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its crazy how gpu prices are making everything else fall in price
That's not what's going on. GPU isn't influencing the other prices.
CPU pricing is very competitive because Intel basically always keeps their prices + inflation, so when Zen 3 was priced higher, 12th gen was priced lower, when Zen 4 still priced higher, 13th gen was still priced lower. AMD tries to move pricing up and Intel keeps anchoring it back down, and then it ends up being them in a price war with sales. Even when Bulldozer was a disaster Intel didn't break change their pricing, this pricing scheme goes back over a decade.
GPU pricing is ridiculous because Nvidia loves it's profit margins and sets them high, and AMD simply joins in, slightly lower but usually with worth performance and certainly worse features, so Nvidia and customers don't care.
Then you have memory and storage prices tanking because DDR5 is now mature and there has been an glut, too much NAND produced when demand pulled back, leading to very good prices as manufacturers take losses.
Yeah the reality is that people are going to buy NV pretty much no matter what these days. Their lead at this point is like, 80%+ of the market....AMD is thus not really in competition with NV; they're more in competition with Intel, if anything. With the rumors lately that AMD is going to release a single midrange card next Gen and that is all, it's kind of hard to blame NV at this point...when the "competition" doesn't even try anymore, you just charge whatever the market will bare. I fully expect the 50 series, especially the ~5070s and up, to be even more expensive than the 40 series is for this reason, and guess what? People will still buy them so....🤷♂️
AMD can undercut the hell out of NV, but it just results in Nvidia shrugging, dropping like 10% higher to where AMDs prices are, and gamers thank AMD then buy the NV card.