The sky's the limit!

That will be the motto of the graphics cards until the third quarter, Massdrop says.

Based on information from NVIDIA, the portal said that the price of desktop video cards will not fall in the near future, and even further price increases are conceivable. Normalization of prices is expected at the end of the year at the earliest, unless an unexpected turnaround occurs.

The main reason for the shortage is mining, everyone already knows that. According to the news, last year approx. 3 million graphics cards were captured to generate virtual money, that’s the number of copies the miners pulled from the market. The other problem is the scarce number of memory chips, at least several sources mention this. This is interesting in that the more popular models (GTX 1070 / 1080Ti, RX 570/580, Vega 56/64) use different solutions (GDDR5, GDDR5X, HBM2), but the availability is still uniformly poor for all controllers - despite the high prices. it also applies a number of webshop purchase limits.

NVIDIA has previouslystood out”To the press that in this situation they prefer players and expect the same from traders. Well, if Massdrop.com’s information is correct, it really looks like it was just empty chatter.

Source: massdrop.com