With the normalization of the graphics card market, some of us still have a hard time understanding how the price of these basic components has managed to reach a point where many users have been waiting for more than a year to build their new computers. Update the ones you have been using for a long time. times when i knowonly laptops provide standardized access to the latest generations of GPUs (in their mobile version, of course) and in which cards from two generations ago were sold for the price of gold.

Beware, when I say I don’t understand, I don’t mean I don’t know and I know how to explain the causes of graphics card price escalation. No, when I say I don’t understand it, I mean that it doesn’t quite occur to me that such an escalation could have been caused by a union of miners and traffickers, which added to the general shortage of the chip market. There is often talk of perfect storms, but it is not so common to be their witnessesand less than they lengthen in time.

Be that as it may, even the longest storm will eventually dissipate, though not suddenly, but gradually. This is the case with what we see with graphics cards, which have more or less started declining prices since the beginning of the year. A movement that has not yet stopped, and which is a great joy for all the people I mentioned earlier, and it may take more than a year to wait for your computer to upgrade.

The latest update in this regard is at TechPowerUp and, as is evident in recent months, we continue to see a drop in prices, to which must be added an increase in market availability (something that, as a general rule and in this type of situation, goes hand in hand) . With the data in this chart, we see the average best prices for the RTX 30 and RX 6000 series It is only 19% and 12% above the recommended prices from NVIDIA and AMD. Availability is already approaching the upper limit of the table.

Yesterday, my colleague Isidro raised a question that bothers many people who are watching the graphics card market and fear that the good situation is temporary. I am thinking, of course, whether we can expect a graphics card price bubble to occur again as a result of mining demand. Y Fortunately, the prospects are not moving in this direction.at least in the short term, with cryptocurrencies and other cryptoactive substances such as NFT, in a not very positive situation and with ever closer changes in the Etherea mining process.

In the end, it’s just good news.