- Amazon manufactures certain models of NVIDIA or AMD GPU exclusive to the Prime members
- A handful of RTX 5000 and RX 9070 models enter this category
- The idea is to stop the scalpers, or at least throw another obstacle on their way
Amazon seems to have made changes which mean that those who are main members have a better chance of buying one of the new GPUs of AMD or NVIDIA.
As you may not have noticed it, since they were launched, this has been a painful wheelbarrow for stocks with regard to Nvidia Blackwell and AMD RDNA 4 graphics cards, with potential buyers who had trouble securing a GPU.
The club386 was lively enough to catch (via Tom’s equipment) that Amazon in the United States now has RTX 5000 or RX 9070 models marked as “reserved” for the prime members. If you are connected to your Amazon account and you are a first -rate subscriber, you will see these GPUs available for purchase. But if you are not a privileged member, you will not see them.
It should also be noted that you may not realize that these are main exclusives, because this is not reported for those who are connected – they simply see that the GPU is on sale.
To give you a quick example, if you are looking for RTX 5080 models on Amazon (US), you will see that the ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC is an exclusivity for prime subscribers, just like the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC.
On these pages, those who are not prime members will see a box to “join Prime” instead of the usual options “add to the basket” or “buy now” (for GPUs who are in stock, of course).
There are even more of these NVIDIA or AMD GPUs (relatively relatively relatively) available for everyone that the models reserved for the prime members, granted – but there is only one handful of the latter.
Analysis: Movers premium
What is the reasoning behind this? Well, this is another way of temptation of people to register for main membership, of course, but it is also a defensive measure against the Scalpers.
The types of scalping at prices seeking to buy graphics cards in the PDSFP – or models at affordable prices – as soon as they are in stock, to resell to make a profit are a scourge on the GPU world. They made it particularly difficult to make a more expensive GPU (NVIDIA models overall), because they can be raised at even more ridiculous prices, and we have seen exactly this happen on auction sites this year.
Need a main membership for certain graphics cards at least the protective of certain scalpers which, on the whole, probably did not take the trouble to subscribe to a bonus. (Although this is not to say that certain prices will not be, of course – or that they cannot register there and then).
However, this should make a little easier for the bonus members to grasp a GPU. Currently, for example, there is a RTX 5070 Overclockée d’Asus edition available for the members of $ 700. It is still a quarter compared to the PDSF, but there will always be a premium for overclocking models, and with this in mind, it does not look like a terrible purchase. (Or this would not be the case if the RTX 5070 was a better GPU in general, but unfortunately, it is below what Nvidia managed with other Blackwell GPU).
On the AMD side, the more affordable, more affordable RX 9070 GPUs are not available on Amazon currently, although they have been very recently, as Club386 pointed out. They can reproduce once more for a long time, with a little luck, and the situation with the Blackwell graphics cards from Nvidia certainly seems to improve (I dare to say it) on Amazon.
As far as I know, it is a only American program for the moment, and certainly Amazon in the United Kingdom does not execute it (at least not yet, at the time of writing).
