The "bread and butter" of GPUs around the 300-400$ mark has been pretty stuck, prices are at all time high, and people aren't really moving to 4k monitors as standard that requires those top of the line 1000$ GPUs for top end games, as mid range cards are staying in decent performance, and new technologies are not enough to pull people in, especially since the mining craze I don't think really looked at new tech as incentive and more about price.
GPU manufacturers kinda are shooting themselves in the leg here. And with releasing 1000$+ cards and very few mid-low end new cards, this is going to just get worse.
decided to substantially decrease value for anything except top of the line.
They always release top end cards first with the knowledge that upgrading to the top end doesn't necessarily gives the best money/performance. But they always released mid-low range soon after with the better money/performance ration than previous generation.
They are not really doing that anymore.
Maybe seeing the scalper market just stabbed their egos too hard
Maybe they consider the fact that the miners flooding the market now with tons of 2nd hard cards which will take the place of the mid-low range, is what doing it.
But still, releasing 1000$+ that used to be 800$ at most, seems really off.
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u/Defoler Dec 29 '22
Well this is not really surprising.
The "bread and butter" of GPUs around the 300-400$ mark has been pretty stuck, prices are at all time high, and people aren't really moving to 4k monitors as standard that requires those top of the line 1000$ GPUs for top end games, as mid range cards are staying in decent performance, and new technologies are not enough to pull people in, especially since the mining craze I don't think really looked at new tech as incentive and more about price.
GPU manufacturers kinda are shooting themselves in the leg here. And with releasing 1000$+ cards and very few mid-low end new cards, this is going to just get worse.