In the past two days, Guo saw such a news when he was hanging out on the Internet.
Due to the ban on NVIDIA and AMD in the Russian market, the Russian graphics card market is in short supply.
Three employees of The Russian e-commerce platform Wildberries infiltrated their warehouse and stole 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards.
As a mid-to-high-end graphics card, the 3070 Ti sells for nearly 200,000 rubles (about 12,000 yuan) in Russia, while the total price of 20 graphics cards has exceeded 240,000 yuan.
They found the second-hand market and, in order to liquidate as quickly as possible, bid 60,000 rubles to sell it (3636 yuan).
This is even lower than NVIDIA's suggested retail price, which can be described as a "tyrannical object".
Graphics cards are expensive, which is no longer news.
Just when everyone lamented that these thieves "did not recognize the goods", another news about the price reduction of the graphics card entered the vision of Guo Students.
According to relevant media reports, the price of graphics cards began to avalanche.
The price of high-end RTX 3080 series products fell by 35% in one day in the Australian market, and the price of other specification graphics cards has also fallen by 10% in recent times.
The RTX 3080 was originally quoted at AU$2,299 (about 10,801 RMB) and dropped to AU$1,499 (about RMB7,042) in just one night, the biggest drop in history.
In the German market, the Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics card is currently priced at only 1999 euros (about 13959 yuan), the lowest price since August 2021.
The product was once sold for 3,199 euros (about 22,339 yuan) in May last year, almost doubling the original price.
In fact, since December last year, foreign media have counted the price trends of all the graphics cards sold on eBay, and found that there are signs of price reduction.
According to the survey, since December last year, the overall average decline in graphics cards has reached 25%, the price in February has dropped by 11% compared with January, and some products have fallen by more than 20%.
However, the price reduction varies from country to country.
In the Chinese market, there is news that ASUS and GIGABYTE will reduce the price of each graphics card by more than 100 yuan (equivalent to not falling), and MSI will also follow.
Graphics cards are an indispensable accessory for groups such as gamers, video and animation design enthusiasts when it comes to DIY computers.
In the past two years, due to the impact of the new crown virus, the entire industrial chain of chips in the early stage of the epidemic has been affected by insufficient supply, such as Honda and other car companies have reduced production and stopped production due to insufficient car chips, and the graphics card market has not been spared.
In addition, due to the popularity of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, the demand for "mining" is strong.
A mining machine requires several, or even dozens, of graphics cards, and the more "miners", the graphics card is scarce, which in turn drives the price up sharply.
There are many other parties who ridicule:
"The graphics card is down to the day that can be bought, and the family sacrifice has not forgotten to tell Naiwong."
However, it may not be far from the arrival of this day, and the party members do not have to wait for the day when "the family sacrifice has not forgotten to tell Naiwong".
Now that the price of Bitcoin has begun to fall, regulators in various countries are rectifying "mining". This has led to a sharp drop in demand for graphics cards, and the price will gradually fall back.
In addition, the price of GPU also showed a downward trend, GPU is the most critical part of the graphics card, its price fell, further reducing the production costs of graphics card manufacturers.
After several years of graphics card out-of-stock and price increases, in 2022, computer DIY players finally ushered in a wave of good news.
Having said that, although the price of graphics cards is declining, the price is still much higher than the initial price, so it is not the best time to start.
For the small partners who are still waiting, they may wish to "wait a little longer".
However, the price reduction trend of graphics cards has emerged, and there is hope.