[CNMO News] For PC gamers, these two years are really not a good time to install the machine, due to the prevalence of virtual currency "mining" in the past two years, coupled with the lack of chip supply caused by the epidemic, the price of graphics cards, especially high-end graphics cards, has soared, and even reached 2-3 times the original price. This also makes Nvidia's 30 series graphics cards a generation of "financial artifacts". However, recently, the price of global graphics cards has dropped sharply, and even the price of some models has been lower than the official price.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080Ti
Recently, foreign media reported that the price of graphics cards in overseas markets has avalanche. Among them, the price of Nvidia's high-end graphics card GeForce RTX 3080 fell by 35% in one day in the Australian market, and the price dropped from 2299 Australian dollars (about 10,000 yuan) to 1499 Australian dollars (about 7,000 yuan), the largest decline in history, and the recent average decline in the price of other specification graphics cards also reached 10%. The German geforce RTX 3090 has also dropped from a previous high of nearly 22,000 yuan to a recent 14,000 yuan, while the price of some RTX 3080Ti graphics cards has even seen a "break" below the official price.
In the domestic market, some media have found that the price of domestic graphics cards has also dropped significantly after visiting the Huaqiang North Market, which is known as the "First Street of Chinese Electronics". Some stores said that the current RTX 3080 graphics card quotation is generally around 7000-8000 yuan, and the same model of products in the year before the price exceeded 10,000 yuan. The store also said that high-end graphics cards may have a significant price reduction in the near future.
The official price of some GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards
As for why the price of graphics cards will fluctuate sharply in the near future, some merchants said that there may be two main reasons. First, the price of virtual currency that raises the price of graphics cards has recently been greatly adjusted, coupled with the fact that countries have begun to strengthen the supervision of related "mining" activities, resulting in a decrease in demand for graphics cards. In addition, the current production of graphics cards has improved compared with the previous two years, the production capacity has gradually increased, and the supply of related products on the market has increased.
However, some consumers said that although the price of graphics cards has dropped significantly recently, there is still a certain gap from the official price of NVIDIA. For most "wait parties", perhaps only after the price of the graphics card returns to the original price, it is a good time for them to buy a graphics card.