The graphics card market has been experiencing important changes both at the level of prices and ranges. In general terms we have seen a significant price increase that has mainly affected the premium mid-range and the high range, and we have also experienced significant absences within the lower-mid range.
The mid-low range is made up of models such as the GeForce RTX 4050which is only available in a laptop version, the GeForce RTX 3050 and the Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400. NVIDIA has not launched a GeForce RTX 4050 for desktop, and AMD has not launched a Radeon RX 7500 XT either, which means that within the current generation this range has been almost completely deserted.
Why have NVIDIA and AMD followed this strategy? The main reason is that both companies They have plenty of stock of models from previous generations, and they have preferred to keep them as options within the mid-low range rather than launching new solutions that could make it impossible to clean the stock of the GeForce RTX 3050 and Radeon RX 6500 XT, mainly.
On the other hand, it must also be taken into account that the stock of the Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3060 is still quite high, and this further complicates the launch of a renewal of low-mid-range graphics cards. A desktop GeForce RTX 4050 would have made the GeForce RTX 3060 completely meaningless, and the same would have happened to the Radeon RX 6600 if AMD had released a Radeon RX 7500 XT.
What will happen to mid-low range graphics cards
we have to differentiate between two markets, that of laptops and the PC sector. In the first, low-mid-range graphics cards will continue to occupy an important position as solutions to create economical gaming laptops. We already saw it with the GeForce RTX 4050 for laptops, a graphics card that has had quite a hit in this market.
In the PC market, low-mid-range graphics cards find it increasingly difficult because generational transitions are increasingly slower, and because they are increasingly produced with a greater amount of stock from the previous generation, which means that the model that was mid-range in that generation It ends up being maintained at current status as a low-mid-range option.
I want to think that NVIDIA and AMD will launch new graphics cards within this range in their next generations, but the truth is that I have many doubts about it. A GeForce RTX 5050 and a Radeon RX 8500 XT could be a great success if they reach a price below 200 euros, but these They could be stepped on with the GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600.
In many cases the previous generation mid-range model can offer better performance than a new generation low-mid range model, so this strategy It is not all bad for the consumer. We will see what happens with the GeForce RTX 50 and the Radeon RX 8000, and if these new generations end up marking the end of the renewals within the low-mid range.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
