Monday, June 14th 2021
NVIDIA Reportedly Cutting RTX 2060 Fabrication to Focus on RTX 30-series
NVIDIA is reported to be cutting down on production of its highly popular RTX 2060 graphics card, in a bid to increase production of the RTX 30-series graphics cards that still elude most consumers looking to get one on their gaming rig. The decision may be motivated by increased margins on RTX 30-series products, as well as by the continuing component shortage in the industry, with even GDDR6 becoming a limiting factor to production capability.
While one might consider this a strange move at face value (Turing is manufactured on TSMC's 12 nm node, whilst Ampere is manufactured on Samsung's 8 nm), the fact of the matter is that there are a multitude of components required for GPUs besides the graphics processing silicon proper; and NVIDIA essentially sells ready-to-produce kits to AICs (Add-in-Card Partners) which already include all the required components, circuitry, and GPU slice to put together. And since supply on most components and even simple logic is currently strained, every component in an RTX 2060-allocated kit could be eating into final production capacity for the RTX 30-series graphics cards - hence the decision to curb the attempt to satiate pent-up demand with a last-generation graphics card and instead focusing on current-gen hardware.
Source:
Videocardz
While one might consider this a strange move at face value (Turing is manufactured on TSMC's 12 nm node, whilst Ampere is manufactured on Samsung's 8 nm), the fact of the matter is that there are a multitude of components required for GPUs besides the graphics processing silicon proper; and NVIDIA essentially sells ready-to-produce kits to AICs (Add-in-Card Partners) which already include all the required components, circuitry, and GPU slice to put together. And since supply on most components and even simple logic is currently strained, every component in an RTX 2060-allocated kit could be eating into final production capacity for the RTX 30-series graphics cards - hence the decision to curb the attempt to satiate pent-up demand with a last-generation graphics card and instead focusing on current-gen hardware.
54 Comments on NVIDIA Reportedly Cutting RTX 2060 Fabrication to Focus on RTX 30-series
I checked out pricing at my local Micro Center and the same cards going on newegg were priced $300+ higher at the local retailer.
So, either Newegg has the only cards that can price out at MSRP (or very close to) or brick & mortar shops are getting bent over backwards for overpriced cards.....OR the brick & mortar stores are sticking it to the consumers. It can't be possible that one company can pushout the Ti models at MSRP and another can't. Something is really, really screwy.
But in detailed description:
Same old trick, "Availability is limited by the supply from the manufacturer. Orders will be fulfilled chronologically".
I don't feel sorry for anyone that pays in advance for this crap.
And to people not from Poland, yes that's $2500 for 3080.
They also ship from Taiwan so you don't even know if you won't be charged customs fee on top of that (add another 7%). Some of the SKUs listed have no "auto notify". Say a 3080 has 5 different SKUs, only 3 have auto notify option. For 3090 - only 1 has auto notify (it just happens that this option is only available for the most expensive SKU). 3060 Ti - 2 out of 3 and so on.
Let's take 3060 Ti as example - €460 for FTW3:
Add 23% VAT = €567
MSRP for FE variant in Poland according to Nvidia is €422, and that's with 23% VAT included in the price.
730 flashback is a special "show off", lol. it's suitable for world of tanks game only, or solitaire. it's just pci-e slot-cover for people without iGPU lol. i'm ok with perpetuum stock of gt710, but, please, stop making&selling this old scam...
Personally, I don't think the RTX 3060 is a great card, but I was just hoping to get something better over my 980Ti that keep developing more and more frequent high fan spin ups. I got on the queue as soon as the system let me in for the 3655 model. My time stamp for that card is 9:33:49am on 2/25/21. The time has moved 8 minutes and 40 seconds. While on paper I'm only about 25 minutes away, I'll will actually be 25 months at the rate this model goes out. The lowest costing models don't move very often.....they rarely ship those models. Had I went with the 3657 model of the 3060 I would have had one by now......
I've pretty much just gave up trying to get anything new. If my 980Ti dies that'll probably be the end of my gaming with how shitty trying to get a newer, decently priced GPU is these days.
*Sigh* can't even help someone out that way, let's just hope when my queue is up, it goes up to an actual gamer and not a scumbag scalper or miner.