What happened to graphics cards prices?

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I couldn’t find a hardware sub-forum that wasn’t for troubleshooting so I’ll just leave this here.

What happened to graphics card prices???

About 7-8 years ago when I built my current system with a 1080Ti (the best GPU at the time), it cost me around $1300 (AUD). Fast forward to today and the equivalent GPU (the 5090 because apparently the 5080 is weaker than the 4080 super), is priced at around $4000 - $6000 (AUD).

…:crazy_face:

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adam jensen happened. have fun with your ai ridden nvidia dominated graphics card high priced market of “LOL NO GPUS FOR THE POORS” while jensen dances around onstage with his gold colored jacket. NO REALLY thats what he did last nvidia convention.

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It’s called inflation.

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I mean, he does look how I feel about all this:

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It’s been like that since COVID, due to the factories being shut down.

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no as in hes the ceo of nvidia. and hes gone on record as basically saying “dont like our high prices, tough.”

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Oh. I thought you were referring to the Deus Ex game :rofl:

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Cryptocurrencies and then LLM based AI happen. Nvidia found other uses for their cards.

Why the prices went up? Don’t really know. Maybe Nvidia and AMD started making more expensive GPUs because crypto and AI people will buy them. So that’s all that got created.

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actually…amd dropped out of the high end gpu market late last year. its all nvidia now. enjoy your 2k+ 90 series cards. ITS THE FUTURE WITH JENSEN AT THE HELM. jensen is the definition of a hasnt had to work for a thing in his life.

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I seriously doubt it’s soley due to inflation.

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you’d better buy sooner rather than later imo.

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jensen was gonna raise prices with or without the tarriffs.

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It’s no different than other markets. Supply and demand and yes inflation too.

In large part thanks to Crypto demand for a relative few cards produced into supply and the suppliers knowing they get to set the price into obscene levels and people will pay it. They don’t care about you and your needs…just who is gonna give them the money.

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Google’s AI answer:

https://i.ibb.co/WNVfXdbs/IMG-1194.jpg

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You forgot add corpo gonna corpo into that equation. Seems to be the primary driver behind CPI these days rather than anything else.

That and God damn crypto bros. :rage:

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They can charge whatever they want if you’re willing to pay the price. They simply have a high price because they can. Nvidia high end GPU were supposed to be around 800, but I guess they abandoned that affordable GPU stuff in favor of overpricing their product.

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I think it’s more about the crypto revolution mixed with supply/demand economics as well as China being terrible at everything.

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people really need to stop shilling for corporations.

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What game(s) are you playing or planning to play that need a 5090?
Most people don’t ever use their GPUs or CPUs to their full potential, but they “need” the enthusiast PC parts for some reason.
Keeping up with the Joneses, I guess… pay for it $$.

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Outside of corpo gonna corpo, I guess this is the other main reason as I do not think general inflation is a major factor in this equation at all.

God damn crypto bros ruining my favorite pastime. :rage: