Nvidia RTX 30 series stock disaster — it just went from bad to worse

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A concatenation of factors has rendered high-powered GPUs, similar the Nvidia RTX 3090, incredibly hard to find unless you're willing to spend far more than than MSRP. And it seems Nvidia expects piffling to change for most of this year.

On Monday, the GPU maker informed investors of meliorate-than-expected earnings beyond the board in its starting time fiscal quarter and predicted that demand for its products will outstrip supply for almost of the twelvemonth. The company told investors that stock of high-stop GPUs will remain scarce for some fourth dimension.

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"Overall demand remains very strong and continues to exceed supply while our channel inventories remain quite lean," Nvidia CFO Colette Kress stated in a message to investors. "Nosotros expect demand to proceed to exceed supply for much of this year. Nosotros believe we will accept sufficient supply to support sequential growth beyond Q1."

And then while Nvidia expects to release plenty GPUs into the market to keep its earnings growth, it seems likely that nosotros shouldn't expect high-cease Nvidia cards like the GeForce RTX 30 serial to get any easier to detect for the foreseeable future.

That's in line with reports we heard months ago that online retailers, like Alternate, were expecting the GeForce RTX 30 series stock disaster to become worse before it gets better. This is due in big part to materials shortages and temporary manufacturing plant shutdowns due to Chinese New Twelvemonth.

Gene in the increased demand that both Nvidia and rival AMD take reported for their loftier-end graphics cards during the ongoing global pandemic, and you take a recipe for slim picking on the GPU forepart for months to come.

That said, there are still ways to become your hands on a powerful new graphics carte if you're willing to dive into the churn of stock drops across online and brick-and-mortar retailers. We've washed our best to put together regularly-updated guides to where to buy the Nvidia RTX 3090, where to buy the Nvidia RTX 3080 and how to get your easily on the Nvidia RTX 3070. If you're more interested in an AMD carte du jour, check out our updated guide on where to purchase the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.

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Alex Wawro is a lifelong tech and games enthusiast with more than a decade of experience covering both for outlets like Game Programmer, Blackness Hat, and PC Globe magazine. He currently serves every bit a senior editor at Tom's Guide roofing all things calculating, from laptops and desktops to keyboards and mice.