Graphics Card Costs Slid One other 14% in June, Down 57% Since January

Graphics card costs proceed to drop, each at retail and for aftermarket used playing cards offered on eBay. We have pulled collectively the information for the present costs, and the GPU mining exodus is in full drive. eBay costs for the finest graphics playing cards (that means present technology {hardware}) fell by 14% on common since June 1, and previous-gen playing cards dropped by 17% on common. Retail costs aren’t dropping as rapidly, and lots of locations are making noise about “graphics card offers” in an obvious try and clear stock on the highest value potential. We tracked a 3% drop in retail costs on common, with costs on a couple of playing cards even rising barely.

Adjustments because the begin of 2022 are much more dramatic, falling 57% on common. Retail availability of most graphics playing cards in the beginning of the yr was near non-existent. GPU mining was nonetheless worthwhile, and anybody that basically wished a contemporary graphics card instantly usually needed to flip to eBay and pay exorbitant costs. Issues have modified, and lots of miners are possible working at a internet loss proper now. The answer for a lot of is to dump their used graphics playing cards as rapidly as potential, and the ensuing downward value pattern is obvious to see.

Most GPUs are actually promoting beneath their official MSRPs, for those who’re prepared to take an opportunity on eBay. Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3090, and RTX 3080 Ti are joined by AMD’s RX 6900 XT, RX 6700 XT, RX 6600 XT, and RX 6600 with pricing that is 20%–30% beneath the MSRP. That is notably stunning for the RTX 3090 Ti, contemplating it is only some months outdated now and usually value over $2,000 at launch, however the MSRP was wildly inflated at launch as properly. Some persons are possible feeling some horrible purchaser’s regret.

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 — each the 10GB and 12GB fashions, if we assume a $800 MSRP for the latter (Nvidia by no means gave an official MSRP for it) — are principally proper at MSRP as of late, as are the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3070. It is solely the underside three RTX 30-series GPUs that also are likely to promote for greater than the official beginning value, with a few 10% markup on the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060, and a 20% markup on the RTX 3050.

AMD’s GPUs by comparability are all at or beneath MSRP for those who undergo eBay, excluding the RX 6950 XT. The variety of RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT playing cards at the moment offered on eBay stays trivial, nevertheless, so do not pay an excessive amount of consideration to these. Additionally, the retail value on the RX 6950 XT is at the moment 6% decrease than the everyday eBay value.

Retail costs usually stay larger than eBay costs, typically considerably so. Outdoors of the RX 6950 XT and RTX 3080 12GB, you’ll be able to count on to pay on common 13% extra to buy a brand new card at retail. Nonetheless, that is skewed considerably by the RTX 3090 and RX 6600 XT that at the moment promote for 40% and 32% extra at retail proper now. AMD has formally discontinued the latter, changing it with the brand new RX 6650 XT, whereas Nvidia has successfully halted manufacturing on the RTX 3090 and changed it with the 3090 Ti.