GPU prices are about to make your wallet cry harder than a soulslike final boss

https://gamesbriefly.news/gpu-prices-are-about-to-make-your-wallet-cry-harder-than-a-soulslike-final-boss

#GPUPrices #NextGenGraphics #PCGaming

Presenting: Inevitable Opportunity to Screw Consumers | GPU Pricing Update

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/2QpxtZvM1UdiZqDRCLk2Eo

HW News - Artesian Fallout, Diving GPU Prices, Intel + AMD Vulnerability, & 13900K Tests

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/vxk6SBciucQA2UqDNcVorb

GPU prices are rising again in 2026—but this time, the cause isn’t crypto or short-term shortages. The real driver is memory. As VRAM costs surge and AI data centers absorb a growing share of global memory supply, GPUs are becoming structurally more expensive across both high-end and mid-range segments.

https://www.buysellram.com/blog/why-gpu-prices-are-rising-in-2026-how-memory-economics-and-ai-are-reshaping-the-graphics-market/

#GPUPrices #GPUMarket #AIHardware #VRAM #Nvidia #DataCenters #AIInfrastructure #MemoryMarket #GDDR7 #HBM #GPUs #HardwareLifecycle #TechEconomics #SupplyChain #tech

Most chatbot servers don't have video outputs

Reminder: there are no video outputs on these chatbot data center processors driving up the prices of graphics cards.

So they can’t even sell as used GPUs to crash the consumer GPU price market when the AI bubble pops.

This is a reminder that businesses aren’t “money focused calculation machines that optimize for the maximum possible profit.” They don’t worry about every little dollar, they just print money and use it to control you.

Raising prices for you is the goal, not a byproduct of some other smarter plan.

Some people don’t need the rest of this post, and it’s very long, so I’ll put it in a comment.

https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1596567/most-chatbot-servers-don-t-have-video-outputs

GPU Prices Crater Before Inevitable Opportunity to Screw Consumers

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/phcUxBc5hrk3raYkv9ywMm

People shouldn’t have bought GPUs from scalpers at high prices when they were being scalped heavily and was in high demand. That way, AMD and NVidia wouldn’t get the idea of selling GPUs at stupid high prices, which now became normal pricing and priced out a lot of PC gamers.

https://www.pcgamer.com/shocking-but-not-surprising-the-average-price-of-a-gpu-at-retail-has-doubled-since-2020/

#gpuprices #gpu

Don’t they say. No wonder GPU prices are not dropping.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1499957/amd-is-undershipping-chips-to-keep-cpu-gpu-prices-elevated.html

#amd #gpuprices #nvidia #greed