Graphics cards are back in the sky
Graphics card prices are rising again. They are now 83% above the suggested retail price.
There is still no end in sight to the pricing nonsense in the graphics card market. According to data collected by 3DCenter, prices are rising again. Otherwise, so far they are still far from the numbers from May this year, when Nvidia cards of the GeForce 30 series (3060, 3060Ti, 3070, 3080 and 3090) reached even more than three times the recommended retail price, AMD's RX 6000 series (6700XT, 6800, 6800XT and 6900XT) and more than twice, but the numbers are still worrying. At the moment, Nvidia graphics cards are sold at a price that is 72 percent higher than the recommended price, and AMD even 83 percent. This is less than the spring records, but more than the month before, when these percentages were 70 and 74.
And what is the reason? There are actually two. The first are, of course, cryptocurrencies, which have been causing turbulence on the market for months, and more so recently. Namely, the values of Bitcoin and Ethereum have started to grow again and are approaching the "best times", which of course increases the interest in them, and the interest increases the demand for graphics. And if we add to this the general problems in the market with semiconductor elements, it is of course clear that things are not in their place. And apparently they won't be for a while…
Source: 3DCenter
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