RTX 30 GPUs suddenly in overabundance implies Nvidia might postpone
In the span of a few months, Nvidia’s GPU issues have gone from one extreme to another. The RTX 4000 series’ ETA is expected to be affected by this.
It was either extraordinarily fortunate or willing to spend a lot of money during the epidemic due to a perfect combination of supply chain shortages and a cryptocurrency gold rush.
Now that things have calmed down and the cryptocurrency market has collapsed, you can buy GPUs at their original MSRP.
Because of rising energy costs and a worldwide cost-of-living issue, hard-up folks don’t have the money to buy new graphics cards.
That would imply, according to YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead(opens in new tab) (MLID), that Nvidia wants to hold off on unveiling the RTX 4000 until November or perhaps December in order to allow merchants time to clear up their inventory of suddenly accessible Ampere cards.
“We’ve been obliged to accept tens of thousands of high-end Ampere cards we don’t want or are convinced we can sell them over what we bought,” one of MLID’s sources admitted to them.
According to another, “We’ve got a warehouse bursting at the seams with low-end Turing cards we spent $200 to $300 for depending on the SKU.”
An excerpt from a third source states, “Massive overstocking, price is sinking like a rock.” Price cuts are happening all the time.
RTX 3000s will be much more difficult to move if a new generation of Nvidia cards appears out of nowhere. RTX 4000 cards, according to one idea, won’t be released until 2019, since Nvidia’s Lovelace GPUs should have been ready by then.
An previous report from DigiTimes(opens in new tab) suggested that businesses like Nvidia were seeking to reduce chip orders they had already ordered from TSMC. This seems to corroborate that claim.
According to the article, Nvidia was obliged to change its plans and tell TSMC that it would postpone and cut its initial wave of orders because of the enormous quantity of second-hand cards on the market and the lower-than-expected demand for gaming PCs (via Google Translate).
Advantage for AMD? Or the consumer?
AMD and its future RDNA 3 GPUs might take use of Nvidia’s inertia and its current state of inertia. A reliable insider predicts that AMD’s next-generation graphics cards will arrive around the middle of November, potentially as early as October.
If that’s the case, AMD might gain a significant lead over Nvidia in the GPU competition, enabling gamers who are impatient to switch to AMD rather than Nvidia. If both sets of rumors are true, then it all relies on how trustworthy they are.
In the long run, the customer is likely to come out on top. We’re now facing the very real potential of GPUs being offered below MSRP, which was unfathomable six months ago, thanks to the abundance of stock.
That being said, what would be our suggestion? Don’t be hesitant to take advantage of the approaching Prime Day bargains, which will give you an indication of how low prices may go.
When updating your graphics cards, you may want to wait till Nvidia and AMD are working on “monster” graphics cards.
You may also check out our tutorial on how to figure out what kind of graphics card your PC has.