Now those who pay attention to computer hardware should be able to see the news of the collapse in the price of graphics cards, and all kinds of news that wants buyers to buy, is this true?
This tide of mines is essentially eating grain. First of all, what is the meaning of DIY's existence?
Of course, it is to avoid meaningless expenses while pursuing "faster, higher, stronger".
But under the tide of mines, OEMs are cheaper than DIY, which means faster, higher and stronger at the same price, so who will buy DIY?
Secondly, DIY is essentially a market that relies on the cost of identification, I buy goods, you want to sell my goods, I have enough methods to identify whether the goods you sell are suitable or not. When bad money floods the market and the cost of identification exceeds the OEM's premium, then no one will buy DIY without buying OEM.
So the problem now is;
First of all, the Navi21/GA102 generation card released in 2020 is in a state where it is either a default mine or a high premium. For example, 3090ti, to 14999, and 66xt, 67xt, 3060, 3070, 3070ti, 3080, 3080ti is the hardest hit area of the mine. The cost of card renovation is very high, the cost of identification is higher, the manufacturer's card price includes the cost of refurbishment, the player's TCO includes the cost of identification, and the two costs are added together, it is better to add money to the next generation.
Secondly, the second generation of domestic baby boomers has passed the peak period of playing games, the speed of card replacement has dropped sharply, and the chip factory has pulled up the unit price + cut off the three card support, which will inevitably mean that the vast majority of users will only use a single card, and the non-public pcb design and heat dissipation scheme of the game card are not suitable for the rack or the multi-card system of the table-side machine group, resulting in the difficulty of clearing the inventory of the game card.
Finally, a person's most enthusiastic age to play games is probably 8-25, 26 years old, in this age group most of the users need to transfer payments from their parents, now two political science cycles + an economics cycle + epidemic, most people have to prepare for the winter. Graphics card is a typical small citizen consumption, small citizens daily life is a problem, who will buy a graphics card?
In the current situation, many netizens also said that this did not reach the real price reduction, still the original price, and even the price increase, so this time the price reduction tide of graphics cards, they still have to weigh it and look at it and buy it.