when does gpu prices fall?

[seba7661]

when does the gpu prices fall. i know that they are going to fall just not when, my gf  wants a gaming pc but the budget is not that big. i was looking at a 1060 6gb but i then cut down on some other stuff. so when do they fall and how many% or maybe they already released prices??

 

Thanks

[Lurick]

Let me look into my crystal ball of the future.

 

Crystal ball says: "Too soon to tell, please check back later"

[Princess Luna]

As if any one knows for sure, best chance is wait until Volta/Ampere release and try grabbing one of the launch cards at the msrp just before all inflates due to high demand again.

[Wauthar]

Just now, Lurick said:

Let me look into my crystal ball of the future.

 

Crystal ball says: "Too soon to tell, please check back later"

Hm strange, my Magic Conch Shell says "Maybe someday"

[seba7661]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

As if any one knows for sure, best chance is wait until Volta/Ampere release and try grabbing one of the launch cards at the msrp just before all inflates due to high demand again.

thats amd right?

[Jurrunio]

The usual option is 'going for used cards', but heard from some Scandinavian builders saying that's not an option.

 

I mean, if it's a bit like waiting for the Economic crash in the 20s to happen again. It will happen since there's no one paying the bailout money, but god knows when.

3 minutes ago, seba7661 said:

thats amd right?

No. AMD's next architecture will be Navi, but the next new product line will be 7nm Vega (currently 14nm Vega)

[seba7661]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

-snip-

oh okay

[tarfeef101]

Honestly, I would look pretty soon based on the crypto markets. 

The crashes have been severe, and not because people are dropping out of the mining pool. Because of regulatory crackdowns happening globally. 

So, if the difficulty isn't going down, and prices are going down, everyone is making less money. So, there is less incentive to invest more in more cards. So I don't expect prices to stay as high as they were in the beginning of 2018, in fact they've already started to cool off in the used market. 

[Sakkura]

14 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

Honestly, I would look pretty soon based on the crypto markets. 

The crashes have been severe, and not because people are dropping out of the mining pool. Because of regulatory crackdowns happening globally. 

So, if the difficulty isn't going down, and prices are going down, everyone is making less money. So, there is less incentive to invest more in more cards. So I don't expect prices to stay as high as they were in the beginning of 2018, in fact they've already started to cool off in the used market. 

The crashes have been severe? Ethereum is still $100 higher than it was a month ago.

[tarfeef101]

1 hour ago, Sakkura said:

The crashes have been severe? Ethereum is still $100 higher than it was a month ago.

a) that's ONE currency
b) look at the last week. this is a high-volatility, fast-moving market. last week may as well be 2 years ago compared to a normal security

[Sakkura]

2 hours ago, tarfeef101 said:

a) that's ONE currency
b) look at the last week. this is a high-volatility, fast-moving market. last week may as well be 2 years ago compared to a normal security

a) that's the biggest cryptocurrency that is relevant to GPU mining

 

b) that's the point, it's so volatile that a little drop now can easily be reversed - you need to look at longer-term trends

[tarfeef101]

3 hours ago, Sakkura said:

a) that's the biggest cryptocurrency that is relevant to GPU mining

 

b) that's the point, it's so volatile that a little drop now can easily be reversed - you need to look at longer-term trends

the point is a month ago when prices peaked, the currencies also peaked. but as they have fallen, cards/asic miners will reflect that as less people are buying them, as they are weary of not being able to make money back before their hardware is obsolete

Also no, it really isn't the biggest mining currency or anything. try it. run an optimizing miner, and you will rarely end up mining ethereum. I rarely do. zcash is my biggest one for sure.

[Sakkura]

1 hour ago, tarfeef101 said:

the point is a month ago when prices peaked, the currencies also peaked. but as they have fallen, cards/asic miners will reflect that as less people are buying them, as they are weary of not being able to make money back before their hardware is obsolete

Also no, it really isn't the biggest mining currency or anything. try it. run an optimizing miner, and you will rarely end up mining ethereum. I rarely do. zcash is my biggest one for sure.

It is the biggest cryptocurrency that is relevant to GPU mining. It is the second-largest of all cryptocurrencies, but the largest is bitcoin, which cannot reasonably be mined on GPUs anymore (they are so vastly inferior to available ASICs).

[tarfeef101]

15 hours ago, Sakkura said:

It is the biggest cryptocurrency that is relevant to GPU mining. It is the second-largest of all cryptocurrencies, but the largest is bitcoin, which cannot reasonably be mined on GPUs anymore (they are so vastly inferior to available ASICs).

But it isn't the best currency to mine on GPUs... So it doesn't matter to most people who actually buy a shitton of cards and optimize their profits... That's my point. 

[Sakkura]

Just now, tarfeef101 said:

But it isn't the best currency to mine on GPUs... So it doesn't matter to most people who actually buy a shitton of cards and optimize their profits... That's my point. 

It has the biggest market cap of any currency that's relevant to GPU mining, and as such is the benchmark for how the GPU mining market is looking. Sure you may mine some other currency instead, but if that currency drops there are always going to be other options - including Ethereum, as long as the bottom doesn't drop out. As Ethereum has the biggest market cap, it also has the furthest to drop.

[alphaproject]

The RX 580 is at $439 US now.... is that worth buying at that price?