I found it interesting that you didn't start with Any stock of Asus TUF 4090's. This was my only interest. Hopefully they will arrive in high quantity.
they need to be at least 500+ units. I wonder if NVidia deliberately stock low levels of Founders Editions to keep prices over inflated. Pretty Scummy practice.
I belong to a discord that shows how many PC players are playing what game. 462K would upgrade if they could actually get a 4090.
And yet stock levels are what? 1k units a month per retailer.
If NVidia had 20K+ of the founders Edition units yesterday, they would be sold out by 5pm. Not 5 minutes.
Sowith this industry and its practices.
Our indications were this SKU was the one that was been targetted by BOTs and Scalpers, as such we put it live and then pulled it 2s later, so most people never spotted this product go live, in that fraction of time we sold over 3/4 of the stock, a whopping 30pc.
What people need to realise is I CANNOT get 500pc of one single card, Asus probably had like less than 150 units for the entire UK and then shared them out and now won't ship any more due to lack of margin on entry level product, deja vu 3080 all over again.
We did well to nearly have 1000 cards for launch day, we've now shipped around 850-900 units out, probably one of the best performance in the UK even though our website was trying to make life difficult for all.
These short stock situations, scalping is all extremely annoying for us and the genuine customers, launches on GPU's just seem a nightmare now, I wish for the day of GTX 970 again where I had like 5000 cards on day one, now were lucky to get 1000 cards and there is like ten fold demand, maybe manufacturers need to be delaying launches a lot more and stock piling.
CPU launches are not an issue as demonstrated with the Ryzen 7000 series, of which we have now shipped over a 1000 units and not had a single issue and having thousands secured for stock was done and in our warehouse.
So yes I agree with you, it really is not easy, but at the same time these newer GPU's are extremely complex they are vastly different to the GPU's old, for a starters they have 24GB VRAM compared to 4GB, the actual GPU is vastly bigger and the coolers are much bigger, so the resources to make these new products is on a whole different scale and yet demand seems to continue increasing, apart from the 3080 blip, but 4090 we knew it would be good, but again demand was above expectations of what anyone could anticipate for a £2000 GPU.
We will keep pushing and looking for ways to improve and hopefully the rest of the GPU market will do so as well.
