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RTX 2060 12GB review!
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NVidia tell us that there is a shortage of resources to make GPUs and the situation is not going to get any better in the near future.
Question is why are NVidia using what resources they have to make ancient Tech like this?
NVidia don't care about gamers they just care about profit.
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Absolutely! Regardless of spinning LHR edition to the cards, all they have done is pretended to care about the consumer (gamer audience) whereas in fact they want to shift as many units at a high price. Let's face it the measures could have been inserted back in the pascal era.
If there are genuine shortages of components, you would not want to make any additional inventory. Its lots of smoke and mirrors then succeeding in getting the regular public in thinking someone else is to blame.
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Of NV don't care about gamers, which is why they releasing old trash like this, and of course the long-running Nvidia RAM SCAM, where you can buy yesterdays VRAM today. They could have made a proper low-end card to serve those who have strruggled to get a card and who are budget limited, but instead they come up with this absolute scam of a GPU, there's no excuse for this at all.
Paid £300 for my MSI Lightning X 1080ti about a year ago on a B grade from OC/UK, bargain of the decade from what I’m seeing, it’s still working just fine….
I’d love to upgrade with a value for money alternative, alas, none exists…
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With this I have a feeling they found a stock of 2060 GPU's either somewhere they could buy back cheap or some stored that they had not used or similiar. I cant see them going hey can you fab some 2060's for us. Then got them into GPU cards.
tell me about it, could do with upgrading an AMD R9 390 8GB in my other PC but not at these current prices lol
I believe it's based on 14nm, a node that isn't so much in demand.
There is no component shortage and it's all a cover story, Nvidia have made and sold more ampere cards than they have any previous generation to this point after a release yet half have been sold direct to large mining corps and the others which have gone to retail have seen gamers competing against bedroom miners for the left over scraps at insane prices.
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Yep, although some of us see it, its not hard to make out - the anti-miner types may not understand but if you check out the A2000 cards, miners want these and nvidia could have easily steered them to distinguish some extra sales for the gamer audience. No need for LHR nonsense, nvidia are laughing with the bank while people fight over the cards.
Yes there is. Go and try and order a Ford Focus with the options (drivers, blind spot, entertainment, wireless charging etc), and ask the lead time for it. Then ask without the same stuff. You`ll be lucky to get the options one in 2022.
Well Nvidia isn't suffering a huge shortage on their components otherwise they wouldn't be reviving the 2060, the ampere die is obviously the bottleneck for Nvidia and not because production capacity is down rather than demand for Gpus is through the roof.
Also the reason why ford is struggling for parts is they reduced their orders predicting the pandemic would mean low sales of cars but then once things bounced back that production capacity had already been allocated to others so they were left with the scraps.
Companies like Nvidia on the other hand would have likely increased there allocations after seeing strong demand for PC parts due to the pandemic lockdowns.
The 2060`s are already in channel (as is the RX 570`s, but as Gibbo said about 3 months ago - the cost now, for old parts is ridiculous). The 2060`s are not new build parts