Summary of video card prices in Vietnam at the beginning of July: Coin has cooled down, what card can I buy 5-7 million hours?

In the context of the cryptocurrency market constantly fluctuating in value, the selling price of many graphics card models is also seeing many signs of cooling down when the demand for large quantities of ETH miners is no longer too high. In Vietnam, many GPU models are now 3-5% cheaper than last month, according to a representative of a major computer company in Hanoi. But it must also be added that, despite being called ‘cheaper’, the current selling price of many actual card models is still significantly higher than it was before the cryptocurrency craze broke out.

For example, Nvidia’s RTX 2060 model is still being sold for about 14.8 million VND at a major computer company in Hanoi. This price is much higher than the figure of 8 million dong in 2020.

Graphics card prices are showing signs of getting cheaper as ETH miner demand falters, but not yet back to pre-cryptocurrency prices

In fact, not all Vietnamese users are willing (and have enough money) to spend over 10 million VND to buy a graphics card. Instead, the graphics card segment at the threshold of 3-5 million dong, or higher from 5-7 million dong, is the most exciting market. Worth mentioning, finding a graphics card with acceptable gaming performance in this price segment is not easy at the moment, if not too few options.

In the pocket of 5-7 million, what graphics card can users buy to play games?

In the price range of VND 6.5-7 million, users can only buy the GTX 1650 graphics card launched by Nvidia in 2019. The current price of the GTX 1650 is significantly higher than at the time. 1-2 years ago, the capital fluctuated between 4.5 -5.2 million VND depending on the version.

As a GPU model in the popular gaming segment of Green Team, the GTX 1650 in fact did not receive too much praise from gamers and reviewers. At the time of launch, the performance of the GTX 1650 was just average and was between the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1060 – GPU models that were also several years old.

However, by July 2021, GTX 1650 began to show signs of exhaustion with AAA games with top graphics, such as Cyberpunk 2077. If you want to play this RPG game at resolution Full HD with FPS at 30, users are required to lower the graphics settings to Low.

Of course, the GTX 1650 will hardly be able to ‘balance’ the AAA games released in 2022 or later – the time when PC games start to become more configuration-intensive due to being developed in parallel with the version. on newer consoles like PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. However, if your needs are just popular Esports or multiplayer games like League of Legends, DOTA 2, Call of Duty Warzone, PUBG, GTX 1650 is still a good choice, with acceptable performance.

GTX 1650 is currently being sold by a computer company in Ho Chi Minh City for VND 7.1 million

In case users only have about 5 million VND in their pocket, Nvidia’s ‘veteran’ GPU model without secondary source, GTX 1050 Ti is also a pretty good choice for Esports gaming needs or released AA games. for a few years. Of course, with performance weaker than even the GTX 1650, the 5-year-old GPU model is definitely not a reasonable choice if you want to use it for a long time.

It is worth noting that in addition to GTX 1650 and 1050Ti, Nvidia’s gaming GPU models in the price range from VND 5 million to almost “white” – a very different point from many years ago. Of course, users should ‘stay away’ from graphics card models like GT 1030 (priced at about 2.5 million dong), when this is a GPU model used to output images, exclusively for office PCs or HTPCs. , instead of playing games.

If Nvidia’s fans have 2 choices in the 7 million segment, then for AMD’s followers, they… don’t have any choice. At this time last year, GPU models such as RX 570, RX 580 or RX 590 were the main card of the Red Team to compete with Nvidia in the 4-5 million dong segment.

However, that all changed in the first half of 2021, when the crypto craze took over. With the ability to mine ETH in good form for the price, the RX 570 and RX 580 series immediately sold out on all fronts, if not completely ‘disappeared’ at PC component distribution companies, due to There are no more items for sale.

GPU models in AMD’s price segment from VND 4-5.5 million are almost completely absent from computer stores.

In general, at the present time, accepting to spend up to 7 million VND to buy a graphics card with average performance like GTX 1650 is not a good move, in my personal opinion. of the writer. Instead, users should wait for another 2-3 months, when the GPU shortage is gradually resolved. At this point, the choice of GPU will be more diverse, along with a significantly more affordable price.