Yup. Welcome to AMD snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Looked this morning and everything is at least 150 bucks over MSRP.
Yup. Welcome to AMD snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Looked this morning and everything is at least 150 bucks over MSRP.
Also seems like AMD only cares about the US again. Everywhere else just gets the crumbs, availability seemingly only a bit better than NVIDIA.
Mindfactory never had them available (they don’t ship international anymore anyway), and the other stores that had them (and ship intl) you couldn’t even add them to cart. Same in NL and FR (Rue du commerce et al) Joke’s on them, it just made me decide to keep my money and buy them second hand in 1y when the new shiny thing is on the market.
I would enjoy catfishing a couple of scalpers to give them a stern talking to with a baseball bat. Fucking parasites.
Waiting a year seems the best way to buy anything these days. Skip the hype, save money.
Anti Commercial-AI license
You’d think, but some of these cards actually went up in price over time. In many cases you have to wait a whole generation, and even then with the insane scarcity it doesn’t help that much. Especially since Nvidia started loudly announcing they’d stop production on 40 series cards way ahead of their 50 series paper launch.
Looking at European retailers, a 4090 still runs for the same insane 2500€ tag it launched with, and when it was the top of the line it could routinely be found listed for well over 3K.
Honestly, it’s to the point where the way pricing is handled needs regulatory intervention. In the time the 50 series has been live I’ve seen cards repriced hundreds of euros higher, then presented as launch day prices on “sale”. It’s FOMO central, nobody has stock, no prices are real, there’s zero real competition and it really feels like regulators have gotten involved for way less egregious stuff in the past.