Tuesday, April 19th 2022
NVIDIA Launches "Restocked & Reloaded" GPU Availability Campaign
NVIDIA has recently launched a global campaign to promote the availability of RTX 30 series graphics cards with multiple retailers and manufacturers informing customers of increased shipments. The launch of this campaign also coincides with the 5th consecutive month of price drops for NVIDIA GPU prices with the average price now at 119% of MSRP according to the latest report from 3D Center. The stores participating in the campaign appear to have most cards as now available or restocking with some cards receiving minor price cuts.
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59 Comments on NVIDIA Launches "Restocked & Reloaded" GPU Availability Campaign
Granted, regular 3080's are usually gone in 60 seconds. Same with 3060 Ti's.
In fact, prie of RTX 30 series on Chinese E-commerce platform drops day by day.
But who want to buy miners' card?
Remember miners' RX 580 droped to 80$ two years ago.
It all piles on, but I would certainly say mining is a big one in all of these issues. Not in the least because we already saw heavy price increases prior to the pandemic and global supply issues. Mining surges and dies all the time. Its completely unpredictable so capacity isn't bought to meet that demand.
My take on this is we will see improvement, and a big factor here is whether mining surges again or whether it won't, which is again related to global issues, such as the price of energy, inflation, and subsequently consumer buying power. That's not improving, and all GPU mfgrs will have to adjust towards that anyway. So will we see MSRP? We just might. The economy of 'up and up' is a fairy tale. What goes up must come down or it will implode. Perhaps down with a long term slow trend of up, sure, but that trend must keep pace with regular growth of economies. And guess what... projected economic growth is taking serious hits the world over. Still growth, but nothing major, and we have yet to see the full effects of Putin's war.
Consider even just the inflation we're going into now. 10% and more. That's enough to remove luxury items from the 'must buy' list in many households. In the Netherlands, we're likely going to be looking at an energy bill that doubles or triples this year. That's 3K euro's right there, if not more - a literal 10% of modal yearly incomes.
Holy shit free shipping I'm ordering five.
j/k
Still, people from Poland end up ordering their cards from mindfactory via re-shipping companies (€7 for shipping to Poland) because all cards available locally are almost €120+ more expensive than what's in stock there.
Luckily the UK has FE, and not only that they have out stocked all the AIB's who were supplying miners. They have been at MSRP all the way through the cycle as well.
Originally people from places like Norway could order FE from UK, Germany etc. but they clamped down on it early on due to the supply issues.
I managed to get one second drop attempt.
EDIT: Just checked the 3070 Tis on their list, only 1 is available in a microcenter in Missouri. So at this point, they are blatantly lying.