On February 14, the recent research institution 3DCenter released a report, believing that the price of graphics cards will continue to rise in 2022, and it is basically impossible to return to the original price.
Graphics card price change curve (as of February 13); Image source: 3DCenter
Graphics card price increase is an inevitable topic of all PC-related forums in recent years, a few years ago, 60/60 Ti this level of graphics cards are called dessert cards, the price is generally around 1500 yuan. Starting with RTX graphics cards, 60-level graphics cards are still cost-effective products, but the price is no longer considered a dessert.
There are many reasons for the price increase of the price of the graphics card, the collective price increase of the fab, the performance of the graphics card is greatly improved, etc., but the most fundamental reason is the virtual currency. Affected by the epidemic, the revenue of real industries in many countries around the world has been greatly reduced, especially in some countries with services and tourism as the main revenue, which has been greatly affected.
In order to ensure that their assets do not shrink, many rich people invest funds in virtual currencies in order to preserve value. This situation has led to a soaring price of virtual currency, and more and more miners are buying graphics cards to mine virtual currency. Since then, the graphics card market has formed a three-legged situation of profiteers, miners and consumers.
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The traitorous scalper is equivalent to Cao Wei, the strongest, they hoard and want to sell graphics cards to miners and consumers at high prices. The miner is equivalent to Sun Wu, the second in strength, always wants to have a good relationship with the profiteer scalper, buy a graphics card at a low price, and mine to make money. The consumer is equivalent to shu han, and the other two belong to the hostile relationship, and do their best to engage the treacherous merchants and cattle and miners, but the result is indeed ineffective on the one hand, and the camp is burned on the other hand.
Profiteer scalpers do not have any psychological burden, the more expensive their graphics card is sold, the more they earn, and they will not lose money if they sell cheaply, and in the current market situation, the price of the graphics card cannot be lower than the purchase price. Consumers also have no psychological burden, although they can't buy graphics cards at low prices, but they can choose not to buy ah, money in their pockets, what is there to be afraid of. The real psychological burden is the miner, graphics card mining takes several months to return the cost, once the virtual currency market fluctuates, they are likely to lose their money.
Recently, the price of graphics cards has dropped slightly, the reason is that the price of virtual currency has fallen, Xiao Lei has seen some gossip in the graphics card bar, there are profiteers and miners united, using mining cards to make the whole machine. Most of the users of the whole machine do not like to toss, and it is likely that they will not be able to find this.
The domestic crackdown on virtual currency mining is getting stronger and stronger, but it is not possible to manage foreign countries, and the price of virtual currency has a tendency to rise, and the price of graphics cards may also rise. Some netizens believe that the RTX 40 series may be released at the end of the year, and the RTX 30 series should be reduced in price. How can NVIDIA, which has tasted the sweetness of price increases, allow graphics cards to drop prices sharply, and the only result we wait for may be that the price increase of the RTX 40 series is more exaggerated than that of the RTX 30 series.
As for AMD, there is still a gap between the product and NVIDIA, the premium ability is slightly inferior, but it is not without a premium, it is basically impossible to earn one more point, it is basically unlikely to fight a price war, after all, consumers do not have a third choice, maybe there is, but Intel will be?