Graphics card prices see a big dip after months of scarcity and scalping
The dip is real.
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When’s the last time you saw a GPU being sold at MSRP? It’s likely been a long while, as most people have had toresort to bizarre behaviorin order to attain a GPU for monstrously inflated prices since the great shortage wave of 2020.Semiconductor woesbegan the problem, but speculators andcrypto miners took the issues furtherby straining already thin supply chains. Now, GPUs are virtually impossible to come by — though that may be changing, based on a recent report.
As cited by3DCenter, AMD and NVIDIA GPU prices have been divebombing in Germany (viaTechRadar). The article is in German, but even if you’re not usingMicrosoft Edgeand its handy translator feature and can’t make sense of the text itself, you can still see the post’s graph clear as day. It illustrates that German retailers are coming down from the mountains of May 2021’s 304% inflated NVIDIA GPU prices and are selling at a comparatively cheap 153% of the MSRP as of July 2021.
3DCenter warns that prices nosediving back toward MSRP levels isn’t a one-off, either. It says that consumers should hold their horses and consider waiting three to four weeks to see if standard pricing returns, since spending now may result in paying artificially bloated sums that could be much less puffy in just a few short weeks.
All of this info relates to Germany and German retailers, but it’s important that North American audiences pay attention to the prices of thebest graphics cardsacross the pond, as both markets share similarities, and the return to normalcy for one could indicate an incoming trend for the other. If you want anRTX 3060 Tiat its normal price, you may soon be in luck.
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