Since Bitcoin entered the public eye, the price of graphics cards has begun to rise.
By the time of the current generation of the RTX30 series and RX6000 series, it has almost always remained at a price that the average player simply cannot afford.
But after entering March, the price of graphics cards has suddenly and continuously loosened in the past few days, and some models have even fallen below the starting price, and the posture is like waving the flag and shouting "for the players". Recently, XiaoShu also saw that there was electric powder discussing whether to take advantage of the price reduction to hurry down the mountain, in case the price rebound missed the opportunity and did not know how long to wait.
So today XiaoShu will come to break up with everyone the reasons for the price reduction of graphics cards and suggestions to start. The first thing to be clear is that while it looks like it continues to plummet, graphics cards still haven't reached the initial price or suggested retail price. If the graphics card continues to sell, the price will continue to fall. In addition, there have been recent rumors that NVIDIA has lowered the purchase price of the AIB link, so the cost of graphics card production may have been reduced.
The reason why the price of graphics cards can be so outrageous in the past is that the relationship between supply and demand is out of balance.
The supply channel of the graphics card is the manufacturer - the provincial general agent - the agent at all levels - various stores.
Because in the past year, virtual currencies have reached a crazy point with the help of several waves in a row (Musk continuously carrying goods, US imperialism printing money, etc.), and many merchants' graphics cards have been booked by miners before they arrive.
Miners have money, the purchase volume is still large, the original sold to players can earn 500 cards, transferred to miners can earn more than double, and then counting individual players scattered across the country, follow-up after-sales costs are much higher.
As long as you can get the goods, even a small seller on the salted fish can sell tens of millions of flows, and the larger agents can't think about how much small money they make.
All in all, merchants prefer to send graphics cards directly to miners. Save trouble, and pay back money quickly.
However, NIVIDA, AMD, and various brand manufacturers want to face, of course, they want money.
So they verbally warn the agents at all levels below.
This has a variety of monkey reservation rush drama, merchants from time to time to release a little goods to the player, hanging appetite to stabilize the reputation, in fact, before this more supply has been taken away by miners.
To put it bluntly, the price of the graphics card is bound to the virtual currency, when the virtual currency is hot, the mining income is high, and the miners naturally want to add the card to improve productivity, and the price of the graphics card will rise. So players are waiting for a mining accident with their heads tilted.
Although it is not yet called a mining disaster, but there is no external force, it is indeed difficult for the price of the coin to maintain a false prosperity. Coupled with the increase in the difficulty of mining, the reduction of the income allows the tide of mines to cool down, at this time, miners naturally have to be cautious about adding cards, and the cards in the hands of merchants are hoarded and accumulated.
Backlog inventory is a dangerous behavior for merchants, which has contributed to the scene we see today with abundant supply of graphics cards and continuous price reductions.
It can be seen that the price of graphics cards at the end of March is generally about 30% higher than the original price, which is much gentler than last year's 100% +, and the 3080Ti has even fallen below the initial price.
Statistical time: March 25, statistical platform: Jingdong needs to pay attention to the data used by Xiaoshu from the first-line brands of Jingdong Mall, but even if it is a first-line brand, the price difference is still not small. Finally, back to the ultimate question: Is it right now to buy a graphics card? Will graphics card prices rebound? As mentioned above, the direct factor is whether the price of the graphics card will rise, the direct factor is the income of mining, and now the global situation is unclear, and no one has come out to incite the fire, XiaoShu does not think that the price of the coin has risen fuel.
In addition, most of the previous graphics cards have to dig a virtual currency called Ethereum, and then Ethereum will be transferred to version 2.0, which will be greatly reduced in simple terms.
At that time, there are only two ways to idle mining machines, one is to dig other virtual coins, but the value of other virtual coins is far less than Ethereum, whether you can eat so many mining machines is not accurate, the second way is to flow into the player market, whether it is second-hand or renovation There will always be a large number of mining cards supply.
Therefore, Xiao Shu believes that the graphics card will continue to reduce the price, one or two hundred a week, and almost to the original price after waiting for one or two months.
If you don't just need to wait, why bear the risk of taking over the mining card? Waiting for the 40 series to be released? Money in your own hands and can't fly. Of course, if you really need to use a graphics card, then don't have to tangle so much, now is the lowest point in the price of graphics cards in the past year or so, thinking about this is not a loss.