NVIDIA RTX 3080 20GB, RTX 3070 16GB may have been scrapped
The GeForce RTX 3000 series is supposed to be NVIDIA’s latest and greatest and while it may still end up like that next year, for now, it’s starting to become the company’s embarrassment. The popularity of the cards, perhaps partly thanks to aggressive and successful marketing, has created a demand that NVIDIA is unable to quickly supply. Asus and MSI have announced they have stopped production on the lower priced models – AMD's Radeon RX470 and Radeon RX480.
NVIDIA argues it is merely completing shipments to distributors like RX 470, Radeon RX480 and GTX 750 Ti which should increase options for gamers, but some dealers who have been selling cards in recent weeks have been informed AMD has discontinued sales of these cards as well. An Asus representative told DigitalTrends:
I understand that the rumor mill is full of speculation. AMD product cancellation is wherever there is supply issues.
(Source: Asus)
The company and its partners have only recently started to release the FX-8350, FX-8370 and FX-8370 E2-Series motherboards for a handful of models. They have also long been improving—and getting better—individually to balance power consumption and performance requirements. If AMD is pulling the plug soon, Asus and MSI – and others weren't aware of it yet – can take advantage of premium cards like the overclocked FX-8350 or even higher-tier cards like the AMD Radeon RX 470s. With factory overclocks from 20% to 40%, you still get 60% more GPU power. Even overclocked online retailers like Newegg can offer the cards on a better deal.
Last week, Asus – which had both the top spot and the hottest processor of the week on all of Steam’s visual experience charts at that point in time – announced it was switching away from listing overclocked processors in its online store. Asus staff say the move is part of a driver which will reduce Taiwanese-made components suppliers from selling higher-end cards and to reduce price disparities and preserve customers' knowledge. If that's the case, it seems like most consumers are left with the whole Radeon RX 460-500 high-end GPU options and alternatives, which themselves vary wildly from one intel-ice-Earth Tidbit to much higher.
PCbasics and Supermicro weren't the only vendors left available for customers. Compuur was also there describing GT 740s that would be available shortly. Interestingly, the slim OLED 75 HP development board with 8GB DDR4 was quite quickly cancelled.
English review here and here.
Along the way, we tipped at Leong Jan, who reports that both Nvidia and AMD have been credited with development of their own. The GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 have been powered by customized chipsets, AMD's Tonga chip and Nvidia's Pascal. People to know
The GeForce RTX 3000 series is supposed to be NVIDIA’s latest and greatest and while it may still end up like that next year, for now, it’s starting to become the company’s embarrassment. The popularity of the cards, perhaps partly thanks to aggressive and successful marketing, has created a demand that NVIDIA is unable to quickly supply. Asus and MSI have announced they have stopped production on the lower priced models – AMD's Radeon RX470 and Radeon RX480.
NVIDIA argues it is merely completing shipments to distributors like RX 470, Radeon RX480 and GTX 750 Ti which should increase options for gamers, but some dealers who have been selling cards in recent weeks have been informed AMD has discontinued sales of these cards as well. An Asus representative told DigitalTrends:
I understand that the rumor mill is full of speculation. AMD product cancellation is wherever there is supply issues.
(Source: Asus)
The company and its partners have only recently started to release the FX-8350, FX-8370 and FX-8370 E2-Series motherboards for a handful of models. They have also long been improving—and getting better—individually to balance power consumption and performance requirements. If AMD is pulling the plug soon, Asus and MSI – and others weren't aware of it yet – can take advantage of premium cards like the overclocked FX-8350 or even higher-tier cards like the AMD Radeon RX 470s. With factory overclocks from 20% to 40%, you still get 60% more GPU power. Even overclocked online retailers like Newegg can offer the cards on a better deal.
Last week, Asus – which had both the top spot and the hottest processor of the week on all of Steam’s visual experience charts at that point in time – announced it was switching away from listing overclocked processors in its online store. Asus staff say the move is part of a driver which will reduce Taiwanese-made components suppliers from selling higher-end cards and to reduce price disparities and preserve customers' knowledge. If that's the case, it seems like most consumers are left with the whole Radeon RX 460-500 high-end GPU options and alternatives, which themselves vary wildly from one intel-ice-Earth Tidbit to much higher.
PCbasics and Supermicro weren't the only vendors left available for customers. Compuur was also there describing GT 740s that would be available shortly. Interestingly, the slim OLED 75 HP development board with 8GB DDR4 was quite quickly cancelled.
English review here and here.
Along the way, we tipped at Leong Jan, who reports that both Nvidia and AMD have been credited with development of their own. The GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 have been powered by customized chipsets, AMD's Tonga chip and Nvidia's Pascal. People to know
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