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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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Oh, that’s annoying, half an hour after I checked. Looks like they all went while I was out in the real world.
Anyone want to buy an X570 based system with a weak GPU?
This is somewhat my fear also.
Everybody in the supply chain is looking at the current demand and willingness to buy at almost any price.
They can't help but take it into consideration when determining the prices of future products. "They've got the appetite and they've got the money," is the signal that everybody in the supply chain is receiving right now..
I can't give up looking for a GPU, or give up on PC's, unless I ditch my career (designer) and retain as something else after 25years...
Thankfully I have a decent GPU so at least I can work, but it isn't really enough for my current needs, so I'm just muddling through until I eventually find a 3080 or better. Still holding a faint hope that some day my launch day Trio order might eventually come through.
Thankfully I have a decent GPU so at least I can work, but it isn't really enough for my current needs, so I'm just muddling through until I eventually find a 3080 or better. Still holding a faint hope that some day my launch day Trio order might eventually come through.
Hope this changes when holidays become an option again.
Things seem to have gotten even worse on the stock front over the past couple of weeks. From following the stock alert places, there's been a notable downtick in the number of cards showing up. No FE drops anywhere in Europe so far this month either, and no 3080 FE drops since the beginning of March.
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From what I understand, Nvidia FE stock is terrible, but AMD GPU's are beginning to show up in more significant numbers.
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Nvidia have said the gamer will unlikely get a card until 2022. Waste of a launch, zero developers will do anything with them, nobody owns one.
Source?
If they said that that really implies one of two things a) they aren't making any or b) they're selling them all direct to miners.
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Not just miners, they're really changing their focus to AI research. Large CUDA compute clusters for machine learning. The NVIDIA livestream a couple of days ago was a dead giveaway.
Not just miners, they're really changing their focus to AI research. Large CUDA compute clusters for machine learning. The NVIDIA livestream a couple of days ago was a dead giveaway.
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If more console games had keyboard/mouse support, I would have switched years ago. until that changes, consoles aren't an option for me.
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Read it somewhere, no idea where, maybe GDC. Googling brings up pretty bleak outlooks, the majority of Asia are only receiving 20 3080's according to hardware times.
There has already been people who have been sold directly to for mining, that subject comes up all the time. They buy up everything.
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/n...-to-last-for-the-bigger-part-of-the-year.html
There is something. Also read China gets way, way more cards, wonder why.
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Honestly, the current situation for both AMD and NVIDIA should be a much bigger PR nightmare than it is. It should be on the scale of BP Deepwater Horizon or the Exxon Valdez oil spills.
Mining is horrific for the environment - future generations will look back on this period with anger. Either companies like AMD/NVIDIA need to find a way to stop mining on their cards altogether or national governments need to shut down cryptocurrencies once for all. It's benefiting nobody in the long run and it's inevitable that action will be taken that'll cause the current bubble to burst anyway. Just get it over and done with.
Mining is horrific for the environment - future generations will look back on this period with anger. Either companies like AMD/NVIDIA need to find a way to stop mining on their cards altogether or national governments need to shut down cryptocurrencies once for all. It's benefiting nobody in the long run and it's inevitable that action will be taken that'll cause the current bubble to burst anyway. Just get it over and done with.
I wonder what impact, if any, that this will have on the PC gaming industry in the short and medium term? It was said that scalping of next gen consoles could affect the game producers due to the low level or lower than normal level of end usage reducing both confidence and profitability.
Different situation as PC gamers with lower performance cards can play games on lower settings, but it does make me wonder if we will end up in a similar situation in 6-12 months time, where software companies refuse to commit large budgets for new games that people might not get the full experience of due to ageing hardware?
Different situation as PC gamers with lower performance cards can play games on lower settings, but it does make me wonder if we will end up in a similar situation in 6-12 months time, where software companies refuse to commit large budgets for new games that people might not get the full experience of due to ageing hardware?
With consoles it slightly different in that it will be gamers that buy them off the scalpers in the end. Unless the scalpers are sitting on massive stocks, which I doubt they would be it should not effect the software side. Only downside in the short term might be that the gamers that buy the scalped consoles might have a few quid less then they would have had otherwise to spend on games.
With the PC GPUs, scalpers are basically taking away the cards out of reach from your average gamer and handing it to the miners (mostly).
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Just went the full monty with my daughters B-day present and accessories. If I hadn't bought a card by this point, I would have bought her one as part of her birthday present gifts.
Is that all coins? I guess only ETH really matters here?
I don't think it'll make too much difference in the end. Big budget PC exclusives with high hardware requirements are pretty infrequent these days anyway, and it's still going to be worthwhile for publishers to release ports of most stuff released on consoles. We're definetly going to be seeing ports of the PS4/Xbone versions of many titles for the next year or two though, as is the case every time there's a console generational shift. Especially sports titles and stuff from Japanese publishers, since they want hardware requirements to be as low as possible to maximise potential sales. It took Konami until 2017 (i.e. PES 2018) to start releasing the PS4/Xbone version of PES on PC.
They pretty much admitted they not ramping up production, they relying on demand to drop. I expect most chips are going to AIBs and quadros, and most AIB cards go direct to miners. Nvidia themselves dont send direct to miners.