Foreign Youtuber “Hardware Unboxed” who continues to pay attention to the quotation of graphics cards has recently brought good news. After he mentioned that the quotation price of Australian graphics cards has been reduced by 35% a week ago, he has recently continued to see that the quotation price of the graphics card market continues to decrease, gradually approaching the recommended selling price set by the original manufacturer. Although this price is still not very cheap, looking at the long-term trend, we can at least expect the price of graphics cards to drop to past price levels.
“Hardware Unboxed” recently shared the graphics card price trends since March this year. It can be clearly seen from the data that the price is falling steadily. This may be related to the news that NVIDIA has lowered the cost price of its partners. However, this news has not been confirmed. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the price is indeed approaching the level it should be, which is close to the recommended selling price set by the original manufacturer.
However, to say that the current price is still reasonable, it is compared with the quotes that appeared during the pandemic last year and the year before that. Recently, two major graphics card manufacturers have launched new low- and mid-range GPUs. These graphics cards have relatively cooled down the overheated pricing of the entire market, but they are still 20% higher than the official recommended selling price.
The price is not sweet enough. If you want to buy a graphics card, you still have to think about it.
Overall, graphics card prices investigated from eBay show that the RTX 30 series is 10% lower than previously. The Radeon RX 6000 series dropped by 13%. It’s a good result.
It is worth mentioning that in the data sheet produced by “Hardware Unboxed”, eBay’s “Scalper” pricing represents the average price, but Newegg’s quotation uses the lowest price of the product as a reference.
Considering that the survey conducted by “Hardware Unboxed” focuses on the US market, perhaps we can refer to other people’s survey results as confirmation. not long agowe reported 3DCenter.org (@3DCenter_org) shared the price trend of the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card in Europe through Twitter. Last year, the price of the card was as high as 3,200 euros. Until last week, the card had fallen below 2,000 euros. The gap with the recommended selling price (1,649 euros) has gradually narrowed, which can be said to be a price reduction.
GeForce RTX 3090 reaches prices less than €2000 at retailers in 🇩🇪🇦🇹 for the first time since last August
Some historical (best) prices:
€3199 – May 16, 2021
€1999 – Aug 29
€2799 – Nov 21
€2699 – Dec 12
€2499 – Jan 2, 2022
€2320 – Feb 13
€2185 – Mar 6
€1990 – Mar 17 pic.twitter.com/vymNFbzUcn— 3DCenter.org (@3DCenter_org) March 17, 2022
Of course, NVIDIA is currently preparing to launch a new architecture GPU, and a new round of graphics card war with AMD may also be the reason for the current price reduction. Also, don’t forget Intel will launch new discrete graphics cards in the near future, these news may be the main reason why the graphics card market is cooling down as we reported. Although it seems that the price reduction in Taiwan is not much, in the past, graphics cards that had to be bundled with other products to buy them now probably no longer need to be bundled with other products. But the price is still impressive, which makes many players sigh.
For players who are building a computer or buying a new graphics card to upgrade now, I believe that the so-called trends are not as good as their actual needs. If there is an urgent need, buying now may not be worse than buying it later. You must know that although the price of graphics cards continues to fall, no one can predict that it will drop in price to a level that everyone is satisfied with.
For players who are not in a hurry, but see the graphics card market screaming, the recent market price is indeed not enough to make people pay for it. If you can still afford to wait, then it doesn’t hurt to wait for two more months. Both AMD and Intel intend to successfully dethrone NVIDIA by relying on new architecture GPUs. Especially Intel’s new architecture currently seems to have promising performance. I believe there are many players who want to wait and see the next generation of graphics cards before picking up more reasonably priced previous generation graphics cards, so as to save themselves some money.
It is understood that NVIDIA is currently purchasing Samsung and TSMC processes at the same time to meet market demand. With the increased production capacity of the two parties, I believe that the problem of insufficient supply will still have a chance to be solved.
Source: KOCPC Chinese