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.

[HHH33]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

In short, pc gaming is dead. PC gaming is the new Neo Geo.

[Jessie]

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

Publicado originalmente por 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.

In short, pc gaming is dead. PC gaming is the new Neo Geo.

PC gaming is, and always has been... expensive.

[HHH33]

Publicado originalmente por Jessie:

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

In short, pc gaming is dead. PC gaming is the new Neo Geo.

PC gaming is, and always has been... expensive.

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 cost $200 in 1999. Apparently that's $333 in today's dollars. The TNT2 Ultra was only a little more, for lower capability.

[[N]ebsun]

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

Publicado originalmente por Jessie:

PC gaming is, and always has been... expensive.

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 cost $200 in 1999. Apparently that's $333 in today's dollars. The TNT2 Ultra was only a little more, for lower capability.

If it's too expensive for most people to buy, then it wouldn't make sense to release games that can only be played using a high end card since not many people would be able to play that game. It will take a lot more to kill the PC gaming industry.

That's pretty expensive considering it's capability and that you can buy a 1030 that is thousands of times more powerful for $150 today.

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Yep , GT 1030 saves the gaming . Till the tide changes .

[HHH33]

Publicado originalmente por Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 cost $200 in 1999. Apparently that's $333 in today's dollars. The TNT2 Ultra was only a little more, for lower capability.

If it's too expensive for most people to buy, then it wouldn't make sense to release games that can only be played using a high end card since not many people would be able to play that game. It will take a lot more to kill the PC gaming industry.

That's pretty expensive considering it's capability and that you can buy a 1030 that is thousands of times more powerful for $150 today.

$150 doesn't unlock the best graphics in the world like the equivalent of $333 did in 1999. 9x that today.

unsustainable.

[Monk]

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

Publicado originalmente por Jessie:

PC gaming is, and always has been... expensive.

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 cost $200 in 1999. Apparently that's $333 in today's dollars. The TNT2 Ultra was only a little more, for lower capability.

And today's cards aren't 1000x more complicated and expensive to build / design or anything....

[[N]ebsun]

Publicado originalmente por Monk:

Publicado originalmente por HHH33:

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 cost $200 in 1999. Apparently that's $333 in today's dollars. The TNT2 Ultra was only a little more, for lower capability.

And today's cards aren't 1000x more complicated and expensive to build / design or anything....

Tell that to someone in 1999

[Monk]

Publicado originalmente por Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

Publicado originalmente por Monk:

And today's cards aren't 1000x more complicated and expensive to build / design or anything....

Tell that to someone in 1999

What, that things get more complex over time? I think anyone with the know how to design a gpu would know that...

Not sure what you were getting at, but I suspect you have no idea what goes into making a gpu and just how complex and expensive they are to design and make.

[[N]ebsun]

Publicado originalmente por Monk:

Publicado originalmente por Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

Tell that to someone in 1999

What, that things get more complex over time? I think anyone with the know how to design a gpu would know that...

Not sure what you were getting at, but I suspect you have no idea what goes into making a gpu and just how complex and expensive they are to design and make.

That's exactly why they cost more today than 20 years ago..

[Monk]

Yes, so I don't get the point you were trying to make.

Sounds like you were disagreeing.

[tonimark]

Publicado originalmente por LAPDAlonzo:

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.

1.scalpers AND YES these cause the problem at first now normally where supply seemed better in other regions they still sell everything on more than double the price which is bad i am waiting for a gpu for almost a year now and they CONTRIBUTE TO IT THE MOST!
2.crypto: since us printed a lot of cash (which is bad!) the crypto value gone up which gave crypto mining a sense , and so these folks keep buying the gpu on high price and mantaining it but nevertheless they get crypto and free cash and we loose by loosing gaming
3.covid is not over: mutation "Omicron" is on horizon which still causes supply problems

[Monk]

Even the base cost of production is far higher, just look at the transistor count on those old cards compared to modern ones.

Oh and cars have gone up in price a hell of alot overall compared to 20 to 30 years ago.

[Monk]

Yes they are, go look at the price of a hatchback 30 years ago compared to now.

Sorry but you seem to have no idea what you are talking about overall.

[A&A]

Cars can be more expensive (if we're talking about the EU), they're more expensive just because they push emissions taxes, so that's why, the hell, electric cars are going to be cheaper.

Even if the technology is evolving, even if we have quantum processors, for the normal user at the moment he doesn't need this thing, he can't use it, nor will be faster than if you play an old game and so on. We see that the CPUs and GPUs from 2014 are still in use and perform well enough to this day.