Graphics cards, a hard-to-find commodity

by Arvi Marie Dacuba (Content Editor)

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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the ongoing global chip shortage. Various factories that produce CPUs, graphics cards, SSDs and computer subsystems were forced to shut down, thus negatively influencing the supply chain. Supply greatly decreased but demand drastically increased. Employees started working from home and building their own home offices, which created an unprecedented surge in chip demand from consumers. In addition, Millennials and the Gen-Z youth have turned to live streaming and video games. Thus, interest in upgrading one’s graphics card for better performance in gaming, streaming or photo and video editing has become a trend. According to JPR, Q3 2021 saw the GPU market's growth boom to 101 million units.

Unfortunately, purchasing brand new graphics cards has been difficult for consumers. Attributing 25 percent of graphics card shortage are scalpers who use bots to purchase them, plus cryptocurrency mining. According to Business Insider, graphics cards’ GPUs are used for their raw processing power to perform non-graphics work such as crypto mining. High-end graphics cards can perform sophisticated mining processes in the hunt for crypto coins.

Nvidia’s CEO and other industry leaders anticipating a more prolonged chip supply drought into 2022. Jon Peddie of JPR points out that a stabilized supply chain won’t be possible until the end of 2022. Home office workers and gamers “will likely struggle to get the latest hardware for the foreseeable future.”

With the high prices and low availability of such, this is where Global Sources comes in. Here at our platform are thousands of verified suppliers offering highly in-demand graphics cards, ready for sourcing.

Hash rate up to 164 Mh/s

Company: Shenzhen Apexto Electronic Co. Ltd

Shenzhen Apexto offers the CMP 170 HX, a 250W 8GB graphics card with up to 164 Mh/s hash rate. It has 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, 192-Bit memory GDDR6 interface and one 8-pin connector.

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Nvidia chipset

Company: Shenzhen Fusoon Technology Co. Ltd

The GTX1600-2698 from Shenzhen Fusoon is a 192-Bit 6GB DDR5 graphic card with a 1660S Nvidia chip, PCI Express 3.0 16X slot and 1,408 pipelines. It has a core and video memory frequency of 1830MHz and 14000MHz, respectively. Product measurements are 224×121×40mm.

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For laptop, desktop

Company: Maxspeed Group Co. Ltd

The 256-Bit 8GB GDDR6 Graphics card-043F from Maxspeed Group features an AMD chip and can be used in laptops and desktops. Core and memory clock measurements are 1,607MHz and 14Gbps, respectively. It comes with a cooling fan. Output interface are VGA, DVI, DP and HDMI. Product dimensions are 260x117x50mm.

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Supports 2nd-gen ray tracing

Company: Eastking Technology Co. Ltd

This 384-Bit 24GB GDDR6X graphics card, the X3090-8096 from Eastking supports 2nd generation ray tracing, a method of rendering highly used in gaming. Memory speed grade and bandwidth are 19.5Gbps and 936Gbps, respectively. This 750W unit features an 8nm RTX 3090 chipset and a cooling fan. It measures 315.5x131x60mm and weighs 1.66kg.

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