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
Yeah with no reserve not very likely I'd camp out there besides they don't open until until 10.am lol
I've gotten all except the last 980ti from micro center so yes it's where I'd usually score a gpu from but all were reserved first.
Last time I hit up Micro Center early when I was able to get one of the last 5900x CPUs they got in, I showed up around 9:25am and there were already 40+ people there. I dipped out of work early that day after showing up about an hour early to work, powering through a good portion of my responsibilities, telling my supervisor a fib (which I felt bad about and still do) so I could "run an errand" for a few hours.
Even if you do get to one early enough you don't know what day(s) they get shipments in and even if you do, you don't know what's showing up on them. You could sit outside a store every day for a week and not see a GPU.....
Makes me wish I took unemployment because I felt "scared" to work (like about 50% of the employees did here at my job) due to the covid situation. They took that unemployment, earned just as much, if not more, for not working for 3 months. I could have camped out Micro Center every morning until I got a new GPU if I did that. Maybe that's my problem, I don't take advantage of the system because I don't want to feel like a worthless piece of trash. I should get my priorities straightened out.