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What will this do for graphics cards prices? They were just coming down.
by prox 5y ago
What will this do for graphics cards prices? They were just coming down.
- arcticbull 5y agoNothing for now, crypto isn't exactly crushing it. Hopefully that continues and we can put this episode behind us.
- 7speter 4y agoPrices have stalled for about a month for the midrange at least… might be vendors watching where eth goes (it’s been stuck between 2700and 3k) and the Hong Kong shutdown…
- dncornholio 4y ago3070 Ti 50 euro's up since this morning.. it was 750, back to 800 now.
- 7speter 4y agoUgh... the 3070 has been mia in the US and the only thing you can get are those dreadful (imo) 3070ti's that use something like 50 more watts than the vanilla 3070 for only 7% more performance.
- pjerem 5y agoCould it create a gap between NVidia and AMD GPU prices ? It could be a win-win for both of the actors and for gamers (not for humanity’s future but at least we could have some games)
- Moru 4y agoCan forget about only fans cooling your rig though, if ambient temperatures will be around 50 C there won't be enough cold air to cool your GPU I'm affraid :-)
- imtringued 4y agoI would be more worried about how we are going to cool our nuclear reactors.
- porker 5y agoI'm hoping not much, because after two years relying on my aged iGPU I am so ready to get back to a beefier graphics card.
- MrBuddyCasino 4y agoThe next generation of graphics cards is around the corner, with a pretty substantial performance improvement expected. Only buy a card now if you really, really have to - everyone else should just wait until Ada etc. Intel's new lineup that is launching right now might also relieve some pressure from the market, at least in the low-end.
- torginus 4y agoIf history's any record, this will be another paper launch, meaning unless you are extremely good at snatching up the limited stock, you won't get your hands on a next-gen GPU for a good while.
- WithinReason 4y agoNvidia pre-booked large capacity from TSMC for this launch, and hopefully AMD did too.
- MrBuddyCasino 4y agoThis implies that Ampère was a paper launch, which it wasn't. Compared to the previous generation, they delivered more units. It all got snatched up by the crypto miners directly at the factory. Since crypto prices are falling and ETH moves to POS, the situation might reverse substantially. According to Jon Peddie Research, the combined number of desktop GPUs sold by AMD & NVidia: Q3/2019 ~10,5 M Q4/2019 ~11,8 M Q1/2020 ~9,5 M Q2/2020 ~10,1 M Q3/2020 11,5 M Q4/2020 11,0 M Q1/2021 11,8 M Q2/2021 11,47 M Q3/2021 12,72 M
- WithinReason 4y agoAMD doesn't have a limiter and they have been falling in tandem: https://www.3dcenter.org/dateien/abbildungen/AMD-nVidia-Retail-Price-Trend-2021-2022-v7.png https://www.3dcenter.org/dateien/abbildungen/AMD-nVidia-Reta... Correlation with ETH price (in yellow) was high previously but now it's low
- torginus 4y agoAfaik the best predictor for ETH hashrate is memory bandwidth. AMD's latest generation of GPUs actually employs a large on-die cache combined with slower memory compared to the 5000 series (and the NVIDIA 30 series), resulting in a naturally lower hashrate.