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Why are a lot of GPU's out of stock?

Lomax said:
Your right too, idiots in government printing trillions just devalues things and s the root of the problem.
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That's the thing. While the official figure for inflation is particularly low because they use food and cheap clothes from Amazon to figure out the rate, many people involved in industry and the trades know the actual cost of their inputs is soaring. Also, a lot of manufacturing companies are actually thriving at the moment, never been so busy but their only problem is finding staff and parts. I think the actual inflation rate will be closer to 10 or even 15%, before you even devalue the corrency even more by printing trillions to get out of the Covid mess.
 
Phil2008 said:
I have looked on other sites and there just all out of stock,, why?
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People keep buying them! Some people look to resell them, others mine with them, for the most part people just put them in Gaming PC's.
If there were a few more of them they would be easier to find, but Nvidia and AMD both decided to roll out fairly low yield new GPU fabrication nodes right in the middle of the worst supply shortage in GPU history.

With any luck when enough have been made and sold they will start becoming available again.
 
Look on auction sites you will find people who have bought and sold multiple gpu. As so many people use discord/alerts/bots nowadays it makes it fairly impossible to get one if you don't do the same. The demand is bigger than supply from a) scalpers, b) miners, c) gamers who were told by Nvidia at the launch of the 3000 series that they would be able to buy a card at £469 which performed better than their previous flagship, so many wanted to upgrade
 
Wouldn't it be funny if scalpers invested their money from selling inflated priced GPUs into bitcoin and its price crashed.
 
ASMB said:
gamers who were told by Nvidia at the launch of the 3000 series that they would be able to buy a card at £469 which performed better than their previous flagship, so many wanted to upgrade
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This was always going to put demand through the roof.
 
Do you think a lot of people are aware of a graphics card shortage? I don't think most of the population are aware nor do they care..
Only people that are in the know are those that are either looking for a card or are involved in the supply chain.
Same thing with the PS5, if I wasn't looking to buy one on launch I don't think I would have noticed. In the previous console release apparently there was a shortage also, but I was not interested in buying a PS4 when it launched so was oblivious to it.
 
ASMB said:
Look on auction sites you will find people who have bought and sold multiple gpu. As so many people use discord/alerts/bots nowadays it makes it fairly impossible to get one if you don't do the same. The demand is bigger than supply from a) scalpers, b) miners, c) gamers who were told by Nvidia at the launch of the 3000 series that they would be able to buy a card at £469 which performed better than their previous flagship, so many wanted to upgrade
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I'm still ****** off at Nvidia for this.

Made everyone think there was going to be tons of stock for the 3080 and made it seem like the 2080ti was a useless piece of junk worth less than half of what they sold it for.
 
ScottiB said:
What's the official MSRP for an RTX 3090 Strix OC? Do you know?!

What would you say if I told you that there isn't one?

Since these cards were launched Asus have put their cost pricing (price as it leaves the factory) up by 25% or more (this was announced publicly - most other manufacturers just did it secretly)
The cost of shipping the cards has increased MORE than ten fold.
There's extra fees and charges at the ports due to delays and increased Brexit related bureaucracy.
and, both the retailer and the distributor is demanding higher margins due to limited supply. These increases compound as one cost (margin) is added to the next.

Simple fact is, we've admitted that we are charging a higher margin for our cards than we'd usually do, however, people seem to be under the impression that we are charging many times more. We aren't! Our cost prices have gone up by hundreds of pounds, sometimes by hundreds of pounds in a matter of weeks AND we've had to employ more staff so overheads have increased, yet we're expected to operate on the usual single digit margins? That's simply not realistic.

As for consoles....really, don't go there unless you bother to do your research first. Consoles are loss leaders. Sony make $15-25 BILLION per year from subscriptions and digital game purchases...They could GIVE the consoles away if they wanted to. Therefore, their console pricing is contracted. If a vendor strays from that their supply gets cut off.

There's no such after market revenue source for PC hardware manufacturers so it's a completely different business model. When costs go up, they have to pass that on.
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Acknowledged. There is at least one major competitor who have not increased prices on their RTX range however.
 
4k4uNuNu said:
I'm still ****** off at Nvidia for this.

Made everyone think there was going to be tons of stock for the 3080 and made it seem like the 2080ti was a useless piece of junk worth less than half of what they sold it for.
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I bet some of those people that panicked and sold their 2080ti for peanuts in the weeks before 3080s went up for sale are kicking themselves now. I think I remember someone here boasting they picked a 2080ti up for £350... and you would pay more than that now for a 1080gtx. Hell even a 1070 gtx is getting up there.
 
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