Among the reasons for this price adjustment is the increase in inventory after the normalization of production after the pandemic and the decline in interest in mining Ethereum. Both of these factors seem to facilitate a noticeable price drop, and that’s a good thing for gamers.
Graphics card prices are falling
We have seen how the price of graphics cards was reached double in many cases or even triple touch price compared to MSRP. But it’s not the only component made more expensive by the pandemic, we’ve also seen significant stock issues in laptops. There was high market demand due to telecommuting and Chinese production plants were closed or working with reduced staff.
According to Tom’s Hardware report, the price of graphics cards, as of June 15, is down. This indicates that the price of many graphics cards is falling between 1 and 7%. Some do not record a decline, they have a stable price. The only graphics card that has gone up in price is the RTX 3080 12GBwho has increased by about 9%.
Graphics NVIDIA RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3050 they are still above MSRP, but the price has improved. Only the RTX 3090 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti fell below MSRP. This is normal, because they have very high prices and are intended for a minority audience.
We have to keep in mind that NVIDIA graphics offer a few things that are ahead of AMD graphics. We talk about the Ray tracing technologies and DLSS, which are more powerful than the solutions of its main competitor. Although AMD is playing with good prices and FSR 2.0 has improved remarkably.
Improve the situation, but slowly
It is important to see that the price of graphics cards is normalizing. Although they drop in price, the mid-range is still quite expensive, not to mention the high-end, which is inaccessible to most users.
We must point out that throughout this article we have not mentioned the Intel ARC graphics cards. Enterprise graphics, at the moment, are coming in few laptops and we don’t know anything about desktop models. It seems that Intel is still far from being competitive in the gaming graphics market, even though it is already revealing its cards.
Now, it is expected that after the summer, new gaming graphics cards will be released by AMD and NVIDIA. Many rumors and hypotheses of performance and consumption have been launched, but what about the price? Well, let’s wait a bit to see how the new graphics and their price come out. Something that should mean a drop in price for “old” graphics cards.
