Gravo's price falls due to the crash of virtual currency and begins to fall below the suggested retail price



Graphic boards, which are responsible for screen drawing processing such as 3D games, show high performance in virtual currency mining, so hoarding by mining companies is rampant, and transactions have continued for a long time at prices that greatly exceed the suggested retail price. I did. However, it was reported that around January 2022, the price of graphic boards began to decline as the price of virtual currencies fell. Tom's Hardware, an overseas media that tracks the price of graphic boards, said that the selling price of graphic boards continued to decline in June 2022, and there were cases where it was sold at a price below the suggested retail price. Is reporting.

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Virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have a mechanism called ' mining ' that 'a new virtual currency is issued when a very difficult calculation problem is solved', and the issued virtual currency contributes to the calculation. It will be allocated accordingly. For this reason, many miners bought up graphic boards that are advantageous for calculation processing, resulting in soaring prices and shortages of graphic boards.

However, it was reported that theprice of the entire virtual currency market continued to plummet from around November 2021, and that the price of graphic boards began to decline in January 2022 due to the plunge of virtual currency. Furthermore, in March 2022, ASUS, a major graphic board maker , announced a maximum 25% price reduction for graphic boards. It was reported that the selling price of graphic boards continued to decline in April 2022.

The price of the graphic board continues to fall and is approaching the normal value --GIGAZINE



Below is a list of graphic board sales prices newly released by Tom's Hardware on June 1, 2022 and June 15, 2022. Looking at the table, the selling price of most graphic boards continues to decline, and high-end graphic boards such as 'GeForce RTX 3090 Ti' 'GeForce RTX 3080 Ti' 'Radeon RX 6950 XT' 'Radeon RX 6900 XT' are desired retailers You can see that it is sold at a price equal to or lower than the price.

Graphic board Price as of June 15, 2022 Price as of June 1, 2022 Rate of change Suggested retail price
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti $ 1800 $ 1900 -Five% $ 2000
GeForce RTX 3090 $ 1500 $ 1550 -3% $ 1500
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti $ 1000 $ 1000 0% $ 1200
GeForce RTX 3080 12GB $ 870 $ 800 9% No data
GeForce RTX 3080 $ 770 $ 800 -Four% $ 700
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti $ 650 $ 700 -7% $ 600
GeForce RTX 3070 $ 560 $ 600 -7% $ 500
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti $ 500 $ 523 -Four% $ 400
GeForce RTX 3060 $ 400 $ 400 0% $ 330
GeForce RTX 3050 $ 300 $ 319 -6% $ 250
Radeon RX 6950 XT $ 1070 $ 1070 0% $ 1100
Radeon RX 6900 XT $ 850 $ 880 -3% $ 1000
Radeon RX 6800 XT $ 770 $ 790 -3% $ 650
Radeon RX 6800 $ 700 $ 700 0% $ 580
Radeon RX 6750 XT $ 540 $ 540 0% $ 550
Radeon RX 6700 XT $ 480 $ 485 -1% $ 480
Radeon RX 6650 XT $ 380 $ 385 -1% $ 400
Radeon RX 6600 XT $ 360 $ 370 -3% $ 380
Radeon RX 6600 $ 290 $ 300 -3% $ 330
Radeon RX 6500 XT $ 175 $ 175 0% $ 200
Radeon RX 6400 $ 160 $ 160 0% $ 160


According to Tom's Hardware, graphic board sales prices continue to fall by 10% to 15% every month. Tom's Hardware also predicts that selling prices will continue to fall and many graphics boards will be available for purchase below the suggested retail price.

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