… It's almost shocking to see after so many reports of price increases. The trend is undeniable. According to 3D Center, the February price of AMD's Radeon RDNA2 cards has fallen 18 percent, to 145 percent over MSRP. For Nvidia's Ampere GPUs, prices fell 20 percent, leaving them 157 percent over MSRP. …
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… The price boom of 2017 through early 2018 brought a lot of new miners into the market, and they all needed hardware to generate new coins. Thus, the law of supply and demand took over to wreck GPU prices . You were lucky to see cards selling for less than double MSRP. …
… Graphics card prices have risen dramatically this generation, partly due to higher MSRPs and later due to rising global electronics prices driven by the AI infrastructure buildout . …
… This has caused these benevolent beings to begin offering the cards at MSRP. However, even that is too high for a lot of folks, as partner boards can range in price from $1,350 to $1,500—you're much better off just getting an RTX 4090, if you can. …
… It's not clear what TSMC is planning, but Samsung is reported to be looking at a 20 percent price increase. The impact of these price changes will likely be felt far and wide. …
… MSRP on the Radeon RX 6600 XT is $329. THG reports this as the best deal of 2022 thus far, which really tells you something about how bad prices are right now. …
The demand-induced silicon shortage may have made sourcing a GPU or AMD CPU at MSRP a miserable ordeal, but it's had one upside: PC sales are booming. …