Already on the street and out of stock, it sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. Neither the PS5 nor the Xbox Series X or S had so few units as soon as they hit the market and they sold like hotcakes. What we are experiencing with the world of GPUs is already reaching limits that are not normal, although in this case it was expected given the range of the card and the price, but… What if there was no stock of RTX-3050 until an indefinite date?
Yes, surely many of you will have done some spotting on this graphics card in stores and as you will have been able to verify… Tachán! It is an almost impossible task to find a model within our borders (there is no Founders Edition version) and it is that directly in Europe it is very complicated, do not repeat yourself and say again that it is not possible. Will it reach the European market? Of course, but one thing is to arrive and another to even have the possibility of buying it…
Why is there no stock RTX 3050?
For many reasons. The first is undoubtedly the current low availability of substrates and various key electronics for them, mainly because the RTX 3050 has a very curious peculiarity that the most attentive will know: it only has 8 PCIe lanes and therefore it needs a specific PCB for each brand which cannot be shared with the rest of the immediately superior models.
The second reason is the concentration of graphics card manufacturers in the market, where Asia and the United States take all the cake while in Europe we see them coming, in this case, from the monitor.
Last but not least is the price. There is speculation, there will be more later and it may not be over until countries start to fight much harder against mining, whatever the excuse. The MSRP is just $249, and while the performance isn’t anything out of the ordinary, it appeals to everyone except…retailers and wholesalers.
The manufacturers set prices which are not normal in themselves, since for the same model one can find nearly 200 dollars of variation with the only exception of the frequency. Simply put, overclocked models are overpriced because they don’t meet NVIDIA’s requirements.
Speculation Shatters the GPU Ecosystem
We could extend it to all the components of a PC, but we will be precise in saying that speculation is today a drama for the user, a problem. Prices of more than 1,200 dollars are displayed for a card that costs, at most and with taxes, 300 dollars.
This fact added to the nullity of the existing stock suggests that mining has a lot to do with it once again. Have the really counted models arrived in Europe? Hard to believe that this is the most affordable card for the public.
And it is that there are stores that do not even have them listed, which already shows that they have no faith that they will soon arrive in their stores. Even in the US they are having supply issues and many prices are skyrocketing with some custom RTX 3050s in stock. It may be one of those cards which, not being a panacea, passes without pain or glory.
