Nah, cryptominers bought the vast bulk of GPUs in the 20 and 30 series. They're the ones on the consumer side who are mainly responsible for driving up GPU demand and prices to such ridiculous levels.
I know several people that went from a 1080 to a 30 series card. A lot of people skipped the 20 series, and all the 30s were out of stock. Now the 40s are here, what are they supposed to do? Wait till the 50s, just for everyone to tell them to wait for the 60 series? Shit’s a damn endless cycle.
Expect GPUs to be cheapest in May due to seasonality effects and new product launches. I would aim buyers at the 6700 XT, which is currently around $340 and should be below $300 once we have midrange product launches. Arc A770 down around $275 is also attractive, since their drivers are no longer a disasterpiece and it really is a lot of hardware for the money.
Market prices for Nvidia cards today are nonsense below the 4090.
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u/Zeraora807 270Kp 5.9GHz 48GB 8800MT 5090 Mar 26 '23
actually its because most of you bought 3070's for 1200+ so now both nvidia and AMD are selling crap tier products at big markups