Its not from Amazon though, its another etailer through amazon. And they are charging a 50 dollar premium over msrp.
Some of the websites you have posted do have them in stock, Amazon does and it is the first link you have up.
According to AMD's road map, their high end product for Christmas is the 5970, and the stock's not looking to good for those at newegg or Amazon. And look , they are over 700 dollars again at newegg, and of course thats not AMD's fault, : numbly repeat :'they sell everyone they make'
Its not from Amazon though, its another etailer through amazon. And they are charging a 50 dollar premium over msrp.
Supply and demand. Life is tough. Who cares about fifty bucks when you are already dropping 500.
I don't really see the 580 surviving the price point and perhaps nVidia has cut back on supply opting to provide 570s at this time after the 6970 launch.
It's out if stock at newegg usa, newegg canada, ncix, mwave, amazon, evga etc. There are two crappy brands at tiger in stock.
Looks pretty soft. if the thread bother you so much, just abstain from it and save yourself the aggravation.
Did you see the price in the cart? Wow. I don't think that qualifies for shipping to Europe though.
Did you see the price in the cart? Wow. I don't think that qualifies for shipping to Europe though.
Thanks for quoting that. I keep him on ignore. That link is for a gtx 480??
Thats a load of BS. It might outrun the gtx570 in sli mostly but not the 580.
1 video card in the whole of Scandinavia is hardly..."in stock"^_^In stock in Denmark, and next shipments to arrive the 23.../thread.
nVidia tells us that the supply of GTX 580 cards will be small for the first few weeks
While the GF110 is a large chip with a new manufacturing method and so is unlikely to be in overwhelming supply for a while, there shouldn't be horrendous stocking issues.
gtx 580 definitely wasn't a paper launch since you can still actually buy them. soft launch maybe, but paper launch is just contrary to the facts. I doubt that people are flocking to gtx 580 right now considering that 570, 6950 or other cards are far superior value at 16x10, and at 1920+ it is only ~ 10% faster than 6970 with that amount decreasing the higher you go. lack of 580 availability now is most likely due just as much to late/slow 6970 and its boost for nvidia as it is to low 580 supply. if supply is still low in a few weeks or into mid january then nvidia might worry a tiny bit, but unless and until that happens I think that amd has more on their mind right now honestly.
So lack of retail avalability makes it a fact that there having trouble making them? It seems more like a guess on your part.
Please explain how its a fact like you wrote it.
OR
Do you want to change your statement to "It could be having manufacturing problems"?
Well it certainly could be manufacturing problems but I doubt Nvidia would admit to it. When the 5970 was unavailable for months it could be said demand was greater than supply BUT that was by AMD's own admission due to supply being less than hoped for. I've noticed the lack of 580 availability in the UK. But there are plenty of 6970's -is this because no one is buying the 6970?
Anyway everyone knows AMD are better than Nvidia! :whiste:
People can spin this any way they like. It seems logical to me that while the GTX 580 is a great card, I do not believe they are out of stock solely because they are so popular. They are selling well, but nVidia cannot keep up with the demand at this point.
1) Christmas Gift - $500 for a Christmas present is a lot of money, I doubt that this is going to be a present for another person. Very rarely have I seen someone give another a $500 gift just for Christmas. I could buy that it was for themselves, possibly or a married couple.
2) Value - The $350 570 GTX provides so much more value* over the the 580 GTX. For a 50% increase in price you get a 15-20% performance increase. Is 20% going to make a game playable versus not? I doubt it. But it is possible. The stock levels of the GTX 570 are very healthy and since it is hard to believe that a 580 would outsell a 570, I have to believe that the 580 is in short supply.
I don't think you can spin it any other way. It was not a paper launch, they had stock. But they cannot keep up with the current demand, that is surely smaller than the demand for the GTX 570 and the GTX 570 has plenty of stock.