JANUARY 2021 PCWorld 95900X and Ryzen 9 5950X are headed,
Driscoll’s blog said he didn’t expect those
in-demand CPUs to reach MSRP until at least
the middle of January.
IT MIGHT BE EASIER TO FIND
RADEON RX 6800 XT?
The news is looking somewhat better for the
Radeon RX 6800 XT, whose price has recently
started to “plummet” (relatively speaking). The
Radeon RX 6800XT has an MSRP of $649 but
had been selling for $1,277. Prices of the card in
the last week on eBay, however have dropped
by 10 percent to 20 percent, which led Driscoll
to hope that it’ll reach reasonable pricing in a
few weeks. Of course, that’s
assuming there is enough
supply.
With many bitter
complaints by DIYers that
Radeon RX 6000 cards just
can’t be found anywhere,
the number of both red
and green GPUs sold on
eBay give you an idea of
just how bad the supply is.
They are bad for
Nvidia’s latest-gen
Ampere-based cards, too.
As we noted above, a
phenomenal 7,222 sales
have been recorded on
eBay for the GeForce RTX
3080, at a median price of
$1,315 for the $699-MSRP GPU, according to
Driscoll.
The GeForce RTX 3090, with its jaw-
dropping $1,499 price? On eBay, 3,749 were
sold at a median price of $2,250.
The vast gulf between AMD and Nvidia
sales is interesting. Driscoll’s numbers show
scalpers have sold 454 Radeon RX 6800 and
Radeon RX 6800 XT cards. That’s just 3
percent of the 15,224 GeForce RTX 30-series
selling on eBay. However, it’s unknown
whether this disparity is a signal of popularity
or supply. The low Radeon numbers could
just as well be an indication that even scalpers
can’t get their mitts on the new AMD GPUs.Those $299 Ryzen 5 5600X chips are selling for about $428 on
eBay.