5870 out of stock all time!

[witcherx]

Why is 5870 out of stock all time?
Are gamers buying this card like never before?
Or there is limited supply?

 

[EXT64]

I see a couple in stock here in the US at Newegg, but a couple are out of stock as well. While i am sure the card is selling well, I have a feeling we are still seeing the manufacturing issues/slowness as before. Hopefully this will get sorted out soon, as this is not good for either company or the consumer.

 

[marney_5]

I cant find alot out there! There's barely any on my favourite websites like http://www.ebuyer.com/ or http://www.overclockers.co.uk/. If gamers are buyer these like crazy then they could do the decent thing and put some damn reviews up!!!

 

[purplefire]

I read somewhere that apparently ATI went around buying all of them to put in some new computers?

 

[gamerk316]

Basically, everything I'm hearing is that AMD can't produce the cards quickly enough to meet demand. It looks like a supply problem, and not a demand one though...

Considering the opening NVIDIA gave AMD, you'd think they had sure to have enough stock to take advantage...

 

[witcherx]

Yeah. true. big corps are snuffing out the cards out of our reach...

Latest : 5800 availablity compared to similar availability of pigs in tehran.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16052/1/

LOL!

 

[Annisman]

Haha, makes me giddy that I was able to buy two 5870's from newegg on the first day of release.....

 

[OvrClkr]

AMD did not have enough GPU's for the launch....

You can get one here :

http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Computer-Components-/3667/i.html?_nkw=5870&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

 

[Mousemonkey]

TSMC are getting the blame for this one, AMD are whiter than white and totally not at fault in any way, shape form or fashion.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20091019090446_AMD_Vows_to_Improve_Availability_of_ATI_Radeon_HD_5000_Graphics_Cards_In_Weeks.html

 

[OvrClkr]

Well all I can say is that when Nvidia launced the 200 Series there was no shortage whatsoever.....

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well all I can say is that when Nvidia launced the 200 Series there was no shortage whatsoever.....

I had to wait for two months after release to get my 8800GT's. [:mousemonkey]

 

[jennyh]

Well all I can say is that when Nvidia launced the 200 Series there was no shortage whatsoever.....

And there was no shortage of r700's either. Lets compare evergreen availability to fermi availablity now.

 

[OvrClkr]

haha, was waiting for you to comment....

Anyways I am not talking about Fermi, you have to agree that AMD's shortage has to do with releasing their 5xxx series so quickly. If they would have waited a month or two this would not be happening.... Not that it affects AMD in any way but just like I said the day of the launch, YOU WILL SEE A FEW ON E-BAY FOR SALE ......

 

[jennyh]

Why wait when you have cards? I already have a 5850 (unfortunately it's RMA'd), so do tens of thousands of other people. Why sit on them when they can be sold?

 

[jennyh]

Also understand that fermi will have these exact same issues. There are limits to how fast chips can be made, and you can be sure that AMD is buying every wafer they can.

Fermi will probably be a lot worse actually, given the size of the chip and yields I would expect no more than a trickle of them at first and continuing issues for weeks afterwards.

 

[OvrClkr]

Well if Fermi comes out to be an overpriced GPU then I doubt there will be shortages since most will be able to buy a 5 series for much less, but if it sells in the same price-range then we will see shortages....

 

[Annisman]

Well all I can say is that when Nvidia launced the 200 Series there was no shortage whatsoever.....

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the price tag of the GT200 series at launch had something to do with that... 650$ for a card about 10% better than the 9800GX2 (performance at launch).

Think about it...

 

[haxs101]

Ha, I got my sapphire 5870 about 3 weeks after launch from newegg. I guess I'm lucky (;

 

[OvrClkr]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the price tag of the GT200 series at launch had something to do with that... 650$ for a card about 10% better than the 9800GX2 (performance at launch).

Think about it...

Yea and the 4870x2 was priced at 550.00$ when it came out as well .. Then the GTX 295 dropped and ATI dropped the price by almost 150.00$

 

[OvrClkr]

My point is that regardless of the price tags Nvidia had more than enough GPU's for the market. I was one that was making sure of this since I wanted to buy a couple and put them on e-bay... Of course that didnt happen since they were overpriced anyways. It was not like the PS3 and 360 where you could get in line with a couple of buddies and buy several units and later on put them on E-Bay....

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

At 100$ less and 30+% performance, what is your point?
Also, the longer nVidia takes, the less buyers there are.
I know some people favor certain things, but after all, all cards are made at TSMC, and thats where the supply side has to go thru. Its a new process on more radically changed cards, as said by ATI itslef, tho not as much a chnage as the 19xx series to the 2xxx series. All on a previously troubled process (see 4770), so yes, rushing them out the door to get sales and early entry has caused some slow downs, but preorder now, and youll have one soon. No biggie, and by the time Fermi comes around, all these things will have been worked out even further.
If thats what youre trying to say, I agree, but just because theyre nVidia wont make a 3 billion transistor card on a completely brand new arch come out faster, or in higher supply. Just a few things to think about

 

[OvrClkr]

" At 100$ less and 30+% performance " ????? How can you assume this?

Did you mean comparing the 5870 to the 295?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

No, the 4870x2 to the 650$ 280

 

[OvrClkr]

Ahh very true... Don't know what Nvidia was thinking....

 

[soundefx]

Ahh very true... Don't know what Nvidia was thinking....

Nvidia was thinking money, money, money, money,... money,......... MONEY..............!!!!!