The price of graphics cards has skyrocketed in the case of NVIDIA due to the lack of competition from AMD. Currently there is only one graphics manufacturer that offers Ray Tracing out of two that exist, in the absence of Intel getting involved. The first information points to an increase in the price of GDDR6 VRAM memories.
According to DRAMeXchange, who usually has very good information on the memory segment, the price could rise in the first quarter of 2020. The increase is expected to be 5%, a very slight increase that we should not appreciate. Possibly it affects AMD more, which has tighter profit margins than NVIDIA.
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Increase the price of VRAM memories
NVIDIA RTX and RTX Super graphics cards as well as the AMD Navi will be affected by this rise of 5%. We are talking about an increase that should be very small, about 5-20 dollars in the total cost of the graph depending on the amount of memory. Normally, we don't even know it, but we already know that sometimes the rise for the manufacturer is lower than for the end user.
The reason for the upload of these reports for the first quarter has not transpired, but it will not be an exception. Throughout 2020, the price of VRAM is expected to increase quarter after quarter. Something that is not good for everything that has to reach the market in 2020. Remember that the RTX 3000 Series, the RDNA2 and a new generation of console should arrive.
And it is that although the reason for the price increase has not been revealed, it seems obvious: the consoles. Microsoft Xbox Series X and Sony PlayStation 5 will mount GDDR6 memory, so the demand increases. If demand for a product increases dramatically, prices rise, usually.
Source: Digitimes
