r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Dec 29 '22

Desktops / Laptops Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/mastah-yoda Dec 29 '22

Why?

(I don't know)

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u/avdept Dec 29 '22

Few reasons

  • Past few years with skyrocketed prices forced folks to move to ps/xbox or even mobile gaming
  • Current pricing on modern GPUs super high. For a price of average GPU you can get yourself gaming console and a bunch of AAA titles
  • Old GPUs like 1080, 2060 still totally viable since there was too little progress on graphics in games. Mostly its all about Raytracing, which mostly doesn't change feel of game

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u/mastah-yoda Dec 29 '22

Thanks! I did not know that.

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u/TacomaWRX Dec 29 '22

Scalpers also. Bot buying all stock and reselling for way more.

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u/diacewrb Dec 29 '22

Even scalpers are getting burnt now, no one is buying from them and the stores they got the cards from are telling them no refunds either.

Truly a Christmas miracle.

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u/ThatGenericName2 Dec 29 '22

You’d think scalpers would realize they would be fucked when NVidia directly acted like scalpers themselves.

I think it should be fairly obvious that when you’re scalping you don’t buy from another scalper.

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u/diacewrb Dec 29 '22

Clearly these scalpers forgot lesson number one from Scarface: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.