GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 stock allocations are unprecedented low
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Noisiv
I think it is safe to say that we all knew that the GeForce RTX 3090 and particularly the 3080 would be a product series in high demand.
You're gonna get it now 😀
Cave Waverider
After asking around a bit, none of my local retailers have even gotten a single RTX 3080 or 3090 in since launch, although they have gotten tons of orders. One of the PC shop owners I talked to mentioned their distributor(!) told them that they'd only gotten three 3080s and one 3090 in in total since their respective launches and don't know when to expect any more.
No wonder that cards don't land in retail stores when companies like MSI appear to be scalping their cards for double the price on online platforms like eBay instead...
Sukovsky
Yeah and They even tried to frame it has ‘exceptional high demand’. Disgusting
Sylencer
Still hoping every day that my retailer gets my ordered 3090 strix oc to ship it.
Darksword
Very disheartening to see the low numbers of cards "underway", which I'm guessing means are in the process of being shipped to the retailer.
hamltnblue
Are those numbers in tens or hundreds? If they are single units they cant be accurate.
Quite a few have gone through Microcenter in PA. One day they had 10 on hand. They've had several orders before and after that.
fantaskarsef
That shop alone ordered 1905 3090s. With an average price of let's say €1600, we're talking about over a whopping 3.000.000 (three million) €. That's a lot of money, for a relatively small country. Just imagine what the biggest shops in the US, UK, GER, FR etc. have to order... and what kind of financial frame they need to even order those.
Zooke
One of the worst things about this story is the fact that the retailers have kept silent all this time, leaving us all guessing at the number of cards available at launch and since then.
This secrecy betrays a relationship between Nvidia and it's preferred retailers that is bad news for the customer.
It's not hard to see why there is virtually zero competition at MRSP in the GPU market contrary to other items you might go out and purchase.
Retailers don't seem to compete against each other, almost as if there was a one big cartel.
Bobdole776
We very rarely get to see order numbers by distributors like this, and if anything this is very telling it was always planned to be a paper launch.
Seems they wanted to launch early then ramp up production later, all to beat the competition first. Willing to bet Nvidia knew all about this mess beforehand too but didn't care since they had to be 'first'.
I hope AMD does a better job end of this month with their launches. I suspect it's gonna be bad for both their CPUs and GPUs with scalpers taking the majority of it.
I still remember last year even retailers selling above MSRP for ryzen 3k...
Ricepudding
I mean i'm 700th in my queue, and it has not dropped since release for the 3080 🙁 Thinking this might be a 2021 gift to myself
Ricepudding
I mean they don't make the whole 1600 euros each, i'm assuming maybe around half of that, after nvidia and board partners take a cut, maybe even less
Serotonin
Dear AMD,
No time like the present to gain some market share back. Don't fuck this up.
Sincerely,
soon to be 6900 series owner.
illrigger
Paper implies no stock was ever delivered. The 3080 driving the monitor I am typing this on, purchased from Newegg by clicking the order now button, proves that wrong.
They launched without enough stock to meet demands and knew as much - that's probably true. But a paper launch, this was not.
I suspect AMD will not do much better. The pandemic is still limiting access to manufacturing in Taiwan, deliveries are still being delayed at the ports on either end by it as well, and the shipping partners after the ports are not unaffected either. In the US, it's further compounded by the mess being caused by USPS being fucked with in order to manipulate the election, which is overloading other shipping companies as well. This is about the worst time in history to try and launch a product, and AMD is going to be launching multiples simultaneously.
fantaskarsef
I didn't mean to talk about what they keep from that, just what capital they need to have (in cash or guarantees of course) to even run those deals in the first place. Just from the perspective of cash flow.
HybOj
Guys, why do you support company like that? Its practices are disgusting long term.
"they have the biggest powah" yea that sounds like a addict buying his stuff on a corner from a killer, because he has the best stock. Dont do that.
geogan
Given that everyone sees the same youtube tech heads reviewing the same few cards and all of them saying the TUF was one of best they have seen, I knew it was going to be popular, but those numbers of people waiting on it show just how popular it is - they are going to be waiting a long time on that list I think.
Might be better to get on a shorter list for one of the more expensive models.
I was thinking of the AORUS Xtreme myself since I have the Xtreme 1070 right now for years and happy with its advanced fan arrangement and quietness. Interesting to see the big $$$ boys looking for 3090 also think the AORUS is worth getting, as well as obvious Strix.
Also where is EVGA in that list? Do they not sell EVGA in that country?
Denial
Because all companies are the same, so I might as well buy the best out of all the shitty companies.
labidas
vaporware
Denial
vaporwave
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JamesSneed
Nvidia had issues with meeting demand for the 2xxx series so this time they gave there self one month less time. I personally think Nvidia screwed themselves just trying to one up AMD and launching first. The reality is Nvidia should have given themselves 2 - 2.5 months of stock built up then launched not just one month. Even then they likely would have supply issues but mild ones. I really doubt AMD will have similar supply issues with Zen3 or RDNA2.
PS: I also don't care and will buy the best performance for $500-700 after I see what AMD has in store.
