In the past two years, the continued shortage of graphics cards and near-crazy prices have tormented PC gamers. However, DIY players may usher in good news in 2022, that is, the price of graphics cards may plummet in March. Breaking the news that big @Greymon55 heard the news a few days ago that the price of graphics cards will drop dramatically in March, he hopes that this news is true, but did not explain the reason for the plunge.
The outside world believes that there are two main reasons for the collapse of graphics cards, the first is that the ETH price fluctuates too much, and the potential risk continues to increase, which may lead to a large number of mining cards flowing into the second-hand market, resulting in a sharp decline in graphics cards; The second reason is that AMD and NVIDIA are increasing supply and the demand for superimposed mining cards is declining, which further accelerates the decline in graphics card prices.
From 2022 onwards, the price of graphics cards began to fall, in mid-to-late February there are also many AIC/AIB in adjusting product prices, the price reduction range ranges between 100-300, the most important thing is that the shortage of goods has also been alleviated, at least not the previous card is difficult to find.
In addition to increasing availability, NVIDIA is constantly introducing new mining cards. Recently, NVIDIA is planning to apply the GV100 Volta GPU for data centers to cryptocurrency mining, which will appear under the name CMP 100HX. The NVIDIA Quadro V uses the GV100 core, manufactured using TSMC's 12nm process, integrates 21.1 billion transistors and has a core area of 815 square millimeters. It is also the first NVIDIA chip to use Tensor Cores, enabling deep learning on a standard CUDA core.
NVIDIA has previewed this GPU for cryptocurrency mining companies. According to the information exposed PC_Shopping forum, there is no difference between the PCB layout and titan V. At the same time, the display interface is cancelled, and dual 8pins are required to provide auxiliary power supply. The radiator was changed from active to a quieter passive cooling design, but retained the NVLink bus gold finger that was useless for mining. The Twitter whistleblower then @KOMACHI_ENSAKA to forward it.
NVIDIA says the CMP 100HX can provide close to 81MH/s of hashrate and consume 250W of power. The overall efficiency is still wrong, but there is no definite news about whether the video memory will continue to use the 3072-bit-wide 12GB HBM2 or will be streamlined. For comparison, the power consumption of CMP 50HX using Turing architecture and TU102 core is also 250W, and the computing power is only 45MH/s; The CMP 90HX with Amere architecture and GA102 core hash rate of 86MH/s, but consumes 320W of power. The energy consumption ratio of CMP 100HX is very good, and it can get a lot of bonus points in terms of environmental protection.
Editor's comments: As a card king released in 2017, Titan V will naturally attract more professional mining companies than the Ampere architecture 3 years later. Not only that, NVIDIA can convert a large number of cores with unqualified inventory but small overall performance problems into mining cards through dedicated mining cards, improving the reuse of scrapped products.
NVIDIA disclosed on its 2021 quarterly earnings call that the CMP industry started in the second quarter of 2021 and was in a state of decline for most of the time. And the price of "air" has fluctuated very much recently, which will undoubtedly make miners more sensitive to price.
With the mutual influence of various factors, it is not impossible for graphics cards to usher in price cuts in March, and NVIDIA's new generation of Hopper architecture will also be announced at GTC in March, and game cards will be released as soon as the third quarter, which may further increase the mood of users and promote graphics cards to return to normal market order.