The only good thing about nightmares, other than confronting us with our worst fears, that they all end, although some may take only a few minutes, while others may take much longer. And today, after the numbers we have seen in recent months, we have an official confirmation from NVIDIA that the huge bubble that has created around graphics card prices can be considered practically over.

In August 2020, my colleague Isidro conducted a very interesting analysis of the development of the price of graphics cards in recent generations, a memory exercise that showed us how the prices of top models have tripled. What we were at when the new generation of NVIDIA was about to debut, we could not expect the Bermuda Triangle of miners, chip shortages and resale to cause graphics cards to disappear from the market and reduce their presence to a minimum and multiply its cen.

In January last year, after a previous increase, we saw prices rise again and the escalation reached the ceiling when to buy a new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30, if you could find it, may cost approximately 318% of the manufacturer’s recommended price. For the AMD RX 6000 series, the difference was smaller, with an average price of 216%, which was still more than double. It coincided, and not coincidentally, with the price peak of several cryptocurrencies.

However, we are starting the year 2022 with good news in this respect, because after a huge shortage, NVIDIA managed to bring a good shipment of GeForce RTX 30 to market, thereby improving its global availability and since then we have seen availability and prices go the way of standardization. However, and although it seemed clear that the graphics card market was finally returning to normal, we still did not have an official read of the situation.

The wait is over because NVIDIA with Restocked & Reloaded, provides the extraordinary peace of mind that many users have expectedlistening to the voice from the sector, which confirms that what we are experiencing now is not a mirage, but the arrival of expected normalization with prices that are finally in line with what was proposed in 2020 before the situation starts.

NVIDIA cites this as an example Some examples of graphics cards commonly available in the marketstating the distributors where we can find them, their prices:

• Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Trinity OC LHR 8GB GDDR6X, can be purchased for 799.89 EUR on PC Components.
• Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC LHR 8GB GDDR6, available for 579.89 EUR at PC Components.
• MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X OC LHR 12GB GDDR6, now for 449.89 EUR in PC components.

Today it seems unbelievable, but we must realize that a few months ago the price of the cheapest of the three far exceeded the price of the most expensive of this choice.

Does this mean that now is the best time to buy a new graphics card? Well the answer is that it matters.. If you have been waiting all this time and the need is urgent, you can undoubtedly be encouraged to do so. However, if you are not in a hurry, keep in mind that soon, in all three cases in the same year 2022, new Intel graphics cards and new generations NVIDIA and AMD will arrive, so it is possible that they will still see some further improvement in their prices.