Analysts say Nvidia and AMD graphics card prices will eventually plummet

IT House News on April 7th, since 2020, the PC industry has been on the cusp of the storm. Whether it is memory, SSD, graphics card or processor, there have been shortages and price increases. However, with the passage of time, the graphics cards that everyone is thinking about are gradually ushering in price cuts, and even the pricing of mid-to-high-end models has been almost halved from the high point.

Bobantang found that the virtual currency market has rebounded recently, and the demand for mining cards has increased slightly. Individual models such as GTX 1660 Super and GTX 1660 Ti have slightly increased by about 50 yuan, but the overall demand for mining cards is still sluggish. In addition, due to the repeated epidemics and market demand, the actual transaction price of graphics cards is continuing to decline.

Nvidia and AMD graphics cards are now only less than 50% more expensive than MSRP, I’m afraid no one can really see exactly where things are going, but analysts seem to believe that gamers and PC enthusiasts will soon be able to use reasonable spending to buy a graphics card.

IT House learned that the wholesale price changes of several mainstream graphics card models on April 7 compared to March 28 are as follows:

– GTX 1660 Super: The price remains unchanged, around 2,000 yuan.

– RTX 2060 6GB: The price remains unchanged, around 2200 yuan.

– RTX 2060 12GB: The price remains unchanged, around 2400 yuan.

– RTX 3060: The price is reduced by about 100 yuan, and it is about 3000-3100 yuan.

– RTX 3060 Ti: The price is reduced by about 100 yuan to about 3,500 yuan.

– RTX 3070 Ti: The price is reduced by about 300 yuan to about 4,500 yuan.

– RX 6600 XT: The price has been reduced by about 100 yuan, around 2800.

In addition, GIGABYTE has begun to implement the latest price adjustment strategy in April, and continues to cut across the board. Among them, the RTX 3070 series and above high-end cards have even been reduced by about 2,200 yuan.

It is worth mentioning that Dr. Jon Peddie, founder and CEO of Jon Peddie Research, an authoritative research organization in the GPU graphics card industry, also wrote an article today to analyze the changes in the graphics card market in recent years.

He believes that AMD and Nvidia graphics cards could “plummet” over time as shoppers find it increasingly difficult to sell, especially gamers refusing to take over at high prices. , there is a good chance that there will be a significant improvement in the coming months, even if it happens more slowly than expected.

He also gave a trend chart of the average price of the independent display from 2008 to 2021. We can see that most graphics cards before 2010 were under $200, and since then, the overall growth has been steady. In 2018-2019, it exceeded $200. In the past two years, it has risen like a rocket and even rose in the past ten years. more than a range.

In March 2022, Nvidia announced the launch of a new high-end graphics card, the RTX 3090Ti, but it will cost you $2,000, 4 times that of similar positioning products five years ago, and countless players have been silent.

Compared with the PC notebook GPU, the price of desktop independent graphics has risen by at least 2 times, and may be 3 times. Therefore, we can rule out that the shortage of stock is the reason for the sharp increase in the price of PC graphics cards, then the rest is nothing more than mining, speculation and profiteering.

In this case, gaming cards are priced out of the reach of most gamers, and GPU vendors haven’t actually benefited from the price hike, except for the $2,000 card mentioned above. In the same way, Sony and Microsoft did not enjoy the benefits of the host price increase.

So, who is benefiting? Obviously, they are speculators and scalpers. For example, on eBay, some merchants sell at prices 2 to 3 times higher than MSRP. Even some time, there are still a large number of channel merchants who can’t cover their stocks, and users who just need it have to bite the bullet. Eat this loss.

He believes that these inflated bids are likely to collapse as game players collectively refuse to buy. In this case, it will be difficult for speculators and miners to find players to take over, so the final transaction price will become lower and lower. .