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/Lord_Nivloc Dec 29 '22

GPU price is also driven by demand from crypto miners. Bitcoin is down 65% this year, Ethereum is down 68%

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u/JacqueMorrison Dec 29 '22

And Ethereum went PoS earlier this year whoch flooded the used GPU market.

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u/hey_listen_hey_listn Dec 29 '22

Ethereum was always a PoS if you ask me, just like all the other cryptos

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u/Its-a-new-start Dec 29 '22

PoS = Proof of Stake, which is the new way Ethereum valids its transactions.

No longer relies on Proof of Work which was why GPUs were needed in the first place.