The NVIDIA cards will increase 10% in September by the memories

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There are bad times to buy a PC graphics card. Or any other component that uses GDDR5 or NAND memory.

Chinese media Digitimes, with many confidants in the Chinese-made industry, today released a report stating that NVIDIA graphics cards will go up by 10% in these early days of September.

The reason is the decision of Samsung and SK Hynix, its two suppliers of GDDR5 memory, to reduce its manufacturing to increase production of conventional RAM for business computers and mobile phones. The consequence of this is that the price of GDDR5 memory will increase by 30.8% in a matter of days, which will result in a 10% increase in the cost of NVIDIA graphics cards.

According to the same report this rise will affect the entire range of NVIDIA, from the affordable GTX 1050 to the rest of the series 10: GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080.

The problem is not unique to NVIDIA, as it affects all manufacturers that use all kinds of memories, especially the GDDR5 and NAND memories. To make them requires a number of precious metals that are meager and slow to process, so memory manufacturers can not meet the demand. What they are doing is giving priority to mobile memories, whose manufacturers order tens of millions of units, discriminating against smaller markets, such as PC graphics cards or the Nintendo Switch, which also has stock problems for the shortage of NAND memories.

The market for PC graphics cards suffers another additional problem: the massive purchase of graphics cards to mine Bitcoins and other currencies, which is making it very difficult to find them in stock, or their prices are inflated.

If you plan to buy an NVIDIA graphics card, now is the time to do it, before prices go up. In Amazon you have a lot of models of discounted NVIDIA cards.