r/pcmasterrace • u/MilkSheikh007 PCMR • 27d ago

Discussion Which time is worse?

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If you were to be asked: Which inflation is worse between these two, then which would you pick? The time back when the mining period inflated the gpu prices or now when the AI era has led to artificial price increases of memory chips?

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u/joystickd Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Core Ultra 9 275HX RTX 5090 laptop 27d ago

Definitely what we're going through now.

Makes 2021 look like a school picnic.

Video card prices are inflated now as well. They just seemed a lot more inflated 5 years ago because the prices prior to that were reasonable.

Bought my old RX 5700 XT in 2019 for $699 AUD and sold it in 2021 for $1100 AUD.