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In the past two years, when it comes to graphics cards, everyone thinks of "price increases" and "out of stock".
In 2021, chips have become a difficult problem, and graphics card production capacity has been reduced. At the same time, because the price of virtual currency has risen sharply, resulting in countless miners rushing to mine, merchants continue to speculate on hoarding goods for sale, and many innocent netizens cannot buy graphics cards because of lack of money, and can only "wait". How many Internet café owners tearfully closed their business to sell graphics cards, and even spread the news that "scalpers sell graphics cards to make a hundred million", ordinary people want to buy the original price of graphics cards is basically impossible. Even in May 2021, Idle Fish actually issued an official warning, a search for "graphics card", will pop up the "graphics card cooling off period", prompting everyone to trade rationally.
But now, the price of the graphics card market is falling rapidly, and it can even be called a "plunge".
What does it look like to fall? The international market continues to explore, we will not mention it for the time being. First, let's look at the historical price curve of domestic graphics cards.
Take two graphics cards from an e-commerce platform as an example, this ASUS graphics card has not yet reached the 25-month low point but is already at a low price.
The other GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has reached a 25-month all-time low, down 5,000 yuan from the highest.
So, what's wrong with the graphics card market?
First of all, it turns out that a large part of the graphics card has been bought by virtual currency miners, and the price of virtual currency is currently at a low point in the past two years.
At the same time as the price is low, the income obtained by mining is also decreasing, and since June 2021, the state has increased the punishment of mining, and the large domestic mining farms have begun to cut off and ban. Due to the significant reduction in the computing power from China, the proportion of global ETH's hashrate decline once reached 11%, various virtual currencies began to fall, and the benefits brought by mining also declined.
In addition to the low price of virtual currency, there are two potential reasons for this decline.
On the one hand, Nvidia is about to release a new generation of RTX40 series graphics cards in the third quarter of this year, which will skyrocket performance. For electronic products, when not when the new model is sold, the old model falls a wave?
On the other hand, domestic companies have developed special mining machines, which have largely replaced mining with graphics cards.
Taking mining machine manufacturer Canaan Yunzhi as an example, according to its fourth quarter 2021 financial report, the total revenue for the quarter was 2.1846 billion yuan, compared with only 38.2 million yuan in the same period of 2020, an increase of 5636% year-on-year.
Don't worry, this is just the beginning, the graphics card will have to be lowered next.
First of all, according to foreign media reports, NVIDIA has informed its partners that the production cost of GPU will be reduced by 8%-12%, which means that the chip is not so out of stock, and the price of graphics cards will further decline.
What's more, the Ethereum Foundation officially plans to "merge" in the second quarter of 2022, and the "merger" will change the way orders are placed on Ethereum transactions, helping the network reduce power consumption and improve operational efficiency.
After the "merger," Ethereum's network will stop using millions of powerful servers called "miners" to order transactions on the blockchain.
Simply put, Ethereum mining may become a thing of the past, and huge amounts of computing power will flow back to the market.
Wait, there may be surprises in the price of the graphics card.
Written by Wang Yahan
Editor-in-charge Wang Yahan
Inspector Liu Shule