LAUNCHED, BUT NOT AVAILABLE
Elusive graphics cards
RECENTLY there have been a lot of lovely new graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, each with new GPU architectures setting performance records. The trouble is actually getting hold of one. The “unexpectedly” high demand (really?), coupled with production problems have made this a frustrating time to build a gaming rig. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 cards are all over the media but not the shelves, even online. Speculators bought everything they could to resell at a profit. The RTX 3090 is officially $1,499, but the average resale price is $2,250. This isn’t helped by the ending of production of RTX 2000 series cards, the supply of which seems to have dried up.