Thursday, October 13th 2022
NVIDIA RTX 4090 Scalped Out of Stock, Company Tests "Verified Priority Access" Buying Program
It's barely been a day, and the $1600-2000 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics card is already out of stock in leading US retailers such as Newegg. Either the inventory was barely large enough to last a day; or the scourge of scalping is back to haunt graphics card buyers. NVIDIA is testing a new way of retail for its GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics cards, which it calls "Verified Priority Access." From the looks of it, this is copied from EVGA ELITE Priority Access program; where you reserve a graphics card purchase regardless of it being in stock, and when the reseller is ready with some stock, you're given a position in a queue, with a limited time window in which to complete your purchase and place the order.
NVIDIA Verified Priority Access (VPA) program is only available in a handful markets, and through participating retailers. These include Best Buy (United States), Scan (United Kingdom), NBB (Germany & Netherlands), and LDLC (France, Italy, and Spain). One big catch with VPA is that you should already be owning a GeForce GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series, RTX 20-series or RTX 30-series graphics card; and be signed in with GeForce Experience. When your position in the purchase queue advances or opens up for you to make the purchase, you will be notified through a pop-up in GeForce Experience, from where you'll be taken to a page by the participating online retailer to buy your card.
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NVIDIA Verified Priority Access (VPA) program is only available in a handful markets, and through participating retailers. These include Best Buy (United States), Scan (United Kingdom), NBB (Germany & Netherlands), and LDLC (France, Italy, and Spain). One big catch with VPA is that you should already be owning a GeForce GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series, RTX 20-series or RTX 30-series graphics card; and be signed in with GeForce Experience. When your position in the purchase queue advances or opens up for you to make the purchase, you will be notified through a pop-up in GeForce Experience, from where you'll be taken to a page by the participating online retailer to buy your card.
121 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 4090 Scalped Out of Stock, Company Tests "Verified Priority Access" Buying Program
Knowing that the market can bear significantly higher prices, manufacturers have adapted because they are businesses, not charities.
If scalpers don't get burned we can expect even higher prices in the future.
Honestly, the rumours for RDNA3 are all over the place but they range from "about the same as a 4090" all the way up to 4x the performance of the RX 6950XT. For all we know, the 4090 is the better card, but I'm not such a blind Nvidia zealot that I'll buy their stuff no matter what.
I'll buy their stuff if it's better than the other teams' stuff.
Would love to be wrong though.
That likely still makes for a useful market for a few scalpers but it is not a widespread thing to pay scalpers.
I still haven't got that Ps5 or new GPU and my Vegas looking old at this point but I am not buying at elevated prices, many won't, in fact this scalper shit and the downturn is impacting peoples choices and I think many are turning away from pc gaming and thinking f it I'll console game or take up pidgin shooting or something IE f that pcmr shit I'm out, we will all pay if this keeps up IMHO.
So yeah, on paper, 3x-4x RT improvements are extremely likely - because that's just the result of scaling up RDNA2 to the rumoured size and clocks.
In reality, RDNA3 won't be using RNDA2's RT units. AMD's senior vice president (David Wang) can be quoted directly: "RDNA3 includes rearchitected Compute Units with enhanced ray-tracing capabilities". So, based solely on that quote we have to assume that each compute unit (of which Navi31 has 2.4x more than a 6950XT) is better at raytracing. How much better depends on how successful AMD were, but they are unlikely to be worse.
2.4x more units?
1.5x higher clocks?
1.5x architectural gains?
We'll know a bit more in 3 weeks, and I also hope you're wrong ;)
I've really liked the RX 6600 8GB for replacing peoples' old GTX 1060 and RX570 cards from five years ago. It was also one of the first cards to come down in price after the price hike madness of the Pandemic and ETH mining boom. The problem is that it's RT performance is so weak that you wouldn't really ever use DXR in games.
Not sure what's going on but this fluctuation in prices is getting out of hand and nonsensical at all.
There are 2 Inno3D Models for the 4090, one for 2289€ and the other for 2099,89€, and then a Gigabyte Windoforce RTX4090 for 2099,89€.
In all honesty, Best Buy needs to implement more security measures against bots for hot release items. A Captcha and an email code... something.
Now, I hope AMD can think of something new to try too, to get it in the hands of gamers at MSRP, and not fuck head third party sellers.
Am I allowed to say fuck the bots and scalpers on this site two sentences in a row? Well, I am doing it three times. Fuck those third party seller fucks.
@the54thvoid if you need to delete this post and dock me points, I will find it completely acceptable, but I will not apologize for the scourge ruining one of the last hobbies that gives me happiness. :toast:
Hell if you are willing to spend thousands of dollars for a videocard, then you deserve these prices too.
Go outside and touch some grass man, youve been cooped up too long.I'd bet that 99% of those handwringing about how expensive the 4090 is would never buy one if they were at MSRP.
Luxury product is expensive, news at 11. Those that were willing to spend over $1500 on a video card will likely find ways to spend $2k on the same card. they either have tons of disposable income or are using it in capabilities beyond gaming where the income justifies the expense.
On the flip side.... i guess some self-explanatory food for thought - how about we switch from "its a business, not a charity" to "it's a customer, not a donor"??
This is all on NVIDIA at this point in time!