It's a bit weird to pinpoint what exactly the reason is behind it all, but ever since a week or two, there seem to be graphics card shortages, driving up prices rather significantly.
The easiest thing to do would point a finger at a high demand of graphics card due to mining, but with the current trend, that doesn't seem to be it, or simply isn't just that.
Overall you can notice that prices on many graphics card have risen by 10 to 20% due the shortage especially in the high-end ranges of cards. Next to that indications are that this shortage would last until March this year, reports computerbase. Some examples the Geforce GTX 10670 has risen by roughly 40 EURO, a GTX 1070 roughly an extra 60 EUR and so on.
Price 4 December 2017 (available) | Price January 15, 2018 (available) | Difference (in percent) | |
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AMD Radeon | |||
Radeon RX 560 | 111 euros | 138 euros | 27 euros (24 percent) |
Radeon RX 570 | 206 euros | 295 euros | 89 euros (43 percent) |
Radeon RX 580 | 249 euros | 379 euros | 130 euros (52 percent) |
Radeon RX Vega 56 | 549 euros | 749 euros | 200 euros (36 percent) |
Radeon RX Vega 64 | 602 euros | 949 euros | 347 euros (58 percent) |
Nvidia GeForce | |||
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti | 149 euros | 150 euros | 1 Euro (1 percent) |
GeForce GTX 1060 | 256 euros | 301 euros | 45 euros (18 percent) |
GeForce GTX 1070 | 420 euros | 489 euros | 69 euros (16 percent) |
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 440 euros | 529 euros | 89 euros (20 percent) |
GeForce GTX 1080 | 503 euros | 559 euros | 56 euros (11 percent) |
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 705 euros | 772 euros | 67 euros (10 percent) |
Table by Computerbase
The trend is even worse for AMD Radeon graphics cards, albeit there the shortage has been high overall for a long timeframe now, especially for Vega cards, of course. It remains unclear what precisely is invoking the prices to rise, perhaps it is ming, as Etherium still can be calculated well with a GPU.
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