Nvidia: GeForce GTX GPUs are in stock at their original price

Nvidia is giving the best indication yet that for now, the cryptocurrency graphics-card crisis is over. The chip manufacturer is announcing today on social media and other public relations efforts that its 10-Series GeForce GTX GPUs are in stock at many retailers. And even better, the cards are selling for their original manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP), which ranges from $150 to $800 depending on the card.

This is a noteworthy shift in the video card market. For more than a year, cryptocurrency miners were buying every new graphics card they could get their hands on. New Bitcoin-like digital currencies like Ethereum were driving this growth because they were relatively efficient to mine (which means to use your GPUs power to process transactions made with the coin for a portion of the fee) with graphics cards. If you could find a GPU, the sky-high demand was driving prices up even at traditional retailers. This left people building or upgrading PCs feeling robbed. But crypto prices are dropping and new mining tech is making the current crop of graphics cards obsolete, and this has enabled Nvidia to meet demand.