"Sell a piece and lose 3000!" Graphics Card Price Official Avalanche》
Scalpers Cry! Global graphics card prices are diving"
"Graphics card prices plummeted, scalpers panicked, netizens laughed"
The graphics card that was once "unaffordable" finally fell to the altar. Since March this year, graphics card prices have plummeted worldwide.
According to the German professional website 3D Center, local graphics card prices continued to decline in April, "compared to three weeks ago, AMD graphics card prices fell by an average of 13%, while Nvidia graphics cards fell by 6%. ”
The domestic decline is also not small. According to CCTV Finance, since March, the average price of graphics cards has dropped by 30%, "one of the hottest graphics cards, asus RTX 3080, last year's highest was nearly 20,000 yuan, and currently less than 7,000 yuan." ”
So the question is, is now a good time to start a graphics card?
Why graphics card prices have skyrocketed
And why did it plummet?
On September 2, 2020, "the godfather of the nuclear bomb" Huang Jenxun brought NVIDIA's latest nuclear bomb consumer graphics card GeForce RTX 30 series in his kitchen.
It offers performance data that is far ahead of its predecessors, lifelike ray tracing technology, and an unbeatable price/performance ratio. Allowing you to use the same price as the previous flagship product, you can buy a new model with nearly double performance.
This kind of "double not to mark up" behavior makes Lao Huang proudly say: "This is the greatest performance improvement ever."
However, the RTX 30 series, which was supposed to be a classic of the first generation, became the first generation of "air cards" ever.
At the same time as the release of the RTX30 series, the price of virtual currency began to soar, and a new round of "mining tide" began.
Among the "mining machines" used for "mining", the largest proportion of Ethereum "mining machines" is the main component of high-power graphics cards. In the case of limited supply of professional "mining machines", "mine bosses" have rushed to the market to buy graphics cards.
They are not like ordinary people, buying one by one and bargaining. It's about how much to buy and how much to buy, and it doesn't matter how much the price doubles.
In the face of huge demand, global semiconductor production capacity is in a scarce state due to the epidemic, resulting in the graphics cards produced by manufacturers are far from enough to meet the market.
Coupled with the malicious hoarding and speculation of scalpers with ulterior motives, the price of graphics cards in the market has been speculated to the "sky".
The original price of 2499 yuan RTX3060 was once speculated to 8000 yuan; the original price of 3899 RTX 3070, the highest soared to 11000 yuan; the original price of 5499 yuan RTX3080, is once close to 20,000 yuan.
The 300% premium has deterred countless DIY players from choosing gamebook or PS5.
But Cheng also "mined" and failed to "mine". Since last November, the price of Ether has begun to fall, from a peak of $4811 to around $3000 at present.
At the same time, Ethereum 2.0 is coming, and the profitability of "mining" will no longer be tied to the number of graphics cards.
Coupled with the domestic rectification of "mining", a large number of "mining cards" that have been cleared have entered the second-hand market. And the RTX 40 series graphics card will be released soon in the second half of this year.
Under all kinds of negative news, the price of graphics cards began to plummet.
However, if you start a graphics card now, it will still become a super big leek.
The current price reduction
It's not enough
A very important reason is that after the graphics card experiences a wave of crazy price increases, it begins to decline from the commanding heights of the price of the graphics card, which is actually not a real price reduction.
The price of many popular graphics cards is still higher than the official guide price.
In the statistics of the "sword of victory" of zhihu netizens, only the RTX 3080Ti and RX 6900XT graphics cards have fallen below the initial price.
From the perspective of the normal price cycle of the graphics card, the RTX 40 series is about to be listed, and the RTX 30 series, which has been listed for more than two years, should fall to about 70% of the original price to be reasonable.
Moreover, this wave of price reduction currently only appears in high-end graphics cards, RTX 3060 and below low-end graphics cards, the current market price has not changed much.
In 2019 Double 11, my colleague Moonbird purchased a GTX 1660S Super for 1419 yuan.
After using it for nearly two years, in June 2021, the resourceful man sold this graphics card at idle fish for 3700 yuan, and then added a hundred dollars to buy the PS5 launched by the Bank of China.
Today, I went to idle fish to search for this graphics card, and its price remained above 2000, which was quite outrageous.
For most users, low-end graphics cards are their choice.
In the Steam hardware rankings, the first is still the GTX 1060 released 6 years ago, and only the seventh place has the figure of the 30 series graphics card.
Here we go
The high probability you buy is a mining card
In addition to the price is not cheap, you now start with a graphics card, there is a high probability that you will buy a "mining card".
The so-called "mining card" is also "the card that has been mined". Due to the behavior of mining, it is overloaded for 24 × 7 hours, which seriously damages the life of the graphics card. So much so that players can't avoid it.
A "bitter lord" once posted his "card purchase experience" in Tieba. In July 2021, he purchased a public version of the RX 6800XT for 6600 yuan, which was originally priced at 5099 yuan.
It didn't take long to find out that what I had bought was a "mine card", and when playing Assassin's Creed, when I walked to a position, I would flash back and then flower the screen, and I would always be stuck there without restarting.
When the momentum of "mining" is hot, some "mine bosses" with channels are driving directly to the door of graphics card factories in Huaqiang North and other places to pull goods, blocking the possibility of graphics cards entering the market from the source.
So that most of the mainstream graphics cards on the market are "mining cards". Even new products of big brands may be refurbished products of "mining cards".
On March 13, 2022, the official notice of China Customs seized a batch of counterfeit graphics cards from XFX Xunjing, as many as 5840 pieces, and the model number was highly suspected of RX 6700 XT overseas version.
On the same day, the website of Xunjing China's official website was temporarily closed, showing that the flagship store was also disappearing during the upgrade and maintenance.
There are rumors that not only Xunjing, but also other brands have similar behavior, involving the number of graphics cards as much as 150,000 or so, but there is no way to confirm.
To borrow a sentence from a netizen: going to the market to buy a card now is like going to the Qinglou blind date, and the price is not cheap.
Wait a minute
The RTX 40 series of True Fragrance is coming
According to foreign media VideoCardz, NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics cards are expected to be released at the end of the third quarter of this year, which is consistent with the release time of previous years.
The series will use the AdaLovelace graphic architecture, based on TSMC's 5nm process, and the flagship AD102 will have a chip size of up to 600 square millimeters.
Its performance and power consumption will skyrocket compared to the previous generation.
The soaring performance is naturally "really fragrant" for the player; and the soaring power consumption means that the "mine boss" may not be able to make ends meet with it.
You don't buy, I don't buy, the graphics card can drop by 200 tomorrow!
Everyone held up until the release of the RTX 40 series, while watching the scalper go bankrupt, while buying a new card at a low price, why not?
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