It’s a complicated answer that we’ll try to solve at the end of this article, but you have to see the data first to understand it. And it is that the average price and their fall becomes around 20% as a round number to highlight, with declines of 10% to 34.8%.
Graphics Card Price Crash: Enough?
Not at all, quite the contrary, it is insufficient especially if we are talking about the most recent GPUs. Why do some cards drop so little and others so much? Well, because it seems once again mining is behind it all.
archive DAYTIME of Ethereum needs at least 4 GB of VRAM to be able to function properly or just function depending on the version of it, so the GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1050 and GTX 1060 3 GB are directly out of this equation.
The latter stands out because it is the minimum performance per watt required to be truly profitable, but its VRAM is what it is and therefore the collapse is now greater than in other models with less VRAM even if c was the case. The drops in the GTX 10 and RTX 20 series are higher in percentage than in the RTX 30 and this indicates once again that everything is ruled by mining, as many gamers would gladly buy one GTX 1080Ti O RTX-2080Ti for modest prices, but this is not the case.
RTX register 30 only falls equal to or greater than that 20% in the case of the RTX 3090 (21.9%), but its price was completely out of the script. The average here is around 15%, so it’s not much less to fire rockets where the smallest in the series is still $642
Is it a good time to buy a new GPU?
Needless to say, we’re talking full speculation from here and the failure rate is huge, but there are signs that Ethereum crypto mining still has a few hours left. For example, China will condemn crypto mining with up to 10 years in prisonEthereum’s transition to POST is approaching, Russia wants to cash in big with this practice, Europe is considering a similar measure or a direct ban… And why all that?
For energy war and CO2 emissions. Countries are in transition to gradually limit or even zero emissions, so mining and its high consumption are not consistent and countries that have promised gold with this to attract investors like El Salvador are at the point of regard to users and contributors.
If we add to this the imminent presentation of the RTX 40 or RX 7000, as well as the launch of Intel ARC, then we have a cocktail that otherwise can only drive down the price of graphics cards in a collapse that should take place. amplify. So in principle and given these arguments, it’s not a good time to buy because the price should continue to fall and we see no indication that this will not happen, since the high performance semiconductor crisis is gradually ending .
Maybe if we find an affordable second-hand price, we could consider it, as the market should soon be flooded with GPUs due to the low profitability that should arrive in a short time. Of course, we can be wrong, let’s not forget that this is a highly speculative market.
