Recently, for most players, there is a very good news, that is, this damn graphics card has finally reduced the price, and the price reduction is amazing, many netizens said that the graphics card will soon return to the starting price, so how is the price trend of the graphics card, what is the real reason for the price reduction of the graphics card, let's analyze a wave next!
Supply and demand determine price movements
In essence, any commodity, the price is determined by supply and demand, there may be a wave of short-term price operations, but in the long run, as long as the supply exceeds the demand for commodity prices will fall, the price of graphics cards also follows this truth, from the perspective of graphics card supply and demand and price, from the end of 2020, the price increase began, until the beginning of 2022, the reason for the initial surge in graphics card prices is that the demand has increased, but in fact, by the end of 2021, the supply and demand relationship of graphics cards has changed, from the initial shortage of supply, It has developed into a balance between supply and demand or even an oversupply.
The reason why the price of graphics cards did not collapse at that time, on the one hand, there was a reason for the manufacturer's protective disk, on the other hand, there was less of the last straw that crushed the camel!
Two straws with crash graphics card prices
Straw one: in mid-March, Nvidia issued a message, the message content is that Nvidia has notified the world's major AIC graphics card manufacturers, Nvidia GPU cost reduction, price drop of 8% -12%, to a piece of 8000 yuan RTX 3080 as an example, relative to a drop of nearly 800 yuan, this news out of the graphics card price is falling in response.
Straw two: ETH mining is no longer profitable
Initially the graphics card price soared because of mining, a large demand for graphics cards at all costs to buy, resulting in the final graphics card price is getting higher and higher, ETH mining itself has a solid state total, the more to the later mining difficulty, simply put, the mining machine every day mining income is less and less, taking into account the hardware, power consumption and other costs, now ETH mining does not make money, and even lose money (the current mining income is 0.0419 USD/Day:1 MH/s, a year ago 0.282 USD/Day:1 MH/ s), in this comparison, the income fell by 5 times.
With it, there is also the difficulty of mining, the need for higher computing power and time, last year and this year compared with the mining difficulty increased from 8P to 12.76P, various factors led to a large number of miners to withdraw, the demand for graphics cards will be further reduced, it is precisely because most of the graphics cards are bought by miners to lead to the rise in graphics card prices, then this part of the demand is gone, the demand of players is not enough to replace the demand of miners.
The GTX 1660 Super crashed first
GTX 1660 Super is a very cost-effective graphics card product for miners, and it is also a very good entry-level graphics card for the majority of gamers, this original GTX 1660 Super, which was originally only 1799 yuan, was speculated to 4000 yuan at the highest, and the current GTX 1660 Super has dropped to 2500 yuan.
The RTX 30 high-end series began to cut prices
After that, RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 a series of high-end graphics cards began to reduce prices, basically there are 5%-10% reductions, due to the relatively large decline in the price of this graphics card, resulting in many dealers getting the graphics card the day before, tomorrow the day after tomorrow will lose money to sell (of course, the first two years of dealers sell graphics cards to make a lot of money).
Graphics card price trends at home and abroad
From the perspective of the price trend of graphics cards at home and abroad, it is obvious that the domestic graphics card price response is slower, to know that the domestic has clearly prohibited mining, but the price of the graphics card has not changed significantly, from this point of view, the graphics card price system in Europe and the United States, only the European and American graphics card prices are loose, will affect the global graphics card price trend (the biggest reason is that the graphics card pricing power is not in the country), from the current price trend is always downward, for consumers to hold the currency is the best choice, It is not excluded that the graphics card returns to the starting price (as long as there is no catastrophic event such as chip foundry outage).
Summary: Through the above analysis, the price of graphics cards has fallen impenetrable, to what extent it has fallen is unknown, mainly because graphics cards are mainly engaged in monopoly industries (as long as upstream manufacturers reduce production, graphics card prices will rise), which is also a drawback of monopoly, but it is certain that there will never be a situation of sky-high graphics cards.