Thousands of dollars of video cards stolen in Russia

Due to Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, many technology giants such as AMD, Intel and NVIDIA stopped their product shipments to the country. After the restrictions, the stock shortage of PC components, including the graphics card, increased in the country, while 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti models worth 38 thousand dollars were stolen by some warehouse workers of the Russian retail company Wildberries.

Graphics card prices are on the rise in the country

Today, graphics cards, which are sold at a much more expensive price than MSRP prices due to mining and stock shortages, are of great value due to the increasing restrictions in Russia, although they are on a downward trend. has won. Noting that each of the stolen cards is worth 200,000 rubles ($ 1931), VideoCardz shared the video of the thieves caught on camera.

While it was reported that he was caught after the business owner informed the police while selling the cards they obtained to a local pawn shop, it seems that access to video cards in the country will become more difficult.