PC Perspective: Where Have All the 6970s Gone?

[TheAdvocate]

A little bit of a tangent...

BF3 is going to bring on a tidal wave of GPU and other machine upgrades. I suspect it'll be unprecedented in terms of #'s.

So, if you're AMD or nVidia, do you wait and clear out all remaining gen stock for BF3 release, or do you rush to market with next gen hoping to absolutely own the next 6-9 mos launch period?

Maybe it depends on the benchmarks, and if the current gen hardware can handle the game at enthusiast settings? If it will stutter at 1080p on HD 6xxx and GTX 5xx hardware, don't you want to be the first to market with an option that will render the game smoothly with all the eye candy turned on?

 

[Kenmitch]

It still doesn't make sense to me, IMO. If they were a 4-6 weeks out from any "exciting" parts, rumors of specs and benchmarks would be trickling out by now - ESPECIALLY if it were high end cards.

That's the only strange part about it....Seems like AMD is pretty tight with leaks these days. I'm sure working silicone is in production already. It would seem that some kinda inventory controll would be the norm when switching to next gen very soon.

Was kinda strange to see a post of this nature by a MOD and so far it's not blown up!

 

[Genx87]

Plenty of 6970s at the Egg...this thread is full of green fail.:thumbsdown:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102918
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150517
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161356

Oh grow up.

This was my observation a couple days ago between newegg and another etailer.

6970 across both etailers - 14 listings, 3 in stock.

570 across both etailers - 35 listings, 31 in stock
580 across both etailers - 41 listings, 37 in stock


There was or is certainly a supply issue for these cards. Whether or not that gets fixed shortly is anybody's guess. But this has been going on for a month or so and is now talk is starting to circulate and questions being asked wtf is going on.

 

[dakU7]

How do we know for certain that this is a supply issue, and not miners eating up the stock?

 

[96Firebird]

How do we know for certain that this is a supply issue, and not miners eating up the stock?

All depends on how much you trust the source. Manufacturers would know more than most what the issue is, and the source claims to know two of them.

 

[Firestorm007]

The strangest part in all of this, is the 6990. I know that it's a top tier part, but I always remember seeing 5970's on Newegg; even when the 6 series was being introduced. You'd be lucky to see one of these suckers a month pop-up in stock. I can see how their good at Mining and all; but you typically only see one here and there from a manufacturer; and they're only in stock for like an hour before they're gone. It just doesn't make any sense.

 

[Red Storm]

The strangest part in all of this, is the 6990. I know that it's a top tier part, but I always remember seeing 5970's on Newegg; even when the 6 series was being introduced. You'd be lucky to see one of these suckers a month pop-up in stock. I can see how their good at Mining and all; but you typically only see one here and there from a manufacturer; and they're only in stock for like an hour before they're gone. It just doesn't make any sense.

The 6990 is one card I definitely think bitcoin mining can have an impact on. Stores don't carry very many of them in stock to begin with because they are very niche cards, and I think serious Bitcoin miners are buying them up.

 

[hdfxst]

The 6990 is one card I definitely think bitcoin mining can have an impact on. Stores don't carry very many of them in stock to begin with because they are very niche cards, and I think serious Bitcoin miners are buying them up.

I posted a link on the bitcoin forum of 6990 in stock and they are gone today