Since the pandemic I have only bought graphics cards in the Nvidia 3050 range and higher. Gaming rigs however had a price hike during the pandemic due to crytpocurrency mining.
Now for a time Nvidia Geforce cards were also being used for a related mathematical function, Blockchain mining also cryptocurrency mining.
Partway through the pandemic Nvidia neutered the ability of their cards to mine Bitcoin and other blockchain crypto currency. They did this to stop the price hike in Nvidia cards due to Bitcoin miners buying all the cards up and driving the prices up.
SInce neutering the ability to mine bitcoins and other crypto the price of the Nvidia cards has dropped back to a normal range.
A cutting edge brand spanking new Nvidia Geforce card goes for around 700 - 900$.
A year old but new Nvidia Geforce card should go for about 400$.
And a two year out of date but new Nvidia Geforce card should run for about 200$
The above cost estimates can change and can be wrong demanding on demand. But you can use the guide as is intended a way to help you budget your new machine and what it should be costing you. The above guide is so you don't overpay.
A gaming desktop costing you 1800 should have about 1/3 of that cost be devoted to the price of the graphics card.
A gaming rig costing you 2700 should have a cutting bleeding edge video card in it.
A gaming desktop or gaming rig costing you about 1200 will have a card in it that is about 2 years out of date BUT will still get the job done and done beautifully.
A short list of Raytrace capable Nvidia cards and their prices.
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2023 |
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2020 |
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2020 |