Why you shouldn’t buy the RTX 4090 on release day

Nvidia’s new monster GPU, the RTX 40-series, is coming on October 12. As exciting as the next generation of GPUs is, I won’t be buying one on day one, and I’m here to suggest you resist the urge as well. We’re no longer contending with a GPU shortage — if anything, we have a GPU surplus right now. The factors that led to a shortage last year led to last year’s shortage were factors like tariffs and component shortages. On top of that, demand from cryptocurrency miners won’t be nearly as fierce of that time around. Don’t underestimate the impact of this coin mining on the GPU demand, either in the first half of 2021, either. . . .