Patterns of Old NVIDIA Graphics Cards Brooks into Russian Market as New Releases
The Russian retail market for PC components slowly getting accustomed to a strong and unfamiliar trend. These are the so-called old NVIDIA GeForce models from the generations Pascal, Turing, and Ampere, which appear on the shelves just as there are high prices and a scarcity of the newer generation graphics cards in the Russian market. Actually, the cards have been sold at Chinese brands as new items.
Which Models of Graphics Cards Are Coming Back in the Market
In the last weeks, for example, the models appearing in the inventory of major retailers include GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1660 Ti, RTX 2060, and RTX 3060, with the cards sold under the AFOX brand, which is a subsidiary of Foxconn. These are however nominally "new" while their architectures were set years ago.
An example cited is the AFOX GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory, a clock speed up to 1392 MHz, and power consumption listed as up to 250 W. These products-brought long ago to the oblivion of NVIDIA's official lines-are now said to be alternatives towards pricier and mostly unavailable cards in the 40 and 50 series.
Market Conditions Driving the Trend
The comeback of these old models has coincided with the prevailing conditions in the component market. With the prevailing logistical, memory supply, and high demand issues for the AI sector, prices of modern GPUs have shot up. Therein lies a market discontinuity because the high demand from regular PC users just doesn't quotient.
These re-released cards are postured as the answer to entry-level and mid-tier system builds. They never hoped to be services for playing modern games on a 4K screen with a high preset, but were an alternative available for consumers.
