As the value of many major cryptocurrencies is well below their all-time highs, the price of DRAM GPUs is starting to stabilize due to lower demand for GPUs and could drop soon. With reduced demand, the high price of GDDR5 and GDDR6 memory has started to decline.
While DRAM prices remain high, less pressure on GPU DRAM prices should positively affect the price and availability of graphics cards. Whether new or second-hand. Graphics DRAM contract prices are expected to increase 10-15% QoQ in this quarter, as DRAM vendors still prioritize server DRAM production over other product categories, and the vast majority of the supply of Graphics DRAM continues to be cornered by major buyers.
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The DRAM market could stabilize soon
Given the highly volatile nature of the DRAM market for GPUs, it is normal for their prices to fluctuate more dramatically compared to other conventional DRAM products. If the reduction in demand for GPUs continues and other manufacturers demand less DRAM components, it is unlikely that their prices will increase in the last quarter of this year.
Analysts indicate that changes in this market are closely correlated with changes in the value of the Ethereum due to Chinese regulations and its future mining changes that would make GPUs not the most optimal tools for mining. The interest of cryptocurrency miners and investors has declined significantly since this phenomenon. It is also expected that a large number of graphics cards will be entering the second-hand market, but you have to be careful because many will be starting to burn from their continued heavy use.
Although the selling prices are still higher than the contract prices for GDDR6 chips, the gap is narrowing rapidly. This will have an adverse effect on the general price trend of GDDR6 chips in the future. Its demand is even more moderate for GDDR5 chips that are used in previous generations of graphics cards. All of this indicates that there is a glut of older graphics cards and the GDDR5 chips that are built into them are no longer in high demand, so even non-high-end graphics cards expect to drop in price soon.
Source: Overclok3D
