Sunday, July 12th 2020
NVIDIA Prepares to Stop Production of Popular RTX 20-series SKUs, Raise Prices
With its GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics cards on the horizon, NVIDIA has reportedly taken the first steps toward discontinuing popular SKUs in its current RTX 20-series graphics cards. Chinese publication ITHome reports that several premium RTX 20-series SKUs, which include the RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and the RTX 2080 Ti, are on the chopping block, meaning that NVIDIA partners are placing the last orders with upstream suppliers for parts that make up their graphics cards based on these GPUs.
It is a slow process toward product discontinuation from this point, which usually takes 6-9 months, as the market is left to soak up leftover inventory. Another juicy bit of information from the ITHome report is NVIDIA allegedly guiding its partners to increase prices of its current-gen high-end graphics cards in response to a renewal in interest in crypto-currency, which could drive up demand for graphics cards. NVIDIA is expected to announce its GeForce RTX 30-series on September 17, 2020.
Sources:
ITHome, Tom's Hardware
It is a slow process toward product discontinuation from this point, which usually takes 6-9 months, as the market is left to soak up leftover inventory. Another juicy bit of information from the ITHome report is NVIDIA allegedly guiding its partners to increase prices of its current-gen high-end graphics cards in response to a renewal in interest in crypto-currency, which could drive up demand for graphics cards. NVIDIA is expected to announce its GeForce RTX 30-series on September 17, 2020.
66 Comments on NVIDIA Prepares to Stop Production of Popular RTX 20-series SKUs, Raise Prices
Too perfect of a plan.but what else do you expect from our gossip girl news editor.more nvidia "raising prices" cause it clicks
half way up the ladder.
tu104 and up - no amd skus compete.I think you should know that.
they cant beat 1080Ti ffs,nor do they offer any new features over that card.This is a march 17 card that comes out 10% on top of amd's fastest Navi gpu.
www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafikkarten-Grafikkarte-97980/Specials/Rangliste-GPU-Grafikchip-Benchmark-1174201/
www.computerbase.de/thema/grafikkarte/rangliste/#diagramm-performancerating-3840-2160
rdna2 has a 1.5x gap to close to nvidia's 2 year old cards.and so far we've not heard anything from amd except for "we're going to cater for enthusiasts" talk
nvidia "ramping up" cause of amd ? give me a break. is rdna the reason they made 2080Ti a 4300 cuda 750mm monster ? is navi 2 the reason why they're making 3000 on samsung 10nm ? get real.
They are increasing their prices because the next generation is probably awfully uninteresting and not very compelling. So this way, it will look "better".
If you recall Turing dies are pushing the maximum size allowable by the process, you're not surprised Nvidia is moving to discontinue these parts asap.
Biggest of the big Navi is only 505mm2.
NVs has bigger chips in works (alleged Samsung chip is beyond 600mm2).
It will be like with current gen Navi, AMD will have helluva competitive product, but kids will see it as a loss, since there will be much bigger (and helluva expensive) NV chip that is faster, chuckle.