Graphics Card Shortage Update: A Promising Sign?

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There's been an acute shortage in the supply of graphics cards over the past couple of years, but some signs indicate it might change for the better. Unfortunately, buying a graphics card remains a mammoth task in early 2022, and the situation is so bad that even scalpers are struggling to get their hands on graphics cards, let alone end-users.

Circa 2022, there are very few ways of buying graphics cards, with the coveted items remaining MIA at most online and offline retailers. Still, Newegg Shuffle is one way to get graphics cards at reasonable prices, while subscribing to various online tools and channels can also help with that. All of that notwithstanding, the situation remains grim for gamers and DIY PC builders.

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While NVIDIA's Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has said that the company expects its graphics card supplies to improve by the second half of 2022, there are now indications that it might happen sooner than expected. While the global chip shortage is one of the main reasons for the acute scarcity in the availability of graphics cards, it was compounded by cryptominers buying up GPUs in bulk as cryptocurrency prices kept soaring throughout the past year. Now that crypto prices are moving south, sales of graphics cards have also started to go down, suggesting that demand from the crypto-mining sector might be dwindling. This is having a cascading effect on prices, with Tom's Hardware reporting that graphics card prices on eBay have also started taking a nosedive.

According to the report, the RTX 3090 price fell almost 10-percent between late December and late January, while the RX 6900 XT price fell as much as 20-percent. Meanwhile, the RX