Computer sales, both desktop and laptop, have fallen significantly after the pandemic. During COVID, many teams were renewed, due to teleworking, but now that time has passed. According to the latest data published, the SSD price has fallen by 34%while the price of the graphics cards has doubled.
We find ourselves in a rather bad economic situation in Spain. The rise in the prices of the shopping basket, as well as fuel and electricity has gone up to the beast. This causes the purchasing power to drop significantly and facing the purchase of a computer, a good that we could already consider basic, is a bobbin lace.
More expensive graphics cards and cheaper SSDs, how is it possible?
Today two reports have been matched that give totally contrary data. Mindfactory Data reports that the graphics card price in the last three years has doubled. TrendForcefor his part, reports a SSD price drop by 34% year-on-year.
There is a key factor in all this and that is that the computer salesboth desktop and laptop, is in freefall. Sales drop data for most clone and laptop computer manufacturers have been published. By purchasing less equipment, Demand for SSD hard drives falls and also of rest of components. Sure, it’s pretty rare for the price of RAM and SSDs to drop, while the price of graphics cards goes up.
As reported by Mindfactory Data, the average price of graphics cards has doubled. They have taken the average price of graphics cards in February 2020 and compared it to February 2023.
AMD had a half price of your graphics cards €295.25 and total sales of 442,870 euros. The data shows that now the mean of the AMD Radeon graphics It is 600.03 euros and have generated 1.02 million euros in sales. They have doubled the median sales price and nearly tripled revenue from graphics sales.
NVIDIA in February 2020 I had a average price of 426.59 euros and total sales of 855,305 euros. Now the average price is in the 825.20 euroswith a total income of 1.84 million euros, more than double what was entered in 2020.
We are talking about brutal data, while sales of new computers are falling. At the same time, the RAM and SSD prices have fallen by 30-40%. It should be noted that the TrendForce report talks mainly about memories for smartphones and SSDs for servers, but also highlights what happened in the computer market.
Not only graphics cards go up
Despite the sales, only the SSD and RAM fall in price, the rest have risen. Intel and AMD have raised the price of their processors by 10-15%. Motherboards for both processor manufacturers are up 10-20%. Of course, the data does not add up.
What these manufacturers do is create artificial scarcity, raise prices and generate more revenue. It has been established that, if sales are not increased compared to last year’s quarter, the company is going badly and falls on the stock market. Said depreciation is negative for the future, since it reduces their investment capacity. So they manipulate the data by making the hardware more expensive.
One will say, so Samsung, Micron or WD, among others, are they stupid? No, the problem is that these manufacturers have an excess of memory chips already manufactured. Let’s say they manufacture in anticipation, while Intel and AMD are more “up to date”. It is understood to go to the day in which they produce with shorter time frames.
