Me watching Nvidia deliver the worst GPU series launch in history and still having 90% market share... (This really needs to change in the next 2 years)
Nvidia lost $600 Billion in valuation in January when Deepseek Ai was introduced and today also lost $200 Billion in valuation in a single day as Trump's tariffs continue to roll out.
If Trump's new threat of massive 100% tariffs on chips from Taiwan comes true an RTX 5090 for $2,000 will seem cheap
In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China
Even AMD chip manufacturing is dependent of Taiwan so getting a RX7000 or RX9000 series GPU's for $600 will seem cheap
CEO's of Best Buy & Target are predicting that it will be the end user who will have to pay more if more tarrifs hit
Just last month, gaming's largest lobbying group said that Trump's tariffs "would negatively impact hundreds of millions of Americans", and consumer GPUs being even more expensive is just one of the ways that could happen. With AMD's & Nvidia's manufacturing also heavily reliant on Taiwan, your chances of getting a Radeon RX 9000 series or RTX 40/50 series cards at MSRP are diminishing too.
As Mexico, Canada, and China have all threatened retaliatory tariffs, and even the CEOs of Best Buy and Target predict the consumer will take the brunt of these actions.