Allen
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Maybe, maybe not. Stabilizing is not necessarily at a fair MSRP.
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Nvidia CFO: GPU Prices Should Start Stabilizing in 2H of 2022
There might be a sliver of light at the end of the “GPU prices are insane” tunnel, according to Nvidia’s CFO. Speaking at the UBS Global TMT conference on Monday, Colette Kress stated she thinks there’s relief in-sight, near the end of next year.
This line of thinking assumes there can theoretically be enough cards for everyone, just like in the olden days of late 2019, but that’s not entirely clear. Even if miners move onto other sources of income there’s still the fact that there are people whose full-time job it is to employ bots to acquire every GPU they can find as well, and they are making a killing due to the shortage of available GPUs. Between the bots and the miners, there’s not much inventory left for gamers
As often mentioned, CPUs and GPUs coming out in a year are expected to provide an unusually large jump in performance. MSRPs are expected to rise slightly due to inflationary pressure. CPUs probably will still sell at a sane MSRP. GPUs may be cheaper but still substantially overpriced.
