Don't wait for the price to drop! AMD gaming graphics card shortages are even worse than NVIDIA's: Q4 supply plummeted by 50%

According to news from Fast Technology on November 12, as reported by BoardChannels, AMD graphics cards are facing a severe supply crisis in the fourth quarter. Not only are prices continuing to rise, but the level of shortages is now even comparable to that of NVIDIA. Starting from October, the supply of AMD GPUs has significantly decreased, making it increasingly difficult for gamers to purchase cards at their original prices.

In terms of pricing, AMD graphics cards have not only implemented a price increase strategy for several consecutive quarters, but have even adopted a monthly incremental increase within each quarter. Currently, the cost prices of all models in the RX series are at relatively high levels.

This is not because manufacturers are greedy, but because the costs of video memory and GPU cores have skyrocketed, forcing manufacturers to raise prices. Although distributors have maintained their profit margins, the reality is that there is no stock to sell.

The problems on the supply side are even more critical. According to reports, AMD simply does not have many gaming chips to allocate to major brand manufacturers. Starting from the fourth quarter, the supply of AMD GPUs has dropped by at least 20% to 50%, and the monthly supply continues to be reduced.

Industry insiders have revealed that this extreme shortage will continue until January next year.

For brand owners, not being able to get chips means not being able to ship products, and the actual inventory in the market is being rapidly depleted. Against the backdrop of AI computing power taking up production capacity, the survival space for gaming graphics cards has been severely squeezed.

Consumers' hopes for a drop in graphics card prices have largely been dashed. In the upcoming graphics card market, not only will prices be more likely to rise than fall, but the situation of graphics cards being hard to come by is likely to worsen.

Source: MyDrivers (Fast Technology). Content is presented with source attribution. Read the original report.