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There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory

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There's a looming GPU supply crisis, which means prices are likely to get a whole lot worse. And it's not just because of memory

A couple weeks back I noted that I'd been tracking GPU prices on an almost weekly basis for a year now, and that things have never been worse. Well, PC Partner—one of the biggest manufacturers of graphics cards you've probably never heard of—suggests it's going to get even worse. And probably quickly.

PC Partner makes a ton of graphics cards for its consumer facing brands Zotac, Inno3D, and Manli. I've visited one of its main factories in Dongguan, China, and it's production lines are big. So when Singaporean outlet, The Straits Times, notes the company as saying that the supply of graphics cards is going to get real tight in the coming months it's worth listening.

And the worst part about it is that apparently it's going to be the entry level cards that will be the most adversely affected. With severe shortages comes increased prices, and while Nvidia cards with VRAM capacities of 8 GB haven't had the spiking price tags of their more heavily memory'd cousins, it looks like it won't be long before they do.

Benchlife, reporting on the PC Partner announcement , has itself confirmed that supply of Nvidia's RTX Blackwell GPUs in the third quarter of this year is below the second quarter, and that supply at the end of the year will be even lower than that. It also notes that this isn't purely down to the constrained supply of GPUs and memory owing to the demands of the data centre elites, but that other parts of the graphics card manufacturing process—such as PCBs and power componentry—are also suffering from long lead times compared with last year.


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