Monday, June 14th 2021
NVIDIA Reportedly Cutting RTX 2060 Fabrication to Focus on RTX 30-series
NVIDIA is reported to be cutting down on production of its highly popular RTX 2060 graphics card, in a bid to increase production of the RTX 30-series graphics cards that still elude most consumers looking to get one on their gaming rig. The decision may be motivated by increased margins on RTX 30-series products, as well as by the continuing component shortage in the industry, with even GDDR6 becoming a limiting factor to production capability.
While one might consider this a strange move at face value (Turing is manufactured on TSMC's 12 nm node, whilst Ampere is manufactured on Samsung's 8 nm), the fact of the matter is that there are a multitude of components required for GPUs besides the graphics processing silicon proper; and NVIDIA essentially sells ready-to-produce kits to AICs (Add-in-Card Partners) which already include all the required components, circuitry, and GPU slice to put together. And since supply on most components and even simple logic is currently strained, every component in an RTX 2060-allocated kit could be eating into final production capacity for the RTX 30-series graphics cards - hence the decision to curb the attempt to satiate pent-up demand with a last-generation graphics card and instead focusing on current-gen hardware.
Source:
Videocardz
While one might consider this a strange move at face value (Turing is manufactured on TSMC's 12 nm node, whilst Ampere is manufactured on Samsung's 8 nm), the fact of the matter is that there are a multitude of components required for GPUs besides the graphics processing silicon proper; and NVIDIA essentially sells ready-to-produce kits to AICs (Add-in-Card Partners) which already include all the required components, circuitry, and GPU slice to put together. And since supply on most components and even simple logic is currently strained, every component in an RTX 2060-allocated kit could be eating into final production capacity for the RTX 30-series graphics cards - hence the decision to curb the attempt to satiate pent-up demand with a last-generation graphics card and instead focusing on current-gen hardware.
54 Comments on NVIDIA Reportedly Cutting RTX 2060 Fabrication to Focus on RTX 30-series
I agree that it sucks there are no more "mid-range" cards like we saw with the 1060/580, but that is not the fault of Nvidia or AMD, that is because of the crypto market.
My advice is if you want a mid-range gaming system, go get a new console. It's cheaper and the quality is better in many scenarios. Or wait out the crypto craze just like 2018. Although it seems like this run on crypto has more legs and will take longer.
As someone who builds computers as a hobby, and uses them for things other than gaming, I'll never ever buy a console. Hopefully, the mining craze will end soon. Hopefully...
The end game of capitalism, kind of like when I buy a pie from the supermarket it has a teaspoon worth of meat in it now days after years of cost cuts for profit margins.
im honestly surprised they were still making the 2060... seems dumb imo. when your new product sells like hotcakes.
Yep newegg shuffle it is lol
Looked at it it's a joke one asus 3080ti for 2k.us lol
Rest are gigabyte.
Then when you look away the items listed in the shuffle:
You see a 3070 selling for maybe $600, but you also get to pay for a monitor that runs you another $600. So you pay $1200 for the bundle.
Or maybe the GPU is paired with a $200 MB.
Or maybe the GPU is paired with a $130 PSU.
Or you see a 3080 that's by itself, but it's a model that's top end and with an AIO, so the GPU is selling for $1800.
At least the had a 6700XT bt itself..... that's priced at $900.
Also they had a 3060 priced at $450..... at least that's kind of reasonable, kind of.
Realistically, this will be the 100th+ shuffle you've entered in and you still haven't had a chance to buy anything.
*All prices from one specific retailer, but the trend carries across most here.
Having said that, I do observe that the availability is starting to get a tiny bit better because prices are way too high for gamers to want to splurge on, and miners are sitting on the fence because of high volatility in crypto prices and also the existence of LHR cards.
But yes, all the other things are also true, miners, scalpers etc.
The scalpers are merely there because of high demand from miners, gamers too, but miners take the cake, I have seen so many farms, 1x person owning more than 100x RTX3000 series GPU's, there are thousands of these nutjobs.
Since LHR, I have also seen stocks slightly improving, but the prices are too high for gamers, proving again, that miners' claims of "we are not responsible for this shortage" to be false. I frequent the ETHMining subreddit and a forum locally that are full of them, some are selling their rigs now and as the LHR really is unpalatable to them, even with the market rising a little, it hasn't given a major shift up towards profitability, most newbie miners found out quickly, that moving of ETH mining, doesn't solve the issue of profitability, since the majority of miners mine ETH and when everyone moves to the next more profitable coin, the payout is far far less than they would get in ETH. Also in July, there is the case of EIP1559, reducing profit even further. Then there is also the now released Innosilicon miner that mines 2 Giga Hashes, about the same as 32x 3080's further increasing the difficulty level and reducing profits.
I have read more on these things than I would have liked to, but one needs to know and understands one's enemy to know how to defeat them, what I mean by that is, they are panicking and selling their "mines", don't buy them just yet, in short order, they will then let the prices fall very fast as they try to unload in order to make back their money, since they bought them for 3-4x MSRP, forcing them to sell at the original or lower MSRP to gamers, make them feel the hurt, so they don't do this crap again in the future.
But 570e for a puny RTX 2060