Merchants selling graphics cards had an unforgettable day

Original source: Youyanshe

Mr. Huang, what did the consumers do wrong?

In the early morning of September 2nd, Beijing time, after introducing the upgrade of the Ampere architecture and reviewing the 21-year history of Geforce, NVIDIA finally officially announced the new generation of RTX 30 series graphics cards.

The specific parameters of the three graphics cards RTX3070, 3080 and 3090 are shown in the figure below. Various technology media have already made very detailed comparisons, so I will not repeat them here.

But it should be noted that the 3080 is almost twice as fast as the 2080 in many aspects such as the number of CUDA cores and the number of transistors, and it also easily surpasses the 2080Ti, and its price is only US$699, or RMB 5,499.

In comparison, the 2080Ti was launched at a price of $1,199, and its price is still generally above 10,000 yuan. Whether you follow the iron rule of "buy new, not old" for console hardware or just consider the actual cost-effectiveness, the 2080Ti seems to have completely lost its competitiveness.

In other words, the new generation is better than the old one. As soon as the press conference started, NVIDIA personally launched the 20 series graphics cards.

For those who are waiting, it is certainly gratifying to finally get a high-quality and low-priced graphics card, but this happiness can only be realized when the graphics card is officially released. In comparison, rushing to any place where the word "2080" appears as soon as possible, watching others regret their decision and feeling happy alone is a pleasure that can be enjoyed immediately.

When the buyer who was still praising the 2080Ti "very good" and "excellent" half a month ago asked the deafening question today, "Does anyone want it at 6000?", few people could resist the urge to gloat.

Such reverse "really good" plots are repeated again and again, and the audience never tires of it. There is no way, who made the 2080Ti be beaten so badly?

The merchants who are selling second-hand graphics cards on Xianyu are undoubtedly the first group of people to be noticed by hardware enthusiasts.

Adhering to the concept of "either explode in silence or be fooled in silence", most sellers adopt an attitude of "if you want to buy, buy it, if not, get out of here". As long as I block them fast enough, my sadness will not catch up with me.

Some sellers simply gave up hope, and all their words turned into just one sentence: "NVIDIA, CNM, AMD, YES!" During this period, the plot of "You ignore me today, and I will make you out of my reach tomorrow" was played out one after another.

At the same time, a small number of sellers have seen through the world and realized the Zen principles, which can be said to be "If I don't go to hell, who will?"

But they have a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan

There was also a seller who gave up on selling his 2080 and 2080Ti. His words were heartbreaking and made people cry. I wanted to go to the scene to see how the netizens comforted him, but when I arrived, his homepage had become like this.

SOLD!

Of course, no matter how much people cry, compared to individual sellers who only buy a graphics card for their own use, the ones who are more miserable are of course the stores that hoard a lot of goods.

A video on TikTok went viral today. It showed a shop owner proudly showing off his stockpile of 20 series graphics cards worth 3 million yuan, and claiming that the prices would rise again soon.

In another video, the store owner shows scattered graphics cards lying on the ground. He moves the camera while telling the camera: "We are going to run away with a huge sum of money. We are going to take away everything we can."

The contrast between the two videos creates an extremely dramatic effect. The sentence "I have stockpiled 3 million on graphics cards alone" becomes even more meaningful after the picture is converted to black and white.

If "To Be Continued" is added, it would be even better... As for the original sentence of the store owner, "? Shouldn't I smile?", it is no exaggeration to say that it is the finishing touch.

The only pity is that this excellent joke is actually artificially pieced together - to be precise, the second half of the two videos above were cut off, and then a causal relationship was forcibly arranged.

The first video was uploaded on July 24. The store owner stocked up on graphics cards, which was good, but in the original video, the next sentence he cut out was that the price of this graphics card would rise sharply again before the 30 series came out. He knew very well that he was waiting for the gap between then and the release of the new graphics card.

As for the so-called "runaway video", it is even more out of context. This video was uploaded 4 days ago. In the second half of the original version, it was directly explained that this was a joke. The reason for the chaotic scene was actually that the store was suddenly confirmed to be demolished and they had to move within 24 hours. At that time, Nvidia's new graphics card had not been officially announced.

Many people even clarified that the graphics cards that the store had stockpiled were polished last month, and they still made a profit of 1.5 million.

This kind of "want to laugh at others loudly but end up being insulted" situation is usually extremely unbearable for the spectators. In order to find out whether the stores are currently affected, we also tried to ask several PC hardware stores.

Some of them stopped talking after adding us as friends; others were unwilling to chat after replying "I don't know yet". After many twists and turns, we finally met a cheerful Mr. Cat who was willing to chat with us. According to him, before us, he had met 7-8 buyers who asked him whether the price of graphics cards would be reduced.

Some of the sellers before ignored us, maybe we have exceeded our limit of tolerance.

As for the degree of impact, he described it as "the mining disaster in 2018 was much more severe than this." As an agent, the 20 series graphics cards, which have seen a sharp drop in market competitiveness, are not a hot potato for them. "At worst, we can pay 200 yuan per piece to the e-sports hotel, or mine it ourselves for a year." There are many ways to make back the investment.

Retailers have been hit relatively harder, but since they do not have too much inventory, the losses are generally within an acceptable range.

The price of second-hand 2080Ti may plummet, but firstly, new cards have been discontinued and there are only a few left. Secondly, there is still some buffer time before the official release of the 30 series graphics cards, so it is enough for the industry to digest it, and the external selling price will not fluctuate too much.

Mr. Mao saw the real 30 series card a few months in advance, but since the selling price has not been disclosed, he only found out today that the price has dropped to this level.

After this wave, the Internet cafe owners probably made money, because they could save a lot of money by changing the card. If we really want to say who was severely backstabbed, it would probably be the 2080Ti users who rushed out and cried for help.

What did the consumers do wrong?