A hot spud: Michael Driscoll'due south update on the land of eBay/StockX scalping continues with a look at the latest graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD. Simply over 53,000 Ampere/RDNA 2 products were sold on the platforms, bringing in $65.45 meg in sales and just over $16 1000000 in profit.

Following on from his examination of Zen 3 scalping earlier this calendar week, Driscoll looked at the turbulent graphics cards market place. Nvidia'south RTX 3000 series and AMD's RX 6000 line have been notoriously hard to find unless you pay over the odds on reseller sites.

Starting with team green, a full of 49,580 Ampere GPUs accept sold on eBay/StockX, bringing in $61.5 million in sales. Scalpers fabricated $15.two million in profit, while eBay/PayPal/StockX took a hefty $six.viii million cut.

Unlike Zen 3, most Ampere prices on eBay accept been increasing recently—the only exception being the RTX 3090. They currently average between 140 and 200 percentage of their MSRP. The RTX 3080 has consistently had the largest markup; its median price on eBay is currently $1,300, 85 per centum higher than its MSRP.

Even the arrival of the RTX 3060 Ti didn't lower prices. "The 3060 went from 160 percent launch price 1/1/21 to at present 210 percent launch price and has recently fallen downward to 190 pct of launch cost. The 3080 is a similar story, from 170 percent at Christmas to at present 200 percent," writes Driscoll.

Founders Edition RTX 3000 cards were most popular, followed by those from EVGA and Asus. Additionally, RTX 20xx, RTX 16xx, GTX yard, and GTX 900 serial cards all increased 33 – 100 per centum in price since the launch of Ampere

There were fewer of AMD's RDNA ii cards beingness scalped: 3,461 appeared on eBay/StockX—merely vii percent of the RTX xxx serial—bringing in $iii.95 million in sales ($944K for scalpers, $615K for eBay/PayPal/StockX).

The cards average between 160 percent and 220+ percent MSRP. The Radeon RX 6800 XT ($499 MSRP) appears the most assisting for scalpers, selling for effectually $ane,229.

It'south not but the shortages that are causing issues. The 25 percent tax on Chinese imports has seen some vendors increase graphics card prices, with scalpers bumping up their prices even more. Both Nvidia and AMD have warned that supply will remain tight throughout Q1, so don't expect the situation to improve any time soon.