Monday, November 4th 2019
NVIDIA Partners Order Fresh GeForce RTX 2070 Chips as they Expect RX 5700 XT Inventories to Slump
NVIDIA's add-in card partners are ordering fresh stocks of GeForce RTX 2070 graphics chips even as the performance-segment of the GPU market has changed with AMD's introduction of its Radeon RX 5700 series "Navi," according to a Gamers Nexus report citing sources among NVIDIA partners. NVIDIA partners are expecting a slump in AMD's RX 5700 series graphics card inventories, particularly that of the RX 5700 XT, to create a price-point at which to sell the RTX 2070. NVIDIA partners expect RX 5700 XT inventories to run slim as supply of the 7 nm "Navi 10" chips from foundry-partner TSMC may not satiate the SKU's reportedly high demand.
NVIDIA's current product stack has the original RTX 2060 at $349, the RTX 2060 Super at $399, and the RTX 2070 Super at $499. The RTX 2070, which is outperformed by the $399 Radeon RX 5700 XT, was practically phased out from NVIDIA's product-stack as it was succeeded by the RTX 2070 Super at its $499 price-point. With the RTX 2070 making a comeback, it would be interesting to see what its price-point will be. There is a gap between the $399 RTX 2060 Super, and the $499 RTX 2070 Super, although the performance gap between the RTX 2060 Super and the RTX 2070 is a paltry 4 percent, which is easily closed by moderately overclocking the RTX 2060 Super. As of this writing, both pricing and availability of the RX 5700 XT appear normal.
Source:
Gamers Nexus (YouTube)
NVIDIA's current product stack has the original RTX 2060 at $349, the RTX 2060 Super at $399, and the RTX 2070 Super at $499. The RTX 2070, which is outperformed by the $399 Radeon RX 5700 XT, was practically phased out from NVIDIA's product-stack as it was succeeded by the RTX 2070 Super at its $499 price-point. With the RTX 2070 making a comeback, it would be interesting to see what its price-point will be. There is a gap between the $399 RTX 2060 Super, and the $499 RTX 2070 Super, although the performance gap between the RTX 2060 Super and the RTX 2070 is a paltry 4 percent, which is easily closed by moderately overclocking the RTX 2060 Super. As of this writing, both pricing and availability of the RX 5700 XT appear normal.
65 Comments on NVIDIA Partners Order Fresh GeForce RTX 2070 Chips as they Expect RX 5700 XT Inventories to Slump
Ray-tracing is cool and all, but it is overpriced and costs too much performance to run.
Overall though Steam Hardware Survey indicates the combine sale of 5700 and 5700XT is equal to 2060S alone. There is no entry for 5700 since most of them would have flashed the 5700 with XT bios already.
You might be.. slightly overestimating what the average user is capable and aware of doing.
Haven't noticed any shortages in 5700xt's or non-xt's. Wonder why they are expecting the slump of 5700 series cards.
No shortage of AMD card here either though, with all but one reference design card in stock for the XT's. No reference design 5700's in stock though and a couple of others sold out as well, at the largest online retailer here. Apart from MSI, the reference cards are obviously cheaper than custom boards, which might have something to do with it, or it could be that the board makers have already stopped selling the reference cards.
Nvidia users though are more oblivious to Bios flashing although I have been doing it since Maxwell.
A lot of people don't even do OC, let alone bios changes in graphics cards.
This poll from 3 years ago confirm the majority of people do overclock their GPU
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/do-you-overclock-your-gpu-with-poll.225543/
You just don't know how extreme the PC enthusiasts community are. For example the 2080Ti owners club are 1000 pages long with people interested in flashing their 1200usd GPU, let along a 350usd GPU lol.
www.overclock.net/forum/69-nvidia/1706276-official-nvidia-rtx-2080-ti-owner-s-club-934.html
Same with 1080 Ti owners club - 1800 pages
www.overclock.net/forum/69-nvidia/1624521-official-nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-owner-s-club.html
980Ti owners club - 1600 pages
www.overclock.net/forum/69-nvidia/1558645-official-nvidia-gtx-980-ti-owners-club-1640.html
I have built plenty of systems for myself, family and friends and every single system is overclocked, takes like 10mins anyways.
If you go to a car enthusiast forum, you'll also find people servicing their cars at home. However, the majority of people do not even know about mechanics.
Totally non biased title/article reflecting the same piece of news: "inventory levels of an AMD card are expected to drop".
Cool stories, bruhs.It is estimated to be about 8% of the die size. (a piece much smaller than stuff "given" to users in that anti-5700 "super" update)
It's mostly greed that drove prices up.
And your point was?