{"id":82710,"date":"2023-08-07T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T10:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82710"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:43:28","slug":"russias-graphics-card-prices-fall-by-about-a-third-over-the-year-as-miners-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russias-graphics-card-prices-fall-by-about-a-third-over-the-year-as-miners-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s graphics-card prices fall by about a third over the year as miners exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From January to June, the average price of graphics cards in Russia fell by 36% year on year, amid a drop in demand for high-performance devices from miners. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/6147179\">Kommersant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers also noted the emergence of inexpensive Chinese brands on the market as one reason for the price declines.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, unit sales of graphics cards in the first half of the year rose by 50%, to 543,500 units. Until July 2022, about 60,000 devices were sold per month in Russia; now \u2014 up to 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Experts attribute this to interest from companies involved in artificial intelligence technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In monetary terms, sales declined by 1.65% to 17.8 billion rubles.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the first quarter of 2023, the cost of equipment for mining cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/asic-miners-priced-up-as-bitcoin-rallies\">rose by 15\u201320%<\/a>, and in some cases \u2014 up to 30%. Back then, experts linked the dynamics to the rise in Bitcoin&#8217;s price.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the <span data-descr=\"Analytical Center for the Fuel and Energy Complex\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u0410\u0426\u0422\u042d\u041a<\/span>, in 2022 the volume of energy consumption by cryptocurrency miners in Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russias-cryptocurrency-mining-energy-consumption-fell-in-2022\">fell by 49%<\/a> and amounted to less than 5 billion kWh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to June, the average price of graphics cards in Russia fell by 36% year on year due to weaker demand from miners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,27],"class_list":["post-82710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82712,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82710\/revisions\/82712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}