Tuesday, February 9th 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-Series GPU Availability to Reportedly Worsen in Q1
The availability of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3000 series "Ampere" graphics cards has been a problem ever since it launched. High demand paired with insufficient supply has caused quite some disturbance in the supply chain and has caused the MSRP of the GPUs to increase. Firstly, we were promised that the situation would resolve around May when NVIDIA is expecting to match the supply with the demand. However, according to the recent report, that might not be the case. Alternate, a European retailer operating in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, has spoken to NVIDIA about the supply of the GeForce RTX 3000 series Ampere graphics cards.
According to the retailer, the situation with the card is such that the availability is scarce. When it comes to the GeForce RTX 3090, there are very few deliveries, but only a few open orders. The RTX 3080 sees very few cards coming with many open orders. The RTX 3070 has few cards incoming, but few open orders. And last but not least, the RTX 3060 Ti has very few cards coming, and a moderately high amount of open orders. If you are aiming to buy a card, your best chances would be with RTX 3090 and RTX 3070, as they do not have such high demand. On the other hand, RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti cards are almost impossible to source as they all have a big waiting list. Alternate says that they work on a "first in first out" principle of delivering cards to consumers, so if you are not on the list you are likely going to wait for even longer.
The first quarter is especially bad because there are many contributing factors to this crisis. The Chinese New Year is taking place on February 12th and factories will be closed for a week or two. This could cause a bit of a disruption in the supply chain if NVIDIA can not source enough materials for GPU production. However, all that remains is waiting as we get to see how everything is turning out.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
According to the retailer, the situation with the card is such that the availability is scarce. When it comes to the GeForce RTX 3090, there are very few deliveries, but only a few open orders. The RTX 3080 sees very few cards coming with many open orders. The RTX 3070 has few cards incoming, but few open orders. And last but not least, the RTX 3060 Ti has very few cards coming, and a moderately high amount of open orders. If you are aiming to buy a card, your best chances would be with RTX 3090 and RTX 3070, as they do not have such high demand. On the other hand, RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti cards are almost impossible to source as they all have a big waiting list. Alternate says that they work on a "first in first out" principle of delivering cards to consumers, so if you are not on the list you are likely going to wait for even longer.
65 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-Series GPU Availability to Reportedly Worsen in Q1
First true competitive mid range products came 3 years after 1080, the 5700 series.
I definitely wouldn't call crypto worthless. It stands to replace current payments systems by having far lower fees and requiring much less effort to setup global payment systems (a keystone of modern eCommerce).No, I agree with the other guy. Rory read took over AMD and his goal for AMD's graphics division was heterogeneous architecture. "The future is fusion", remember that? He did not care for high-end GPUs. The R9 200 and R9 300 series were both under his tenure and neither were given much in the way of resources. The 200 series was competitive off the back of how great GCN was, not because it was any leap on it's own. The 300 series was just a refresh of the 200 series and it was pretty obvious at this point that AMD was no longer focusing on high end GPUs.
The only thing you could tell from the 5700XT is that AMD has the potential to compete should they roll out a future generation of cards with that architecture. Only rolling out a portion of a generation is not what I'd call competing, they gave Nvidia the most lucrative portion of the market for free.
I'm getting an XBOX Series X when they become available again.
And the 5700XT... you can claim it was competing, but it wasn't exactly a smooth ride either and really didn't have any USPs besides price... the eternal grail for AMD the past ten years - price/perf. So what really changed with that GPU? Its only NOW that they truly have competitive architecture and something that is somehow better.
These are luxury entertainment products. Not essential. I know it sucks but it could be far worse. Like...I don't know...being homeless.
If you try to say you use them for work, you wouldn't be here complaining about pricing.
Guys and gals, it's going to be okay. We will get through this.
Think of the poor people running GTX 960 and 1060 cards who just want their regular mainstream upgrade but Turing was a rip-off at a much higher price point than previous xx60 cards and Ampere has been hyped for 12 months but they still can't buy one.
Nobody is going to die because of GPU shortages, but home entertainment is centre-stage right now. GPUs are arguably more relevant and important since 2020 than they have been in a very long time; Perhaps since the dawn of consumer 3D accelerator cards...
As for my 2080 Ti, it is mostly used for work; the same for the other GPUs I have in my workstations. The only card I have for entertainment purposes is my 3090 KP card and that is overclocking. Could I survive without the KP card? Yes.
My point is some people in this thread are pulling out some crazy conspiracy theories and are acting like having the latest luxury entertainment products is a right. It's not.
On a scale of 0 (unimportant) to 100 (essential) something changing from 1 to 2 is "more important" but still nowhere near "essential". That's just an example, I'm not even going to try to place PC gaming on a 0-100 scale and it'll likely be different for each individual. I'm just saying that it has a higher importance now than it did pre-COVID.
If you read any more into it that that then you're having an argument with your own internal demons because that's literally all I said regarding the importance of GPUs.
As for the two of us, both of us have hardware good enough to play everything on the market, effectively removing our right to comment with any authority on the needs of those who want to play demanding new games but don't have the hardware to run them. Not that it matters for me at the moment, all I'm playing recently is Factorio which runs on a potato.
Fury X beat it's direct competitor, 980Ti, which was even rolled out specifically to counter Fury X, at 4k, as per TPUs benchmarks. (later on, also at 1440p). Even though it was stock vs stock and 980Ti OCed very well (including factory OCes), that is not even remotely comparable to Polaris and beyond situation.Starting with Polaris, AMD lacked reasonable offerrings in MID and HIGH end of the market.
5700 series clearly and unambiguously, starting with pricnig, power consumption and performance and ending with actual sales, addressed the MID market issue.
That was merely 3 years after Polaris vs Pascal.
And just one year later, we have 6900XT laughing at 3090.
That is the "half a decade" for ya.