Updated:See our latest GPU Pricing Update here.
Current retail GPU market
What isn’t normal right now is the GPU market.
At many retailers the situation is improving to some degree.
It’s easier to buy GPUs than in prior months, especially outside the United States.
Not in bundles or anything like that, just standalone graphics cards.
The catch is that pricing is very high.
We’re hearing similar stories from many of you, especially those in Europe.
A month ago, when cryptocurrencies were booming, most of these products were out of stock.
Not that anyone will be rushing out to buy a graphics card for gaming with this sort of pricing.
Greater availability?
It’s due to mining
But why are GPUs more available now than in previous months?
But that’s not the only contributing factor to the profitability of mining.
As we mentioned last month, gas prices and difficulty of mining are also important.
This is both a good and bad thing.
It’s also bad though, as a lower difficulty increases block rewards and increases mining profitability.
No flood of used GPUs yet, but a better situation.
Make no mistake, GPUs remain ridiculously overpriced.
That’s down from price inflation of 2.9x last month.
The more positive news is that GPU prices are the lowest they’ve been in months.
GPU prices are still no good, but they’re trending in the right direction for now.
That’s becauseRDNA2is worse thanAmpere GPUsfor mining, especially when Ampere isn’t LHR limited.
Have prices on the used market also dropped in line with new current generation GPUs?
You bet they have.
First up, we have the GeForce RTX 20 series.
There’s an interesting trend to spot with the GeForce GTX 16 series and the pricing of entry-level GPUs.
With that said, theGTX 1650is a horrible deal right now.
TheGTX 1060remains inflated though, due to the reasons we’ve been talking about.
Pricing in this instance is heavily linked to mining profitability.
It also puts current 5700 XT owners in a bit of a strange although lucrative position.
Wrap Up
One key takeaway from this month’s update is that GPU pricing is improving.
Where do we go from here?
For now we’ll continue to track GPU pricing and see how things evolve.
