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JarredWaltonGPU said:
Buckle up, in other words, as shortages are likely for many months to come.
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I'm expecting the next 5080 restock to go just as fast as the first one. But maybe I'll be able to snag one on round #3. Here's hoping. My question is how fast do the restocks happen? I'm genuinely surprised we haven't even seen one yet.
 
JarredWaltonGPU said:
I would really love to see real numbers of sold units for all the 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, 9070 XT, and 9070 cards. Not guesses and made up BS, but factual numbers. I would be very surprised if AMD actually sold more 9070 series cards than Nvidia did for the 5070 series. But that's just a guess.

My reasoning is simple: Nvidia cards command more demand. They outsell AMD by about 8~10 to one is the general consensus. So Nvidia plans for more demand and creates more GPUs, but it's still completely insufficient.

And the story is basically the same for scalpers. Scalpers are more familiar with Nvidia as a brand, there's higher demand, there's less risk of the cards dropping significantly in price. (Remember that eBay takes about 14%, so you really need cards that you can upsell by 30% or more to make scalping viable.)

What's odd is that Nvidia seemed to ship fewer cards to Micro Center than AMD. Again, though, this is anecdotal and I don't have real numbers. Someone said there were 25 9070 XT cards at their Micro Center for the launch. 25 times 28 locations is only 700 cards, not exactly a massive number considering there were 2300+ 5080 cards at MC for the launch, according to the internet.

But I haven't seen any concrete numbers of Nvidia cards at MC locations for the 5070 Ti and 5070 launches, just the 5080 and 5090 launch. Were there 100 per location? More? Less? 🤷 All I know for sure is that the supply of graphics cards is way behind the demand curve right now, across all segments except for maybe budget $300 cards. And tariffs definitely won't help that get better in the near term.

Buckle up, in other words, as shortages are likely for many months to come.
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After reading all the latest screw ups with Nvidia's 5 series, I decided I want no part of their power hungry, melting power cables, missing ROF's and whatever else they find out next.

I was hellbent on buying the 5080 and now I decided I want to go with the 9070 XT which gets me close to the 4080/5080. The fact that demand for Nvidia's GPU has more demand works out better for me finding a 9070 XT at a decent price.
 
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Heat_Fan89 said:
After reading all the latest screw ups with Nvidia's 5 series, I decided I want no part of their power hungry, melting power cables, missing ROF's and whatever else they find out next.

I was hellbent on buying the 5080 and now I decided I want to go with the 9070 XT which gets me close to the 4080/5080. The fact that demand for Nvidia's GPU has more demand works out better for me finding a 9070 XT at a decent price.
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Well, then you shouldn't regret your purchase at all then.

I agree that I would love to avoid Nvidia this go around. For me, my purchase will boil down to whoever has either a 5080 OR a 9070XT in stock at the same time I can source a compatible water block for one or the other.
 
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drivinfast247 said:
My local Microcenter has a bunch still in stock. My nephew waited in line for 3 hours and grabbed one of only 6 Sapphire Nitro+ 9800xt cards available.

As of just an hour ago, many $599 XT cards still available.

I might swing by later tonight or tomorrow and grab one.
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Doesn't your store support ordering to be pickedup? That's what I did back in January, went online, selected the things I wanted to buy, then went in two days later and paid for them. They'll hold the order for up to 72hrs.

Ok just checked and these items are in-store pickup only, they won't let you reserve them as part of the whole three day thing, ouch.
 
Jabberwocky79 said:
I agree that I would love to avoid Nvidia this go around. For me, my purchase will boil down to whoever has either a 5080 OR a 9070XT in stock at the same time I can source a compatible water block for one or the other.
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It's gonna be a few months I think before Alphacool or EK develops a product they can sell. The downside to doing GPU cooling is you gotta wait for those companies to build a solution first.
 
palladin9479 said:
Doesn't your store support ordering to be pickedup? That's what I did back in January, went online, selected the things I wanted to buy, then went in two days later and paid for them. They'll hold the order for up to 72hrs.

Ok just checked and these items are in-store pickup only, they won't let you reserve them as part of the whole three day thing, ouch.
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Correct. In-person pickup only
 
Jabberwocky79 said:
Well, then you shouldn't regret your purchase at all then.

I agree that I would love to avoid Nvidia this go around. For me, my purchase will boil down to whoever has either a 5080 OR a 9070XT in stock at the same time I can source a compatible water block for one or the other.
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I hope I don't regret it. I've been an Nvidia fan since 2006 but the last two generations they have gotten a little too arrogant thinking they could slap an Nvidia logo on a fish and sell it as their GPU.

The size of the Nvidia cards have gotten extreme as well. I believe the 9070 XT is a two slot GPU, possibly a 2.5 slot. I really wanted the 5080 but with all of the issues these cards are having, I decided to switch to AMD.

There was a 5070 Ti listed open box on Best Buys website. Probably someone returned it because of missing ROF's. It's been sold several times and winds up back on their website.
 
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drivinfast247 said:
Correct. In-person pickup only
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Yeah but like, some products they let you shop online for, put in an order that they hold for up to three days. You drive to the store, go to the service counter and they'll bring you your stuff from the back and buy there.

That's how I got my new board / cpu / GPU combo, picked out memory while I was in the store.

ASUS B850-PLUS TUF Gaming Wifi AMD AM5 ATX Motherboard $239.99
PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Hellhound Overclocked Triple Fan 24GB $849.99
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Granite Ridge $479.99
Crucial Pro 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6400 PC5-51200 CL38 $124.99
 
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Our local Microcenter here in Tustin had over 1000+ 9070XT cards today, compare that to the <10 5090/5080's that they get about once a week. Nvidia's not ramping up their production for gaming GPUs at all. They won't until they see significant market share erosion.
 
Not looking great so far. Newegg is wiped, Best Buy is wiped, B&H is wiped.
Microcenter has some stock but with the exception of one Asrock model they are all well over MSRP.

Guess I'll be doing the F5 shimmy for the foreseeable future.
If I can somehow manage to get a Sapphire Pulse or Powercolor Reaper that would be nice.
 
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magbarn said:
Our local Microcenter here in Tustin had over 1000+ 9070XT cards today, compare that to the <10 5090/5080's that they get about once a week. Nvidia's not ramping up their production for gaming GPUs at all. They won't until they see significant market share erosion.
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Yeah I'm seeing the MC nearby with lots of cards. Either the online retailers are withholding stock to drive prices up, or the bots bought everything up, possibly both. Ebay has already started selling them at lop sides prices.
 
Just checked my local MicroCenter. They said they had over 600 cards arrive. They're STILL SELLING THEM IN PERSON - hours after the launch. I think they're officially out of all the MSRP ones and are now selling through the premium stuff (the $800 cards with fancy power phases, tons of RGB, etc...).

I think the availability is actually good.

People who want to buy one online will have to wait for the bots to soak up their share of the supply and then, once they realize there is minimal profit to be gained stockpiling them since AMD is getting a LOT into the retail channels they will trickle back out.
 
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It will be interesting to see how much this was driven by scalpers. I checked online stock at Micro Center and they still have MSRP 9070 XTs (they have 4 MSRP models total) available across multiple stores. If it was a pure low volume situation I don't think this would be the case as I can't imagine they get enough preferential treatment to still have them in stock.
 
thestryker said:
It will be interesting to see how much this was driven by scalpers. I checked online stock at Micro Center and they still have MSRP 9070 XTs (they have 4 MSRP models total) available across multiple stores. If it was a pure low volume situation I don't think this would be the case as I can't imagine they get enough preferential treatment to still have them in stock.
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When you say "Online stock," what do you mean exactly? If I choose "Shippable items" on the MC website it shows a "BUY IN STORE" message on every single GPU. And if I actually choose a store (Overland Park for example) they are showing SIX total 9070XTs in stock.

I think that Micro Center still has stock primarily because scalpers are raiding the online market and not the in-person market. Also there are a lot of ppl like me who don't have a Micro Center within 250 miles+, which means that I must pretty much shop exclusively online in order to get PC parts.
 
Jabberwocky79 said:
When you say "Online stock," what do you mean exactly?
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In store, they never sell launch products online and those are also rarely shippable due to demand.
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Also there are a lot of ppl like me who don't have a Micro Center within 250 miles+, which means that I must pretty much shop exclusively online in order to get PC parts.
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Same problem here though I think their nearest store is more like 600 mi. We used to have local stores, but those long since went out of business or shifted business model. Ever since nvidia started selling 30 series FE through Best Buy stores I thought Best Buy not replicating that for video card launches was a missed opportunity for them to drive business to their stores.

Instead most folks in the US are left with crossing fingers online, living close enough to a Micro Center (or having a friend who does) and/or just waiting.
 
Just checked here in Germany again, after all cards had sold out earlier:

Some individual cards actually seem to survive with smaller dealers.

But at €1000 vs $600 MSRP for the 9070 XT, my interest is zero.

Currently testing a B580 which finally came down to €300 last week, including VAT.

Doing surprisingly well, even at 4k, considering it's 1/3 of the price.
 
Jabberwocky79 said:
I think that Micro Center still has stock primarily because scalpers are raiding the online market and not the in-person market. Also there are a lot of ppl like me who don't have a Micro Center within 250 miles+, which means that I must pretty much shop exclusively online in order to get PC parts.
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MC's are always near large urban centers with a ton of population, they see lots of traffic.

The reason MC still has cards is only in-store purchases and their sales assistances won't let someone buy a ton of the same product. MicroCenter is largely immune to large scale scalping, you might get the occasional person who bought one or two and immediately sold em on ebay, but that doesn't scale volume wise. While the online bots act more like redistributors, buying large amounts using puppet accounts, having them all shipped to the same location / warehouse then selling them online for higher prices. They never have to actually touch anything so they can leverage automation for scale.
 
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