January 18 news, recently Amazon Japan official website on the shelves of a graphics card blind box, the price of only 15,000 yen (about 830 yuan), there is a chance to open RTX 3090 graphics card.
The seller said that the probability of the blind box opening the RTX 30 series and RX 6000 series graphics card is 2%, the probability of opening the RTX 20 series and RX 5000 series graphics card is 4%, the probability of opening the GTX 10 series, GTX 16 series, and RX 500 series graphics card is 8%, the probability of opening the GTX 9 series and RX 300 series graphics card is 16%, and the probability of opening other graphics cards is 70%.
According to the current second-hand graphics card market, the price of this blind box is higher than GTX 960/RX 560, lower than GTX 970/RX 570, do not worry about whether it is second-hand, now GTX 9 series, RX 500 series there is no new product. In other words, the probability that consumers will not be able to return the cost is higher than 70%.
In addition, the probability of the RTX 30 series and RX 6000 series is only 2%, and it is not known whether the probability of winning the RTX 3090 and RX 6900 XT of the flagship card is 0.1%. In summary, for consumers who are not particularly confident in their luck, it is best not to try this graphics card blind box easily.
In fact, this kind of graphics card blind box is not only Amazon, but also many in China, and platforms such as idle fish and Pinduoduo abound. Cheap domestic graphics card blind box as long as a few tens of yuan, expensive is thousands of yuan, some blind boxes can not only open out the graphics card, but also mice, headphones and other goods. More importantly, the domestic graphics card blind box basically does not disclose the probability of winning the lottery, and the graphics card blind box that does not have dozens of yuan is used to dump inferior products, and there is no graphics card at all.
In short, in the eyes of Xiao Lei, the domestic graphics card blind box is an IQ tax product, if you really want to buy a graphics card blind box, go to Amazon to see the Japanese products, at least the probability is disclosed, more reliable.
In addition, a few days ago, Shanghai announced the latest blind box management regulations, requiring that the price of a single blind box should not exceed 200 yuan, and it is estimated that other regions may follow up later to regulate the blind box industry and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.