That's actually what the CFO said at an investor meeting, so it is not just rumor. However, she referred to them still selling 2060's, so this seems to similarly be a way to create more supply in the face of production shortages, not actually an intended part of the normal line-up once those shortages end/alleviate.
It is normal for there to be a transitory period where previous gen is still being sold because the new gen of a similar tier is not released yet. This seems to be about still selling older cards next to the newer cards of the same tier.
If there's a mining crash I wouldn't be surprised if nVidia doesn't bother releasing AD106 on desktop until the carnage clears out... or maybe never. I think the main focus of AD106 and AD107 is going to be mobile.
One of the issues with the current market is that the second hand market has low supply as well because many people are sticking with their cards and some older cards are good at mining, so that creates more room for relatively low performance new cards, but if the second-hand market is flooded, new cards become less competitive compared to second hand.
@Timorous
32 GB seems a bit excessive for a card with mediocre video editing support by software. 16 GB for a cheaper price seems more reasonable. Perhaps offer both with one clocked higher and such?
If there's a mining crash I wouldn't be surprised if nVidia doesn't bother releasing AD106 on desktop until the carnage clears out... or maybe never. I think the main focus of AD106 and AD107 is going to be mobile.
Won't matter if AMD launches a new card in that segment. I doubt NVidia will want to stretch the 104 die all the way down to the 4060 just to have something out. Even if AMD doesn't launch until later it still won't matter.
and wait until AD-102 and AD-104 dies come down in price.
Microsoft Flight Simulator fans will go nuts for that.2.5x raster opens up the possibility of an 8K card.
Navi 31 would have to be 512-bit for 32+ GB . Which could happen but unsure if they would really that. AD102 is 384-bit so 24 GB max.
AMD could do double sided I guess. Will say that I would expect 2 GB chips to be used for the most part.
Nvidia stock stumbles after Baird voices concern about graphics business
Shares of Nvidia Corp. shares were slipping Monday after an analyst took a more cautious outlook on the company’s gaming business.
Baird’s Tristan Gerra downgraded Nvidia’s stock NVDA, -1.68% to neutral from outperform, writing of his concerns about excess inventory for consumer graphics processing units (GPUs). The shares were off 5.1% in afternoon trading.
“We believe order cancellations recently started in consumer GPUs, driven by excess inventories, a slowdown in consumer demand (reflected by an ongoing reduction in graphic cards pricing), slowdown in PC demand, and the Russia embargo,” he wrote in a note to clients.
Gerra thinks that the consensus view might be underestimating the percentage of Nvidia’s consumer GPU business that’s linked to Russia. Additionally, he believes that demand has dampened in China, which he said represents an estimated 25% to 30% of the market for consumer GPUs.
Further, he worries about the upcoming Ethereum fork, which is expected to drive reselling of GPUs no longer needed for Ethereum mining. That dynamic could put additional pressure on prices, Gerra wrote...
You do realise that the RTX A6000 has 48GB of VRAM on a 384bit bus, the 3090Ti could be 48GB too if they stuck VRAM on the back of the card again.
Yields are extremely good on N5 which actually makes things simple. They shouldn't need to do more than one cut except for AD102.
It doesn't matter if yields are good. They still need to bin the silicon
If that ends up being an issue then possibly they could do something like they did with Turing... where they offer AIBs a worse quality bin for slightly less but still technically meets the official specs.
I think again ultimately my deciding factor will be on what Threadripper comes out with.
If the next Gen HEDT's are trash, like how they are now, then i guess i will get whatever gives me the most performance without breaking the 5th wall in budget.
But if next gen HEDT's are good, then if its intel, i would probably go with NVidia's solution, and if its Threadripper, i will most likely go with the RX solution provided SAM improvements are out there, and SAM works as intended.
But AMD's only downside is the lack of driver updates.
Nvidia is poping drivers updates at a rate of 3-4x what AMD has.
This is why i keep with Nvidia, otherwise i would of probably went on 6900XT's and not my 3090 seeing how it was 40% cheaper @ a less then 5% performance benifit.
Nvidia is releasing 6-12 driver updates a month?
Genuinely asking because AMD is releasing 2-3, and on the rare occasion 4 a month.
No one is speculating about Intel video card pricing?