Now that we are approaching the Nvidia anticipated September 2020 release date of your nextgeneration of GeForce RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ graphics cards, rumored to be the company is Production of some 20 series RTX cards is already ceasing.
According to Wccftech (by way of Japanese news site Ithome), Nvidia has not only stopped production of the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2070 Super, and RTX 2070, but those four cards will also be removed from the list by major vendors soon. That’s the bulk of Nvidia’s current ultra-enthusiastic, high-end GPU segment.
If this feels a bit like déjà vu, you are not alone. Almost at the same time as the launch of Nvidia’s RTX 20 series in October 2018, an increase in cryptocurrency Mining created a shortage of graphics cards. As a result, prices skyrocketed. It also didn’t help that Nvidia had announced that it would stop production of its GTX 10 series cards to make way for the RTX 20 series. Therefore, not only were the cards in short supply, but they were also more expensive than when they were first released. time. The GTX 1080 Ti, for example, debuted With an MSRP of $ 700, but during the outage and shortage, it reached $ 1,000 or more from second-hand sellers. That’s also the current cost of the RTX 2080 Tis.
Assuming Nvidia reports it stops producing 20 series cards are true, we will probably see the same thing happen again, since crypto miners are starting to snatch GPU. Cryptocurrency miners They prefer GPUs to CPUs these days because GPUs have more arithmetic logical units (ALUs), which perform mathematical calculations. That means tHey, you can do more calculations, which leads to higher production during the mining process. Some crypto miners run dozens of these things at once, so ‘It’s easy to see why a GPU shortage happened two years ago, and why it can happen again.
According to Bitcoin, the Bitcoin market reached its greatest difficulty jump of all time today, which means that it is much more difficult for miners to make a profit. Many probably temporarily shut down your machines until it falls again. Bitcoin predicts that asset prices could hit $ 19,044 by the end of this year, so it appears that as long as the mining difficulty remains low, more miners will be encouraged to buy the remaining RTX 20 graphics cards on the market, driving up prices for real consumers. looking to buy just one card for their PC.
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But I don’t really speak Bitcoin. All I understand is “Hey, this could be discontinued soon, so you better get it now before prices go up.” All four RTXs may experience similar price increases as the 10 series.. Given the The 1080 Ti rose around $ 300- $ 400 in price near the end of 2018, the 2080 Ti could end up being $ 1,500- $ 1,600 by the end of the year. Insert sobbing emoji here.
It’s also funny that Nvidia would only discontinue the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2070, although I Imagine It has everything to do with the architecture of the latest generation graphics cards. Ampere is supposed to be a major update to Turing’s current architecture, and the RTX 3080 (name not confirmed on Nvidia at this time) could be 30% faster than RTX 2080 Ti. If that’s true then the RTX 3080 can probably output over 60 frames per second in most games paired with the correct CPU, with ray tracing, too. Why he RTX 20 cards are intended for those who want to spend a lot of money on performance, it makes sense drop those first and go RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2060, GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1660 Super, GTX 1660, GTX 1650 Super and three variants of GTX 1650 as your mid to low range options.
I hope expected RTX 3080 to be much more expensive than RTX 2080 Ti when launched. If there was a $ 300 MSRP jump between the GTX 1080 Ti and the RTX 2080 Ti, then there could be another $ 300 jump from the RTX 2080 Ti to the RTX 3080, which would put the RTX 3080 at a $ 1,300 MSRP, assuming that it really does. have the performance increase to justify the price increase. We have also heard rumors of an RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3070, which could cost between $ 400 and $ 500, which is what the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2070 currently cost.
AMD is rwe’re excited to announce their next-gen GPUs before the end of the year too, so we may need to wait alone a little more for official product launches. Still, it feels strange to hear that these RTX cards could be aimed at obsolescmence very soon, just two years after its initial launch.
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