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  "channel_slug": "LocalLLaMA",
  "channel_handle": "r/LocalLLaMA",
  "title": "GPU prices haven't stopped climbing for 3 weeks straight across the EU, here's the data",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vowi2d/gpu_prices_havent_stopped_climbing_for_3_weeks/",
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  "upload_date": "20260815",
  "published_at": "2026-08-15T07:35:32+00:00",
  "transcript": "hey again! I run a EU PC hardware price tracker [PriceSquirrel](https://www.pricesquirrel.com), 25+ stores across 9 countries, and wanted to check: are GPU prices actually rising, or does it just feel that way?\n\nTo make this defensible, I didn't just average \"whatever's in stock\" each day, that inflates the trend if cheap cards sell out and drop off the average. Instead I built a fixed basket: 176 GPU models tracked at 3+ different retailers, every single day for the last 30 days, no gaps, no swapping in or out.\n\n**Result:**\n\n* July 15: €808.57 average\n* August 14: €963.56 average\n* \\+19.2% in one month, same 176 cards throughout\n\nThe rise wasn't sudden, it started climbing around July 24-25 and has been steady since, not one spike from a single event:\n\n* July 15-23: flat, €805-815\n* July 24-31: climbing, €826 → €906\n* Aug 1-14: continued rise, plateauing slightly in the last week, €910 → €964\n\n**By country, since it varies a bit:**\n\n* Germany: +19.6%\n* France: +18.1%\n* EU-wide: +19.2%\n\nPretty consistent across markets, not a single-country anomaly.\n\n**Methodology, upfront:** \"price\" here is each product's average price across whichever 3+ retailers carried it that day (not the single cheapest, not a blended market average across a shifting product list). Basket is fixed, same 176 SKUs day 1 and day 30, verified daily.\n\nHappy to break this down by tier (5080/5090) or AMD vs NVIDIA if there's interest, this is currently the aggregate number.\n\nSource: [pricesquirrel.com](http://pricesquirrel.com), updated every 6 hours\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[19 upvotes] I just let big corps clowning themselves, I won't buy their subscription, I think the root cause is because they (Claude, Google, OpenAI, Grok...) keep stocking/hoarding (not buying, OpenAI themselves admitted they stocked a lot of HBMs but didn't use yet) causing the price hike, not using their service and let it rot is my answer, and it's pretty much in our reach as we're Local LLM community, we find ways to buy used hardware or we've prepared our hardware before the price hike.\n\nI believe their strategy of buying memory and push the price is to push subscription meta, preventing us Local LLM from buying able to buy hardware at all, not just for competition\n\nCurrently I'm happy with running Qwen 27B and 35B locally, maintaining 3 colossal level projects: DAW, NoteApp, MITM Adblock Proxy at the capability of uBlockOrigin... I have no needs of buying subscriptions.\n\n[17 upvotes] https://preview.redd.it/zwrr9skeshjh1.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=9cd001334f55f49085cbb9075d67f3b499b169c0\n\n\n\n[8 upvotes] Compare to Internet bubble, it looks very similar. Yes, there was as Internet Bubble and no, it doesn't mean that Internet was useless ",
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