Graphics Card Disaster at NVIDIA & AMD: PC

The laws of the free market economy do not seem to apply to graphics cards. Although the range of graphics accelerators has increased in recent weeks, hardware prices have not fallen, but even risen. PC players should continue to practice patience.

Graphics cards from AMD & NVIDIA become more expensive

The technology experts from 3DCenter take a look at the current price situation on the German graphics card market once a month. While it looked in summer as if the coveted hardware may be available at Christmas to the EIA, the leaf has turned back at the latest since September.

The prices for graphics cards are rising again, even in October - and that, although the models of NVIDIA and AMD were much more likely available than the month before:

The average selling price of NVIDIA graphics cards compared to the EIA is up-to-date in proud 172 percent, at AMD graphics cards it looks even worse. The RDNA 2 graphics accelerators are traded for around 183 percent of the EIA.

Price decline? Probably only next year

With a speedy price decline on the graphics card market is not hoping. Instead, the prices should increase even further towards the end of the year. The chip scarcity is likely to accompany us at least until the summer 2022 - at this time, however, NVIDIA could already present new graphics card models.

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But there is a small bright spot: Intel. The semiconductor manufacturer wants to enter the graphics card business in early 2022. If the price-performance ratio of the ARC graphics cards correct, this could provide a price slide at the competitive models. However, this can only work if Intel has enough graphics cards in stock and not bought it immediately from scalders.

For PC players - and those who want to be - so it still means: wait and drink tea.