While graphics card prices continue to fall all over the world, what is the situation in Turkey, which feels the effects of inflation and exchange rates? Let’s explain with data.
Due to the measures that came with the effect of the coronavirus, chip production came to a halt all over the world. As a result, there was a shortage of chips in many products and industries, including computer components, and production was disrupted. Of course, one of these products is were graphics cards.
With the effect of both crypto money miners and the chip crisis, the stocks of graphics cards on sale were reset for a long time. Live tracking platforms have been opened for video card stocks. in seconds had run out. The worst part is that the prices of the graphics cards are higher than the list prices as the supply cannot meet the demand. by more than 50% was on it. But finally, over the past few weeks, good news has started to come in.
Graphics card prices are falling around the world:
Graphics card prices continue to decline compared to the past months. The data compiled by The Verge reveals that card prices have dropped significantly, especially since January. For example, one of NVIDIA’s fathers graphics cards, RTX 3090, was released in January. at $2,609 while this price is on sale this month It fell to $1,837.
Of course, graphics card prices still could not fall to the listed prices. To go through the same example, the RTX 3090 should have been sold with a price tag of $ 1,499 under normal conditions. But in between, it’s still almost $400, so there is a 25% difference. So, has the same price decrease been seen in our country?
Is there a decrease in Turkey?
No. When we consider even the period of March 2021, when graphics card prices peakin Turkey due to the astronomical rise in the exchange rate. graphics card prices did not become cheaper, on the contrary, they became more expensive. In our article, which we published on April 4, 2021, based on the prices of that period, the sales prices and second-hand prices of the graphics card prices were as follows:
Based on this graph, let’s go over the same example as abroad, over the RTX 3090. With a list price of 14.400 TL in March 2021 and Sold for 35,499 TL RTX 3090 average today Sold for 40,000 TL. In other words, the price of the graphics card has increased by 5 thousand TL even when the stock was at the lowest.
On the other hand, when we compare the exchange rate, we can clearly see that this increase is due to the exchange rate. Even so, If the increase in the exchange rate had not occurred, we could see that the prices of the graphics cards decreased just like in the global.
- March 2021 dollar rate: 7.21 TL – 8.26 TL
- 20 April 2022 dollar rate: 14.66 TL (77% increase compared to 8.26 TL)
- The difference in video card prices between the same period and today (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090):
- March 2021: 35,499 TL
- Today: 40.000 TL (12.67% increase)
Considering the expectations in inflation and exchange rates, unfortunately, a miracle is required for a discount to occur in the near future.
Source :
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/19/23031309/nvidia-amd-gpu-price-in-stock-retail-ebay