NVIDIA during January would have sent 0 GPUs to its partners

The situation in the hardware market is being really complex, but in the graphics card market even more so. Now there is information that NVIDIA would not have sent a single high-end GPU to its partners in January. This only makes the graphics card market situation even more complicated.

NVIDIA would not have sent high-end GPUs to its partners

The graphics card market suffers from a huge shortage and correcting this shortage seems difficult. Some retailers have been forced to pay back customer orders. Others have been forced to limit to 1 unit per customer due to demand for dozens of units. A situation that leads to GTX 1060 6GB graphics being sold for almost € 200.

Hardware Time who have spoken with NVIDIA partners to find out how the GPU reception situation was. They would have indicated that in January they would not have received silicon to assemble their products. Which only adds to the problems of the market.

To try to alleviate the situation, NVIDIA has exceptionally allowed retailers to sell the Founders Edition graphics cards. Unfortunately these units have not reached the stores. It should be noted that the arrival of these models in stores could occur this month of February. By the end of the month, the arrival of personalized models is expected.

It is noted that the stock of the RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 models would be extremely limited. The RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti models will have a little more stock, but not enough to keep up with demand.

At the moment, a normalization of the situation seems very difficult. It is expected that between April and May the situation will begin to normalize, although it is better not to be optimistic. TSMC cannot meet the demand from AMD, who is already thinking of requesting solutions from Samsung. For its part, the Samsung node seems to perform worse than initially expected.

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