According to the report of Global Finance, in recent times, the price of graphics cards on the market has plunged in a large area, ending the price surge model of more than 2 years. What is causing the price of graphics cards to plummet? How big is the decline? The reporter recently visited the Huaqiang North Market in Shenzhen.
In Shenzhen Huaqiang North, known as the "first street of Chinese electronics", many stalls are placed with popular models of graphics card packaging boxes, merchants told reporters that the price of graphics cards of various brands has dropped sharply, and the current price is at a low level in the past two years.
A merchant in Shenzhen Huaqiang North said that now the price has fallen, and it has dropped about 1,000 yuan in the past month. This card was taken by others to dig before, and now it is not allowed to dig, 3080 just came down, we just started to sell, and then basically can't sell, because basically it was swept away to dig for mining, and if it was sold, it was also taken away in a whole box.
Not only the stalls of offline stores, but also the price of graphics cards on online e-commerce platforms and second-hand trading platforms has declined. Taking one of the most popular graphics cards, the ASUS RTX 3080, as an example, JD.com's offer reached nearly 20,000 yuan at the highest last year, while jd.com's current offer is less than 7,000 yuan. The market demand and price of graphics cards show a high correlation with the price of virtual currencies such as Ether.
Different virtual currency systems have different requirements for mining machines, among which Ethereum's mining machines have graphics cards as the core. Since the second half of 2020, the price of Ethereum has continued to soar, attracting many players to pour into it, and the price of graphics cards has risen with it, and the phenomenon of difficulty in finding a card has occurred frequently.
To be honest, see the price of graphics card large area diving, many people will be surprised, before the price of graphics card can be said to be rising, and even some people will buy graphics cards and buy Moutai analogy, think that graphics cards are the most value-preserving and value-added things, but who did not expect that today's graphics card prices are a large area of diving, selling a graphics card to lose 3000, why will the graphics card suddenly be not fragrant? What is the reason for this?
First of all, we have to understand why the graphics card has such a high price increase trend before, this is because the current entire capital market has entered a boom in investment in coins, in this state of investment in the boom of coin speculation, the graphics card has become the most profitable thing, at the beginning most people use CPU to mine, but with the passage of time more and more people find that there is no need to use CPU mining, began to use graphics card mining, when the graphics card gradually became a mining machine, We see the biggest feature is the surge in demand for graphics cards above the entire market, many people actually buy graphics cards back not to install computers, but directly as mining machines to use, so in such a situation we found that the graphics card market has a serious imbalance between supply and demand, the demand is always greater than the attack, the final result is to promote the overall rise in graphics card prices, which is the core reason for the large-scale rise in graphics card prices before.
Secondly, over the years, the country has vigorously cracked down on virtual currency mining behavior, along with the rectification of virtual currency mining, in fact, the market began to return to a relatively more normal state, as the market's demand for graphics cards began to decrease the supply began to increase the space for large-scale decline in graphics cards, which actually represents the market gradually entered a rationalized state, the market gradually realized that graphics cards are not omnipotent, it is just a computer installed parts, although this spare part is very important, However, its needs and the actual installed requirements of the computer are closely related, it is impossible to have additional needs beyond the actual installed needs of the computer, so this makes the graphics card gradually return to a normal state.
Third, for the current entire market, the graphics card is actually still in a relatively high running state, so in such a situation, for most ordinary people, if you want to match the computer at this time, the best choice is to wait first, it is estimated that the price of the graphics card still has a certain room for decline, after all, the price of the popular graphics card is still higher than the official guide price, and the price of the graphics card may be a better choice when the price of the graphics card gradually falls to the official guide price.