Nvidia on RTX stock issues: "Demand has been unprecedented" (pocket-lint.com)
 
 
The ongoing pandemic has clearly affected all our lives, some far more than others. It also continues to affect the tech world, with the games industry just one to have been hit by global semiconductor shortages. Sony cannot make enough PlayStation 5 consoles to meet demand, the same is true of Microsoft and the Xbox Series X and S. Then, in the PC gaming sphere is Nvidia. Its latest 30 series graphics cards are proving just as elusive - selling out almost instantly each time they hit online stores. Pocket-lint spoke with Nvdia's head of European consumer PR, Ben Barraondo, to find out why that's proven to be the case: "When we look at the impact that pandemic has had on technology in general, I would say the most obvious impact is it's accelerated what people are doing. It's accelerated certain buying habits," he explained to us for the latest episode of the Pocket-lint Podcast. "I certainly think gaming is one of those where people are investing more into their gaming rigs than ever before. "Because of that, people are actually doing a few things. One, it means that the most important chip inside a PC has become the GPU. And two, it means that people are spending more on their rig, whether that's higher-end components or a slightly higher end laptop. "So when we look at the demand and how many GPUs we've been selling, I would say the demand has been 100 per cent unprecedented." Even without the pandemic, though, sales of Nvdia cards have risen, especially thanks to the RTX series, with ray tracing, DLSS and other innovative technologies that others (and consoles) are now starting to catch-up on.
 
"We've been trying our best to get more and more stock into etailers. But equally, when you compare it back to previous generations, we've been selling more than ever before," he added. "The stock is getting there, but ultimately, people are now moving to a new part of what is important to them in terms of tech. And stuff like laptops, gaming PCs, are extremely important to many people now. That's what you're seeing the big increase from."
 
So if I understand this correctly NVIDIA is selling more GPUs than last year, but the overall demand is still too high. 
 

It's just rehashing the same thing though.... the demand is extremely high for PC gamers because all the production keeps going to Crypto miners/ Bots .
   ALL the gamers could have been served in the first month with proper sales checks/ address verifications /retail bot protection ,..etc...etc.... &  then the 7 months after that the miner farms can have your mega-sales...
 
-- BUT NO -- here we are still with the average joe can't get anything because very little has been done by most companies to even try to fix the sales problems/ bot problems.

I find this insulting to read. Nvidia pretending didn't have an idea the demand was going to be high. Nvidia sold their GPUs to miners first instead of their loyal consumers/etailers. Many articles and hardware reviewers said that with proof.
Till this day miners are still getting the GPUs and not the consumers.
Some people have lost their jobs due to not getting a GPU at MSRP because they are either overpriced and couldn't afford or the GPUs are out of stock.
The fault is not on the miners or bots, it is the company responsibility to distribute their stock accordingly.

I Don't believe a word of it

The demand for GPUs for mining has never been higher. Just look at Doge/ETH the last few days. Lots of hype! We'll see what ETH 2.0 and the end of ETH mining means for all of this..

That's the thing.....mining is only part of the problem. We're dealing with a silicon shortage, supply chain issues, scalpers, miners, and paper launches where nVidia literally doesn't allow third parties to work on variants until the founders edition is already out. It's a perfect storm of awful for gamers just looking to upgrade. I went to Microcenter today and they literally didn't have any nVidia video cards..... People are camping out the night before the trucks around in the dozens just for a chance to get a card...

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Anyone have sales numbers from rtx 2000 series and rtx 3000 series given the same time frame?  I'd love to see the numbers.  It's hard to believe theyve produced millions of rtx 3000 series when I've yet to actually lay eyes on one in the wild

I agree.  Would love to see the comparison.  Wonder if their 10K or other financial disclosures reveal this data.  Gonna have to dig around to see if this is available.  

People are "spending more on their rigs" because there are no new cards at the old low-mid price ranges.

And poor planning and execution. But it works for them