Jon Peddie Research (JPR) report is devastating, stating that in the fourth quarter of 2017, GPU sales fell 1.5%, compared to the third quarter of last year.
A new report has just come out from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a company that is dedicated to analyzing different markets, including that of graphics cards. As you know, right now the price of a GPU is a real madness and it has been put to the mining of cryptocurrencies, as a great excuse to manipulate the price of these products. The report would support this 'theory', that prices are being manipulated upwards on purpose and a scapegoat would be used.
The report highlights that during the fourth quarter of 2017, the sale of graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining fell 1.5%, compared to the third quarter. This is indicative of a slowdown in demand. In addition, it is highlighted in the report, that the fall compared to 2016, in terms of sales, is 4.8%. This drop in sales would be due to the high price of graphics cards.
Another very interesting piece of information in the report is that in 2017, for cryptocurrency mining, three million graphics cards were sold, which is 776 million dollars. This is a not inconsiderable amount and neither of the two largest in the sector would reject.
JPR further emphasizes that 'AMD was the main beneficiary of these sales', since in the first instance the ones that flew are the RX 400 Series and the RX 500 Series and then any graphics card with 4GB of VRAM or more began to be bought. What's more, it jumped directly to graphics cards designed for 4K gaming, such as the GTX 1080 Ti and went down to the GTX 1060 6GB, depending on stock and budget.
This report is also devastating in terms of the drop in sales. The loss in GPU sales has no other reason, than the absurd price hike, made by retailers, who would be selling the stock dropwise (this situation occurs especially in the United States).
AMD already said that this mining business was a flash and that they did not want to have more supply than demand for their products, so they have been seeking balance. JPR also notes that AMD was initially the biggest beneficiary, but that it later jumped demand to NVIDIA, due to AMD's inability to meet the high demand.
Who would have expected that by making the products more expensive, the demand would be reduced ... and above all in a product that can last perfectly years to the average consumer, maybe the miners change them every year, for the issue of recovering part of the investment when selling the graphics with guarantee, but still it is not something that you constantly change
by the way, ask a little out of place but if you answer me, will you do me a favor, has a laptop with the Ryzen-Vega processor already come out? I'm looking for something cheap for when I'm away from home and I think that for the Intel-vega it still remains and they will be more expensive
thanks a lot 🙂
Anyone with 2 fingers of forehead should never buy a 2nd hand graphics card.