Graphics Boards Market: Finally the Return to Normal

For months, pushed by a great request from the cryptocurrencies amateurs, the price of graphics boards didn’t stop to progress. Today, this madness seems to have stopped and even if the prices haven't found their past level yet, we can observe a return to a state of calm and a substantial drop in of the rates. Reduction which should continue during the next weeks.

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The courts surge of the various cryptocurrencies has pushed a lot of investors towards Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptos. The necessary computing power to pursue the mining and to assure the transactions of these various currencies is very important (at least for those which use the proof of work system). And the GPU are among the most interesting solutions to do it. Until last December, the surge of the courts guaranteed a return on investment more or less certain, but it was without relying on the bubble effect. This bubble has burst since (at least partially) and for example, Bitcoin turns around 6 500 $ when it hit 20 000 $ by the end of 2017.

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Because of this fall in prices, numerous investors lost their interest in cryptocurrencies and the graphics board demand have logically fallen. To "arrange" nothing, it’s necessary to count on the farms mining equipment which don’t logically need to change material every two days. All in all, today the graphics board offer widely covers the demand and the prices can finally begin a reduction for which the gamers were waiting for. NVIDIA was among the first ones to indicate a return in stock and a prices adjustment of its most popular references.

Observed by DigiTimes, this adjustment is however only a first stage. The GeForce GTC on 1080 Ti still remains a little dearer than one year ago but the process seems now engaged. For the moment, the manufacturers still allow margins of 20 % against 8/10 % under normal circumstances … But we are far away from the 40 % realized during the crypto episode…

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