Just like AMD, things went unexpectedly well for Nvidia int he second quarter of this year, even though the the crypto market decline was heralding a gloomy period. Nvidia managed to pull this off by forcing some AIB partners into overstocking Pascal GPUs, and the green team is doing this again with 10 major partners that were forced to contract shipments for the RTX 2000-series in order to be the first to deliver the new cards.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-is-forcing-AIB-partners-into-RTX-2000-sereis-contracted-shipments-despite-GTX-1000-series-overstock.324260.0.html