Did you buy a graphics card this year? Have you upgraded your PC configuration? If you've been paying attention to the DIY hardware market, graphics card prices don't seem to have been normal since Nvidia and AMD just launched the RTX 30 series and RX 6000 series last year, and seem to have reached a peak recently.
Recently, the German composerbase website summarized the prices of AMD and NVIDIA's popular graphics cards throughout the year, showing that on December 21, the price of mining cards basically returned to the peak level in May.
At this recent price node, whether it is the RX 6000 series or the RTX 30 series, the price has now doubled or more than the recommended price, and the "entry-level light chasing graphics card" such as the RTX 3060 is priced at more than 700 euros, which is more than twice the recommended price.
You may think that this is just a foreign situation, but in fact, the price of graphics cards in China is also soaring.
Also taking RTX 3060 as an example, its official suggested price is 2499 yuan, and even the low-price version on the e-commerce platform is about 4500 yuan, which is close to twice the official suggested price.
In fact, this year's graphics card price has been affected by the trend of virtual currency, after the peak of graphics card prices in May this year, experienced a sharp plunge, June, July began to decline continuously, which made players see the dawn of hope, but the price began to rise again in August, and the graphics card price reached the highest level of the year in December.
It is also because the price of graphics cards is floating and sinking, so that many users choose to buy second-hand old cards to emergency.
According to foreign media reports, in the three months from September to November, many Russian consumers have chosen to buy graphics cards from previous years, and on AliExpress (Ali's cross-border export B2C platform and russia's number one e-commerce platform), the number of old cards purchased by players is 8.2 times that of the same period last year, with a staggering increase.
In addition, foreign media also sorted out the most popular graphics card models, ranking first is GTX 960 4GB, second is RX 580 8GB, the third most popular is RTX 3060 8GB, the fourth and fifth is RX 590 8GB and GTX 1660 6GB graphics card. Of the top five, only the RTX 3060 8GB is not an old card.