Falling processor prices will hit black marketers, next-gen processors are getting easier to find, current graphics card prices will go down.
Ever since the pandemic started, it has cost a small fortune for a PC user to update their computer. Even with the money, finding a next-gen graphics card was near impossible. The stocks coming to the shops were running out quickly, and they were suddenly appearing again at extremely high prices on online sales sites. However, according to Tom’s Hardware, the price of each type of NVIDIA RTX and RADEON RX graphics cards has dropped 10% since last year. In fact, while the stocks of some international suppliers are running out on the same day, it has been seen that the products are in stock for up to a week recently. Even processor discounts, which did not exist in 2020 and 2021, are slowly starting to appear on sites.
With the solution of the chip problem, video card prices begin to fall
Of course, it is thought that the only reason for this cheapening is not the end of the processor shortage. Especially the fact that Nvidia Lovelace and AMD RDNA 3 cards are on the horizon will cause the cards we currently call “next-gen” to become obsolete. Therefore, they may have entered into an aggressive pricing policy to get rid of a huge pile of old graphics cards.
While the global chip crisis is not over yet, it will still not be easy to find products using advanced processors. However, considering that we are now living the end of the pandemic, the comments from the leading people of the industry suggest that the markets will open in 2023. Finally, we hope that the days when you can replace your computers without burning your pockets are near.