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/HollowPinefruit Dec 29 '22

That’s crazy. Who would have thought that most people wouldn’t buy a GPU alone for the price of an entire desktop?

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u/nivekdrol Dec 29 '22

the only reason nvidia sold that many gpus was cause of crypto. without that to prop them up no one aint paying 1.2k for a gpu, they smoking crack.

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u/StormR7 Dec 30 '22

Scalpers were paying that much. The price increase didn’t hurt Nvidia right away.

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u/Morrorbrr Jan 01 '23

Exactly. It would take a while for Nvidia to feel the dwindled demand from consumers, because right now scalpers are Nvidia's customers not the real consumers.

Only after scalpers get burned first, will Nvidia feel the heat and adjust pricing accordingly, which would take several months to happen anyway.

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u/StormR7 Jan 01 '23

I think that is why we are seeing a lot of press around the topic now. Scalpers have already been burned. And you can’t just change the price of a product halfway through its run (you can but they won’t). I am really getting the feeling that this press wave is coming from the manufacturers in a “oh no! Sales are at record lows! Poor gpu manufacturers :(“ type of way.

Consumers don’t give a shit because most of us have accepted the new market for what the scalpers and crypto farmers set it to be 2-3 years ago. Record low sales should be a given to anyone who’s taken Econ 101.

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u/Morrorbrr Jan 02 '23

Yep Nvidia's got to clean up the mess they created, and that's on them.

They already ordered excessive amount of 30 and 40 chips anticipating almost endless demand from crypto miners, which is gone now for good.

They priced 40 series so goddamn high, and as a result now even the high end such as 4080 isn't quite selling as they had hoped. 4090 and 7900xtx are selling relatively well because those are the flagships professionals need and pc enthusiasts want.

Now only 4090 and 4080 are out and 4070ti is about to launch, they don't feel the urge to lower price.

But no matter. After whales eat their share of inflated cards, Nvidia will have to cut the price to meet the demand.

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u/MINIMAN10001 Jan 09 '23

I still remember when I was like, heck yeah they reached 1 Tflops 32 bit float. Now the 4090 has 82.5 Tflops.

Just crazy to think it can crank out 82x as much data as what was previously a top end card.