NVIDIA Believes GPU Availability Will Improve in the Second Half of 2022

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Enthusiasts who have been struggling to acquire one of NVIDIA’s hotly selling GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards might finally be able to get one by the second half of next year without resorting to frustrating means such as auction sites and the Newegg Shuffle.



That’s according to NVIDIA’s Chief Financial Officer, Colette Kress, who spoke during Monday’s UBS Global TMT conference and suggested that the availability of GPU supplies should see improvement by Q2 2022. Kress maintained that green team has been increasing its efforts amid the ongoing chip shortage, noting that NVIDIA has already achieved some level of improvement over the past year.



“The company as a whole will take the appropriate work to continue to procure more supply,” she said. “We’ve been able to grow quite well during this year, each quarter, sequentially growing. And we...

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[Brian_B]

Seems like I've seen this song and dance before.

You know what else would make availability improve? Not stopping your production to preserve pricing.

 

[Denpepe]

Seems like I've seen this song and dance before.

You know what else would make availability improve? Not stopping your production to preserve pricing.

I keep reading this production stopping message but I don't buy it, maybe they stopped making current cards in preparation for the updated ones that keep leaking but why would they try to preserve pricing? Cards are priced double of the MSRP or more here in Europe why would they want to preserve that? That money is going to AIB's or distributors or even shops but not to Nvidia.

RTX 3090 is 3.199€ here (3.628$)
RTX 3080 Ti 2.199 € (2.494$)
RTX 3070 1.199 € (1.360$)

You can choose out of a decent selection of cards here for like the last 6+ months they don't sell out anymore with these stupid prices

 

[Brian_B]

You can choose out of a decent selection of cards here for like the last 6+ months they don't sell out anymore with these stupid prices

My counter to this:

If a card is on the shelf but with a price tag that makes it either extremely unattractive or unattainable - that's still the same thing as "Unavailable"

If there were adequate supply of cards, vendors would be marking them down to move them - they don't want inventory sitting on the shelves. The ideal is that they are priced so that they sell at a rate that's equal to what they come in with. If you are only getting one card every month, pricing them high enough so that you only sell one card a month is perfectly fine.

AMD cards have been like this for a long while now. Sure, there are some people that will still buy them at some crazy prices, but I wouldn't equate with generally being available.

 

[Dogsofjune]

Yes, thank you Nvidia for the overly priced, too much memory 2060.....

Thank god I kept my GTX 670 and RX 480. Phfft. if we were still on AGP I'd have to blow the dust off of the AIW 9700 Pro