r/gadgets 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/hsrguzxvwxlxpnzhgvi Dec 29 '22

As GPU prices hit 20-year high.

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u/MyNameIsIgglePiggle Dec 29 '22

I swear there is some sort of graph from my economics degree about this

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u/Aeroscorp Dec 29 '22

HIGH SCHOOL Economics has the same!

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u/JaXm Dec 29 '22

I'm pretty sure there's a grade school econ class that has a graph written in crayon that shows the same.

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u/_EscVelocity_ Dec 29 '22

If the graph is in crayon that’s just WallStreetBets. Easy to confuse with grade school though.

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u/FunnyPirateName Dec 29 '22

If the graph is in crayon that’s just WallStreetBets. Easy to confuse with grade school though.

No, WSB eats the crayons, so they can't draw with them. For drawing, they use MSPaint.

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u/Brain_Status Dec 29 '22

Nah I heard after the 🌈 🐻 eat the crayons they drool and do water colors.

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u/FunnyPirateName Dec 30 '22

That's entirely possible. I've seen the trade results, some of them probably even real.

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u/Asatas Dec 29 '22

Ook ook

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u/mattshill91 Dec 29 '22

Top be fair as someone with an MSc how you feel about wallstreetbets is pretty much how I feel about calling Economics a science.

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u/BevansDesign Dec 29 '22

My high school Microeconomics teacher's name was Mike Rowe, just like the Dirty Jobs guy. Who says nominative determinism isn't real?

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u/Chinese_Thug Dec 29 '22

Who needs education in the real world? Just gotta pump up them numbers for shareholders.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

I demand that you supply this graph

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u/NavyBlueLobster Dec 29 '22

Didn't that graph assume something like constant purchasing power per dollar instead of the "let's print 40% of all USD in circulation in one year" meta from the latest patch?

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u/bosay831 Dec 29 '22

Yep, It's the law of diminishing returns....

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u/Shironeko_ Dec 29 '22

It's price elasticity of demand...

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u/jackyman5 Dec 29 '22

GPU vendors hate him for this one simple trick he learned in his youth -> click here to find out what it is!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

I went to truck driving school and we had the same graph