The better the Graphic Card is the more gold in it?

Because tecnology!

Are they?

You can get one for very cheap price, but then such thing is not good for gaming...

They are very sophisticated pieces of technology, with lot of memory and very complex computer chips. Also research isn't cheap either... New tech is always expensive...

Gold is the best available conductor of electricity. (AFAIK) It is better than silver or copper. So, yes, a video card with gold components is worth what you are paying for if you are just thinking of the materials cost.

Obviously, the next step is to consider the brand and make of the card. But usually, us gamers look at that first instead of if the card has gold components.

the prices are inflated because there are only 2 major companies making them, ofcourse theres intel and some more obscure ones but yeah....

Because they know the oh so great pc master race will pay anything to get super duper graphics for their faces.

The amount of gold in most electronics is worth less than the supplies you'd need to purchase in order to extract it.

My random guess would be the cost is due to the billions that they put into R&D to improve the GPUs.

the reason is market forces. people buy them that high, there aren't alot of manufacturers, and so sellers met buyers high(also it costs a bit to make(develop more than manufacture I mean) them else you'd see more companies doing it)
it isn't the gold. they use such a tiny amount its not even cost effective recycling it

I just checked something. The 30€ GPU (Geforce 210) I bought has 260M transistors. On other hand the 400€ GPU (GTX 770) has 3540M transistors. On other hand the chip sizes are 57mm^2 for 210 and 294 mm^2 for the 770.

They are made with different precisions, but lower precision is cheaper. Still, the size of chip is valid comparison as you can get more of the smaller chips for same price as larger ones. This ratio in this case might very well be 5 to 1. On other hand the higher end cards also have more of memory and more expensive memory. For my cards the difference is between 512MB and 4GB, that is 8 times more memory. Higher end cards also need better on board power supply as they use more power. These factors alone make large difference.

Mark up is also large factor, but it's the cost we have to pay for latest tech.

Greed?

$1000 is petty cash, plus you only need 1 of them... SLI and overclocking being a thing of the past.

Attempting to recoup the [very high] cost of research and skimming money off early adopters are the big drivers behind the cost of a top spec graphics card in comparison to a middle-of-the-road one.

In terms of components and manufacturing cost, there really isn't much difference...