Video card prices continue to fall in Europe

The shortage of graphics cards has been scourging the market for two years now, causing their price to rise exorbitantly (as long as you find them in stores). At the end of last year, various experts in the sector were certain that 2022 would bring a significant improvement in the situation, allowing many users from all over the world to finally be able to buy a brand new GPU for their workstation.



Apparently, the first few months of this year have been quite promising. The 3DCenter.org portal, which monitors the prices of graphics cards in Austria and Germany, has indeed seen a certain decrease. While the prices of the products in the AMD Radeon RX 6000 range were 60 to 80% higher and those of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 counterparts 48 to 87% higher than those recommended, in February the maximum prices (against the MSRP ) dropped to 45% for AMD and 57% for NVIDIA, while in March they dropped further to 35% and 41%.




Photo Credit: 3DCenter According to Jon Peddie Research, about 49 million dedicated desktop PC cards were shipped last year, compared to about 41.5 million in the previous year, indicating an increase in production. even though NVIDIA and AMD failed to deliver enough cards anyway. It will also be interesting to see how the scenario changes after Intel also enters the world of dedicated desktop graphics cards in the second quarter.