( Hardware ) GPU Prices Dropped Another 9% in the First Half of March

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Prices on the best graphics cards, and even previous generation graphics cards, continues to decline. We normally look at GPU prices on a monthly basis, but the current situation warrants more frequent updates. This time, we're looking at the first two weeks of March compared to the entire month of February.

We looked at GPUs from the past two generations sold on eBay, and every single card again showed a drop in prices. Some fell by just a few percent, others like the RX 5500 XT dropped by 20%. The overall average decline came in at just under 9%, and a slightly lower 8% dip if we confine our view to just the current generation (RTX 30-series and RX 6000-series) graphics cards.

Here's a look at the data. We've included average fps (frames per second) values for the cards from our GPU benchmarks hierarchy, and also put in Ethereum hashrates from our best mining GPUs article. As you can probably guess, there's a definite correlation between the drop in mining profitability and the decrease in graphics card prices.