Discussion Could it be that for the entirety of the lifespan of the 3000 series cards availability will be low and prices very high?

[dan1991Ro]

Basically my question is:is it actually possible that even 1 year or 1 year and a half from now prices will not be at MSRP?And could it be that most gamers will not be able to get these cards?Is that an actual possibility?

 

[rgd1101]

anything is possible.

 

[LolaGT]

I wasn't in the market for PC components in the last cryptocurrency run so I don't know how long that lasted. I certainly don't see anything getting better in the next three or four months though.

 

[USAFRet]

Just one of the reasons you can't get a 3XXX card for anything resembling MSRP:

 

[InvalidError]

And could it be that most gamers will not be able to get these cards?Is that an actual possibility?

Yes, gamers who are after a one-off purchase at a reasonable price relative to manufacturing cost have no chance of competing against miners who buy GPUs in bulk and are willing to pay significant premiums while they still have a reasonably high chance of turning a profit. Don't expect the situation to improve until the next crypto-crash happens, likely when governments either step in to collect taxes or ban crypto altogether due to the nearly impossible task of tracking crypto for tax collection purposes.

 

[Flayed]

The crypto crash will happen when the whales decide to dump their holdings

 

[akseli]

No. Give it two to three months and we will start to slowly see a change. Have patience, just highly unusual time in hardware, both consoles and gpu makers launched, covid, crypto-boom.

 

[Krotow]

It may be 6 months or 3 years. In reality nobody knows. Seems without private cryptocurency ban things will continue like as it is now for eons ahead.