This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
In the Q1 quarter this year alone, global shipments soared by 66.4%, creating a new revenue peak of US$5 billion. However, such substantial growth was not caused by gaming PCs, but due to the mining of graphics cards. There are 1.7 million mine card sales.
However, starting from this quarter, the mining card market will collapse, and sales are expected to decline by more than two-thirds. Not long ago, NVIDIA announced that the GeForce graphics card has returned to normal, and the supply is sufficient. Now it is AMD's turn, officials said that after their efforts, many The Radeon RX graphics card supply has returned to normal.
The explosion of digital currency in 2017 made the mining cards extremely hot. The huge demand directly changed the supply and demand situation in the graphics card market. Earlier last year, they had exchanges with manufacturers. At the beginning, they were still worried that they could not achieve their annual sales target. With the outbreak of mine cards, manufacturers not only do not need to worry about sales, but also worry about how to ensure supply. Last year Q3 quarter completed its annual sales target.
In this context, everyone also saw what the graphics card market was like last year. The popular graphics cards such as the RX 580 and GTX 1060 are out of stock for a long time and the price has risen to more than 3,000.
Mine card sales peaked in the Q1 quarter this year, but the Q2 quarter plummeted. In April, graphics card vendors reported a 80% decline in revenue from the previous quarter. However, for gamers, the plummet of mine cards is Good news, because the video game is difficult, the game market can return to normal, and it is precisely because of this, the supply of game cards this time improved significantly, the price is no longer high.
NVIDIA had previously claimed that the price of the GeForce graphics card is returning to the MSRP recommended price level, which means that gamers can finally buy GTX 10 series graphics cards that were released two years ago at the same price.
On AMD's side, Radeon graphics cards are also returning to normal, AMD said to the media 'In the past few months, AMD has been working hard to supplement channel availability and made the Radeon GPU more popular with players.
AMD officials stated that a variety of Radeon RX cards are already available, including the RX Vega series that were previously out of stock. AMD also said that the supply of all Radeon RX cards will continue to improve in the coming weeks.
Looking at the United States and Asia, the RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 are actually available, although the price is still higher than the official suggested price.
Domestic RX Vega supply is still a little nervous and it is expected to be available one week later
As for the domestic situation, the price of RX Vega has dropped a lot, but the shortage is still a bit serious. It is expected that there will be goods on June 10.
The price and availability of RX 580 is much better
In contrast, the price and availability of the RX 580 are much better. There was even a RM 580 video card for the first few days.
