This development was already to be expected, as on the one hand there is another period after the holidays with increased customer interest in new hardware and, on the other hand, there is also a demand from miners who are interested in new cards. The value of Etherea and cryptocurrencies in general is currently falling, but it is still high, and of course this fluctuation cannot affect the price of graphics.
The truth, however, is that the miners of Etherea do have already begun to significantly reduce profits and only with May this year alone can the development of the average price per transaction be compared, which are, of course, continuous vessels. In other words, the earnings of miners are currently declining, mainly due to a significant decrease in the share secured by transactions, and without the new practice of burning Etherea after EIP-1559, miners’ earnings would have been much higher in recent weeks. new ones were released. –
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However, the prices of graphics cards continue to rise in the case of Germany and Austria, as shown in the graph, which tracks actual prices compared to the recommended ones. Newer cards, such as the two “new” GeForce 3080/3070 Ti, are excluded from the significance, while in the last month it is an increase of another 6 to 7%, while GeForce is gradually catching up with the unfortunate lead of the Radeons, as cards from AMD began to rise in price before.
According to 3DCenter, the sellers tried to keep the prices of the Radeon RX 6600 XT close to 500 euros, but this is already passable and the prices of this card are already approaching 600 euros. Currently, this card is overpriced by at least 45%, which shows that others are overpriced significantly more. The Radeon RX 6600 XT could improve the average of AMD cards a bit, but it is not listed in the graph as a relatively new card.
In our stores, the shortcoming is shown more by the fact that graphics cards simply disappear from the menu and then, of course, some price monitoring loses its meaning and logic disappears. It is possible that we will come across the GeForce RTX 3080 for the price of 40 thousand (MSI GAMING Z) or we will see cheaper ones, but it can quickly disappear. Immediately we can buy such a card (ROG STRIX) for 60 thousand and then it is possible to buy for 37 thousand model AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME WATERFORCE WB 10G with a water block, which would normally be significantly more expensive than “plebs” with air cooling.
And what about the RTX 3070 Ti? If we choose the Asus TUF-RTX3070TI-O8G, we can have it for 31 thousand, while the remarkably well-available model MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GAMING X TRIO 8G starts at up to 45 thousand, for which we would buy the above-mentioned AORUS and water cooling to do this.
In short and well, now on the market again an incredible confusion full of paradoxes, over which we can laugh or cry. It depends on whether we already have our card or are looking for it.
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