States. The picture below is 3D Center According to the latest unified European graphics card prices, NVIDIA and AMD also increased prices across the board in August, especially AMD, which even surpassed NVIDIA in the line chart:
According to foreign media statistics, the average price of eBay graphics cards in August was also the same, even for second-hand graphics cards.Please click here to read the full report（Image source: Techspot）：
Cryptocurrencies have also been on the rise recently. It can be seen that if you want to buy a graphics card at a full price this year, you probably won’t have a chance. Players who don’t want to buy at a premium will still have to wait.
Source: KOCPC Chinese