A reseller in the Czech Republic sold more video cards from his hands than officially allocated on TMall and JD.com
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card officially debuted on March 3 , and went on sale on March 18. About two days have passed, and it is already possible to summarize the first results on the availability of new items. Alas, these results are completely disappointing.
The Radeon RX 6700 XT went on sale, but few people noticed. The two largest retail stores in China – 12 graphics cards in total
As a Chinese resource writes with reference to an insider in AMD itself, … only 12 video cards were allocated to the two largest retail stores in China – Tmall and JD.com: 6 for each Internet site ( a reseller in the Czech Republic had more video cards ) … And although the price of the reference version in local official AMD stores corresponds to the declared one, in fact it is impossible to buy anything – the product is “out of stock”. The same situation is with AMD partners. And you can’t even buy the premium versions of this model, overclocked and with a modified cooling system, at a price of $ 900. It should be noted that $ 900 is the manufacturer’s charge. Given that the recommended retail price of the reference version of the Radeon RX 6700 XT is $ 480 …
But this is in China, and in the US the pricing looks better. So, the most expensive option is the PowerColor Red Devil RX 6700 XT for $ 820. However, in this case, the price is almost twice as high as the officially announced one.
There are almost no reference options on the US market, the only exception is the ASRock RX 6700 XT Challenger D for the same $ 480, and the price of most models is in the range of $ 600-700. But this is – if you are still lucky to buy, since all versions of the Radeon RX 6700 XT are marked as “out of stock” or “out of stock” on large marketplaces like Amazon.
In general, with such “sales starts”, the deficit cannot be overcome: not only are there very few video cards in retail, but also official manufacturers greatly overstate the cost. If once a markup of 10-30% for a variant overclocked at the factory was considered the norm, then the new norm is also 100%. Add the “interest” of resellers, and now the cost of the Radeon RX 6700 XT for the end customer is close to the $ 1,000 mark. And even steps over it.
