Might throw in a ~200 EUR card, just for keeping ratios (
L'Inq).
What are the corresponding numbers on, say HD 6870 and GTX 460 - just to put 6970 and 580 into perspective?
IOW: what's the point?
Seems the point is that Demand for GTX 580 may or may not be huge, but supply does appear constrained.
While the absolutely value of products received by any given e-tailer will vary, the ratio of product received should be somewhat similar, unless that e-tailer has a perference for one IHV or another, or is being blacklisted by one AIB or another.
The contrast is even more stark when you consider the 300 GTX 580 number is all stock received and sold including launch + ~1 month additional shipments. Whereas 500 6970 represents launch numbers only.
It would have been more interesting if we also knew the numbers they have sold for GTX 570.
And goes back to ongoing discussion about whether smaller Cayman die will generate as much profit or be easier to manufacture than the larger GF110 die.
Then again perhaps AIBs with Nvidia products don't like OCUK while AIBs with ATI products like OCUK more than other e-tailers on the net.
It's one data point which indicates that demand for GTX 580 is higher than supply. But we already knew that. And implies that supplies for Cayman might be greater than double (if in 1 month OCUK only receives another 100 6970's) to triple or more (if in 1 month OCUK receives say another 500 6970's) that of GF110. Although without numbers for GTX 570 (IE - are there more defective GF110 dies going into GTX 570 than the ratio of 6970/6950?), there's no way to even guess at that.
I not aware of OCUK being partial to one vendor or another so, I'm making an assumption that the ratio of product they buy and sell is roughly similar to the ratio of product other e-tailers buy and sell.
Regards,
SB
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