The shortage of graphics cards worsens, three months of waiting in Germany to buy one

The availability of graphics cards has long been very limited and it seems that the situation will continue to worsen. All this due to the fever of cryptocurrency mining that has reduced the stock of cards in stores to levels of having to make waiting lists of three months to buy one.

3 months wait to buy graphics cards

We have already warned that the energy consumed by cryptocurrency miners reaches the electricity consumption of a country with 17 million inhabitants, this makes AMD's graphics cards, and increasingly those of Nvidia, go directly to the miners hands.

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One of Germany's largest retailers MindFactory has emailed Tom's Hardware in response to a shortage of high-end graphics cards. The arrival of new stock is expected in at least three months, which means that it is the time that users will have to wait in case they want to buy a GPU. MindFactory claims that it has ordered the cards but that they are not able to give them an exact delivery date due to high demand from the miners. He ensures that the situation affects the whole of Germany or even the entire European Union.

In the case of Spain we can see how it is almost impossible to find a Radeon RX 470 or higher in stores, they have even been seen on portals such as amazon for prices that exceed 600 euros, double its official sale price.

Source: techpowerup