Many recently introduced PC components are currently only available poorly or not at all. This is noticeable in processors and graphics cards: Both AMD’s “Big Navi” models Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 as well as Nvidia’s ampere series GeForce RTX 3000 are currently bad available. Ryzen – 5000 – CPUs are almost impossible to get and the previous models are also more expensive.

AMD has its own reference designs of the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 at the 18. November 2020, followed a week later by partner manufacturers with their own versions. No major German retailer currently has the graphics cards in stock – the current order prices are correspondingly excessive.

According to its own information, the Danish retailer Proshop with a branch in Germany only has 100 RX – 6000 – Cards and 25 XT models received; 18 more are on the way. It doesn’t look much better at other shops.

Relaxation GeForce RTX 3000 At Nvidia, the situation is gradually easing: The GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3070 are occasionally in stock, However, interested parties must add at least 120 euros to Nvidia’s price recommendation. The GeForce RTX 3070 is from 700 Euro available (RRP: 500 Euro). The big sister GeForce RTX 3070 interested parties hardly get any.

Opposite heise online retailers have let it through that meanwhile a steady swing 3000 er-GeForce graphics cards from manufacturers, which are sold out almost immediately.

Ryzen 3000 will be more expensive AMD’s Ryzen models are particularly popular with processors. The Ryzen – 5000 – CPUs presented at the beginning of November are currently, if at all, only available at outrageous prices – for example the six-core Ryzen 5 5600 X for occasionally round 500 Euro.

In the meantime, however, prices for the old generation are also increasing: The popular entry-level recommendation Ryzen 5 3600 was available for months for under 150 euros, now costs but at least 180 Euro. Among other things, high freight costs could contribute to the price increase: Due to high capacity utilization, freight forwarders in Asia charge two to three times the prices, as several manufacturers have informed us Taiwanese business magazine Commercial Times reports that AMD is currently relocating its own wafer capacities at the chip contract manufacturer TSMC to the game consoles Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X as well as S focuses. Knapp 120. 000 Wafers with 7 nanometer structures are expected in the fourth quarter 2020 roll off the tape with the appropriate combination processors. For the start of sales, Sony and Microsoft need particularly high quantities – from 2021 the situation should relax.

However, the delivery situation is also tense for entry-level CPUs with global foundation technology. Athlon models are currently not available. For less than 89 Euro, AMD currently only offers the four-core Ryzen 3 3200 G (from 89 €). Intel processors are meanwhile readily available at low prices, which is why c’t has the core in the optimal budget PC 2021 i3 – 10100 F built in.

(mma)