Originally Posted By: JBjorgen
Saw this on Slashdot today: GPU prices are falling

Still not back to retail prices, may take a while still. There's uncertainty still in if GPUs will be good or not for the beanie baby cryptyocoin crowd, as the makers of the Etherium variant claim the rise of ASICs won't help, and GPUs will.

It's funny reading the stories that claim the RX 580 is a "high end" card. AMD never positioned it as such, it was always designed/marketed/sold as a $200 entry level efficient card for quality VR/non 4k gaming needs. The Vega series they had in the labs at the time is their proper high end card and response to Nvidia's lineup of higher end power hungry cards.

In a few years, it'll be interesting to see the research into how the cryptyocoin crap impacted the gaming market. The rise in GPU cost may have chilled the possible VR market, potentially into a spot it won't rise as a gaming mainstream as folks had hoped.