Tuesday, February 21st 2023
Graphics Card Prices Doubled on Average Between 2020 and 2023: Mindfactory Data
Mindfactory.de is hardly the largest tech retailer out there, but it's renowned for putting out its sales figures in public that provide sharp market insights. The latest of these concerns graphics card average selling price (ASP). The store notes that graphics card ASPs have doubled in a span of just 3 years, which marks an unnatural deviation from inflation, and cannot adequately be explained by rising chip costs due to Moore's Law either buckling or losing relevance. While Intel is a firm believer in Moore's Law, and to a smaller extent so is AMD (which disaggregated its CPUs and GPUs to continue shipping cutting-edge products at lower costs); NVIDIA considers Moore's Law dead, and thinks it needs to keep bigger and bigger GPUs to offer generational performance uplifts.
The store notes that as on February 2020, the AMD Radeon graphics card ASP stood at 295.25€, with the store having made 442,870€ in sales. For NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, the ASP figure stood at 426.59€, and total sales at 855,305€. As of Feb 2020, AMD lacked high-end products (this was before the RDNA2 comeback), and so the NVIDIA ASP is higher. Fast forward to February 2023, and we see a doubling in the ASPs. For AMD Radeon graphics cards, this stands at 600.03€, with €1.02 million in sales; and for NVIDIA GeForce, the ASP is at 825.20€, with €1.84 million in sales.
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The store notes that as on February 2020, the AMD Radeon graphics card ASP stood at 295.25€, with the store having made 442,870€ in sales. For NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, the ASP figure stood at 426.59€, and total sales at 855,305€. As of Feb 2020, AMD lacked high-end products (this was before the RDNA2 comeback), and so the NVIDIA ASP is higher. Fast forward to February 2023, and we see a doubling in the ASPs. For AMD Radeon graphics cards, this stands at 600.03€, with €1.02 million in sales; and for NVIDIA GeForce, the ASP is at 825.20€, with €1.84 million in sales.
52 Comments on Graphics Card Prices Doubled on Average Between 2020 and 2023: Mindfactory Data
I like to play games that include elves, orcs and magical fairy dust? what?
And somehow all games that include those elements are heavy to run? what?
And a RX480 isnt capable of running GS GO, a game without those elements on high frames per second?
And what does any of that have to do with the comment I made on their frustration revealing reply?
There are three GPU makers, while in the CPU segment there are two.
Up to the RTX 4080 / RX 7900 XTX there is a good competition and yet this doesn't help at all.
RX 7900 XTX is still €950.
While Ryzen 3 3200G is €73 and Ryzen 3 4100 is €67.
The super fast and 'powerful' Ryzen 7 5800X is €149.
This is not normal. :banghead: