Why Nobody Is Buying Graphics Cards Anymore

It genuinely seems like manufacturers may have over extended or over estimated how much people were willing to pay for new hardware as people are showing no interested in these recently released graphics cards nor are they excited for what’s coming in the future. There was no reason out there to justify the insane price hikes we’ve gotten for the latest hardware from Nvidia and AMD. Inflation plays a role for sure but to hike up cards by around $400 from the last gen is ridiculous. The hype has been killed. Hardly anyone is buying these new cards. People have tuned out from the market they’re choosing the used market, staying with what they have, and looking at alternatives like the console market.

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[leadfarmer]

When a gpu is nearly a rent payment, it makes it hard to justify. Especially when a new one will be out in 1-2 years.

[takeoffwithjakesoft]

It's like nVidia and AMD are actively trying to kill PC gaming.

[aaron.d.henderson.]

the problem with the high end gpu market, is that you can get an entire desktop PC system (with a good video card) for what they are asking for a single video card.

[Krankie_V]

I'm still rocking my 1080 Ti. It works great for 1080p gaming. I would really enjoy an upgrade, but I can't justify the cost because I just dont have much time to play games anymore.

[zachb]

There was *never* a graphics card more than 500 bucks I was tempted to buy. The companies are nuts!

[chrism]

During the crypto craze, Nvidia and AMD fell for the illusion that gamers want high end cards.
Most don't care as long as your card can pump out more frames than your monitor can handle.
Now that mining is dead, the performance/price is simply a massive overkill. I still have a 1650 Super and most games run fine. It feels like GPUs have reached the same kind of product maturity as smartphones.

[neoshenlong]

I think we also need to consider that the most popular games on PC right now are free-to-play esport games like Fortnite, Valorant, Apex and so on. And all of these run at 200 frames or more on pretty much every modern GPU, even on some APUs. The bigger market has no reason to change.

[jimi_jams]

Got a RTX 2070 super right before the huge spike in prices, it lets me play all the games I enjoy on high or max setting with little to no stuttering for the most part, even 3 years on. I have literally no reason to get a better card.

[Hashterix]

I remember when the most powerful cards were an eyewatering £400. Now you can pay double that and still be 2 or 3 tiers below the flagship card.

[sounghungi]

The GPU market is a great lesson on how even if there is a duopoly, the market still has to compete with other products because 1600 dollars used to buy a GPU is 1600 dollars that could be used on a trip, new hobby, fancy dinner, tickets, Steam Deck, console, etc.

People only have a certain amount of money and at some point they'll just use that money on something else.

[DerrangedGadgeteer]

It seems to me that the scalpocalypse kept game developers from leveraging the horsepower of the newer GPUs, since to sell games they had to accomodate people with several-year-old hardware. Then the market became flush with last gen's GPUs, those who wanted them went ahead and got them, and now there's no killer apps pushing recently sated gamers to the next generation.

Games coming out today can run passably on hardware almost a decade old. And as far as I know there's no experience on PC that requires a 4080 to enjoy.

[kevinrosario]

My current card is a Radeon RX 580, which I got in late 2020 before the GPU price hike and shortage. It still runs new games just fine. I mostly play indie titles and ports of older games nowadays so there's not much incentive to upgrade other than playing games in native 4K.

[quixmith]

I remember a time where you didn't have to save up for months just to buy a PC component... but now it's insane

[bingbashbosh]

Blows my mind when you can buy a full rig with a beast graphics card for just slightly more than the card you want on its own. THAT IS INSANE!

[ieaturanium]

Remember: There are a ton of older games you can play, you don't need a new GPU. Let them choke on their stock. If your old GPU breaks, buy an APU instead of a GPU. Intel Pentium G604+motherboard would be a lot cheaper than even the cheapest first hand GPU, and it can still run old games.

[TenseIntense]

I upgraded back in 2018 to a new PC with a RTX2080. Up until then, as far as I knew, the 1080 still was up there as one of the best cards and has been for years. Picture me surprised when NVIDIA released the 3080 just 2 years later.

[AAjax]

I'm worried about the very real possibility of getting laid off, and putting food on the table in the face of high inflation. I'm not worried about saving up so I can buy Jensen a new leather jacket. I don't care to run a portable space-heater PC with self-igniting cables and exotic cooling requirements, either.
Lots of things pushing me away from upgrading my PC, and honestly, I don't really care anymore.

[mattsmash]

I had a 1060 up until a couple of weeks ago. I now have a 3070 that I picked up used for a very reasonable price. It’s quite the difference, but to be honest, the 1060 was still holding its on pretty well. Nvidia and AMD have lost their minds with this pricing.

[ksalieri]

I'd be building a new computer right now if prices weren't so ridiculous.

[samuraijaydee]

I spent about 2 year thinking about upgrading my RTX2080… but now I'm just sick of the daft prices. So I'm going give Nvidia the finger, and making do with what I've got.