Price history, July to October 2026

Dated prices for the CMP 170HX as members posted them on the Discord, from the weeks before the unlock went public (early July 2026) to early October 2026. Each fact is one or a few members' quotes, listings, purchases or recollections, in the currency they used; conversions appear only where the poster gave one. A quote or an asking price is not a sale. The summary table and the later months are on Price history and market; how to buy and check a card is on Buying and Acceptance checklist.

Names and units as posted: Alifond, the Alibaba volume seller most posts mention, also appears as Ailfond, AiLFond and AILFond; this page writes Alifond. RMB, CNY and yuan are the same currency. "Recalled" marks a price someone remembered later; the Source date is the day it was posted.

Before the unlock

Before the unlock: about $100 to $300 a card

As mining cards the 170HX traded at about 100 to 300 USD (the club-170hx notes, relayed in lab notes) or 100 to 250 USD (@con3po7016). In bulk they went for less: @giaki3003 said on 2026-08-16 that people in this Discord had bought 300 cards at $125 each, about a 15x rise within a month; @.philow remembered single cards at $300 and @cmurrayis had last paid $250. @counterstrikeaimgod's group bought 16 at $200 each; @meatsus said the Chongqing Changjie store offered cards at $180 to $190 around 2026-07-20, and @moliminous saw that store scamming buyers when cards were about $100. @petrikrohn_26497 (2026-08-10): China held tens of thousands of these cards in warehouses, maybe 100,000, worth under $100 each in June 2026 and not selling at all. @cuddylac997 paid $200 each for four 10 GB cards before the unlock was known, and @bigfoot1144 bought 2 at $250 each right after the paper appeared, before the unlock was public. @machinezer0 called it a "$170 mining relic with virtually zero value" before the unlock, and @schakaqt, @scallion_9883, @ju5t5omedude and @theg9483 all recalled the $200 card, or the "e-waste", of a few months earlier.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-07-29
Source: @meatsus, 2026-08-03
Source: @moliminous, 2026-08-03
Source: @counterstrikeaimgod, 2026-08-05
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-08-10
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-10
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-08-10
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-08-11
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-13
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-16
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-16
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-16
Source: @darkmaniac7, 2026-09-02 (lab notes)
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-09-02
Source: @bigfoot1144, 2026-09-21
Source: @theg9483, 2026-09-22
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-10-07
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-07
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-10-25

Launch price in 2021: about $4,300 to $4,400 a card

@_j3ns gave the 170HX's 2021 retail price as $4,300 (2026-07-20). @meteorite777 bought 8 at launch for about $4,400 each, about $32k in total; solo-mining Ethereum until the Merge, the cards found 2 blocks and returned about $6k, and he was preparing to list them in July 2026. @kellertreppe123 recalls the cards at "4k at launch".

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @meteorite777, 2026-07-20
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-07-20
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-10-23

Day one of the public unlock: about $550 to $580, then $800 a day later

Buyers on the first day of the public release paid about $550 to $580, and within a day prices were about $800. Which day that was is itself disputed; see Unlock history: who found what, and when. @phoenixone7 bought 2x 8 GB at about 580 USD each on day 1 and saw 800 a day later Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-07; in an earlier account the price went from $560 to $800 by day 2 (in Brazil, with import tax) and his supplier took a week and a half to give a tracking number Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-09-17. @sojun80 bought 2 at about 580, 2 at 800 and 4 at 900 on eBay and kept only 2 after cancellations Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-07. The accounts of @gnasherrr's first order differ:

• 2026-09-11: ordered 20 at $550 shipped, 16 cancelled, 4 arrived; and, in another post the same day, 20 ordered at $500 each, 16 cancelled Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-09-11
  Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-09-11.
• 2026-10-14: ordered 16, 12 cancelled (the Newegg orders cancelled, eBay delivered), the first 4 at $550 each after passing on $700 units. He adds that the 10 GB card was priced higher at the time because the Reddit post claimed it could reach 80 GB Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-14.

Contested 8 GB and 10 GB

Early buyers' prices recalled in September: sub-$500 orders cancelled, $900 within an hour

Recalled on 2026-09-11: @xtj7 says sub-$500 orders were cancelled before shipping and the price was $900 an hour later; the window below $900 after the unlock became known was very brief. @sojun80 had most orders cancelled but got one for $600 after threatening a bad review. Other entry prices: @djpandaman hesitated at $900 and bought above $1.4k; @neapopa went from $550 to about $900; @diabeetee had $950 orders cancelled and averaged about $1350 over 16 cards; @deejay9983 paid about $1200 each for 4 after selling 4x 3090; @friendsxxii paid about $800 each in July. Recalled on 2026-09-17: @con3po7016 bought about a week after the unlock, 5 cards for about $5600 in total plus 3 at $1000 each (about $1200 average over 8); @wakeupmbrc1 could have bought at $1000, thought it too late, and paid $1700 two weeks later; @xtj7 paid $2200. @tokukarin had an 8 GB card for 800, then bought two 10 GB cards at 1500 each when 8 GB cards were 2500.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-09-11
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-11
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-11
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-09-11
Source: @neapopa, 2026-09-11
Source: @xtj7, 2026-09-11
Source: @friendsxxii, 2026-09-12
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-17
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-17
Source: @xtj7, 2026-09-17
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-10-07

Early to mid July: $250 to $600 a card

@bigfoot1144 and friends bought "a bunch" at $250 about 2 to 3 weeks before 2026-07-21, and @cute_sc2 also put the price at about $250 roughly three weeks before 07-25. Someone in @meatsus's country bought 5 at 100 EUR each about a month before 07-21, then listed them at 800 EUR and later as an "A100 equivalent" for 2000 EUR. @ju5t5omedude passed on 6 cards for $2500 shipped, Samuel Hayden passed on 6 at $600 each on Facebook on 2026-07-18, and @machinezer0 missed $600 to $800 on eBay and under $500 on Alibaba, against $170 buy-it-now listings from Alifond earlier. @decoy.works saw listings around $500 in Indonesia that sold before he acted. Orders placed around 07-17 to 07-19: @quark2world about $900 for 2 from Huateng, @cute_sc2 $480 per card, @meromgreen $490 from Alifond (not shipped) and @danske1 $420 (cancelled). @giaki3003 said the $400 Alibaba sellers would never have shipped, and a Goofish seller told @_arcanum_ he should have bought when quoted 3700 RMB (about $550).

Reported
Source: @bigfoot1144, 2026-07-21
Source: @meatsus, 2026-07-21
Source: @samuel_hayden., 2026-07-21
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-21
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-21
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-22
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-07-24
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-24
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-24
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-25
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-07-25
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-07-25

Eleven cards at about $200 each, bought before the unlock

@petrikrohn_26497 said on 2026-08-27 that he bought eleven CMP 170HX cards for about $200 each, alongside a terabyte of DDR4 bought the year before to run DeepSeek R1 locally, so "you could run any large MoE model". By then cards cost $900 to $1500.

Reported
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-27

A mining YouTuber's stock: 45 to 48 cards at $150 each

@a.civardagezen said on 2026-07-19 that the YouTuber behind the "170hx AI Server Build" livestream bought 48 cards at $150 each, and on 2026-07-23 that a mining YouTuber bought 45 at $150 each about half a year earlier and later had 91 more. @gmzombie said he traded RTX 3070s to respec.io for the others, and that respec.io or PCSP sold these cards cheaply for a while; the miner chose them as the best card for non-core mining algorithms, then upgraded the rigs to rent to a private AI customer. @_arcanum_ recalled that the YouTuber posted a video just before the unlock went public regretting the trade, and @cute_sc2 said he was now selling all his stock except some show cards.

Reported
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-19
Source: @aneinander, 2026-07-23
Source: @gmzombie, 2026-07-23
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-23
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-23

Mining-era prices: about $4,300 to $5,000 new in 2021, about $200 at the bottom

@smit1237 recalled that miners bought the cards new in 2021 at roughly $4500 to $5000; @_studebaker_ gave $4300 with minimum orders above 1000 pieces (2026-08-30), and @giaki3003 put CMPs at about $5k against about $15k for an A100 40GB at release. @wakeupmbrc1 (2026-09-16): the cards were profitable for Ethereum only about 2 months before proof of stake, sold for about $5k each (maybe $4.5k each in prebuilt rigs of 6 to 8 cards), and miners later dumped them at around $200 before the unlock. @smit1237 knows an owner of 100 8 GB cards bought at $350 each from China about 3 years earlier who refuses to sell even at $1k each and cannot sell locally at $2k. On 2026-07-28 @cute_sc2 expected prices to drop once Pearl mining becomes unprofitable; @giaki3003 said Pearl was already on life support and nobody wants these cards for it, unlike Ethereum, whose miners paid about $4k per card; @sekkit_75019 said Chinese miners want to dump all their cards, but at a high price.

Reported
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-28
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-28
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-28
Source: @smit1237, 2026-08-30
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-08-30
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-16
Source: @smit1237, 2026-09-16

Prices recalled for the release: about $250 before, $700 to $900 on repo day

Members recalled these on 2026-08-27. @zanooda said cards were about $250 when the first Twitter post claimed they could be unlocked; he thought it was a scam. @dufrelic bought 2 at 225 EUR each and did not dare buy more after the unlock paper was published. @quark2world bought at $450 "1 day before amogh dropped his repo", by which time the price had already doubled on exploit rumours. On day 1 of the repo release cards sold for $700 to $900; @artistosu bought 4 at $900. The thread does not give the release date.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @zanooda, 2026-08-27
Source: @dufrelic, 2026-08-27
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-27
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-27
Source: @cressida1881, 2026-08-27
Source: @p4y4, 2026-08-27

The spike, 2026-07-19 to 07-24

Supplier prices exploded on Sunday 2026-07-19

@quark2world ordered on Friday 2026-07-17, "at the start of the craziness" but before the public unlock. @cute_sc2 paid Huateng for 16 cards at $480 each just before supplier prices "exploded on Sunday morning (gmt+2)", that is 2026-07-19. @vcore2191 saw the unlock posted on r/LocalLLaMA a couple of days before 2026-07-20, where commenters called it fake. @sojun80 says everyone who ordered over that weekend got the run-around from suppliers.

Reported
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20
Source: @vcore2191, 2026-07-20
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-20
Source: @sojun80, 2026-07-20

Red Panda Mining started the hype; Taobao sold out by 2026-07-17

@cute_sc2 said on 2026-07-22 that the unlock "was clear before that too, but not widely known" and that Red Panda Mining made it popular; @quark2world linked a Red Panda Mining post on X. @_arcanum_ noted that cards had vanished from Taobao by Friday 2026-07-17, so Chinese sellers already knew, while the supplier-side @aifonder_66800 said they had heard the rumours but did not believe them. @quark2world called it "the 56gb hbm that was lost for 3years": the 8 GB card carries 64 GB.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-22
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-22
Source: @aifonder_66800, 2026-07-22
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-22

Right after the unlock (2026-07-19, early UTC): stock gone, eBay listings pulled, 588 to 700 EUR

@cute_sc2 reported Alibaba sellers out of stock and eBay listings pulled in Europe, and @ashtray9843 said Alibaba sellers were not responding. @petrikrohn_26497 tracked eBay listings: one had 99 of 100 available, sold 4 that day and was then delisted; another sold 19 in a day. @quark2world saw 588 EUR, about 150 EUR more than he had paid 1.5 to 2 days earlier, against about $3k for an A100 40GB and about $2k for an A100 Drive 32GB. @paulng0324 found 700 EUR with taxes and $500 quotes from sellers who never sent a link. @rubbra_f paid about $400 and @scrimbulous $304 on Facebook Marketplace before the exploit dropped.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @ashtray9843, 2026-07-19
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-19
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-07-19
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-19
Source: @paulng0324, 2026-07-19
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-07-19
Source: @scrimbulous, 2026-07-19

Later on 2026-07-19: EU eBay 700 to 800 EUR, Alibaba quotes $340 to $400, China 1500 to 8000 CNY

@a.civardagezen found the cheapest Netherlands eBay listing at 700 EUR (@lunaroseoc: the going rate) and heard of a 500 EUR Alibaba quote including shipping; @ashtray9843 said eBay was near 800 EUR. @benjamin_4618 got Alibaba quotes of $390 (10 GB) and $340 (8 GB) plus $50 EU shipping, then $400 for either from one seller. @lunaroseoc could have paid $350 a week earlier, and @quark2world paid about $440 at the start; he expected 700 to 900 EUR, with US demand even at $1k. @jiacheng_liu gave 1500 to 8000 CNY for the 10 GB card in China, and @lunaroseoc said the 10 GB card was unobtainable in the US.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-19
Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-07-19
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-19
Source: @jiacheng_liu, 2026-07-19
Source: @benjamin_4618, 2026-07-19
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-19
Source: @ashtray9843, 2026-07-19

Alibaba quotes jumped from about $400 to $1200 and more within days (2026-07-19 to 07-21)

On 2026-07-19 @meromgreen said cards were about $400 on Alibaba and expected $800; he had bought one a day earlier for $445 plus $40 shipping, and Alifond quoted him $445 plus $47 shipping to Korea. @jimtjames had a Huateng quote of about $450 each for 4 from a few days earlier. @skirtchaser believed only buyers who ordered below $300, before the news spread, would actually get cards. On 2026-07-20 @machinezer0 saw Alifond raise its price from $445 to $1308, and on 2026-07-21 @funzr reported Alibaba quoting $1200 before shipping and no offers at all in Europe.

Proven
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-07-19
Source: @jimtjames, 2026-07-19
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-07-20
Source: @funzr, 2026-07-21

The spike in #suppliers-chat: about $150 to $200 before the news, $1000 and more by 2026-07-20

Before the unlock went public cards sold for about $150 (@giaki3003); @robbbbbb7973 had ordered 10 at about US$180 a few days earlier and cancelled, and @attackerfx said 8 GB cards were $400 two days before 2026-07-20. @quark2world paid about $440 per card around 2026-07-17. By 2026-07-20 Alibaba quotes for the 8 GB card ran $500 to $900, eBay minimums were about $1000 to $1200 (@impactic, @ashtray9843), and some Alibaba listings appeared at $3k to $4k (@quark2world): the card had gone up 10x over the weekend, as @giaki3003 put it. Late on 2026-07-20 @giaki3003 saw a new Alibaba supplier back at $400, and predicted prices would fall back to about $150 within 2 months as miners rushed to sell.

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @attackerfx, 2026-07-20
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-20
Source: @ashtray9843, 2026-07-20
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-20

eBay sold listings, 2026-06-20 to 07-19: 258 units, 94 and 81 on the two days after the Reddit post

@impactic exported eBay sold listings on 2026-07-20: 258 GPUs in total, by last-sold date 3 (Jun 20), 4 (Jun 22), 1 (Jun 25), 2 (Jun 27), 11 (Jul 3), 22 (Jul 12), 7 (Jul 13), 2 (Jul 14), 7 (Jul 15), 13 (Jul 16), 11 (Jul 17), 94 (Jul 18) and 81 (Jul 19). He warned that his average-price chart is skewed because fan shrouds and other parts sell under the same search. The jump on Jul 18 and 19 follows the 2026-07-16 Reddit post. @quark2world counted 7 cards sold on eBay above $1k by Chinese sellers.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20

Alibaba quotes on 2026-07-20 and 07-21: from $578 to $1620

By 2026-07-20 Alibaba suppliers that had been selling for a few hundred dollars quoted about $1600 (@a.civardagezen) and $1620 (@vcore2191). First replies were automated ("let me check with my boss for pricing"), one supplier answered "There is no stock about 170HX", and @impactic noted nothing on eBay had sold that high. On 07-21 Asicbiz Company Limited offered FOB $825 with a minimum order of 10 early in the day but later quoted $1620, while Shenzhen Ranshuo quoted $578 before VAT and shipping. Alifond dropped 200 EUR on a quote to @paulng0324, but @danske1 learned it was a broker for a mining farm that held the stock. A middleman told @_arcanum_ the spot price was $993 (listings $700 to $1100), and @chris.via.egnatia saw prices up 50% since the Chinese morning, to $1300 to $1500 for 4 cards. Huateng sent @decoy.works photos of stacked cards and quoted $1299 per unit for 6, and a supplier quoted @robbbbbb7973 $1149 for the 10 GB card.

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-20
Source: @vcore2191, 2026-07-20
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-20
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-21
Source: @paulng0324, 2026-07-21
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-21
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-21
Source: @chris.via.egnatia, 2026-07-21
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-21

US and eBay, 2026-07-20 to 07-22: $800 to $1500, and cancelled orders

On 2026-07-20 @scallion_9883 offered US-held stock at $800 for the 8 GB and $1k for the 10 GB card, and @barackorama posted a buy offer at $800 in the continental US through PayPal Goods and Services; eBay minimums were about $1000 to $1200. An eBay seller cancelled @eksitus's order for 4x 8 GB, and @barackorama's too. @quark2world noted that buyers outside the US pay import twice: $800 of goods became about $1040 delivered in Germany. A US-only eBay listing sold 3 cards at $1500 each (@simba6959, @impactic), and another seller ended his listing after selling 4 of 10 or more. On 07-21 @scallion_9883 said he had sold 15 on eBay plus 10 directly that day, at an average eBay price of about $1.2k for the 8 GB card; @quark2world's chart showed 19 eBay sales that day, small against the listed supply, and @giaki3003 noted that eBay at about $1.2k was already below most Chinese supplier quotes.

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-07-20
Source: @barackorama, 2026-07-20
Source: @eksitus, 2026-07-20
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20
Source: @simba6959, 2026-07-21
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-21

eBay, 2026-07-20 to 07-22: cheapest listing $1000, then $1200; about 300 sold in a week

On 2026-07-20 the cheapest 170HX on eBay was $1000 (@farawaythrower), then $1200 (@impactic). @impactic used eBay's seller-hub Product Research tool (My eBay, Research, Product Research, Sold tab) and found more than 100 sold that day and slightly over 300 in the past week; three buyers paid about $1500. He had paid about $800 each for four cards on eBay. On 2026-07-22 @giaki3003 said prices had stopped rising and $1.2k was the going rate.

Reported
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-20
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-22

The spike in #off-topic: about $200 to $250 before, $700 to $1850 after

@counterstrikeaimgod said cards once sold for about $200, and @meatsus paid $1500 for 6 cards (about $250 each) through Huateng; @danske1 said $400 offers were being refused. On 2026-07-20 @_j3ns posted that prices were "dangerously close" to A100 40GB pricing, noting that the 8 GB CMP still has more memory than an A100 40GB. The same day @c.03937 ordered two at about $700 each, @skirtchaser saw prices up $1200 to $1500 per card, and @petrikrohn_26497 reported a $1850 listing and a seller who sold seven at $1,200 each. On 2026-07-21 @nekopavel paid $990 locally including shipping and insurance, @diabeetee paid $835 per card plus $450 shipping for 7 on AliExpress, and @a.civardagezen saw 657 EUR plus 114 EUR shipping and about 900 plus 250 shipping.

Proven
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-07-20
Source: @c.03937, 2026-07-20
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-07-20
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-20
Source: @nekopavel, 2026-07-21
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-07-21
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-21
Source: @meatsus, 2026-07-21
Source: @counterstrikeaimgod, 2026-07-22

July: about $900 to $1,350 as the unlock spread

On 2026-07-20 @impactic bought at $900 expecting prices to rise, @attackerfx reported 45 cards in his country at about $1000 after the news (a 3090 price), and @lunaroseoc predicted a wave of cards like the earlier V100 wave; on 2026-07-22 @skyy2333 found a few 8 GB cards at about $900, below eBay. @eksitus (2026-07-24) averaged about $1000 per card after taxes and shipping, buying only from US sellers after an eBay order from China was cancelled, and recorded unboxing and testing in case a seller disputed a broken card. @diabeetee was promised $750 each by a server member who then stopped answering, bought at over $1k, and saw that seller relist at $1350 the next day; @deejay9983 bought one 8 GB card at "scalp price". @1a2b3c0967 (2026-07-27) bought about 20 cards on eBay amid seller cancellations and expected the cards to dry up within weeks once miners finished dumping them; @_studebaker_ (2026-07-28) expected the average price to dip below $1000.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-07-20
Source: @impactic, 2026-07-20
Source: @attackerfx, 2026-07-20
Source: @skyy2333, 2026-07-22
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-24
Source: @eksitus, 2026-07-24
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-07-24
Source: @1a2b3c0967, 2026-07-27
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-07-28

Alibaba quotes on 2026-07-22: $835 to $1128, on DAP terms

On 2026-07-22 one of the original suppliers offered @robbbbbb7973 $1000 each, and @giaki3003 got $835 (later stated as 890) and $1000 from two listings, though he was unsure either would ship. @meromgreen's seller, after cancelling his earlier cheap order, offered $1128 including shipping as a "discount", on DAP terms (not DDP); @cute_sc2 estimated $1.3k to $1.5k after duties and taxes. A freight forwarder refused to ship for @giaki3003 because the card was "too expensive", and @paulng0324's supplier had only the expensive stock left.

Reported
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-22
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-22
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-07-22
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-22
Source: @paulng0324, 2026-07-22

eBay on 2026-07-22 and 07-23: a $290 sell-off, $4k outliers, the floor near $1k

@quark2world reported that a US eBay seller who had missed the unlock news sold the whole stock at about $290 per card on 2026-07-22. @giaki3003 said the eBay floor had dropped below Alibaba prices by late 07-22, and on 07-23 posted "Floor down to 1k". Outliers: one eBay listing at about $4k (@aneinander), one card in France at 2.5k and one in Italy at 1.5k. @giaki3003 pointed to a server post with many listings and said the floor would not rise until those sold.

Reported
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-22
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-23
Source: @aneinander, 2026-07-23
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-23
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-23

Timeline posted on 2026-07-22 and 07-23: $300, $450, $750, cancellations, then $1000 to $1200

@benjamin_4618 summed up the run as $300, then $750, then cancelled orders, then $1200. @quark2world paid about $450 per card around 2026-07-17, close to 1k EUR for two after import costs, and the supplier-side @aifonder_66800 put the China price above $900 on 07-22. On 07-23 several Alibaba suppliers asked about $1000 (@robbbbbb7973, @.zackmorris). @deejay9983 said US buyers must add about 30% in tariffs plus shipping, which makes eBay cheaper, and @rubbra_f offered cards at $1.05k excluding shipping, without an invoice.

Reported
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-22
Source: @aifonder_66800, 2026-07-22
Source: @benjamin_4618, 2026-07-23
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-23
Source: @.zackmorris, 2026-07-23
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-23
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-07-23

22 to 24 July: 1900 EUR offers in Europe, about $1200 on US eBay, $1350 from a member

@thisisashitsystem found Chinese marketplaces selling only in bulk or at inflated single-card prices. On 2026-07-23 @nemz38_is_my_waifu_91412 was offered an 8 GB 170HX for 1900 EUR in Europe, against 1500 EUR for a 32GB 4080 Super, and worked out that import fees and VAT would bring a US card to about 1800 EUR; his earlier orders at around $500 had all been cancelled. @roger_dammit put US eBay at about $1200 for the 10 GB card and $100 to $200 more for the 8 GB card. On 2026-07-24 Plean bought two cards from a Discord member at $1350 each. @profdd suggested the PG199 32G (SXM) as an alternative if cheap, and @quark2world expected crypto resellers to dump cards within months.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-07-23
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-23
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-23
Source: @nemz38_is_my_waifu_91412, 2026-07-23
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-23
Source: @plean., 2026-07-24
Source: @profdd, 2026-07-24

Alibaba livestream "8GB unlocks 64GB VRAM" on 2026-07-23: $1150 to $1500

On 2026-07-23 an Alibaba supplier ran livestreams titled "CMP 170HX 8GB graphics card unlocks 64GB VRAM", posted in the server by @aifonder_66800 and @robbbbbb7973. @giaki3003 said the supplier had cut its quote by $300 from the $1700 of the day before. During the stream @rubbra_f saw a minimum of $1.3k and then $1.5k, and @cute_sc2 negotiated but the supplier would not go below $1150. @aneinander noted that EU listings were already under $1.5k, and @paulng0324 asked why cards shown live were not being shipped to customers who had already paid.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @aifonder_66800, 2026-07-23
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-23
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-23
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-07-23
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-23
Source: @aneinander, 2026-07-23
Source: @paulng0324, 2026-07-23

One supplier's quotes, 2026-07-22 to 07-24: $580 to $1250, then a refusal

@decoy.works's quote from one supplier rose from $580 to $650 to $750 to $1250 and then to "we don't want to sell you this card anymore, it has far exceeded its value"; he was quoted $1137 per card on 2026-07-22, and @giaki3003 got $1380 on 07-24. @skirtchaser got about $1100, but the seller went silent when asked to place the order; @skyy2333 was ignored by more than 10 sellers after verbal confirmation over three days; @danske1 got $1268 from an Alibaba store. On 2026-07-24 Alibaba still asked about $1250 per card.

Proven
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-24
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-24
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-24
Source: @skyy2333, 2026-07-24
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-24

Price points around the public unlock (late July): $150 to $1299

Posted prices: about $150 per card in early 2026 (a miner's bulk buy), about $250 paid by @quark2world, and about $200 for a broken card (@dalzyyy). On 2026-07-24 @quark2world said the card is great for AI students at $500 to $600 but not worth $1500, given a possible $2k loss if something is wrong; @diabeetee countered that for a single card it is the best price per GB above 32 GB. On 2026-07-27 @shudza ordered one 170HX 8GB on Alibaba from a Chinese supplier for $1299. @gechangwei, in China, offered to sell for $1000 and asked how to ship abroad, and @bagstah offered cards from Canada; @_arcanum_ pointed sellers to the sales channel.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-24
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-24
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-07-24
Source: @shudza, 2026-07-27
Source: @gechangwei, 2026-07-27
Source: @bagstah, 2026-07-27
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-27

The late-July slide

eBay from 2026-07-24 to 07-26: $1000 to $3000

@danske1 saw eBay sold listings above $1500, @a.civardagezen saw listings up to $2500, and @roger_dammit found an 8 GB card at $3000. @kurj86 made low offers and got a $1000 counteroffer on an 8 GB card from seller patpoch_0 (listed at $1300, 3 left), and @c.03937 offered $1100. @quark2world said some sold for more than 10k RMB on US eBay and about 1.5k EUR in the EU, and @diabeetee found a $1100 listing on 2026-07-26. @machinezer0 suspected that some high eBay sales were fake (agreed, then cancelled) or FOMO.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-24
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-24
Source: @kurj86, 2026-07-24
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-24
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-07-24
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-25
Source: @c.03937, 2026-07-25
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-07-26

Western prices from 2026-07-26 to 07-28: Alifond down, the eBay floor disputed

On 07-26 @giaki3003 saw Alifond drop from $1500 to $1100 in 3 days, @quark2world counted about 10 eBay sales in two days, @mrmannyatx saw the remaining cards around $1000 and $1300 for the next 8 GB, and @diabeetee said US eBay listings with returns sold for about $350 more Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-26
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-26
Source: @mrmannyatx, 2026-07-26
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-07-26. On 07-27 @thisisashitsystem saw $930 for an unmodified card and $1030 for an AIO-modded one Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-07-27. On 07-28 the eBay floor was disputed:

• @deejay9983: the $1300 eBay cards he had been buying were gone and the floor was $1400; AliExpress listings were at $2200 and up Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-28.
• @beefbonecapone: "this is cap, $1000 and lower this morning on ebay"; @deejay9983 suggested those may have been 10 GB cards Source: @beefbonecapone, 2026-07-28.

@rrickk420 had a Chinese eBay seller ship at $850, a miner was selling at $900, and @machinezer0 sent 150 seller messages and got one order under $500.

Contested 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-07-28

Alibaba supplier survey of 2026-07-27: $900 to $1500

On 2026-07-27 @cute_sc2 got answers from all the "trustworthy" Alibaba shops: $900 to $1500, most around $1000. The $1500 seller, Chongqing Chuangjie Electronic Technology, cleans, tests and refurbishes the cards and gives wholesale pricing above 20 units (@decoy.works noted that it does not add the capacitors). @cute_sc2 had quotes under $1000 that morning, and @giaki3003 was quoted $1141 and then $1010.

Reported
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-27
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-27
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-27

China price slide on 2026-07-28: about $900 after two days of $100 cuts

On 2026-07-28 @giaki3003 put the CMP 170HX at about $900 in China after two consecutive days of $100 cuts, with a listing at $916, a fall of more than 2000 RMB. Alifond had quoted him $1480 four days earlier and $1100 the day before, and @sekkit_75019 gave the Chinese domestic floor as 6000 RMB. For comparison, people had bought 20 cards at $1200 each about 4 days earlier, and @deejay9983 bought 4 at $1400 each after tax.

Reported
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-28
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-28
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-28

Snapshot 2026-07-28 to 07-30: roughly $850 to $1500 per card

@phoenixone7 bought two at about $550 each, after which prices jumped to $800 to $1200 and then $2500 to $3000 within days; @meatsus had earlier bought a few at $200. @sojun80 paid $850 before the unlock was widely known, and his Alibaba contact (who takes USDT) asked $1400. @deejay9983 paid about $1400 each for most of his 4 and won one eBay bid at $1150 (about $1225 after tax), and @fallengod9962 paid $1500 CAD for one and $1k USD for another from Alibaba. @mfj4 put the US going rate at $900 to $1100, and @deejay9983 quoted Facebook Marketplace at $900 to $1100 and eBay at $1100 to $1300 (eBay takes about 14%). @_arcanum_ said cards are cheaper in Hong Kong, and @deejay9983 said an A100 40GB costs about $3500.

Reported
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-07-28
Source: @meatsus, 2026-07-28
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-30
Source: @sojun80, 2026-07-30
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-30
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-07-30
Source: @mfj4, 2026-07-30

2026-07-29 and 07-30: Alibaba under $1000, Xianyu down to 4650 RMB, Alifond holding at $1299

On 2026-07-29 @giaki3003 posted another $100 drop from Shenzhen Creative Technology, which went under $1000; @danske1 got $1040 from Alifond, @cute_sc2 got $900 per unit for 16 units from a reputable seller, and @_____josh_____ saw spam offers at $850. @artistosu posted a Chinese listing at 5600 yuan with 100 in stock, and @dalzyyy said Xianyu prices were in the 6000 RMB range with some under 5000. That evening @giaki3003 said Alifond was stuck at $1299 while the rest of the market was at $900. On 07-30 @dalzyyy saw a Xianyu listing fall from 4800 to 4650 RMB, but that seller rejected his offer of 9000 RMB for 2 cards, and @_arcanum_ suspected some low listings were bait without stock. @robbbbbb7973 got quotes of $1000 and $1250, and @giaki3003's tracked Alibaba seller was at $965, about $90 below the day before.

Reported
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-29
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-29
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-29
Source: @artistosu, 2026-07-29
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-29
Source: @paulng0324, 2026-07-29
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-07-29
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-30
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-30

Alibaba 8 GB quotes from 2026-07-24 to 08-03: from $1500 to about $800

@giaki3003 was quoted $1500 around 07-24 and $950 on 07-30; @cute_sc2 got $850 from Ranshuo on 07-29; on 07-30 Alibaba quotes were about $900, Ranshuo listed $850 publicly, and Alifond and Enbay were about $1000, down from $1250 (@danske1). @quark2world had paid about $450 from Huateng just before the hype. On 07-31 quotes were $830, $850 and $880, with Alifond at $1099 (@artistosu); @moliminous got $850 consistently and saw a $700 offer (shipping and cap mod extra), and an AliExpress store briefly applied a 60% coupon to the 8 GB card before stock sold out. On 08-01 @danske1 paid about $800 (his earlier $420 order was never filled). On 08-02 @cute_sc2 and @giaki3003 said that for Europeans the China price must reach about $600 to be worth it after VAT and import fees (@cute_sc2: $700 is about 723 EUR with VAT, 750 EUR with shipping), and on 08-03 @giaki3003 said $800 was no longer attractive.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-30
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-30
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-30
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-30
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-07-31
Source: @artistosu, 2026-07-31
Source: @moliminous, 2026-07-31

Western asks in late July and early August: $3k to $4k in the US, 1400 to 3000 EUR in Europe, an eBay stalemate

@moliminous said American sellers were asking $3k to $4k per card (2026-07-30). On 07-31 @meatsus reported a seller in his European country who listed at 2500 EUR each and dropped to 1400 EUR with no buyers, and on 08-01 @kellertreppe123 saw European offers of 1500 to 3000 EUR. @cute_sc2 flagged a system with 4x 8 GB cards, 4x 10 GB cards, 80 GB of RAM and a 24-core CPU priced far above its worth of about 10k. On 2026-08-03 @machinezer0 saw only a couple of eBay sales a day (one 10 GB sale that day; 3 sales totalling 7 units the day before), "not a market, a stalemate": sellers held out for more unlocks while many willing buyers had no card to develop or test with.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @moliminous, 2026-07-30
Source: @meatsus, 2026-07-31
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-01
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-01
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-03

Snapshot 30 to 31 July: about $1000 in China, $687 and $783 in person, eBay 8 GB from about $1300

China: about $1000 per 8 GB card (@sojun80, @fallengod9962, @hitmeok); @aaasss1456 bought six at $1000 each around 2026-07-26, and a teammate paid under $800 for an 8 GB card on 2026-07-30. @icyoung77666 was quoted $687 (8 GB) and $783 (10 GB) in person and bought one of each from a mining farm owner on 2026-07-31; @redpandamining warned that such prices online look like scams. On US eBay the cheapest 8 GB card was about $1300 (@deejay9983), recent sales were still over $1000 (@redpandamining), and 10 GB cards were about $850 to $900 (@moliminous). For scale, an RTX 5090 was about $3500 to $4300, so about three 170HX for one 5090 (@deejay9983).

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-30
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-07-30
Source: @sojun80, 2026-07-30
Source: @moliminous, 2026-07-30
Source: @hitmeok, 2026-07-30
Source: @aaasss1456, 2026-07-30
Source: @icyoung77666, 2026-07-30
Source: @redpandamining, 2026-07-30

The August climb

August to late September in members' words: $800 at the unlock, Alifond's 1.3k, a 1,300 to 1,400 average, 2,100 to 2,199 by late September

@djpandaman averaged about USD 1,400 per card (1,300 to 1,400 in another post) but could have had them all at about 800 earlier; he hesitated at $900 and bought above $1.4k. @spectakkular saw about USD 1,000 when importing more and said sellers needed about 2 months after the unlock to understand what they were selling; @xeax says that two months before 2026-10-18 they were about $1,000; @lia_oc paid $1,000 a card for 3 and $2,100 for the last; the lab paid $1,300 each for its eight cards. @cute_sc2: nobody wanted to pay Alifond's 1.3k "back in the day" (about 45 days before 2026-10-04; its late-July quotes were $1560 around its livestream, $1299 on 07-26 and $1000 on 07-28) and wanted 1k all-in; @voidgiraffe thought Alifond was bluffing at 1,600 and ended up paying 2,100; @persona_80337: everyone will wish they bought at USD 2,199 before the post-holiday increase. @akkerstone bought his 8 GB card in August, when everyone avoided the 10 GB; @ob88594 says unknown buyers in China have been buying up 10 GB stock since the unlock circulated among merchants in early August (bulk buying through specific channels on 2026-09-19, abnormal sales and price rises on 09-22).

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-23
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-11
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-19
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-22
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-04
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-10-04
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-04
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-10-04
Source: @persona_80337, 2026-10-04
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-06
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-11
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-10-13
Source: @xeax, 2026-10-18
Source: @darkmaniac7, 2026-10-18 (lab notes)
Source: @akkerstone, 2026-10-18

Around 2026-08-01: Alibaba from $859, 950 EUR in Germany, about $600 needed to beat it

@petrikrohn_26497 found an Alibaba seller claiming 1 million in stock (an 8 GB listing) and another at $859 for 1 to 199 units; @rrickk420 noted that seller had only 4 reviews, and @cute_sc2 called it a newcomer or a scam. @cute_sc2: flu663 sells in Germany for 950 EUR, so Alibaba would need about $600 a card to match after shipping, VAT and the risk of a dead card; @sealclubber put shipping at about 30 EUR and the total at about 800 EUR. @rrickk420 had earlier paid 850 for 2 from an eBay seller before the price explosion, and @meromgreen said the cards were already expensive.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-08-01
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-01
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-01
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-08-01
Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-01
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-08-02

Recalled in #off-topic: about $200 in mid-July, about $1.5K by late August

On 2026-08-04 @meatsus said cards had sold for $200 or less two weeks earlier, and on 2026-08-07 @zapirate described the card as "widely available for $200". On 2026-08-12 @kellertreppe123 was making 750 EUR offers to Alibaba sellers every day and @artistosu cited 1199; @kellertreppe123 would rather pay 900 EUR to an EU seller, and @giaki3003 pointed to a seller on Tradera at about 900 EUR. By 2026-08-22 @lunaroseoc and @icematty put the price at about $1.5K, with Alifond selling x16-cap-modded cards at $1699, and on 2026-08-23 @rrickk420 still called it the cheapest HBM card at $1.5K to $2K.

Reported
Source: @mrwojaketh, 2026-08-02
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-04
Source: @meatsus, 2026-08-04
Source: @zapirate, 2026-08-07
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-12
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-12
Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-08-22
Source: @icematty, 2026-08-22
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-08-23

2026-08-03: Alibaba $800 to $900, Alifond and Huateng about $1000, eBay $1150

On 2026-08-03 Alibaba sellers quoted roughly $800 to $900 per card: @giaki3003 saw $800, @cute_sc2 got $890 for 16 units, @moliminous's lowest was $815, and a seller with a 20-year account came down to $899. Alifond and Huateng still asked around $1000, and eBay had 3 listings at $1150. @machinezer0 set his limit at $800 all-in for a clean, working, confirmed-unlockable 8 GB card. @moliminous said prices fell $200 to $300 in three days and predicted a settle near $650 within a month or two; @artistosu thought $800 to $850 fair.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-03
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-03
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-03
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-03
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-03
Source: @moliminous, 2026-08-03

Snapshot 2026-08-03 to 08-05: $557 to $1200, Xianyu about 5,000 yuan

@lubakmanqk posted a "price is dropping" screenshot on 2026-08-03, and @adih1266 replied "835 for brick". @a.civardagezen hoped prices would settle around $800 or lower; new 5060 Ti cards cost $600 to $650 where he lives. @phoenixone7's AliExpress seller was at $557 per card when he ordered, then about $1100 ($1010 with a $90 coupon), while others listed at $1800 to $2000. @justbendev, in China, saw Xianyu at about 5,000 yuan, with scam listings at 1,800 to 2,400 yuan. @tugoubxs thought Xianyu prices had dropped a little, but @fallengod9962 said prices went up that week; @deejay9983 paid about $1200 per card and @fallengod9962 $1k each.

Reported
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-08-03
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-03
Source: @lubakmanqk, 2026-08-03
Source: @adih1266, 2026-08-03
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-08-04
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-05
Source: @tugoubxs, 2026-08-05
Source: @justbendev, 2026-08-05

2026-08-04 to 08-07: an $800 floor, a slow bleed, buyers' targets

On 2026-08-04 @cute_sc2 saw an $800 minimum and @giaki3003 said prices had stabilised; @programmerboi was negotiating $675 on Alibaba against $1300 on eBay, and @machinezer0 bought 4x 8 GB on eBay at $1000 each (about the $800 Alibaba DDP equivalent). On 08-05 @skirtchaser got an unsolicited $850 offer, @68x0 was quoted $942 shipped to Canada, @deejay9983 had paid up to $1400 on eBay, and @beefbonecapone named Shenzhen Creative Technology as a sub-$900 Alibaba supplier; @meatsus advised waiting 2 weeks because sellers have deep stock. @giaki3003 planned to buy at $300 in a few months, and @quark2world said cards should return to $400, or $600 for barely used ones. On 08-07 @_studebaker_ saw US eBay listings at $450, and @sealclubber said the hype was gone, prices were slowly bleeding and suppliers were sandbagging.

Reported
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-03
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-04
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-08-04
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-04
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-04
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-08-05
Source: @68x0, 2026-08-05
Source: @beefbonecapone, 2026-08-05
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-05
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-08-07

August: Alibaba about $800 to $880, eBay from $1,300 rising to $1,800

@auxiliary_baka (2026-08-04): by the time he learned the cards unlock, they cost several of his monthly wages. @cmdrwaka324 (2026-08-09) could not find any card under $1300 on eBay; @zingy90210 (in Australia) hoped for the pre-spike price of about $750 but saw $1000 on 2026-08-10, and @artistosu blamed YouTubers and news coverage and would buy only at $500. @petrikrohn_26497: Alibaba lists the 170HX at $800, which matches about $1250 in the US after tariffs and taxes; Alibaba takes about 8% in fees, eBay about twice that. @noskillonlyswag: verified Alibaba sellers now sell only in bulk, offline, at $880 or more per unit; @danske1 received two Alibaba orders at under $1k each. On 2026-08-13 @ashtray9843 quoted $900 to $1.2k per card, and on 08-15 @sealclubber called 1k absurd given the volume while @danske1 noted that a few holders can easily limit supply. Then prices rose: @.philow was quoted 1.6k by an Alibaba seller (08-18), @spale777 balked at spending another 6k to 7k EUR (08-19), @stcord said prices went x1.5 and @artistosu "850 to 1700" (08-23), @_datacat_ noted a $1,699 price (08-24), @vektor_prime saw eBay sales over $1.8k and sometimes still $1.5k (08-25), and @ianszo21 saw prices rising almost daily (08-26).

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @auxiliary_baka, 2026-08-04
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-05
Source: @cmdrwaka324, 2026-08-09
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-08-10
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-10
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-10
Source: @noskillonlyswag, 2026-08-10
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-10
Source: @ashtray9843, 2026-08-13
Source: @meatsus, 2026-08-13
Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-15
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-15
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-18
Source: @spale777, 2026-08-19
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-23
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-23
Source: @_datacat_, 2026-08-24
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-25
Source: @ianszo21, 2026-08-26

Recalled on 2026-08-05: about $200 in early July, $1000 to $1200 by early August

@fallengod9962 said the cards went for $200 a month earlier, when a whole 12-card server was about $4k, and that old miners were now trying to recoup their money. He had paid $1k each (one card, then two more from a different Alibaba vendor) and said prices had already risen that week. @deejay9983 paid $1200 each and still called 3 cards the cheapest way to run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally; he slowed public testing to avoid creating hype before reaching his goal of 10 cards (he had 4).

Reported
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-05
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-05

About 800 EUR per card (2026-08-05)

@a.civardagezen paid about 800 EUR per card for two cards around 2026-08-05. On 2026-08-06 @xeax noted GPU prices rising again that week and expected CMP prices might follow.

Reported
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-08-05
Source: @xeax, 2026-08-06

wccftech coverage (2026-08-07), Xianyu at 5,000 to 6,000 RMB, about $1,000 resale

On 2026-08-07 wccftech reported CMP 170HX prices "exploding" from about $100 to over $1,000 as the unlock tool spread (@cute_sc2). Its story linked the 80 GB branch rather than main; @_j3ns clarified that he had only pulled master into that branch and re-added the constants, so it was not a working 80 GB unlock. @phoenixone7 said prices had risen a few days after the unlock was released, helped by a YouTuber in the server who let it slip early. On Xianyu the price dropped to about 5,000 RMB (@dalzyyy had hoped for under 4k), then rose to nearly 6,000 RMB that day (@aaasss1456); @replacedriver47 would buy more at 650 EUR each, @a.civardagezen estimated a 5,000 RMB card at about 800 EUR landed, and @_____josh_____ warned of a "50% chance of getting brick" on Xianyu. Western resale sat around $1,000 to $1,100 (@segmond asked whether $1,000 is the ceiling), while @artistosu would pay only $300.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-07
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-08-07
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-08-07
Source: @replacedriver47, 2026-08-07
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-07
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-08-07
Source: @aaasss1456, 2026-08-07
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-07
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-08-07
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-07
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-08

2026-08-08 to 08-14: back to about $1000, Alifond to $1299

On 08-08 quotes were around $1000, and @ju5t5omedude warned that $1k easily becomes $1300 with shipping and tariffs. On 08-09 @bentbean_50370's vendor went from $899 a week earlier to a $990 minimum. On 08-10 quotes were about $1000 (@danske1 saw $1k plus $150 for a cap mod), $1199 with the cap mod from another seller, Shenzhen Ranshuo 800 EUR plus 25 EUR shipping without VAT (@kellertreppe123), $960, $845 (Shenzhen Creative), $780 (@_studebaker_) and $1200 from Alifond ($1100 each for 4 or more). On 08-12 one seller cut its price by $10 and @machinezer0 cited about $1300; on 08-13 Alifond raised to $1299. On 08-14 Shenzhen Xulianjiesen asked $1050 each and the Sweden-based seller about 950 EUR.

Reported
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-08-08
Source: @bentbean_50370, 2026-08-09
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-10
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-10
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-10
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-08-10
Source: @legitsplit, 2026-08-10
Source: @matstatman, 2026-08-12

Around 2026-08-09: $300 to $1,200 and up

@dalzyyy bought one card for $300 by gambling on a broken card, and two more he bought at $400 each were redirected by the Chinese sellers. Aeiou said a replacement now costs $1,200 or more, and that he could have had one or two for $500 had he ordered a day earlier. @mfj4 saw the 170HX at roughly the price of a 3090, and @robbbbbb7973 at about twice that. @dalzyyy's math: a $300 card over 5 years at $0.10/kWh costs about the same as API pricing. Chinese sellers had started asking buyers to deal over WeChat instead of listing on Xianyu.

Reported
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-08-09
Source: @mfj4, 2026-08-09
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-09
Source: @91d5a66bffc978331fac75b68fa86aba, 2026-08-09

2026-08-10: about $1.5K on eBay, about $900 ordering from China

On 2026-08-10 @zingy90210 saw about 1.5K USD on eBay and hoped for $750. @impactic said you need about $900 USD and must order from China, unless buying in bulk from someone in the server; look in the server's marketplace channel, on eBay and on Alibaba (with buyer protection), and never accept wire-transfer or outside-Alibaba payment requests. @segmond: sellers think they have gold, and only a lack of demand or reports of problems will bring prices down. On 2026-08-18 @sealclubber felt Alibaba listings do not actually sell cards, and @deejay9983 budgeted 4k to 5k for 4 more cards.

Reported
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-08-10
Source: @impactic, 2026-08-10
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-10
Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-18
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-18

Around 2026-08-11: "overpriced" after the unlock; a V620 32 GB at $250 for comparison

@josephur said the 170HX was overpriced, getting a "haxxed bump" from people buying after the mod in hope of 80 GB. @scallion_9883 had been around since cards were $200, and @ueon asked whether people were still paying $900. For comparison @josephur bought 32 GB AMD V620s for $250 each and said eBay sellers take $350 offers.

Reported
Source: @ueon, 2026-08-11
Source: @josephur, 2026-08-11
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-08-11

August price points: under $340 in April, US$2.3k "unlocked", group-buy wishes at $500 to $900

@_j3ns said he paid less than about US$340 for his CMP in April 2026 (2026-08-11). A Chinese seller asked US$2.3k for an "unlocked" card (with tax and warranty) and was said to target over US$3000 for a fully unlocked 8 GB card (@apoloniato_07709, @makesier). @bayley_w estimated that NVLink-capable cards would be worth about US$4k to enterprise, said an A100 SXM4 80GB sells for about US$5k, and would buy lots of 4 at US$900 each from a US seller. @zefrench6961 would pay US$500 for an 8 GB card in a group buy.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @apoloniato_07709, 2026-08-11
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-08-11
Source: @makesier, 2026-08-12
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-12
Source: @zefrench6961, 2026-08-12

2026-08-11 to 08-13: about $1000 to $1300 per card

@deejay9983 bought one card from Alibaba for $1050 shipped (DDP). @bayley_w called 900 USDC or 1300 USD a fair price, and @mellojello_ called $1300 the going price. On 2026-08-13 Aeiou estimated about $1000 per card minimum and wished for packs of pre-modded 170HX in the US at around $1000.

Reported
Source: @mellojello_, 2026-08-11
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-11
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-11
Source: @91d5a66bffc978331fac75b68fa86aba, 2026-08-13

Mid-August: $1,000 or less a "no-brainer", about $16 per GB, 7,000 yuan and up in China

@friendsxxii called a 170HX at $1,000 or less a no-brainer and noted that few seem to exist outside China; Aeiou's alternative was a V100 for $700 (2026-08-13). @bayley_w put the cards at about $16 per GB of VRAM (about $1,024 for a 64 GB card). @schakaqt secured 3 cards for 3,500 EUR in total and saw one seller with 3x 64 GB and 11x "40GB" cards. In China the price was over $1,000 (@aaasss1456), mostly 7,000 yuan and up (@rubbra_f); @replacedriver47 noted prices rising again, and @derick2k saw other PC parts up 30 to 80%.

Reported
Source: @friendsxxii, 2026-08-13
Source: @91d5a66bffc978331fac75b68fa86aba, 2026-08-13
Source: @derick2k, 2026-08-13
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-13
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-14
Source: @replacedriver47, 2026-08-14
Source: @aaasss1456, 2026-08-14
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-08-15

Recalled in #hardware: about $200 to about $1k by mid-August; 2200 for a modded card on eBay.de

@petrikrohn_26497 said he and many others paid about $200 per card (4 cards for $800; @ju5t5omedude says he paid less), and @ju5t5omedude noted that the value case collapses if you cannot get them at $200 (2026-08-13). @mrmannyatx did not buy until they reached about $1k, having passed at $400. On 2026-08-15 a 170HX with the PCIe mod was listed on eBay.de for 2200, which @quark2world took for a drop-shipping reseller.

Reported
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-08-13
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-14
Source: @mrmannyatx, 2026-08-14
Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-15
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-15
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-15

2026-07-30 to 08-17: from $899 to $1700 on Alibaba

@bentbean_50370 paid $899 each for 5 standard cards ordered on 2026-07-30, and $1250 then $1189 for x16-modded cards. On 2026-08-14 the going rate was about $1k (@giaki3003); in-server sellers asked 950 EUR (EU) and about $1k (US), while Alibaba asked $1015 excluding trade assurance and shipping and @kellertreppe123 kept countering at 750 EUR or $880. On 08-16 @sealclubber said $1150 was not a good price and @segmond called $750 OK. By 08-17 Alibaba quotes reached $1400 (Shenzhen Creative), $1600 and $1700, and @cmdrwaka324 paid $1260 on eBay. @machinezer0 said eBay had drifted $300 to $400 upward and FOMO buyers were paying $1300, $1600, up to $1800 in total.

Proven
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-14
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-14
Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-14
Source: @bentbean_50370, 2026-08-15
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-16
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-16
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-17
Source: @cmdrwaka324, 2026-08-17
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-17

2026-08-15: about $900 on Alibaba, about $1200 for an 8 GB card; $352 AliExpress listings are scams

@vektor_prime had last seen Alibaba listings around $900, and @schakaqt said importing from Alibaba to Germany comes to 1500 EUR or more. @ob88594 put a 170HX 8G at about $1200. @mv.nyc saw AliExpress listings at $352, about a third of eBay prices; @endsjeremy called that an impossible price and so a scam: keep your guard up and pay only with a credit card that allows chargebacks. @grapepepper noted that every Alibaba seller had raised prices, and @c133 did not expect them to come back down.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-15
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-15
Source: @mv.nyc, 2026-08-15
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-08-15
Source: @ob88594, 2026-08-15
Source: @grapepepper, 2026-08-15
Source: @c133, 2026-08-15

A visit to a Chinese mining farm: holders stop selling, $900 to $1100 in four days

@ferraripower4121 visited a crypto mining site in rural China on 2026-08-15. One holder had about 1500 cards and phoned other holders in front of him; none would sell, because they hold speculatively and are still mining. They had earlier sold 2000 or more cards at $200 to $500 and regretted it, and saying you are buying for AI makes them stop selling. He bought 16 at $1100 each: four days earlier the price was $900, it rose $150 in one day, and he refused a requested $10k deposit. @petrikrohn_26497 noted that the cards have value only because developers got cheap cards (over 2000 in the community), and that long-term value depends on software support.

Reported
Source: @ferraripower4121, 2026-08-15
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-15

Alibaba quote survey of 2026-08-15 and 08-16: four sellers, $940 to $1499

@cmurrayis, after talking to more than 30 Alibaba vendors (most of them scammers, he said), listed quotes for one card: Alifond $1499 (including the capacitor mod), Chongqing Yuqian Trading Co $1260, Shenzhen Ranshuo Technology Co $940 and Asicbiz Company Limited $1280; he had not contacted Shenzhen Enbay Trade Co. Ltd. Alifond quoted @giaki3003 $1299 at the same time, implying about $200 for the cap mod. @.philow reported Shenzhen Ranshuo rising to $1400 within hours.

Reported
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-16
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-16
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-16
Source: @adusts, 2026-08-16

2026-08-17 and 08-18: Alibaba quotes jump from about $900 to $1300 and $1700

On 2026-08-17 @adusts reported that Alifond had raised prices again; @zingy90210 was quoted $1599 and @.philow $1.7k, and @kellertreppe123 said sellers were adding $100 every 4 hours, while Xianyu was around $900 to $1100. @fallengod9962's seller, who had sold him 2 cards 3 weeks earlier at $900, now asked $1300, and @matstatman put used cards on Alibaba at $1350. @icych had bought several cards a week earlier at $900 each from the site behind a $1400 listing that @lrdimm posted, and said miners sometimes sell whole rigs cheaply, though he had to clean cement off his.

Reported
Source: @adusts, 2026-08-17
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-08-17
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-17
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-17
Source: @matstatman, 2026-08-17
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-18
Source: @icych, 2026-08-18
Source: @lrdimm, 2026-08-18

Tom's Hardware coverage (2026-08-18) quoted $250; real prices were about $1.6k

On 2026-08-18 Tom's Hardware published an article on the software mod that "unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX". Members said the $250 figure was wrong at publication: @.philow put the real price at about $1.6k, @roger_dammit saw eBay sales north of $1600 and expected prices to climb, and @giaki3003 said cards had sold for $2k on eBay about three weeks earlier after a "massive pump". @giaki3003 and @.philow did not expect the article to move prices much because the setup is hard (Linux only). The coverage itself is listed on Press and coverage.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-18
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-08-18
Source: @irythros, 2026-08-18
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-18
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-18

Tom's Hardware and the surge of 2026-08-20 and 08-21

On 2026-08-19 @artistosu shared the Tom's Hardware article. @dalzyyy said it was about a month late: when he had posted about the card on r/LocalLLaMA a month earlier, cards already cost about $500. @bayley_w attributed the price surge of 2026-08-20 and 08-21 to the article, and @schakaqt described the usual pattern: tech media pick up a discovery or new software support for old hardware, and prices explode. @djpandaman thought prices were still below market value given how little mainstream coverage there had been. Later @stcord blamed rising prices on "the lemmings watching the YouTube vids and reading the tomshardware gospel"; @sojun80 said YouTube had largely ignored the cards so far, and @quark2world said coverage had peaked and more benchmarks would not move prices.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-19
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-19
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-19
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-21
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-21
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-21
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-24
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-24
Source: @sojun80, 2026-08-24
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-24
Source: @matej87, 2026-08-24

2026-08-18 to 08-20: China quotes $1199 to $1599, Xianyu over $1200

@artistosu bought 4 cards at $900 each; his lowest quote had been $800 from Shenzhen Creative Technology, other Alibaba sellers now wanted $1499 to $1599, and Xianyu listings were 7000 to 8000 yuan. @voidgiraffe had a $1199 quote five days earlier that became $1599, and bought at $1150 from a seller who then asked $1600 and said "we sold all our cheap stock". @moliminous saw Alifond go from $980 to over $1500 in a day (08-19), and @.philow saw a lower price offered only for orders of 100 units or more. @bentbean_50370 reported Alibaba falling back from about $1599 to $1299 on 08-19, and on 08-20 @_arcanum_ said most Xianyu (Goofish) sellers wanted over $1200 for a base card.

Reported
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-18
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-18
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-19
Source: @moliminous, 2026-08-19
Source: @bentbean_50370, 2026-08-19
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-20

eBay US on 2026-08-18 and 08-19: $1.5k to $1.7k; about $1000 now a good deal

@vektor_prime saw eBay listings above $1.5k with the latest sale at $1.7k, and @irythros put the going rate at about $1400 to $1700. @adusts said Alibaba ends up above $1.5k after tariffs and shipping and eBay is $1.7k or more. @bayley_w had paid about $1000 each when buying 10, Russian sellers on Avito were at about $1300, and @voidgiraffe had a local offer of $1300 for a card without the capacitor mod. @skirtchaser said about $1000 now counted as a good deal, up from $800 to $850 a few weeks earlier, because sellers stopped dumping cards once the unlock gave them use value.

Reported
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-18
Source: @irythros, 2026-08-19
Source: @adusts, 2026-08-19
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-19
Source: @lrdimm, 2026-08-19
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-19
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-08-19
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-08-19

Alibaba: from about $900 to $1000 to about $1400 by 2026-08-20

@fallengod9962 (Canada) bought 1 and then 2 more CMP 170HX on Alibaba at about $900 to $1000 each; by 2026-08-20 the same cards were about $1400 on Alibaba.

Reported
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-20

Daily price polling of Chinese sellers, and the $800 to $1500 swings

For about a month members had messaged Chinese sales agents daily for quotes; the running joke is replying "dear" with a rose. On 2026-08-20 @artistosu posted seller screenshots showing the price dropping. @giaki3003 said his daily quote went from $800 to $1500 and back to $800, and was $1400 that day, while @_studebaker_ said cards sold for over $2k in the US. @_studebaker_ argued that the daily inquiries inflate the sellers' sense of demand; @giaki3003 disagreed, saying they set prices from actual sales. @quark2world observed that EU prices rise just as prices fall elsewhere.

Reported
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-20
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-20
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-08-20
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-20

US eBay around 2026-08-20: $1800 to $2200 sales, tariffs, low volume

@adusts saw one card sell on eBay for $1800 on the night of 2026-08-19, and a single 170HX with the PCIe mod was listed at 3500 EUR (@schakaqt). @quark2world's eBay sold-listing screenshots showed low volume, about half of it parts such as shrouds, which he put at roughly 3k cards a year. Stormlrd's eBay listing sold for close to $2200 all in, and @bayley_w put untested US cards at about $1800 before tax; stormlrd blamed US tariffs for US prices being higher than elsewhere. @djpandaman asked whether eBay auctions can be manipulated, after a listing he never saw closed with a single bidder.

Reported
Source: @adusts, 2026-08-20
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-20
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-20
Source: @stormlrd., 2026-08-21
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-21

Up about 800 in one week (2026-08-21)

On 2026-08-21 @armand0e posted a listing chart showing CMP 170HX prices up by about 800 (currency not stated) in one week. @_arcanum_ said prices shot up over the weekend and guessed that Qwen 3.8 27B drove demand. @asylumexp had paid 900 on Alibaba a week earlier and received the card on 2026-08-20. @schakaqt expected prices to settle around RTX 3090 and A100 40 GB levels, and @armand0e and @schakaqt said a fuller VBIOS unlock (ECC, PCIe 4.0, x16 through the capacitor mod) would push them to or above A100 40 GB. @licensedterrapin called prices "in the stratosphere" and considered a V100 32 GB instead, and @prefix10k called it a "$1000 GPU" on 2026-08-22.

Reported
Source: @armand0e, 2026-08-21
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-21
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-21
Source: @asylumexp, 2026-08-21
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-08-21
Source: @prefix10k, 2026-08-22

2026-08-20 to 08-22: China quotes climb to $1500 to $1700

@cmurrayis was quoted $850 two weeks before 2026-08-22, $1100 one week before, and $1500 on 08-22. @deejay9983 paid $950 shipped about a week earlier, and the same supplier then asked $1500 each for more; his first 4 cards came from eBay at $1150 to $1400 each. @voidgiraffe paid $1199 and was then asked $1599 to $1600 including shipping and customs. The supplier "neiro" offered @djpandaman $1280 per unit on 08-20. Alifond asked $1650, and an Arca Live user paid $1694. Earlier buyers had paid less: @c133 $1100 each, @quark2world $450, @sachk $1305 a week earlier.

Proven
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-21
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-21
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-21
Source: @c133, 2026-08-21
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-21
Source: @sachk, 2026-08-21
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-22
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-22

The late-August spike and "the card lottery"

@zingy90210 (2026-08-22): CMP pricing was good until that week, when Alibaba vendors raised prices to where they may no longer be worth it. @segmond had planned 16 cards, ran out of money, and then prices "went to the moon"; everything 170HX is as-is, with no warranty and no refunds. Quality data points: @civiloid got 4 cards, all passing memory stress tests, and @spale777 had 2 (1 bad, 1 good) with 4 more coming. @meromgreen said Alibaba sellers source from miners, and @schakaqt expects most cards have changed hands about 5 times. Failure counts are collected on Card failure rates and longevity.

Reported
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-08-21
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-08-21
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-08-22
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-22
Source: @spale777, 2026-08-24
Source: @civiloid, 2026-08-24

Street price timeline posted around 2026-08-22 to 08-24: from $400 in July to $1500 to $2100

Alibaba quotes of $400 to $600 were seen on 2026-07-19 and 07-20, though many of those sellers would likely not have shipped; prices then settled near $800 before VAT and shipping until articles about the unlock reached mainstream sites (@a.civardagezen, @dalzyyy). About a month before 08-24 a UK classifieds seller sold 2 cards for 300 GBP. Around 08-13 cards were about $900; by 08-22 and 08-23 Alibaba asked $1500 to $1600 (@deejay9983), and @cmurrayis, who paid $1200 per card, saw $1500 to $2100 a week later. eBay sold prices ran $1200 to $2299 over a few days (@danske1, 08-23). On 08-24 Alibaba quotes were $1350 to $1699 (@deejay9983), $1400 before negotiation (@danielbitpro) and about $1200 before VAT (@cute_sc2).

Proven
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-22
Source: @danielbitpro, 2026-08-22
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-23
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-23
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-08-24
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-24
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-24

2026-08-22 to 08-24: about $1,300 to $1,400 per card, up from under $1k

2026-08-22: @lycorascence said prices spiked, and @ob88594 said sellers hold stock waiting for higher prices and two spares now cost almost what he paid for four. 2026-08-23: @stcord had bought cards under $1k earlier; @.philow had not seen $2k on Alibaba and thought $1.5k crazy; a German classifieds listing was 1200 EUR per unit, negotiable (@_maitops). 2026-08-24: @stcord called it a "1300+ USD card", and @licensedterrapin and @_datacat_ put it at $1,400 (against about $1,000 for a 3090), which @_datacat_ still called the best value.

Reported
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-08-22
Source: @ob88594, 2026-08-22
Source: @_maitops, 2026-08-23
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-23
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-24
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-08-24
Source: @_datacat_, 2026-08-24

2026-08-23: a $1000 "160 GB build" sold out the cards; $1200 a card for 1200 pieces turned down

@segmond did a "160gb build for $1000" (posted on Reddit), after which the cards sold out in 3 days and the price hardly came down; he thinks later 10 GB orders would probably have been cancelled. @cuddylac997 had 15 CMP 170HX 8GB coming, and his boss lent him 18 cards for testing. The boss had paid $2k each for mining, turned down an offer for 1200 pieces at $1200, and someone offered to trade 50x RTX 5090 for 160 CMP 170HX; 5090s were quoted at $3k to $4k and more. @con3po7016 received 8 cards, and the first 5 tested good.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-23
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-08-23
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-08-23
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-08-23

2026-08-24 and 08-25: Alibaba about $1400 to $1650, eBay sales near $2000

@deejay9983 bought one card on 2026-08-10 for $950 shipped; @djpandaman had $950 quotes but held out for $800, then ordered on 08-20 at $1360 to $1400 DDP from 3 suppliers, of which only the $1400 one had shipped by 08-24. By 08-24 most Alibaba suppliers quoted around $1400, two or three were at $1599 and $1699, and only two were under $1400; @djpandaman estimated prices rising 2.5 to 5% per day, and @deejay9983 called it a 40% jump in 10 days. @_orrorin bought an 8 GB card for $2K on 08-24. On 08-25 Alibaba sellers quoted @danielbitpro $1500, $1600 and $1650 excluding shipping, and @dalzyyy saw a card untested for the unlock at 9000 RMB on Xianyu. @voidgiraffe (Australia) posted eBay completed sales around $2k, @deepseeker666 saw $2090 on eBay with 9 units sold that day, and @danske1 posted an AUD 3000 listing for one card.

Reported
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-24
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-24
Source: @_orrorin, 2026-08-24
Source: @danielbitpro, 2026-08-25
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-25
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-25
Source: @deepseeker666, 2026-08-25
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-25

Late August in #hardware: $1,599 at the top, Alifond at $2,099, a $500 lot cancelled overnight

@min0473 bought 4 cards at $1,599 each and says he bought at the top (2026-08-25). @petrikrohn_26497 reported the 170HX 8GB at $2,099 on Alibaba (Alifond) on 2026-08-27. @civiloid had earlier caught two lots still at $500 per card and ordered 4 + 4; only one lot shipped, and the other was cancelled when the price jumped to $1.2k overnight. @segmond argued from Apple M5 Ultra pricing that 24 GB of older-card VRAM is worth about $600, putting a 170HX near $1,560 before discounting its PCIe limitation.

Reported
Source: @min0473, 2026-08-25
Source: @civiloid, 2026-08-25
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-27
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-27

2026-08-25 and 08-26: US eBay 8 GB about $1750, 10 GB about $1500, rising

On 2026-08-25 @lycorascence put the card at about $1.5K and climbing, and on 2026-08-26 said nothing would be under $1.7K until the FOMO dies. @farawaythrower saw 8 GB at $1750 and 10 GB at $1500 on US eBay on 2026-08-26. @civiloid: demand keeps growing and some miners are holding on to cards. @zombielurker attributes the jump to a r/LocalLLM post of Qwen3.8-27B-W4A16 benchmarks and long-context tests on these cards two days earlier. @dalzyyy bought a broken card for $300.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-08-25
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-25
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-08-26
Source: @civiloid, 2026-08-26
Source: @zombielurker, 2026-08-26

2026-08-26: Alibaba $1500 to $1700, eBay $1780 to about $1800

@matej87 said Alibaba prices went from about $1100 on 08-24 to $1550 on 08-25, with offers of $1490 to $1515 on 08-26, and believed they had peaked near $1500. @deejay9983 warned that the $1490 quotes were probably scams, said his quotes were closer to $1700, and worked out that $1625 plus shipping plus the 3% Alibaba fee plus tariff is more than eBay; he bought the cheapest eBay card at $1780 ($1899 after 6% sales tax). @quark2world saw recent eBay sales at 1600 EUR including tax and shipping (about $1800), @artistosu said Alibaba was at $1700 a piece, and @matej87 saw eBay listings at 3500 EUR.

Reported
Source: @matej87, 2026-08-26
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-26
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-26
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-26

2026-08-26: eBay floor about $1800, the average up $200 in 16 hours

@irythros saw the average eBay price rise $200 in 16 hours on 2026-08-26. @deejay9983 put the cheapest eBay card at $1800, not much above what "alibaba scammers" charge, and would not pay $2k per card. @dino_38975 speculated that prices would skyrocket if a custom-VBIOS flash method appeared, and drift down otherwise.

Reported
Source: @irythros, 2026-08-26
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-26
Source: @dino_38975, 2026-08-26

Entry prices recalled in late August; listings at $1699, $1899 and $1999, Alifond at $2200

@segmond read about the cards at about $500 and bought at $1000; @jecquas saw $900 on arrival; @_orrorin said early buyers paid $200 to $500; @lycorascence got a 10 GB card at $900. @deejay9983 bought 6 cards at $950, 1150, 1250, 2x 1300 and 1800 and stopped buying, and @_orrorin paid $1700 each for two on 2026-08-27. On 2026-08-28 @alanoo saw listings move from $1699 to $1899 the day before and to $1999 that day, and @artistosu saw Alifond at $2200; @tony_smartecom said the Chinese market was raising prices about 10% per day. @deejay9983 argued that at about $2k per card they lose their value proposition but remain cheaper and faster than 2 DGX Sparks.

Reported
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-26
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-08-26
Source: @artistosu, 2026-08-27
Source: @_orrorin, 2026-08-27
Source: @jecquas, 2026-08-27
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-27
Source: @alanoo, 2026-08-28
Source: @tony_smartecom, 2026-08-28

8 GB prices from 2026-08-26 to 08-30: $1800 to $2155 eBay sales, $2050 China quotes

A Xianyu listing for a "brand new unsealed" 8 GB card was at 9900 RMB (about $1500) on 08-27, and an 8 GB card sold on eBay for $1800 the same day. @quark2world put recent sales at $1800 to $2100 on 08-28; @irythros saw listings go from $2k to $2.2k to $2.3k in a day; AliExpress listings were at $1600 to $1700. @zanooda paid 3345 USD for two cards DDP to Germany; @_arcanum_ said the highest eBay sale in the week before 08-29 was 2155 USD; @danske1 saw a $2.5k local eBay sale; a Chinese vendor quoted @cmurrayis $2050 each on 08-30, and one eBay listing was at $5k. Earlier purchases: @machinezer0 paid $1000 each from a US seller about 3 weeks before 08-29, and @reala7096 bought 12 cards at 1300 EUR each the week before 08-30.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-27
Source: @matstatman, 2026-08-27
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-27
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-27
Source: @sijaghouse, 2026-08-27
Source: @p4y4, 2026-08-27
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-28
Source: @irythros, 2026-08-28
Source: @zanooda, 2026-08-28
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-29
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-30
Source: @reala7096, 2026-08-30

Late August to 2026-09-01: about $1000, then $2999 asks that did not sell, then $2299

@aflyingsquirrel (2026-08-29): cards were about $1000 when he last checked. @smit1237 (08-30) could not see why people pay even $1500. @vektor_prime (08-30) could not find 2 more under $2k on eBay and worked out about $31 per GB of VRAM for the 64 GB card against about $39 per GB for an M5 Ultra. @roger_dammit recalled people here saying it would peak at $1k, and @stcord noted an insane return for anyone who bought at $200. @beefbonecapone (08-31) offered x16-modded cards hand-delivered for $2500, and @wakeupmbrc1 found no cheap cards anywhere, even 10 GB ones. @alanoo (2026-09-01): cards had not sold at $2999 over the previous days, and shops now listed $2299.

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @aflyingsquirrel, 2026-08-29
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-29
Source: @smit1237, 2026-08-30
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-30
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-08-30
Source: @beefbonecapone, 2026-08-31
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-08-31
Source: @alanoo, 2026-09-01

Late August to mid-September: doubling to about $2,200, then talk of $3k after the LTT video

On 2026-08-30 @stcord said the card had doubled to $2199; @matstatman costed 6 cards at $2300 each (13.8k), and @con3po7016 (09-01) said the price jumped from about $1000 to $2200 in a week. In Europe @humandrone8721_60165 saw one at 2800 EUR in Germany, and @reala7096 an Italian eBay seller at 2400 EUR whom members viewed with suspicion. @impactic (09-02) claimed eBay fees drop from 11 to 12% to 3% for sales above about $7,500 (unverified). After the Linus Tech Tips video of 2026-09-12 @diabeetee asked whether it was 3k per card now; @derick2k refused to pay $2k to $3k, and @squishysquare balked at 7,500 for three 10 GB cards. On 2026-09-17 @voidgiraffe put asking prices at about $2.2k, double what he paid for his first 4; @xtj7 said $2,700, @ins_mniac used $2,500, @danske1 noted that people had said prices would not rise further since the $700 mark, and @spectakkular said one RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell costs about the same as 6 CMPs, in a market dominated by Chinese supply plus demand from the LTT video (about a million views).

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @matstatman, 2026-08-30
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-30
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-08-30
Source: @reala7096, 2026-08-30
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-01
Source: @impactic, 2026-09-02
Source: @diabeetee, 2026-09-12
Source: @derick2k, 2026-09-13
Source: @squishysquare, 2026-09-13
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-17
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-17
Source: @danske1, 2026-09-17
Source: @xtj7, 2026-09-17
Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-17

Late August to early September in #development-general: 900 EUR paid, 2.6k to 2.7k on eBay, $56 and $39 per GB

@wakeupmbrc1 paid about 1.6k per card; on 2026-08-31 eBay was at about 2.6k to 2.7k, and @dino_38975 had paid 1k less a week earlier. @cute_sc2 paid 900 EUR and says the card is not worth 2k; @con3po7016 put fair value at $1500 to $1700 (the same as a used DGX Spark). @bagstah listed cards at 2900 CAD, shipping to Canada only, and @zagitta's Chinese seller quoted $2700. @dalzyyy: a 32 GB card at 5000 RMB would be OK. @vektor_prime's comparisons: a modded RTX 4080 32GB at about 1.7k to 1.8k (about $56 per GB) and the M5 Ultra at about $39 per GB, which he sees as the ceiling prices settle toward.

Reported
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-30
Source: @dino_38975, 2026-08-31
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-08-31
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-02
Source: @zagitta, 2026-09-02
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-02
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-02
Source: @bagstah, 2026-09-03

Daily price posts on X

@stcord shared two posts from an X account about CMP 170HX cards on 2026-08-30, one of them a daily price post, as a way to follow prices.

Reported
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-30

2026-08-31 and 09-01: about $2200 to $2500; Goofish over 10k RMB; Australia at 3347 AUD

On 2026-08-31 @segmond put the going price at $2500 per card, and @rrickk420 posted a screenshot captioned that the CMP was heading to 6k. @zingy90210 said cards had been 1800 to 2000 AUD and were now about 3347 AUD; he had bought 4 at about 1800 AUD each roughly 1.5 weeks before 2026-09-01. @voidgiraffe argued that 2k to 3k is the likely ceiling because 40 GB A100s cost about $4k, unless PCIe 4.0 gets unlocked. On 09-01 @thisisashitsystem reported prices over 10,000 RMB on Goofish (Xianyu); @deejay9983 said the cheapest eBay listing he could find was $2200 each, @rrickk420 posted one at $2189, and @deejay9983 set his own ceiling at $1600 per card.

Proven
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-31
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-08-31
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-31
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-01
Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-09-01
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-09-01

2026-08-31: about 2.5k to 3k per card, and scarce

On 2026-08-31 @kellertreppe123 put a CMP at about 3k (then 2.5k, probably EUR) against about 500 EUR for an MI50. @wakeupmbrc1 said 2.5k is much more painful than the earlier 1.5k once multiplied by 4 cards, and @segmond mentioned "the recent rise of 170hx price". On 2026-09-01 @bayley_w said there seems to be no supply of 170HX, and @licensedterrapin said the "170HX ship has sailed"; his claim that Vietnamese 170HX would be sold soon and prices would drop came with a "you have to totally trust me" gif, so treat it as a joke.

Reported
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-31
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-31
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-01
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-09-01
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-01

2026-08-31: "like 2k USD" a card; about 5k for two

When @vektor_prime asked to buy 2 cards, @licensedterrapin estimated about 5k USD for two by then, and later said a single card is like 2k USD. @ju5t5omedude recalled that a few months earlier, when he looked at Tenstorrent, the CMP 170HX was still about 200 USD.

Reported
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-31
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-08-31
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-08-31

The September peak

From about $1400 to $2500 by 2026-09-01; listings advertise the community unlock

@irythros said that when he joined the server the CMP 170HX was about $1400 each, and on 2026-09-01 it was $2500. The same day @d3m3n7r checked current listings: both lots advertised that a community unlock is available, priced at about $2400 to $2450. @irythros expected further unlocks to push miners' and resellers' prices to $5000 and more.

Proven
Source: @irythros, 2026-09-01
Source: @d3m3n7r, 2026-09-01

2026-09-01: eBay at 2420 USD and Alifond at 2299 USD claimed, disputed as astroturf

• @deepseeker666 reported eBay asking prices at 2420 USD with 6 units sold at that level, and Alifond at 2299 USD with 10 units sold that day Source: @deepseeker666, 2026-09-01.
• @ins_mniac countered that Alifond buyers also pay a 25% tariff on top and that the same listing had been at 1550 a week earlier Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-01; @matej87 warned that the sold count may include units sold at 1800 before the price was raised, and noted that one member had just FOMO-bought at 2200 USD per card Source: @matej87, 2026-09-01. @_arcanum_ called the poster an astroturfer Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-01, and @quark2world observed many accounts that joined on their creation day and defend high prices Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-01.

Contested

2026-09-02 to 09-04: 6k EUR on eBay, $2900 on Alibaba, a $2045 "price drop", eBay.de near 2.5k

@kellertreppe123 saw eBay offers at 6k EUR on 2026-09-02, and @artistosu posted the Alibaba "daily price" as $2900 excluding shipping on 09-03. On 09-04 an Alibaba seller messaged @licensedterrapin "Price Drop Down Today, Used 170HX 8GB: $2045/pcs" (members joked it must be a 32 GB or "SE" version), and @con3po7016 posted a screenshot joking about $3000. @schakaqt reported that eBay Germany asking prices had been pushed to about 2.8k and had come back near 2.5k.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-09-02
Source: @artistosu, 2026-09-03
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-04
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-04
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-09-04

Snapshot 2026-09-02 to 09-05: the top of the surge

On 2026-09-02 people were still buying at about $2200 (@c133). @lenxtroz saw eBay prices nearing $2500 to $3000 and quoted $2456 delivered to the USA for a card with the x16 capacitor mod, noting that Alibaba imports to the US pay tariffs and customs of about 50% of the declared value. @tony_smartecom reported 8 GB cards at $2000 minimum on Xianyu, then later the same day that prices had stopped rising and some Xianyu sellers had dropped $100. Listings at 2900 CAD were seen on 2026-09-03, @prefix10k listed a 64 GB card for $2200, and @stcord put the sweet spot where interest returns at about $1500. Earlier reference points: @phoenixone7 bought at $500 to $1000 and passes at $1500 or more, @cute_sc2 paid 900 EUR, and @ob88594 recalled $600 cards; @phoenixone7 expects memory and HBM prices to stay high until 2027 or 2028.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @c133, 2026-09-02
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-02
Source: @tony_smartecom, 2026-09-02
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-09-02
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-09-02
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-03
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-03
Source: @prefix10k, 2026-09-05

2026-09-06: a correction to about $2,000 after a $2,500 to $3,000 peak

On 2026-09-06 @stcord said prices had been 2,500 to 3,000 USD and were almost back below 2,000: they had doubled from 1,000 to 2,000 USD in two weeks, and this was a correction ("just price discovery"). @cmurrayis was quoted 2,095 the same day. @mlx4 called the card a sweet spot for a cheap single 64 GB GPU and worried that a Gen3 or Gen4 unlock would push prices up again.

Reported
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-06
Source: @mlx4, 2026-09-06
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-09-06

Just before the Gen3 news (2026-09-06): $1000 from a seller who needed cash

On 2026-09-06, before the Gen3 news, @colo2442 said the card sales channels had been closed down and asked for 8 GB cards in Europe at a reasonable price. @smit1237 had bought his second 170HX two days earlier for $1000 from an owner who needed cash fast, and refused to pay $2000 for "rejected silicon abused by miners". @phoenixone7 paid about $580 each near the start; his seller later relisted at $800 but was very slow to ship. @ins_mniac noted that Chinese users had been hacking these cards since 2022, when they cost about $200.

Reported
Source: @colo2442, 2026-09-06
Source: @smit1237, 2026-09-06
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-09-06
Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-06

Right after the Gen3 announcement (2026-09-06): eBay prices doubled

Minutes after the announcement @c133 said 170HX prices on eBay had just doubled. @reala7096 quoted $2200 to $3000, @irythros an eBay average of about $2500, and @con3po7016 screenshotted a listing that @irythros put at about $8000. @quark2world called his a 3000 EUR card. JJ had ordered three 8 GB cards at $2100 each on the Friday before; the label was printed but not dropped off, and he feared a cancellation. @segmond and @tony_smartecom expected sellers not to honour sales at old prices, and @tony_smartecom said many listers do not have the card.

Reported
Source: @c133, 2026-09-06
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-06
Source: @reala7096, 2026-09-06
Source: @irythros, 2026-09-06
Source: @tony_smartecom, 2026-09-06
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-06
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-06
Source: @jj48., 2026-09-06

September in #clanker-talk: $1,240 passed up, then about $2,000 to $2,300

On 2026-09-07 @spectakkular referred to the CMP being $2k; on 2026-09-09 @licensedterrapin mentioned not buying one for $1,240; on 2026-09-13 @segmond and @stcord regretted not buying 4 more. On 2026-09-18 @voidgiraffe quoted $2,300 USD each and @stcord about 8,000 EUR for 4, and @con3po7016 said he could resell his cards for about $24,000. After @voidgiraffe's benchmark went viral on X ("there goes our cheap 170hxs") he said availability looked dire. @segmond called it a textbook example of supply, demand and price discovery.

Reported
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-07
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-08
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-09
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-13
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-18
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-18

2026-09-07: 13000 yuan listings, $2000 to $2500 "realistic", and most cheap Chinese sellers do not ship

@catcat0458 cited a Chinese listing at 13000 yuan (about $1780 to $1820). @jemes0257 said about 90% of such sellers do not ship and ask for payment outside the platform (@_____josh_____: nearly all are scams now); @artistosu warned that no-return sellers send dead or memory-fault cards, and @jemes0257 recommended AliExpress for its 90-day change-of-mind return. @cute_sc2 said the 1.5k days are over. @lia_oc paid $2100 shipped to the UK and said no 64 GB-unlockable card exists at $1500 (Alibaba is the best bet; vet the seller); @segmond put $2000 as the best case and $2500 as realistic, and @voidgiraffe, who had bought at $1200, noted 3090s up 15% in about a week and expected the 170HX to climb further.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @catcat0458, 2026-09-07
Source: @jemes0257, 2026-09-07
Source: @artistosu, 2026-09-07
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-07
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-07
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-09-07
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-07
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-08

Price history to 2026-09-10: from about $800 to $1150 up to $2000 to $2500

Price points from the 2026-09-08 to 09-10 thread. Before the spike: about $800 for a 64 GB card (@justbendev, who had refused cards at $800 thinking prices would drop, and @impactic); @sec_dude bought at about $1k; roboalchemist paid $1150 for 10 from Alifond; @spectakkular could get Alifond only down to $1150 while others offered $850. About 3 weeks before 09-10 @sojun80 paid $1600; the same cards were $2300 by then. In early September @cibernox paid USD 1595 plus about USD 170 DDP shipping, after which Alifond's list price went to 1899 and then 2099. On 09-08 @justbendev quoted about $2K, @vektor_prime said he had predicted $1.8k, and @voidgiraffe said "cheap is over"; on 09-09 @voidgiraffe was quoted USD 2220. On 09-10 @cibernox paid 2095 EUR each landed for a second pair, and @djpandaman was weighing 2 cards at $2150 each DDP.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @justbendev, 2026-09-08
Source: @impactic, 2026-09-08
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-09-08
Source: @sec_dude, 2026-09-08
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-08
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-10
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-10
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-10

US eBay at $2.4k to $2.5k in September: about 10% over Alibaba, or far more?

Asked by @redblood_ for a fair EU price for a tested, unlocked 8 GB card:

• @djpandaman (2026-09-09): US eBay sat at a fairly steady $2.4k to $2.5k, and in his experience eBay runs about 10% above a good deal from a reputable Alibaba supplier Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-09.
• @humandrone8721_60165 disagreed for the EU: eBay there was far more than 10% higher, with only 2 or 3 cards listed and no reshippers Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-09-09. @rrickk420 said US eBay looked much healthier than German eBay Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-10.

Contested 8 GB
Source: @redblood_, 2026-09-09

2026-09-09 to 09-11: 2500 EUR minimum in Europe; most eBay sales near $2k; a 10 GB card at $1280

@meatsus saw 2500 EUR and more in Europe (2026-09-09); @gitanos paid 350 EUR in summer and now saw 2500 EUR minimum. @_____josh_____ paid $800 per 8 GB card, @jjb01957 paid $1700 each for four, and @schakaqt put his average at about 1k per card, noting that his 170HX cost less than a 64 GB DDR5 kit; @matstatman saw seller flu663r asking 3646 EUR on Tradera for an 8 GB card. @lays_88548 (2026-09-10) said most eBay sales that day closed around $2k, with only about 3 at the $2500 asking price, after which sellers moved auctions up to $2500 with no best offer. On 2026-09-11 JJ bought a 10 GB card on eBay for $1280, and an 8 GB card was offered privately at $1900 each.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @meatsus, 2026-09-09
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-09
Source: @gitanos, 2026-09-09
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-09
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-09-10
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-09-10
Source: @lays_88548, 2026-09-10
Source: @jj48., 2026-09-11

8 GB price levels from 2026-09-10 to 09-16: about 2k everywhere

On 09-10 @stcord saw a seller asking 4600 USD, @colo2442 refused anything above 2k per card, and @sojun80 said the price rose $800 while his card (bought at $1600 about three weeks earlier) was in shipping. On 09-13 @jimtjames said the price had been about 2k everywhere for weeks and anything cheap is almost certainly a scam; @djpandaman's Alibaba supplier had one channel selling 20 cards at 1980 USD unmodded and another dropping from 2300 to 2200 USD modded, and he noted that the Alibaba to eBay gap stayed a constant $300 to $400, so Alibaba's relative advantage shrank. On 09-14 and 09-15 an eBay listing at 4.5k EUR that appeared sold was relisted (@tokukarin: an accepted offer or self-marked sold), and @meatsus said he had listed one at 4.5k as a joke. @quark2world said Chinese 2.3k offers come to about 3k after EU customs and taxes.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-10
Source: @colo2442, 2026-09-10
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-10
Source: @meatsus, 2026-09-10
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-10
Source: @jimtjames, 2026-09-13
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-13
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-09-15

2026-09-11 and 09-12: about $2200 to $2750, about 2500 EUR on eBay, a spike after the LTT video

On 2026-09-11 @deejay9983 valued cards at about $2500 each, @xtj7 had paid $2200, and @wakeupmbrc1 said $5500 buys 2 cards. @deejay9983: one 5090 (@gnasherrr cites a $5200 buyback) buys 2 CMPs, trading 32 GB for 128 GB. After the LTT video on 2026-09-12 @stcord saw one seller asking 4999 EUR (5799 USD) while eBay held around 2500 EUR. @cibernox, whose third and fourth cards had just shipped from China, expected a $1k rise within a week. @ins_mniac warned that reselling is about 1.5 months too late and that eBay takes about 7%.

Reported
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-09-11
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-09-11
Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-11
Source: @xtj7, 2026-09-11
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-11
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-12
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-12

Snapshot 2026-09-13: eBay from $2420, Alibaba about $2k to $2.7k, Chinese stock thinning

@programmerboi said prices were fixed around $2k (Alibaba, after tax and shipping). @djpandaman saw the lowest eBay price shipped to the US at $2420; his supplier had one channel with 20 cards at $2k, now likely gone, and other channels at $2.2k to $2.7k. @sojun80's Chinese supplier quoted $2600 (around 2026-09-11), including the x16 mod and a fan kit, and cards were harder to get from warehouses; @djpandaman said lower Chinese stock means more volatility. @schakaqt called it a "$2500 card", and @stcord said the server needs a daily price.

Reported
Source: @schakaqt, 2026-09-13
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-09-13
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-13
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-13
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-13

Mid-September: $2.4k to $2.5k and up, cap-modded tested cards sell within hours, 10 GB up to $1800

As of 2026-09-16: @popop4151 said few places sell besides eBay, at $2.5k and up, and @wakeupmbrc1 put 8 GB cards at $2400 and up and could sell his locally at $2100 instantly (a 5090 buyout was $5700). @c133: even the 10 GB card was up to $1800. @smit1237: his local market has many CMPs at about $2k that nobody buys. @apoloniato_07709: the 8 GB card is $1,863.89 inside China (foreigners pay more for shipping and refund risk). @cibernox: a modded, tested card listed on eBay under $2400 sells within hours, especially a cap-modded one. @djpandaman: China's supply is thin and much of it is now in Western countries; @quark2world thinks supply is being withheld, and @wakeupmbrc1 expects 8 GB cards to pass $3k if a PCIe fuse-burn unlock is released.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @popop4151, 2026-09-16
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-16
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-16
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-16
Source: @c133, 2026-09-16
Source: @smit1237, 2026-09-16
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-16
Source: @apoloniato_07709, 2026-09-16

Cards bought at about $200 now resell for about 10x (2026-09-16)

On 2026-09-16 @meatsus remarked that 170HXs bought for about $200 could now be sold for about 10 times that, and that the card is trendy, which explains content creators suddenly covering it. @licensedterrapin noted many articles about the BC-250 again and read it as a sign of a real GPU shortage.

Reported
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-16
Source: @meatsus, 2026-09-16

2026-09-17 to 09-21: 2000 EUR private, $2900 fully modded on eBay, $2k local

@dany0_ (Czechia) was offered a 64 GB-unlocked card for about 2000 EUR shipped by a private seller, and noted that cards had sold for about 200 EUR four months earlier. @pcchip saw about $2900 on eBay for cards fully modded with PCIe x16 and a blower fan. @lenxtroz paid about $2.7k, @n3bs bought one locally for $2k (the unlock worked first try), and @dalzyyy said Taobao blocked him from buying 2 when they were $400. @jjb01957 says eBay prices softened slightly in the week before 2026-09-19 and that cheaper cards are likely defective or scams; @sojun80 said sellers exist but will not be cheap.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @dany0_, 2026-09-17
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-09-17
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-18
Source: @pcchip, 2026-09-18
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-09-19
Source: @n3bs, 2026-09-20
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-21

Mid to late September peak: $2,300 to $2,700, and 2.5k EUR

On 2026-09-18 @wakeupmbrc1 said $2,300 on eBay disappears instantly; @tokukarin paid $1,600 for a second order plus 80 EUR tax on arrival, which @wakeupmbrc1 called a month-old price; @rrickk420 said most members bought at $800 to $1,500, and @quark2world paid 1k EUR for his two. @matstatman advised that even at $3k you might get a returned brick; @voidgiraffe posted a screenshot from a supplier he considers reliable, and @stcord commented "China buying them all up". In the week of 2026-09-22 @zingy90210 said cards were flipping at $2300 and up, and @voidgiraffe would not pay the $2,500 to $3,000 some people talked about. On 2026-09-23 @ins_mniac said known-broken cards had sold for $1,900 each the week before; on 09-24 @humandrone8721_60165 was offered 2 cards at 2.5k EUR each, tested and delivered, and @n3bs saw prices rise $500 in a week. On 2026-09-27 @wakeupmbrc1 offered two 8 GB cards from Kazakhstan at $2.5k each, then $2.7k each with shipping paid; @licensedterrapin regretted passing on one at $1,460 shipped; @_youngchap (09-29) could not find any card under $2.5k to $3k, @zingy90210's Alibaba contact quoted $2,299 that morning, and @nikhilr1696 had bought 2 at $1,200 each earlier.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-18
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-18
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-18
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-18
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-18
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-09-18
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-18
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-22
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-22
Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-23
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-09-24
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-09-24
Source: @n3bs, 2026-09-24
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-27
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-28
Source: @_youngchap, 2026-09-29
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-29
Source: @nikhilr1696, 2026-09-30

Mid-September in #hardware: one CMP costs about two 3090s; a 5090 traded for two CMPs plus $2k

@zingy90210 said that when the group had about 50 members a card could be bought for under $500. By 2026-09-19 @cressida1881 said one CMP 170HX costs about the same as two RTX 3090s, and @lia_oc said prices had soared, making V100s worth a look again. @wakeupmbrc1 traded his RTX 5090 for two CMPs plus $2k. After the 768 GB Reddit post, @dalzyyy expected no price drop.

Reported
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-18
Source: @cressida1881, 2026-09-19
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-19
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-09-19
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-20

Late September in #off-topic: 170HX around $2,400; 32 GB-only cards at about 900 EUR

@cibernox noted that r/LocalLLaMA calls spending 2k on a CMP 170HX a silicon lottery (2026-09-21). @darcidride paid about 900 EUR per card for his two 32 GB-only cards; @lia_oc said that is acceptable given that the R9700, B70 and B65 cost more, but rough above $1000, and had heard of someone paying 2k or more for a 32 GB card. On 2026-09-30 @d3m3n7r said 170HX cards cost around $2,400 when he found out about them, against $70 for his 90HX. The 32 GB-only boards are described on 32 GB cards (subsystem 10de:1586).

Reported
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-21
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-09-22
Source: @darcidride, 2026-09-22
Source: @d3m3n7r, 2026-09-30

Late September: about $1k earlier, a 16k rig now, the cheapest 10 GB card at 1800 USD

@con3po7016 bought his 8 cards at about $1k each when prices were low; @tokukarin valued that rig at around 16k USD. The cheapest 10 GB card @tokukarin found on 2026-09-22 was 1800 USD. @_arcanum_ said one member had sold a couple of cards on eBay at about $2k, and @cibernox framed a good 4-card buy as under $2000 per card.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-09-22
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-23
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-24
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-25

Card value and resale chatter (late September)

@nestaa51 described the CMP 170HX as an approximately $2.7k card in late September 2026. On 2026-09-28 @wakeupmbrc1 posted "wts" (want to sell) for two 8 GB cards; @licensedterrapin's joking $1.2k each offer was declined. No completed sale was posted.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @nestaa51, 2026-09-23
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-28
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-28

Late September to early October: easing, and sellers holding firm

On 2026-09-25 @humandrone8721_60165 noted far fewer "they're here" arrival posts; @stcord blamed Chinese companies buying up supply, and @_____josh_____ said the earlier posts were probably Alifond bots. On 2026-09-26 @con3po7016 posted a screenshot saying prices were coming down, and @adusts reported a 10 GB card sold for $1,200 on eBay, a "pretty good sign". @djpandaman predicted about $2,100 for a week or two while a few bulk holders liquidate, then a jump to $2.5k to $3k; @_____josh_____ said prices would not jump again because Gen3 was "confirmed DOA"; @cute_sc2 expected no hike for the 8 GB card and said to watch the 10 GB cards. @quark2world (09-28): some Alibaba sellers cut listed prices but still quote about $2k on request; @_____josh_____ (09-29): nobody is buying at these prices; @programmerboi (2026-10-03): his sources were lowering prices, "back under $2k I think".

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-09-25
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-25
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-25
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-26
Source: @adusts, 2026-09-26
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-26
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-26
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-28
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-29
Source: @programmerboi, 2026-10-03

Late September, China and the US: 14k to 15k yuan unmoved by rumours; 10 GB about $2K; one $1000 eBay sale

@wakeupmbrc1 (2026-09-29): the Chinese price "was and is 14-15k yuan" and did not move on the A100-mod rumour; if a full unlock were real, CMPs would already be at 30k RMB. @ob88594: the 10G had been rising abnormally in China for a long time, and after a rumoured 10G unlock about a month earlier, 8G and 10G were priced the same with heavy volume; @wakeupmbrc1 said the 10G was still slightly cheaper. @reala7096 put 10 GB cards at about $2K against about $4K for an A100 40GB, and @voidgiraffe saw one sell for $1000 on eBay a few days earlier. @lycorascence bought his 10 GB card for about $1K before the big spikes, and @waypoint3642 said early buyers paid $200.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-29
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-29
Source: @lycorascence, 2026-09-29
Source: @reala7096, 2026-09-29
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-29
Source: @waypoint3642, 2026-09-29

End of September: listings vanish after the 10 GB news

After the 10 GB news, @_arcanum_ said listings basically all disappeared on 2026-09-28 and 09-29, and did not expect sellers to list much until they try price discovery again; @ghostinthedatacenter_87281 saw eBay supply dwindling. @quark2world joked that people should sell their 8 GB cards for under $2k "and buy 10GBs for $5k". @ob88594 holds cards bought at $800 (four) and $1500 (two); $2000 is still worth it for HBM plus 3090-class compute but not profitable, and left unattended they earned $150 mining in a week. @cibernox said Shenzhen is cheaper but not a bargain, @lenxtroz saw an A100X engineering sample on eBay at $15k, and @djpandaman guessed from the timing that 10 GB cards were lower volume than 8 GB cards.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-29
Source: @ghostinthedatacenter_87281, 2026-09-29
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-29
Source: @cibernox, 2026-09-29
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-29
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-30
Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-09-30

Early October

Price history to early October: from $300 to about $2300 to $3000 per 8 GB card

@spectakkular: cards were $300 each, then went to $600 to $1000; @cute_sc2: about $500 right before jumping to about $1k. @karya4389 last saw 8 GB cards at 950 to 1100 EUR and found a local $2300 offer. Early October 2026: Alifond about $2300 (about $2469 DDP), eBay about $3k for cap-modded cards, China CNY 12,300 wholesale to CNY 13,500 tested, and the 10 GB card at 3800 to 4500 in China (@djpandaman). @con3po7016 suspects that @voidgiraffe's recipe added $100 or more to prices.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-01
Source: @karya4389, 2026-10-01
Source: @redpandamining, 2026-10-03
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-10-03
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-10-03
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-03

Early October snapshot: $2.45k to $3k and up per card ($48.4 per GB)

On 2026-10-02 @busulle was quoted 2.3k EUR or 2.6k USD per card for four cards, later citing $2450 per card after tax. @vektor_prime posted a listing marked "Premium tested!" that came to over $3k after tax, or $48.4 per GB of VRAM; he compared it with an M5 Ultra 256 GB, put the tipping point below $1.8k, and noted that used cards should have a shorter expected life. @omgninja3676 thought the 8 GB card still makes sense at $2k, and @cute_sc2 expected prices to rise further, especially after the 64 GB DGX Spark announcement. @sojun80 warned that the cards are not "3090 plug and play": cooling and power need work.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @busulle, 2026-10-02
Source: @sojun80, 2026-10-02
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-10-02
Source: @omgninja3676, 2026-10-02
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-02

Recalled on 2026-10-02: $650, then $1k, then a $1700 average

@gpmickey said the cards could once be bought at $650; after he lost two weeks to a scam the price had reached $1k, and he now owns 12 cards at an average cost of $1700, which he still considers a bargain. @cibernox bought in late August; a $4999 64 GB DGX Spark would have covered 3 of his 4 CMPs (under about $1667 each). @cute_sc2 bought in early August; the same $4999 paid for 5 cards (about $1000 each), and elsewhere @cute_sc2 gave $7.2k for 8 cards.

Reported
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-02
Source: @cibernox, 2026-10-02
Source: @gpmickey, 2026-10-02

China, in RMB

Xianyu (also called Goofish) and Taobao prices, in RMB as posted. Buying there from abroad is covered on Buying from China as a foreigner.

2026-07-19 and 07-20: 4000 to 8000 CNY, 10 GB cards bought at 6500 CNY each

Xianyu (Goofish) was the cheapest source: @lunaroseoc saw about 4600 CNY ($680) for the 8 GB card, and @lxtend saw the 8 GB at about 4000 CNY and the 10 GB at about 8000 CNY, and bought two 10 GB cards at 6500 CNY each on 2026-07-19. @landmark0700_17532 gave the China price as 5000 RMB for the 8 GB card, with the 10 GB at about $1181 and bulk only, later about $750 for 8 GB and $1000 for 10 GB. By 2026-07-20 @decoy.works saw the Xianyu floor at 5500 RMB for small quantities, and @_arcanum_ saw 750 to 1100 (USD) for 8 GB, with none left on Taobao. @meromgreen could not register a Taobao account because the verification SMS never arrived.

Proven 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-07-19
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-07-19
Source: @lxtend, 2026-07-20
Source: @landmark0700_17532, 2026-07-20
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-20
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-20

2026-07-21 and 07-22: 6000 to 7500 RMB, a pickup-only 5250 RMB

Xianyu listings were around $1.0k to $1.1k on 2026-07-21; @_arcanum_ paid for 5 at roughly 6.5k to 7.5k RMB each (about $950 to $1100), best effort, and a seller with a 500-unit minimum listed 3600 RMB, probably a placeholder with a reused photo. On 07-22 listings were 5500 RMB and 6000 RMB (about $885) for the 8 GB card (@decoy.works). @landmark0700_17532 bought two 8 GB cards at 5250 RMB (about $775) each on 07-22, a price available only for in-person pickup.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-21
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-22
Source: @landmark0700_17532, 2026-07-22

2026-07-23: 6500 RMB the new price, or a 5500 RMB average?

• @decoy.works: 6500 RMB looked like the new Xianyu price, and nobody would take less than 6500 to 7500; he was buying on Xianyu and shipping to his own warehouse in China Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-23.
• @dalzyyy: the Goofish analytics tab showed the average selling price falling 200 RMB in a day to 5500 RMB, even though listings asked up to 8000 RMB Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-23.

Contested

2026-07-24: 6800 RMB pickup, 7200 to 7500 from miners, 8800 to 9800 with the cap mod

@decoy.works reported Xianyu listings up to 8.5k RMB on 2026-07-24; sellers agreed to 6.5k RMB in the morning and refused 7k in the afternoon, and he believed he was dealing with miners directly. His prices at 14:50 UTC: 6800 RMB pickup only, 7200 to 7500 RMB from miners, and 8800 to 9800 RMB from Alifond or with the capacitor mod. @_arcanum_ confirmed those spot prices, and @dalzyyy saw sold listings at 6k to 7k RMB.

Proven
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-24
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-24
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-24

2026-07-26 to 07-28: from 7000 RMB down to about 6000

@decoy.works on 07-26: Xianyu list prices were 7000 to 7100 RMB at the low end and 8000 to 8800 at the high end, and the week before prices had risen by 500 RMB every 12 hours. On 07-27 he said sub-7000 was generally for local pickup, 7000 plus or minus 200 the typical miners' list price, and 8000 to 8800 for non-miners and Alifond domestic. By 07-27 and 07-28 the list price drifted to about 6000 RMB (about $900, @dalzyyy); @sekkit_75019 said below 6000 with sellers panicking and 6000 or less for a 200-unit lot, @gechangwei put it at 6100, @artistosu found 6000 to 7000 listings and 6300 from a well-rated seller, and @thisisashitsystem saw 6500 with more stock. @sekkit_75019's advice: sellers set prices from inquiry and transaction counts, so do not beg.

Proven
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-26
Source: @artistosu, 2026-07-26
Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-07-27
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-27
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-28
Source: @gechangwei, 2026-07-28

2026-07-31 to 08-01: 5000 to 5600 RMB; 4500 RMB listings and 2850 RMB fakes

On 2026-07-31 @thisisashitsystem reported Goofish prices down to about 5.3k to 5.6k RMB, and @artistosu posted a 5300 RMB quote. On 08-01 @kellertreppe123 said general listings had been 6k to 8k RMB, and @artistosu said they were now 5k to 6k. @dalzyyy said legitimate listings existed around 4500 RMB; @artistosu thought those sellers do not accept single-card purchases, and @_arcanum_ could not get such deals to stick. Listings at about 2850 RMB were called fake by @artistosu and @_arcanum_.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-07-31
Source: @artistosu, 2026-07-31
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-08-01
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-01
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-01

2026-08-26: 6000 RMB listings bogus, about 8500 real, up to 10000

@thisisashitsystem saw Goofish (Xianyu) prices up to 10k RMB on 2026-08-26, where a few weeks earlier they had been 8000 at most and briefly 6000. @_arcanum_ said the 6000 RMB listings were bogus and never delivered for him; about 8.5k RMB was the real street price from sellers who had actually delivered cards before. @deejay9983 put the rise at almost 70% in 2 weeks. By 09-01 prices passed 10,000 RMB (see the August section).

Reported
Source: @thisisashitsystem, 2026-08-26
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-26
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-26

China dealer prices for the 8 GB card in October: CNY 13,000 at the start, 17,000 to 19,000 by mid-month

@ob88594 (2026-10-01): in China they are all dealers offering stress testing and unlocking; the average 8G price is around CNY 13,000 and wholesale about CNY 12,300. A cleaned card with the coupling capacitors replenished and a 3-day test costs about CNY 13,500; there are no untested cards on the market, only broken ones are noticeably cheaper, and 10G pricing is chaotic. @matstatman noted it was a Chinese holiday period (wait two weeks). On 10-12 @wakeupmbrc1 quoted the 8 GB buyout at 13k RMB (about $2k), later admitting the figure was stale; on 10-13 @tony_smartecom wrote "Don't see 13k rmb anymore. It shot up to 18k-19k today already." On 10-15 Xianyu was around 2,500 USD with DM offers at 17k RMB minimum, and on 10-16 the lowest DM price was 17,500 RMB each for 10 pieces on Goofish (about $2,650). On 10-23 @kellertreppe123 put China at $3.6k and @lia_oc saw 3,000 to 3,600 and more; on 10-25 @ob88594 put the sourcing cost at 16,000 CNY or more, with farms not shipping.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-01
Source: @deorc, 2026-10-01
Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-01
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-12
Source: @tony_smartecom, 2026-10-13
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-10-15
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-10-23
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-10-23
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-25

Europe and other regions

Germany and EU eBay in late August: 300 EUR lows were earlier, 2500 to 2800 EUR asks, a 10 GB card at 1450 EUR

On 2026-08-29 @humandrone8721_60165 posted German eBay screenshots showing listings from 3000 to 7000 EUR and sold prices rising day by day. He said the EU never had the US $200 sales: about 300 EUR was the EU low, apart from one defective card in Iceland at 165 EUR, and he put the EU price at 2800 EUR for anyone who does not want to deal with customs and China. @quark2world posted ebay.de statistics for the last 30 days, and @danske1 stressed the difference between listed and actually sold prices. On 2026-08-30 @humandrone8721_60165 found only one card available in Germany on Kleinanzeigen, at 2800 EUR; on 08-31 he saw two 8 GB cards at 2800 EUR and one at 2500 EUR, plus a 10 GB card offered clean with a power adapter at 1450 EUR, which @irythros called a good deal, so good it might be a scam.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-08-29
Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-29
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-29
Source: @irythros, 2026-08-31

EU in September: few cards, 2400 to 3000 EUR asks, 2000 EUR landed seen as a good price

@quark2world said on 2026-09-08 that a 2400 EUR eBay card ends up at about 2900 EUR once it arrives, while used 3090s cost about 1200 EUR from a vendor with a 1-year warranty, plus about 250 EUR for an NVLink bridge. @humandrone8721_60165 said EU prices were 3K EUR or more, that an 1800 EUR order of his had been cancelled, and that "not even the scammers are replying anymore". @matej87 saw cards from European sellers on eBay at about 2000 EUR that were not selling. On 2026-09-10 @colo2442 called 2000 EUR landed (including VAT and import tax) a good EU price, with every offer he found a few hundred above that, and @matstatman agreed. @djpandaman had assumed many cards ended up in Russia and Kazakhstan, which should have helped EU supply, but that had not shown up in prices.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-08
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-09-08
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-08
Source: @matej87, 2026-09-10
Source: @colo2442, 2026-09-10
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-10

eBay asks of 4000 to 4500 EUR against thin sales volume (2026-09-10)

@quark2world found eBay listings at 4500 EUR (with an AI-written description) and 4000 EUR. On eBay Germany only Chinese sellers had sold cards, 4 of them in the last 90 days. He estimated fewer than 1000 cards sold in total on eBay over 90 days, so a seller would need 3 years or more to move 3000 cards at that rate. @rrickk420 thought $4k to $5k was fair value for US businesses.

Reported
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-10
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-10

eBay UK: six cards in Bristol at 1800 GBP, repriced to 2800 GBP after two sold

@spectakkular pointed to six cards listed on eBay UK in Bristol at 1800 GBP. On 2026-09-09, a few hours after two of the six sold, the seller raised the price to 2800 GBP.

Reported
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-09
Source: @colo2442, 2026-09-09
Source: @squareskeleton_00982, 2026-09-09

Europe, Germany and the UK in September: EU demand "basically killed"

@humandrone8721_60165 (2026-09-12): no more CMP 170HX on Kleinanzeigen, not even scammers; he thinks 4K EUR sellers target owners of x4 or x8 production rigs with no spare card, where one dead card cripples the system. @quark2world linked a Kleinanzeigen listing that nobody bought, whose seller had no stock according to @humandrone8721_60165. @quark2world (2026-09-14): CMPs are pointless to look for in the EU, since the Chinese 2.3k offers end up at about 3k after customs and taxes; @a.civardagezen (09-15) noted that the server had no sellers at all. On 2026-09-20 @quark2world said the cheapest offer a person in Europe could find was under 2,000 EUR, that one listing had been static for 12 days with no card sold after the price hike, that EU demand was "basically killed", and that US offers add about $300 to $400 of logistics for EU buyers. @lonegladiator (UK) planned to offer eBay sellers 2,199 EUR each, worried about VAT, and found one seller with 2 cards (@stcord noted the seller had done the cap mod) that he planned to buy.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-09-12
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-12
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-09-15
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-20
Source: @lonegladiator, 2026-09-20
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-20

10 GB against 8 GB

The price relationship between the two cards flipped at least twice between July and October. What the 10 GB card unlocks to, and the 80 GB claims behind its early premium, are on The 10 GB card: provenance and the 80 GB question and 10 GB card.

July: the 10 GB card scarce and quoted above the 8 GB card

@eksitus noticed on 2026-07-20 that almost no one sold 10 GB cards, and his one quote had the 10 GB card $200 above the 8 GB. @lxtend saw the 10 GB at about 8000 CNY on Xianyu against 4000 for the 8 GB (he paid 6500 CNY each); @landmark0700_17532 put it at about $1181, bulk only, in China, later about $1000 against $750; @scallion_9883 asked $1000 against $800 in the US. @a.civardagezen attributed the premium to sellers believing the 10 GB to 80 GB unlock works, and @lunaroseoc said nothing above $2K is worth it for the 10 GB card unless you bin them and find a good 80 GB one; asked whether the card was buyable, she answered "Barely". On 07-21 a supplier quoted @robbbbbb7973 $1149 for it, and @_arcanum_ said 10 GB quotes started at about $1.5k, well above the 8 GB card.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @eksitus, 2026-07-20
Source: @lxtend, 2026-07-20
Source: @landmark0700_17532, 2026-07-20
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-07-20
Source: @a.civardagezen, 2026-07-20
Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-07-20
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-20
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-21
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-21

Late July and August: cheaper, level or dearer than the 8 GB card?

• @endsjeremy (2026-07-27): some sellers priced the 10 GB the same as the 8 GB Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-07-27.
• As of late July 10 GB cards were about $300 to $500 cheaper than 8 GB cards on eBay; @roger_dammit expected that to flip if 80 GB ever works Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-31. @aaasss1456 bought one on Xianyu for 5400 yuan (under about $800) Source: @aaasss1456, 2026-08-01. @_studebaker_ mocked scam and reseller listings advertising a fake "Gen3.0x4 / Gen4.0x16" 170HX at $2999 with a 10-unit minimum, warning that resellers were using the unlock work to justify price hikes Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-07-31.
• @dalzyyy (2026-08-10): Chinese sellers asked about $300 more for the 10 GB than for the 8 GB Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-08-10.

Contested 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @newman_08462, 2026-07-31

September: a few hundred below the 8 GB card, then a surge in China

@colo2442 said on 2026-09-10 that the 10 GB card tends to be a few hundred cheaper than the 8 GB, and @matej87 noted that a Spain-based 10 GB seller had existed before the server's sales section was removed. @onlyinminecraft found 10 GB listings at about 500 USD on Alibaba; @jimtjames said anything cheap is almost certainly a scam and the 10 GB is still a minimum of 1k, and @jjb01957 said cheap 170HX listings are empty boxes or at best defective cards. On 2026-09-14 @djpandaman said 10 GB cards start around $1,800 (about 1,550 EUR) on US eBay, in reply to @anon33anon, who would pay about 1.5k EUR; on 09-15 @cute_sc2 put the 10 GB card in the EU at about 1.5k. On 2026-09-18 @voidgiraffe saw 10 GB prices much higher but still below the 8 GB, the gap closing, and linked it to a Xianyu listing claiming an 80 GB unlock; @_arcanum_ found 10 GB cards either near 8 GB pricing or only with a 100-card minimum, and a 10-card order (about $16k) was refused as "too small". On 2026-09-22 @ob88594 reported unexplained abnormal sales and price increases for the 10 GB card in China, and @tokukarin found the cheapest 10 GB card at 1800 USD.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @colo2442, 2026-09-10
Source: @matej87, 2026-09-10
Source: @onlyinminecraft, 2026-09-13
Source: @jimtjames, 2026-09-13
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-09-13
Source: @anon33anon, 2026-09-14
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-14
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-15
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-18
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-18
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-18
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-22
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-22
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-22
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-09-22

Late September and early October: the 10 GB card listed above the 8 GB card

@jjb01957 (2026-09-30) saw 10 GB cards listed above 8 GB cards on eBay. On 2026-10-01 @matstatman posted a 10 GB listing, @cute_sc2 said it now cost more than an A100 40G (which @cute_sc2 could get for 3.8k), @skyy2333 said 10 GB prices in China had already doubled, and @globalapathy said most 10 GB eBay listings had been under or just touching $2k the week before and crept up every listing cycle; @matstatman: "no one is paying 4k for ewaste". On 2026-10-02 @voidgiraffe said 10 GB cards were priced almost the same as 8 GB cards again ("seems like news is coming"), and @matstatman suspected Chinese sellers had stopped selling 10 GB cards while waiting for an unlock release.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-09-30
Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-01
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-01
Source: @skyy2333, 2026-10-01
Source: @globalapathy, 2026-10-01
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-10-02

October: dearer or cheaper than the 8 GB card?

@tokukarin had bought two 10 GB cards at 1,500 each when 8 GB cards were 2,500 Source: @tokukarin, 2026-10-07. On 2026-10-07 @wakeupmbrc1 said 10 GB cards cost more than 8 GB cards and could reach 5k to 6k if a stable 80 or 96 GB unlock ever appears Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-07; 10 GB cards disappeared from Xianyu about a week after the full-GA100 discussion Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-08. On 2026-10-13:

• @lenxtroz put the 10 GB at $500 to $800 less than the 8 GB ($3k to $3.5k) Source: @lenxtroz, 2026-10-13.
• @endbr64 disagreed: the 10 GB is priced well above the 8 GB because of its extra unlock (PCIe Gen4) Source: @endbr64, 2026-10-13.
• @wakeupmbrc1: on Goofish 8G and 10G cost about the same (8G 17k to 18k RMB, 10G 20k RMB), while on eBay the 10 GB is still cheaper "for now"; the 10G is the better buy for training and image or video generation Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-10-13.

On 10-16 @voidgiraffe asked why the 10 GB is priced below the 8 GB when it can beat an A100, and @cute_sc2 answered that there is no simple unlock yet Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-10-16
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-10-16. On 10-16 and 10-17 eBay had nothing under $2.5k for the 10 GB (@feralzi), while sold data showed about $2k to $2.3k (@djpandaman) Source: @feralzi, 2026-10-17
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-10-17. On 10-18 @akkerstone saw nobody selling 10 GB cards Source: @akkerstone, 2026-10-18. The 10-13 disputants gave no completed-sale data.

Contested 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @jjb01957, 2026-10-11
Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-13
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-13
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-10-14

How sellers behaved

Patterns members reported between July and September. What to do about a cancelled or changed order is on Alibaba Trade Assurance, cancellations and disputes.

Orders at the old price cancelled after the news (July)

Warning

After the spike, sellers on eBay, Alibaba, AliExpress and Xianyu cancelled orders placed at pre-spike prices. Excuses posted: "the technician found a problem with your card" with no replacement available (@barackorama, @aaron0010), the model sold out market-wide, cards "mixed up" with another shipment, a colleague who had sold the warehouse stock in one bulk shipment (Shenzhen Shengshi, to @decoy.works), "this batch of goods has some defects, new stock in two months" (@robbbbbb7973), and an "issue with buyer shipping address" with no contact (@farawaythrower). @decoy.works signed an Alibaba invoice for 6 cards at $580 each on 2026-07-21 that was later cancelled; @_arcanum_ paid for 10 at 3700 RMB each on Goofish, the seller's supplier cancelled, and the seller offered them at about 6700 RMB and refunded when he declined. @skirtchaser described the chain as buyer, agent, Alibaba company, their contact, mining farm ("a game of telephone"), with the farms raising prices on resellers once eBay passed $1000; he put the chance of sub-$500 orders shipping at about 1%. @rrickk420 had 3 cancellations from separate Chinese sellers while US eBay sellers fulfilled. @barackorama's advice: never cancel yourself; let the seller cancel.

8 GB
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-19
Source: @barackorama, 2026-07-20
Source: @aaron0010, 2026-07-20
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-20
Source: @c.03937, 2026-07-20
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-20
Source: @barackorama, 2026-07-20
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-20
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-21
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-21
Source: @akuchen_66498, 2026-07-21
Source: @simba6959, 2026-07-21
Source: @aaron0010, 2026-07-21
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-22
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-22
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-22
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-26
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-07-26
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-27
Source: @rubbra_f, 2026-07-27
Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-27

Quotes raised between quote and order

Shenzhen Enbay Trade approached @robbbbbb7973 on 2026-07-20 at $650 per card for 10 through Alibaba payment (6500 USD plus 110 USD shipping plus 3% for Alibaba payment), then quoted $895 when he went to confirm, then $780 plus $11 shipping; the company does not list the card or any GPU. Shenzhen Guanghecheng Trade offered 149 each. @skirtchaser's quote went from $566.3 to $882.3 per piece in 3 hours, and @_arcanum_'s went from 450 to 560 in a morning and, on Xianyu, from 3700 RMB (about $550) to 5700 RMB (about $840) in 12 hours.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @robbbbbb7973, 2026-07-20
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-07-20

Alibaba sellers silent in July; eBay suggested

On 2026-07-19 @_j3ns relayed a member's complaint that Alibaba sellers were not responding, and said that, depending on the country, eBay may be the only good choice. @farawaythrower had the same experience: Alibaba sellers stayed silent or would not finalize a sale.

Proven
Source: @_j3ns, 2026-07-19
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-19

Chinese sellers advertise on Alibaba but sell on eBay in batches of about 10, repricing as they go

@ashtray9843 said on 2026-07-19 that the eBay sellers are the same Chinese sellers who advertise on Alibaba but do not reply there; they sell on eBay in batches of about 10 and raise prices once a batch sells out. @quark2world added that they also raise prices mid-batch on the same listing and lower them again when sales stop.

Reported
Source: @ashtray9843, 2026-07-19
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-19

Cheap orders voided after the unlock news: an August recap

Warning

On 2026-08-08 @quark2world said Huateng had about 20 cards at $450 and cancelled later orders at that price; his own order survived only because it was already with the logistics provider. @machinezer0 had a $445 order from 3 weeks earlier, and after 6 days the seller told him over WhatsApp to cancel or pay $1300. @beefbonecapone said his $254 orders were sold on to buyers paying more. @bayley_w's order from an AliExpress-branded seller on eBay was cancelled while prices climbed, while @prometasfw's order with the same kind of seller stood; @jimtjames bought directly from that seller's website, was cancelled too, and reported them to the Texas attorney general and to his own state's. Huateng and AliPhone ads at the time used stock or AI images. Disputes and refunds are covered on Alibaba Trade Assurance, cancellations and disputes.

Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-08
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-08-08
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-10
Source: @prometasfw, 2026-08-10
Source: @jimtjames, 2026-08-10
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-11
Source: @beefbonecapone, 2026-08-11

Chinese sellers raise prices in step; listings start disclosing bad ECC blocks

@matej87 observed on 2026-08-25 that Chinese sellers keep raising prices to test demand, and suspects they coordinate a price band (for example in a WeChat group) while buyers keep FOMO-buying. He started seeing cards advertised with bad ECC blocks, suggesting sellers now test cards, and warned against paying about 1.5 thousand for untested cards. @_studebaker_ expected the Qwen3.8 Flash release to push GPU prices up further.

Reported
Source: @matej87, 2026-08-25
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-25
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-08-25

AliExpress listings are proxies for Taobao and Xianyu sellers; big players set the price

@zagitta observed on 2026-09-02 that AliExpress sellers all quote the same price; @bayley_w explained that many AliExpress listings are proxies for the same Taobao or Xianyu backend seller. @tony_smartecom said a few big players raise prices on purpose and list high on Xianyu deliberately, small scalpers follow, and Chinese sellers react to what sells on AliExpress and Alibaba. @zingy90210 floated a buyer boycott of about 20 people to push prices back toward about $1000; nothing came of it.

Reported
Source: @tony_smartecom, 2026-09-02
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-02
Source: @zagitta, 2026-09-02
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-09-02

Sellers backing out after the price rose

Warning

eBay seller ea_memory cancelled @eksitus's order on 2026-07-24 and kept its listings up until @farawaythrower told them he had caught them in a lie; on 2026-07-29 @barackorama reported that ea_memory had cancelled his and many other buyers' orders, relisted at inflated prices marked ready to ship, and ended the listing with an excuse when called out (@1a2b3c0967 had the same experience). Alibaba supplier MOZHEN INTERNATIONAL agreed in chat to fulfil an order on a set date, then on the ship date claimed no stock and higher prices, and refused responsibility because no formal payment had been processed (@bentbean_50370, 2026-09-23). On 2026-09-29 @fafinet's seller refused to ship, claiming his name was on DHL's denied parties list; @cute_sc2 said this was an excuse, since a new unlock had just leaked and the seller wanted a higher price. A chat agreement without a placed and paid order binds nobody on Alibaba. On eBay, leave accurate negative feedback and report the seller through eBay Help and Contact (search "report a seller"), as @farawaythrower and @scallion_9883 advised.

Source: @eksitus, 2026-07-24
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-24
Source: @barackorama, 2026-07-29
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-07-29
Source: @farawaythrower, 2026-07-29
Source: @1a2b3c0967, 2026-08-30
Source: @bentbean_50370, 2026-09-23
Source: @fafinet, 2026-09-29
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-29

Late August: hold the money, cancel, relist higher

Warning

Several buyers reported paid orders delayed or cancelled while prices rose in late August 2026. @djpandaman had 8 cards ordered, 5 shipped and 3 in limbo, with sellers holding his money for 2 weeks without shipping, and @68x0 said asking for a refund at market value would only get the runaround. @danske1 would have had 8 cards at $400 each, but the seller took his money and did not honour the deal; @humandrone8721_60165 paid close to 1700 and was rejected and refunded, and on 2026-08-30 a seller cancelled his order of two cards at 1.6K. @deejay9983 bought 4 on Alibaba, and the next day the supplier said it had no stock. @jecquas believes the goal is to make buyers cancel so the cards can be relisted at a higher price.

8 GB
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-27
Source: @jecquas, 2026-08-27
Source: @68x0, 2026-08-28
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-29
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-08-29
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-30

Supply and demand

Pearl mining made the cards profitable again from August

@ob88594: the cards come from mining pools; before August 2026 PRL (Pearl) was not mineable, so the cards sold cheaply, and since then Pearl has made them profitable again and upstream supply has been cut off most of the time. Earlier figures: about $1.59 a day per card (@ju5t5omedude, 2026-07-25) and about $1.63 a day (@aluminer_, 07-28). @newman_08462 said on 2026-07-21 that he held over 100 CMP170HX-8G in Guangdong, face-to-face sales only. @_maitops heard of a 3,000-card Pearl operation in the USA and UAE (2026-08-24, doubted). @n3bs (2026-09-24) bought on Facebook Marketplace from a seller who had more cards but stopped selling because Pearl mining is profitable on them, and @gpmickey's seller stopped for the same reason; @gpmickey expects the cards to be worth more to AI buyers once Pearl profitability falls.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @newman_08462, 2026-07-21
Source: @ju5t5omedude, 2026-07-25
Source: @aluminer_, 2026-07-28
Source: @_maitops, 2026-08-24
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-23
Source: @n3bs, 2026-09-24
Source: @gpmickey, 2026-09-24

Where the stock sat in October

@newman_08462 said on 2026-10-02 that thousands of 170HX rigs still mine Pearl in China and will be sold when the price is attractive; @tokukarin doubts they will sell now that more SMs are unlocked. @ob88594: Pearl fell from 1.6 to 0.99 in a few days, and as of 2026-10-25 no major mining farm is willing to ship and the sourcing cost is 16,000 CNY or more. @redpandamining: Alifond stock is dwindling. @cuddylac997 says his employer holds about 2600 cards. @newman_08462 holds over 100 cards in China but finds selling abroad difficult because eBay's seller threshold is high; a Xianyu seller claims 2000 units, and IT asset disposal exchanges show buyers wanting 1000-card lots. Other October views: speculation on 10-18 that Yandex buying GPUs after a datacentre fire was driving prices; @reggie7756 hoped the Intel D270 160GB would push prices down; @lia_oc: constant new recipes, patches and the sm80 vLLM fork keep raising the cards' utility; @phoenixone7 expects many 40 GB A100s to reach the market as they are swapped out, and @c133 pointed to an eBay listing of 300 racks of 32x A100 40 GB for 59.7 million USD at quantity 2.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-10-02
Source: @redpandamining, 2026-10-03
Source: @newman_08462, 2026-10-03
Source: @tokukarin, 2026-10-03
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-03
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-10-06
Source: @newman_08462, 2026-10-07
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-10-08
Source: @kellertreppe123, 2026-10-23
Source: @lia_oc, 2026-10-23
Source: @reggie7756, 2026-10-24
Source: @ob88594, 2026-10-25
Source: @phoenixone7, 2026-10-26
Source: @c133, 2026-10-26
Source: @segmond, 2026-10-26

Mining value: Pearl about $6 per card per day; the unlock raises resale value

@ob88594 said on 2026-09-23 that Pearl mining yields about $6 per card per day (prefaced with "Just kidding", so the tone is unclear), and that cards able to do both LLM inference and mining will keep rising in price. He says the unlock increases the card's residual value.

Reported
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-23

Signs of coordinated pricing: miners and dealers withholding stock; a 2899 to 2199 swing

On 2026-07-29 @sekkit_75019 said dealers outnumbered buyers, then that small sellers refused to sell because miners and dealers had agreed to control the market; @decoy.works posted a screenshot from the supplier Ranshuo the same day. @giaki3003 concluded that the miner pulled the plug at $900, and @_____josh_____ said plenty of stock was being hoarded for price discovery and that one seller told him they were working with an influencer to push prices up. On 2026-09-02 @ronnyfish reported 2190 USD on eBay, most likely an Alifond alternate label, with Alibaba at the same level; he said a small number of Chinese vendors control most of the supply and appear to collude to paint the price chart. Two days earlier a vetted vendor (an Alifond sock account or reseller) had raised its price to 2899 and the next day dropped back to 2199.

Reported
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-29
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-29
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-29
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-07-30
Source: @ronnyfish, 2026-09-02

What drove the mid-August rise: Qwen 3.8 27B demand or seller collusion?

• Collusion: @machinezer0 (2026-08-17) and @giaki3003 (08-19) blamed seller collusion and supply held back (a "DeBeers strategy") Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-17
  Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-19; @adusts suspected price fixing between Alibaba sellers Source: @adusts, 2026-08-19; @danske1 called it fake demand Source: @danske1, 2026-08-20.
• Demand: @voidgiraffe (08-19) compared it to 3090 prices climbing on demand for local Qwen and DeepSeek inference Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-19; @_arcanum_ (08-20) linked the roughly 40% rise over one weekend to the release of Qwen 3.8 27B, after which people online called the 170HX the best single-card host for it Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-20.

Contested

Supply drying up from late August into October

On 2026-08-28 @vektor_prime found no 8 GB sellers left in the US; @humandrone8721_60165 reported Chinese buyers taking all 8 GB cards, including 5 from his Italian supplier, after a rumoured Chinese unlock breakthrough, and @stcord said Red Panda had made a video on inference companies buying the cards and renting them out. @_arcanum_ said the mining farms know the cards' value and work with big sellers, so nobody is mass-dumping. On 08-30 @cmurrayis said Chinese vendors were struggling to get stock, @deejay9983 had messaged nearly every Alibaba supplier without luck, and @endsjeremy was searching Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia. On 2026-09-02 Alibaba sellers were replying that they had no 170HX stock (@giaki3003 had the same reply a month earlier), and @rrickk420 guessed domestic demand and local farms were absorbing supply. On 2026-09-10 @sojun80 said his supplier could no longer get cards easily and his 4-card server's value had gone from about $4k to about $13k; @quark2world blamed scalpers. Later a supplier with 20 cards refused a group-order discount (@djpandaman, 09-13); new Alibaba offers tried to sell 25 cards at once, so supply was never truly limited (@quark2world, 09-17); and on 2026-10-02 @_arcanum_ said the piecemeal supply in China was gone, with the remaining sellers asking eBay prices or wanting to offload hundreds, while @spectakkular read the refusal to discount as a sign of limited supply.

Reported 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-28
Source: @humandrone8721_60165, 2026-08-28
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-29
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-30
Source: @cmurrayis, 2026-08-30
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-30
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-08-30
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-09-02
Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-02
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-10
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-10
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-10
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-13
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-13
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-17
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-10-02
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-10-02

Demand in China: AI video generation and export limits

On 2026-08-27 @_arcanum_ reported that buyers in China were starting to use the CMP 170HX for video generation to produce AI micro-dramas on Douyin; he was unsure whether Chinese prices follow international or domestic demand. @stcord's summary: Chinese miners held large stocks, US export restrictions limit China's GPU access, and once cmpunlocker was released the cards became sought-after unrestricted inference GPUs, so miners now sell only at high prices.

Reported 8 GB
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-27
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-29

Many "suppliers" are shell companies or middlemen without stock

On 2026-08-21 @djpandaman could not find the 170HX on Taobao or 1688 and guessed that sellers arbitrage Xianyu listings; @segmond said Chinese sellers list whatever is hot with no inventory and scramble to find a card once ordered, and that many such sellers chasing the few real holders drive prices up. @djpandaman added that there are large inventories in Kazakhstan and Russia poorly connected to Western supply chains (unverified). On 2026-08-26 @_arcanum_ (Hong Kong) said most listed suppliers are shell companies whose listed phone numbers often do not connect. @vektor_prime and @matej87 suspected many sellers resell from someone who does have stock ("call a guy that calls a guy"), while @sojun80 said his reseller works from supplier price sheets, then orders, tests and ships. @matej87 noted that sellers' prices are suspiciously aligned.

Reported
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-08-21
Source: @segmond, 2026-08-21
Source: @lrdimm, 2026-08-21
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-26
Source: @vektor_prime, 2026-08-26
Source: @matej87, 2026-08-26
Source: @sojun80, 2026-08-26

How many CMP 170HX exist: estimates from 10k to 400k

Nobody has a production figure; estimates as posted:

• @quark2world recalled a document saying about 180k were made or sold, then said he had misremembered; he later claimed 10,000 and more ("12kish") and guessed at most about 1,000 sold across Alibaba and eBay in the 30 days to 2026-07-20 Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-19.
• @wolsani gave the source as arXiv 2505.03782, whose high-end estimate is about 36k for one year; he thinks true totals are higher but that years of failures reduce what remains Source: @wolsani, 2026-07-19. @giaki3003 cited the same paper as 12k to 36k and guessed about 100k overall Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-20.
• @lunaroseoc: "several tens of thousands at least"; she had been in a warehouse with 19K of them Source: @lunaroseoc, 2026-07-20.
• @dalzyyy (2026-07-24): with 50k or more in circulation prices drop, under 20k they stay high; his estimate was 30k to 100k Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-07-24. @giaki3003 put the low end at about 30k, too many for local-AI buyers to absorb Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-25. @_studebaker_: about 150k, based on serial numbers Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-07-28. @sekkit_75019 knew one Chinese miner holding 7000 cards, still mining Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-28.
• @makesier (2026-08-01): about 300,000, no source given Source: @makesier, 2026-08-01; @cute_sc2 and @endsjeremy called an Alibaba "1 million in stock" a default filler value Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-08-01
  Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-08-02.
• @petrikrohn_26497 (2026-08-14) cited an estimate of only 17,000 produced and said it must be wrong given caches of 5,000 cards turning up, expecting well over 100,000 Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-08-14; @cuddylac997 had just said his group holds 2,770 Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-08-14.
• @impactic (2026-08-17 and 08-18): US eBay moved 40 to 75 cards a day in the first two weeks after the release, so a 10k production figure is far off against others of 40k to 120k. His AI-assisted serial-number analysis does not settle it, because the sequence part resets between production weeks and the format is shared with other NVIDIA products; 50k to 150k remains plausible, with about 100k as a working midpoint. He counted 484 units listed on US-only eBay since 2026-07-12 Source: @impactic, 2026-08-17
  Source: @impactic, 2026-08-18. @machinezer0 had heard 17k to 100k Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-17.
• @rrickk420 (2026-09-10): "400k+ units CMP 8GB total world supply"; @djpandaman replied that after digging through earnings calls and sales numbers any figure is still a guess Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-10
  Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-10.
• @impactic (2026-10-02): about 120k Source: @impactic, 2026-10-02.

@skirtchaser noted that the cards were sold to miners without the usual NVIDIA contract clauses, so all of them can reach the second-hand market Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-26, and @sealclubber said that, given this volume, paying 1k per card is absurd Source: @sealclubber, 2026-08-15.

Contested 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @thanos8912, 2026-07-19
Source: @meteorite777, 2026-07-20
Source: @petrikrohn_26497, 2026-07-22
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-25
Source: @decoy.works, 2026-07-27
Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-01
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-17
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-19

Where did the supply go? Miners as "neoclouds"

On 2026-07-21 @skirtchaser posted a screenshot suggesting mining farms had become "neoclouds" that will rent out compute rather than sell cards at any price. @scallion_9883 assumed Russian and Chinese buyers absorbed most of the supply, and @danske1 guessed suppliers originally paid $100 to $150 per card. @counterstrikeaimgod expected prices to drop within about a month once mainland Chinese buyers stopped, unless YouTube or Reddit kept up the hype. @vcore2191 noted there are estimates of how many cards were sold to miners but none of how many remain, and @aifonder_66800 said stock numbers are a secret.

Theory
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-21
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-07-21
Source: @vcore2191, 2026-07-21
Source: @aifonder_66800, 2026-07-21
Source: @danske1, 2026-07-22
Source: @counterstrikeaimgod, 2026-07-22

Who buys 30k to 50k cards? The buyer-pool argument

@machinezer0 argued on 2026-08-03 to 08-06 that the 10 GB card is the single-GPU upgrade over a V100 32GB, the 8 GB card equals two V100 32GB, and the 10 GB card should sell about 20% above an MI50 32GB. He estimated that 30k to 50k units need to move from miners and flippers to AI hobbyists, most of whom avoid Alibaba, freight forwarding, soldering, passive cooling and Linux hacks; without PCIe 4.0 x16 or NVLink out of the box demand stays limited, so he bought 4 rather than 16 to 32. @endsjeremy said prices will drop until the cards have proven themselves as rentals for months.

Theory 8 GB and 10 GB
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-08-03
Source: @endsjeremy, 2026-08-04

10 GB card supply: bulk buying in China, a large holder on X

@spectakkular and @stcord linked X posts by an apparently large CMP holder (one post was old, per @matstatman; @dalzyyy: "They still have 1500 apparently") on 2026-09-10. @scallion_9883 said he bought 20 10 GB cards from that seller before the spike. @cuddylac997 claimed to hold thousands of 10 GB cards and to be holding off selling after learning they were not 8 GB cards. On 2026-09-19 @ob88594 said the 10 GB card was being bought in bulk in China through specific channels (Xianyu). These claims are unverified, and no prices were given.

Reported 10 GB
Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-10
Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-10
Source: @stcord, 2026-09-10
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-09-10
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-10
Source: @cuddylac997, 2026-09-10
Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-19

Vietnam: a mine offering about 1000 cards in person, and a 3,000-card Pearl operation (unverified)

On 2026-08-21 @_arcanum_ said a mine, he thought in Vietnam, wanted to offload 1000 cards, but buyers would have to go in person and handle logistics. @zingy90210 proposed a fund of 100 or more members buying 10 each at about $700, and @voidgiraffe suggested pitting 10 sellers against a group order of 100 units or more. @moliminous argued that bulk pricing depends on one pallet going to one place, which needs a trusted lead buyer, and @_arcanum_ noted that 100 cards is a drop in the pond for these sellers. On 2026-08-23 @stcord said everyone was waiting for a second wave of ex-miner cards. @_maitops talked with someone running 3,000 CMP 170HX across the USA and UAE who says they are still profitable mining Pearl and will run about 3 more years; @smit1237, @giaki3003 and @licensedterrapin suspected a sales pitch.

Reported
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-21
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-08-21
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-08-21
Source: @moliminous, 2026-08-21
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-21
Source: @.philow, 2026-08-23
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-08-23
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-23
Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-23
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-08-24
Source: @_maitops, 2026-08-24
Source: @danske1, 2026-08-24
Source: @smit1237, 2026-08-24

Rumour: an NVIDIA buy-back at 20 to 25% of the original price

@irythros (2026-09-03) relayed unverified Discord talk that NVIDIA runs a GPU buy-back program, repurchasing at 20 to 25% of the original price, but found nothing formal. @cute_sc2 agreed, "thus keeping market tight". Which GPUs this concerns is not clear in the thread. Other unverified claims are collected on Rumours and claims to verify.

Theory
Source: @irythros, 2026-09-03
Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-09-03

Predictions made at the time

Forecasts as members posted them, with their dates. They are opinions, not prices; what happened next is on Price history and market.

July 2026: a fall to about $600, or a hold at $1k to $3k?

• @quark2world (2026-07-20) expected about $600 once sales dry up, given the supply and the cards' age (5 years or more, no warranty); he called the 170HX more like "a hampered A40" without PCIe or NVLink, with a small personal local-AI market Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-20.
• @meteorite777 thought $2k to $3k reasonable with A100s at $5k to $11k Source: @meteorite777, 2026-07-20; @skirtchaser argued the 170HX is more desirable than an MI210 (thousands of dollars) because of CUDA Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-07-20.
• @giaki3003 (07-21) called it a temporary supply shock: mining farms that lost money for 5 years are eager to sell Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-21.
• @meme_meme (07-22) compared it to the MI50 32GB at $400 to $500 and said a 64 GB NVIDIA HBM card at over $1k, up to just under $2k, is not unreasonable Source: @meme_meme, 2026-07-22.

Contested

2026-07-23: peak still ahead, or a drop coming?

• @kinkaj0u expected prices to fall because the cards were now too expensive for crypto miners, who had driven most of the publicity; an A100 cost $3.5k where he lives Source: @kinkaj0u, 2026-07-23. @aneinander put used A100 40GB cards at 3k or more in Germany Source: @aneinander, 2026-07-23.
• @skyy2333 argued prices were far from their peak because there had been no wide media coverage yet, citing the A100 40GB at about $7k and the 80GB at $10k Source: @skyy2333, 2026-07-23. @quark2world and @roger_dammit expected prices to keep rising, possibly above $1500 Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-23
  Source: @roger_dammit, 2026-07-23.

@chris.via.egnatia said people who had stockpiled GPUs over the past three months were now selling, and @_studebaker_ advised patience, since eBay sell-offs happen and must be bought quickly.

Contested
Source: @chris.via.egnatia, 2026-07-23
Source: @_studebaker_, 2026-07-23

2026-07-28: Chinese oversupply against stable $1500 to $2000 prices

• @giaki3003: China had far more supply than demand, miners would keep unloading, and prices would fall below $600 Source: @giaki3003, 2026-07-28.
• @deejay9983: US landed prices would stay around $1500 to $2000 as long as the unlock holds, with $2000 as a ceiling, because nothing else gives 64 GB at 1.5 TB/s for the money Source: @deejay9983, 2026-07-28.
• @cute_sc2: a fall to about $600, then a slow rise as the software improves, as happened with the MI50 32GB Source: @cute_sc2, 2026-07-28.

@machinezer0 would buy at $600 or less and gave the inflated GPU market at most 75 weeks, and @_____josh_____ called buying these riskier than buying 48 GB 4090s.

Contested
Source: @machinezer0, 2026-07-29
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-07-30

2026-08-16: bubble or sustained high prices?

• @segmond: $750 is a fair price; the hype came from newcomers treating the card like an A100, and buyers struggle with installing, cooling and dud cards ("a lottery"), so demand would fade, though not to $500 (maybe $700) Source: @segmond, 2026-08-16.
• @.philow: prices would keep rising toward $1.7k and not return under $500 for at least a year Source: @.philow, 2026-08-16.
• @giaki3003: prices had risen 15x in a month and holders of thousands of cards would eventually dump them Source: @giaki3003, 2026-08-16; @quark2world: the supply squeeze would fail and datacentres would dump 80 GB cards Source: @quark2world, 2026-08-16.

@skirtchaser noted that mining cards, unlike datacentre GPUs, carry no buyback or IT asset disposal contracts, so all of the supply can reach the second-hand market.

Contested
Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-08-17
Source: @beefbonecapone, 2026-08-17

Late August: double to $4k and more first, or hold value like the 3090?

• @gadfly3121 (2026-08-27): CMP prices would double to $4k and more before falling Source: @gadfly3121, 2026-08-27.
• @bassrawr: they would hold value like 3090s because of the memory size, with stock dwindling Source: @bassrawr, 2026-08-27; @dufrelic hoped for sub-$1000 again Source: @dufrelic, 2026-08-27.

@deejay9983 sends daily $1000 eBay offers, blames his DeepSeek repo (and the press) for part of the hype, and would sell at $5k to buy Mac Studios. A hardware store's X post promoting the card with a fan sitting on top drew "it's already over" comments (@stcord, @_orrorin).

Contested
Source: @stcord, 2026-08-27
Source: @_orrorin, 2026-08-27
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-08-27

2026-09-02: "no cheap 170HX anymore", 2k to 2.5k expected

@licensedterrapin said a rumour about Vietnamese miners dumping cards had been a joke, that there would be no cheap 170HX anymore, and predicted 2k to 2.5k (about 2.5k that day). @wakeupmbrc1 agreed that even without new unlocks the price would hover around 2000 to 2500 because local LLMs had become high quality, and expected more demand when Qwen 4 is released.

Reported
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-02
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-02

September: a ceiling at the current unlock level, unless PCIe 4 or NVLink arrives

• @reala7096 (2026-09-09): prices had hit a ceiling for the current unlock status, and only a PCIe 4 or NVLink unlock would push them up (NVLink: "easy 4-5k") Source: @reala7096, 2026-09-09; @adusts expected no big rise until PCIe 4 Source: @adusts, 2026-09-09.
• @dalzyyy expected no fall below about 1.5k in the short term because the card is standard PCIe, CUDA-capable and supported by inference frameworks Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-09; @spectakkular saw the long-term market as small enterprise Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-09.
• @_____josh_____ argued that buyers ignore failure risk and that fair value is under $1k Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-09; @quark2world's filtered eBay data showed sold-card counts falling after the price hikes Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-09.

Contested

Price ceiling theories: the MI210, a fraction of the A100 40GB, NVLink

• @fallengod9962 (2026-08-12) predicted $4k and more once word spreads Source: @fallengod9962, 2026-08-12.
• @skirtchaser expected the ceiling to stay below the AMD MI210 64GB, about $3000 in the worst case Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-08-12; on 2026-09-03 he said prices were close to that ceiling, and on 09-09 named the MI210, then $3500 to $4000, as the hard cap, adding that working NVLink could push the card past A100 40GB prices Source: @skirtchaser, 2026-09-09.
• @djpandaman (09-09): the 170HX price tracks a fixed fraction of the A100 40GB market price; he also guessed $3500 to $4000 Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-09.
• @quark2world (09-09): the cards only make sense at about 1000 EUR or less given the risks Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-09; @rrickk420 (09-10): fair value for US businesses is $4k to $5k Source: @rrickk420, 2026-09-10.

In early September @adusts estimated that the Reddit poster with dead cards paid over $1k each, @meromgreen could not afford another card, and @segmond and @licensedterrapin gave up on buying more, expecting no relief until someone with thousands in inventory dumps them.

Contested
Source: @scallion_9883, 2026-08-12
Source: @bayley_w, 2026-08-12
Source: @adusts, 2026-09-02
Source: @meromgreen, 2026-09-02
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-06
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-09-06

Mid-September: still rising, or modded cards never command a premium?

• @ob88594 (2026-09-15): prices keep rising, partly because DeepSeek V4.1 Flash created demand for 6 or more cards Source: @ob88594, 2026-09-15. @xtj7 expects the price could settle at 40 to 50% of an A100's over time, especially if PCIe 4 gets unlocked Source: @xtj7, 2026-09-15.
• @gpmickey: modded hardware is seen as "hacky tier 2" and will not command a tier-1 premium; his 48GB RTX 4090 barely changed in price in a year, while his RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell roughly doubled Source: @gpmickey, 2026-09-15.

Contested

Value by unlock status: about $1k then, $2.5k to $3.5k with NVLink and Gen4

@con3po7016 (2026-09-16): with the unlocks available then, the card is worth about $1k; with NVLink and Gen4 maybe $2.5k to $3.5k; an A100 80 GB sells for about $10k. @segmond expected prices to jump once fuse scripts are released. @wakeupmbrc1 suggested selling cards with defective stacks and buying ones without, and @matstatman joked about a valuation script ("your card is worth 900").

Theory
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-16
Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-16
Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-18
Source: @matstatman, 2026-09-18

Where prices go next (September 2026)

• @ins_mniac (2026-09-17): prices had hit a ceiling: no video output, no NVLink or NVSwitch, heavy software and hardware hacking, and full systems cost far more than the cards, so buyers would turn to A100 server equivalents Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-17; @spectakkular: the market still does not believe the cards work, while miners offload thousands to a limited buyer pool Source: @spectakkular, 2026-09-17.
• @con3po7016: for hobbyists who do not depend on 100% uptime the CMP just edges out the other options at about $2,700 Source: @con3po7016, 2026-09-17; @dalzyyy: at $2.5k other options are worth exploring Source: @dalzyyy, 2026-09-17.
• @_____josh_____ (2026-09-20): the reasonable price is $1k, wait 6 months Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-20; @zingy90210 blamed manipulation by Chinese vendors and expected a fall within 6 months Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-20; @wakeupmbrc1 replied that if PCIe 4.0 or NVLink is figured out, the forecast could become $6k within a month Source: @wakeupmbrc1, 2026-09-20.
• @voidgiraffe (2026-09-22) expected further increases (DGX Spark supply low, RTX Pro 6000 prices up); @segmond: demand will exceed supply for a long time; @theg9483: no market change before the second half of 2027 Source: @segmond, 2026-09-22
  Source: @theg9483, 2026-09-22
  Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-22.

Contested

What members paid

Recollections posted from 2026-07-28 to 09-16

@quark2world gave earlier prices of $450 for ex-mining-rig cards and $650 for new ones (2026-07-28), and later said he paid about 500 per card; @sekkit_75019 paid $1000 each for 9 cards. @reala7096 recalled about 400 EUR when news of the unlock came out and paid about 1300 EUR each in the end, and @licensedterrapin said the price was 1240 GBP when he first talked to Alifond (2026-08-30); @segmond would only have recommended the card to a small business when it was under $500. Between 2026-09-01 and 09-05 @deejay9983 said he ordered from Alibaba when prices were still $900, @chechu10 was offered a card at $1000 before sellers knew of the unlock, and @ins_mniac said Alifond listed at 1550 about a week before 09-01. @gnasherrr ordered 20 cards at $500 each, 16 were cancelled and only 4 arrived, and said he should have bought at $700; @_____josh_____ bought at $800 each expecting a 50% failure rate and called the September market a sucker's market. @djpandaman believed one supplier holding 20 cards had bought them at $250, and @sojun80 paid $1600 around 2026-08-20.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @quark2world, 2026-07-28
Source: @sekkit_75019, 2026-07-28
Source: @reala7096, 2026-08-30
Source: @licensedterrapin, 2026-08-30
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-01
Source: @ins_mniac, 2026-09-01
Source: @deejay9983, 2026-09-03
Source: @chechu10, 2026-09-04
Source: @sojun80, 2026-09-10
Source: @gnasherrr, 2026-09-11
Source: @djpandaman, 2026-09-13
Source: @_____josh_____, 2026-09-16

Recollections posted from 2026-09-08 to 09-25

@segmond (2026-09-22) bought 12 at $1,000 each, reasoning that one RTX Blackwell costs about $16,000, and @zingy90210 bought 4 at that price; @zingy90210 said CMPs were about $1,000 four weeks before 2026-09-22. @voidgiraffe bought his first batch at $1,200, the same price as a 3090 then, called $1,000 "insane value", and found the price of his second batch painful. @quark2world paid about $500 each, and @_arcanum_ said he was one of the only buyers whose contract price was honoured. @gpmickey saw reputable sellers at 650 CAD ($461), lost two weeks and money to a scammer, then bought at 1250 CAD ($886), and his second batch cost about twice as much. On 2026-09-08 @skurtdiggler said he bought 3 at about $1,100 to $1,200 (with water blocks) and found the 4th at $2,200, @seriousrising paid under $1,500 each for 2, and @impactic had bought 8 in July.

Proven 8 GB
Source: @impactic, 2026-09-08
Source: @skurtdiggler, 2026-09-08
Source: @seriousrising, 2026-09-08
Source: @segmond, 2026-09-22
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-22
Source: @zingy90210, 2026-09-22
Source: @voidgiraffe, 2026-09-22
Source: @gpmickey, 2026-09-24
Source: @quark2world, 2026-09-25
Source: @_arcanum_, 2026-09-25

Related

Price history and market, Buying, Acceptance checklist, Buying from China as a foreigner, Alibaba Trade Assurance, cancellations and disputes, 8 GB card, 10 GB card, The 10 GB card: provenance and the 80 GB question, 32 GB cards (subsystem 10de:1586), Unlock history: who found what, and when, Press and coverage, Alternatives at these prices, Card failure rates and longevity, Rumours and claims to verify.

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