Why GPU's prices so high?

[ProVegaGamer]

Wanted to buy a 600 dollars card, now its almost a 1,000 dollars hahaha.
What's the deal, people think everyone is making 6 figures or something now?
Not everyone is recovering that damn fast.

[MoonC A T]

Not sure if serious or not... Unless you are living under a rock, you can't be oblivious to the semiconductor shortage that is affecting the GPU market as well as automobiles and other electronics.

Simple supply and demand economics. Demand is currently higher than supply.

The problem is compounded by the GPU semiconductor market, which, in terms of GPUs, is a duopoly. Most people are unaware that Nvidia also makes chips for cars as well.

It is further compounded by miners hoarding cards for mining rigs.

And then you have the scalpers...

[Cathulhu]

And it won't get better when the shortage of ABF substrate hits the manufacturers.

[ProVegaGamer]

Escrito originalmente por ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Not sure if serious or not... Unless you are living under a rock, you can't be oblivious to the semiconductor shortage that is affecting the GPU market as well as automobiles and other electronics.

Simple supply and demand economics. Demand is currently higher than supply.

The problem is compounded by the GPU semiconductor market, which, in terms of GPUs, is a duopoly. Most people are unaware that Nvidia also makes chips for cars as well.

It is further compounded by miners hoarding cards for mining rigs.

And then you have the scalpers...

No i haven't been living under a rock, i had cancer for 2 years so i been out of the loop to what is going on. Also the video cards that i usually buy are cheap, i bought two w5500's recently that was only 400 bucks on ebay. So yes i am serious. But thanks for the info.

[MoonC A T]

Well, now you know. It isn't ending anytime soon despite what you may hear now that you're back in the loop.

[ProVegaGamer]

Escrito originalmente por ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Well, now you know. It isn't ending anytime soon despite what you may hear now that you're back in the loop.

all good i guess, will look forward to buying a radeon pro w6600 when the price drops in the future.

[ZAP]

You can get RX 6600 for $470 all day on Amazon. Every half hour to an hour more go in stock at that price if they sell out.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Escrito originalmente por ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Not sure if serious or not... Unless you are living under a rock,

This.

[ProVegaGamer]

Escrito originalmente por Out Of Bubblegum:

Escrito originalmente por ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Not sure if serious or not... Unless you are living under a rock,

This.

I clearly explained this, if you read it.

Escrito originalmente por ZAP:

You can get RX 6600 for $470 all day on Amazon. Every half hour to an hour more go in stock at that price if they sell out.

I only use Workstation GPU's for gaming(Have a few non workstation gpus for backup), etc. So I'm referring to the Radeon Pro W6600.

[Viking2121]

Supply and demand at its best, little supply mixed with more and more demand, Wont change for a long while Im afraid, its like even used cars, they went up in price quite a lot for something somewhat decent.

I had over $1,000 on me and I went to micro center just to see what they had, they had 6600XT's in stock for a staggering $800 bucks, Nvidia, well I could of got a GT710 for $80, I kept my Vega 64 and just bought a few little things for my computer like faster and more ram. Not upgrading any time soon GPU wise lol.

Used market on GPU's is getting kinda bad now as well, use to be able to find 1080tis for around $300 a few months ago, now your lucky to find one under $500. Its nuts.

[Kobs]

It's going to climb until peoples decide it's too high, when the demand stops (peoples thinking it's too high) prices will drop to a more normal price
And that's the way everything works, sometimes something or someone starves the market on purpose to make something scarce to get the prices to go up

[Heretic]

I'm sure it has been imprinted into most of our psyche that this was to be the century of scarcity. With people that prepared, whilst living within a highly opportunistic and profit driven system, it follows that artificial scarcity will be used to drive prices up even further.

It has been happening with diamonds and other 'rare' materials for centuries.

Who knows for sure. Much of the tech media are basically brought and function as advertisers.

[MoonC A T]

Once a commodities price has risen to a certain level it becomes the norm. I don't think prices will go down.

[ZAP]

Escrito originalmente por LAPDAlonzo:

Escrito originalmente por Out Of Bubblegum:

This.

I clearly explained this, if you read it.

Escrito originalmente por ZAP:

You can get RX 6600 for $470 all day on Amazon. Every half hour to an hour more go in stock at that price if they sell out.

I only use Workstation GPU's for gaming(Have a few non workstation gpus for backup), etc. So I'm referring to the Radeon Pro W6600.

Why it that? And what's so appealing about a RX 6600 that's louder/hotter?

[hawkeye]

A 1080ti and a 3060ti have similar performance and a 3060ti costs about the same as a 1080ti did (in my country). The cost of the high end cards is due to mining plus price gouging. However as bitcoin mining is a major cause of pollution adding gamers with high-end cards will just make the situation worse. So there could be a hidden reason for keeping prices high.

[A&A]

The companies want that
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeET7Z1ZGlw