Thursday, December 3rd 2020
Retailer ProShop Gives a Peek into the Stark Reality of RTX 30-series Supply Situation
Danish online retailer ProShop, via its German outlet Proshop.de, responding to criticism on lack of inventory of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, came clear with the numbers. The retailer tabulated its entire RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 inventory, along with numbers of cards shipped by manufacturers in response to orders placed by the retailer to them, providing a valuable insight into the stark reality of the GeForce RTX 30-series availability situation. We see zero fulfillment of orders by manufacturers for several graphics card models; and very limited fulfillment in cases where the manufacturer decided to fulfill some of the orders, with the manufacturers barely shipping 20% of the cards ordered by the retailer.
These numbers fly in the face of the theory that demand for the RTX 30-series is "unprecedented." If you go by what NVIDIA or AMD say, graphics cards are reaching retailers, and flying off the shelves sooner than stocks could be replenished. This would hold ground if there was a near parity between cards ordered by this retailer, and order fulfillment by manufacturers; which clearly isn't the case. With mounting "outstanding customer (end-user) orders," ProShop.de is having to put pre-orders on hold for several cards indefinitely. The lists can be accessed from the source link below.
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ProShop.de
These numbers fly in the face of the theory that demand for the RTX 30-series is "unprecedented." If you go by what NVIDIA or AMD say, graphics cards are reaching retailers, and flying off the shelves sooner than stocks could be replenished. This would hold ground if there was a near parity between cards ordered by this retailer, and order fulfillment by manufacturers; which clearly isn't the case. With mounting "outstanding customer (end-user) orders," ProShop.de is having to put pre-orders on hold for several cards indefinitely. The lists can be accessed from the source link below.
36 Comments on Retailer ProShop Gives a Peek into the Stark Reality of RTX 30-series Supply Situation
A bit off topic: lots of reports of that happening with ammunition near me. Word is there's a guy at one of our local sporting goods stores, who buys every case of 9mm ammo that arrives himself. Friends have complained to the manager and he says there's nothing he can do about it. They're going to escalate the complaints to corporate and see what happens.
And I know I did similar when I worked Sporting Goods at Wal*Mart back during the Obama ammo rush. If something came in I wanted to buy (.45ACP mostly), I'd stock the shelf right before I clocked out, call the manager to the ammo case, go clock out, come back and meet him there to buy a couple boxes. Nobody in management cared, they saw it as a "job perk" for me I guess.
edit: okay “updated new” the original numbers were in the 1000s..
Demand is certainly stronger this time around, but people are still forgetting that Turing and Pascal were "sold out" for 2-3 months after launch, even Maxwell was hard to get in the beginning.
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Do we have some statistics from shipped RTX 30-cards vs. RDNA2 cards from any of the major US retailers?
Later edit: Hmm, thinking more about it, you could be right, at least in theory. Stocks could be low everywhere, but some shops could still move more products than others.
Even later edit: I added up the numbers in the first and last columns for the 3080 statistics, and I got 3442 outstanding orders, and 1197 cards received, and probably mostly delivered to customers. That means 25% of the orders and preorders have been delivered so far. It's still bad, but not as bad as it looks if you focus on just the most popular models. That is until you realize there have been almost 3 months since the launch. At the same rate, it will take a full year from launch to fulfill all those orders, assuming none of them are duplicates from people that ordered in multiple places, and that no additional orders will be placed or canceled until September next year.
Had a quick look on some sites and it looks like you can't even find out when the 3080/3090 (released late september remeber) will be in stock.