Right now,Nvidiais having a tough time of things. With theFederal Trades Commission suing the tech companyover its attempts to purchase the British chip firm ARM, “team green” is finding itself in hot water with all manner of influential names and governing bodies. On top of that, Jensen Huang and co are looking to unleash a slew of graphics cards into a market that has been experiencing supply shortages for the better part of a year. Its latest product is the rebranding of its 2019 card, the RTX 2060, but with 12 GB of RAM. With retailers already saying they don’t have enough in stock, Nvidia is insisting that supplies will be plentiful soon.
In a recent report, it seems as though many are finding it difficult to get hold of the RTX 2060 12 GB card, with US and UK retailers like Best Buy, Newegg, Scan, B&H, and others not even listing the product. However, speaking to PC Gamer, a spokesperson forNvidiareassured that the GPU was out, with the on-shelf release date being December 7, and that availability can be expected to “ramp starting the end of December through January.” If true, this means that those looking to buy the rebranded card may be out of luck if they are after one in time for Christmas.
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Within moments of the GPU being released, or re-released in this case, retailers expressed concern aboutinsufficient stock of Nvidia’s RTX 2060 12 GB. The UK PC hardware specialist Scan said that it was unable to list the item on its own website, adding that it did not want to take in pre-orders for it when the company wasn’t even sure when customers would be able to receive the product.
This doesn’t bode well in general for getting hold of the new-yet-old graphics card. The fact that it’s based off nearly three-year-old technology, built on the Turning architecture, it was never going to beat the likes of the RTX 3090, or therumored RTX 3090 Ti, but it was ideally supposed to be a low-to-mid tier GPU that could potentially fill a gap in the deficit. This doesn’t appear to be the case.
With thetech shortages expected to go on until possibly 2023, companies likeNvidia, AMD, and newcomers Intel, are going to have a tough time getting its graphics hardware into the hands of customers. However, with team green seemingly still on the warpath to keep putting out new products, even in the midst of the fiasco over the ARM merger, the company doesn’t appear to be undetermined by these pitfalls.
