For several months, resellers sold 50 thousand GeForce RTX 3000 video cards, earning $ 15 million

While AMD Radeon RX 6000 series video cards are simply not on sale, NVIDIA is trying to launch a mass production of the new GeForce RTX 3000 family with big problems. but the dealers are doing just fine

If we take the big picture, then a reseller is a certain person who has connections with the manufacturer or regional suppliers. These cunning comrades receive goods in large quantities and sell them on large platforms such as eBay and StockX. Undoubtedly, many lucky ones who managed to grab the brand new GeForce RTX 3080 are also among those who made money on the rise in price, but organized deliveries still make up most of the market.

According to the latest postsm, a few months after the announcement of video cards based on the Ampere architecture, resellers sold 50,000 video cards. The average overpayment for each of them was exactly 2 times the recommended price. At the same time, only net earnings amounted to $ 15 million.

The following models sold best of all: RTX 3080 – 14 thousand pieces, RTX 3070 – 11.6 thousand and RTX 3090 – 7.7 thousand. Most of the detected video cards were made by PNY and ASUS. Video cards of the previous generation did not stand aside, which were also sold with a markup of up to 170%. So, RTX 2060 has risen in price almost 3 times, while RTX 2060 Super only two and a half times.