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Friday, June 27, 2025

Next-gen GPU prices will all come down to crypto. Should you wait to buy? - Digital Trends

GPU prices are down to normal levels, finally. Exhale, take a step back; the GPU shortage is over. But don’t get comfortable for long. I don’t have a crystal ball, but it’s a good idea to start planning now if you want one of the best graphics cards.
While prices are lower than they’ve been in nearly two years and next-gen GPUs are on the horizon, another potential shortage could mean months more of waiting. And the last five years and two graphics card generations have shown that another boom in crypto could cause inflated prices again.
Isn’t there a better way?
You’d think that after five years and two catastrophic generations that AMD, Nvidia, and cryptominers would figure out a more elegant solution to mining than buying up a bunch of graphics cards. And they have, but one problem causes another to spring up, which is a big reason why GPU shortages may be less of an event and more of a cadence.
At the end of 2017 into 2018, the talk was all about Bitcoin. As I’ll dig into later,...



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