arandomguy
Veteran
I seem like the only that brings this up the online discourse overly inflates retail DIY in terms of how it represents the market as whole. Best Buy has RTX 50xx prebuilts ready to ship. Major OEMs have RTX 50xx prebuilts listed on their website.
GPU shipments I'd also guess from Nvidia's perspective isn't the same as graphics cards shipments much less sales to end users. If Asus has say 100k GPU that they are currently assembling and still working through the channel that's 100k shipments from Nvidia's perspective but not sales from the end user perspective.
I know there's this broader discourse about the possible marginalization of gaming given Nvidia's growth in other areas but I think what people should really be looking at is the even smaller slice of that with DIY retail, or the even smaller sub slice of the traditional enthusiast space.
GPU shipments I'd also guess from Nvidia's perspective isn't the same as graphics cards shipments much less sales to end users. If Asus has say 100k GPU that they are currently assembling and still working through the channel that's 100k shipments from Nvidia's perspective but not sales from the end user perspective.
I know there's this broader discourse about the possible marginalization of gaming given Nvidia's growth in other areas but I think what people should really be looking at is the even smaller slice of that with DIY retail, or the even smaller sub slice of the traditional enthusiast space.
