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soanvig | 1 month ago

Graphic cards prices normalized quite quickly after crypto boom. Before going nuts for AI training of course.

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cogman10|1 month ago

Those were driven up by scalpers during the crypto stuff. The manufacturers were still selling their cards for a reasonable amount, you just couldn't get one because scalpers and crypto farmers had bot armies gobbling up supplies.

The ram pricing is coming directly from manufacturers.

pixl97|1 month ago

>Graphic cards prices normalized quite quickly after crypto boom

Eh, I don't think we were on the same planet then. Even post crypto pre-AI GPUs were far more expensive than they were before said crypto. We just got used to paying $1000 for a mid tier cards.