Graphics Card Market he brought us to the streets of bitterness for almost two years. It is true that we cannot blame manufacturers for this, because they are not responsible for the lack of components, nor can we blame them, at least directly, for the proliferation of miners and dealers. Circumstances were as they were, and at least we can comfort ourselves that the situation would now be completely normal, while miners (hopefully unsuccessfully) are trying to get rid of their graphics card farms (and I hope the sellers are in the same situation and are the same poorly).

So now it Distributors are back in stock and that graphics card prices are already around sales prices he recommended, in some cases even below, that it may be time to resume the debate that we had been dealing with some time ago, but which, given the circumstances we experienced, was logically placed in a drawer this time for a better opportunity.

It was summer 2020 when we ask you the question: What do you think about the price of graphics cards? We were still waiting for the debut of the current generation of NVIDIA and we couldn’t imagine that we would experience a similar situation soon after, but even then we thought that the prices of graphics cards were climbing above what seemed reasonable. And yes, it is true that there have been great innovations, but it is also true that the middle and high-end are increasingly moving away from the pockets of many users.

to try quantify the difference between the price and performance of the latest graphics cardsthat is, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 and AMD Radeon RX 6, 3DCenter, measured their performance and determined what the price per unit of performance would be in order to define whether the price (ie recommended) is lower or higher. what would be responsible for its benefits.

In the case of NVIDIA, with the GeForce RTX 3090 you see a huge imbalance between performance and price, with an MSRP of $ 1,999, but according to this calculation it should cost $ 814. This is by far the biggest gap we can see in the whole study. However, as the NVIDIA catalog shrinks, we see that the gap is narrowing significantly, with models that in this sense even present a positive relationshipsuch as RTX 3070 or 3060 and 3060 Ti.

for his part in the case of AMD graphics cards, we do not see such significant imbalancesthe largest is also at the top of the offer, the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, whose suggested retail price is $ 1,099 and whose fair price would be $ 735 according to this calculation, as well as the Radeon RX 6400, which is $ 159, and whose price should be always according to the 3DCenter approach $ 107. In the case of AMD, neither card offers a positive relationshipas with RTX 3070 or NVIDIA 3060 and 3060 Ti.

However, this is only a basic mathematical formula that it does not weigh something as important as a sense of perceived value by the user. And, of course, it couldn’t, because this metric is completely personal, as evidenced by the fact that there are users who have purchased high-end graphics cards from both manufacturers. , even with the knowledge that the jump performance compared to lower models is not directly proportional to the increase in prices.

And that’s exactly what makes the difference in a thousand and one conversations about graphics cards, and it’s also something that can be extrapolated to many other technology components and devices. Do those differences in performance compensate for the jump in prices? A question that has as many answers as there are people because everyone feels differently. What is your case?