Unfortunately there aren’t too many surprises in terms of the price of graphics cards and as expected at the time, the value of these is on the rise again and apparently this cyclone is weighing on everyone and everyone. is far from over. . But there is something new since it all started that is quite curious and worth analyzing: AMD graphics cards are already for a + 200% of its MSRP value, en route to its all-time high. These are the GPU prices in October.
The price outlook is as surreal as it was two years ago, but worse. Contrary to what happened at the time and focusing on this 2021 where everything has skyrocketed, curiously the lowest prices that we could find at the beginning of the year, where it is the only specific point that can be seen in the graphics in which AMD beat NVIDIA in the price of graphics cards. Since August it has become a fact and now the difference is starting to skyrocket.
Neither AMD nor NVIDIA Can Contain the Hits: Prices in October
While it should be borne in mind that the published data refers to prices and movements in the German and Austrian market, it is also true that from what can be seen in their history, the RTX models 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti, and RX 6600 are excluded from the chart, at least in this edition.
At the end of the year that we are in, what we can see is the price mismatch that happened at the start of this one with NVIDIA’s incredible escalation to verge on the absurd with a + 304% higher, lose value until it reaches its minimum (by setting aside January) in a + 150% in August. AMD reached 214% in May and fell until July, when after that precise date (4th of this month) its price did not drop.
The problem is clear in this regard, and it is nothing more than the constant linear and increasingly vertical rise that AMD is experiencing in its graphics cards and in general, GPU prices until October.
The storm before the tragedy, is there no end?
If the rally continues through the holidays, there is no indication that AMD will not again set records against its MSRP. And it is that if we see the evolution since June with a + 153%, August with a + 164%, September with + 174% and ending in October with a + 201% we are faced with very significant price increases in a few months: almost 10% on average per month.
NVIDIA is not having better luck either: + 150% August 8 as a lower value, removing the aforementioned month of January and from there to a + 188% which he now has and which also rises in a staggered manner, yes, but also abruptly with a + 38% since the end of summer. What is clear is that neither the HX series for mining, nor the launch of more models nor the adjustment in demand are able to stop the escalation in prices.
The paradox we discussed a month ago that the RTX 30 could be priced higher than the RTX 40 and its MSRP is starting to set in and only another steep and greater drop than we are experiencing in the summer can make this unfulfilled. It is also true that it could be due to price cuts or offers to withdraw from stock, because if they don’t sell them now, when leaks and data from Ada Lovelace and RDNA 3So it is true that there will be no way to clean up the stocks.
