It’s no longer a scoop, the price of graphics cards is always crazy. Those who are waiting for Black Friday or the Christmas holidays will get their money’s worth: the trend is bad and in addition to the shortages, the dollar is playing bad tricks on potential European buyers.
The dollar: the guest that is dampening the mood
Indeed, since the end of spring, we have gone from a €/$ ratio of 1.23 to 1.12 in the last few hours (understand 1€ = 1.12$). 
For some colleagues, the increase over the last month has been “contained”. To be exact, from October 31 to November 21, Nvidia GPU prices have only increased by 7% . A situation probably caused by the unfavorable evolution of the €/$ exchange rate. But a situation that makes the price of the cards at this moment 95%higher than the official MSRP set by the manufacturers. A situation that is expected to worsen over the next few weeks with the evolution of the exchange rate and a demand that is expected to increase again as Christmas approaches. This concern has a greater impact on graphics cards because, unlike other components, there is no stock to act as a buffer. GPUs arrive at brands every week, so the impact of the increase is immediate.
Graphics cards: no longer believing in Santa Claus
Looking at the “enthusiast” market, we can see that most users have chosen to wait for prices to normalize. A situation of waiting for a hypothetically better future that is risky to say the least, because for the moment, the indicators for 2022 are not really bright. We could fear that many customers will turn to consoles… But here again, we have to light candles every day to have the right to burn our credit card…
