Sunday, August 29th 2021
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti & RTX 3060 Supply Rumored to Decrease in September
The shipments of NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti & RTX 3060 graphics cards are expected to fall 50% in September compared with the first 20 days of August according to a user on the Board Channels Forums. The forum post notes that board partners are expecting lower shipments until late September when supply is expected to slightly improve. This rumor has been corroborated by VideoCardz who claims that the reduced deliveries can be attributed to various factories across China being forced to close or reduce capacity due to local COVID outbreaks. We don't know if this shortage will affect only certain board partners or assembly lines and the possible changes to pricing and availability.
Sources:
ITHome, VideoCardz
19 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti & RTX 3060 Supply Rumored to Decrease in September
"One guy on a forum says" is not a credible source. Please do not stoop to the level of just quoting random threads across the internet as industry news.
TPU is better than this. I hope.
And with the 2nd leg of crypto bull run, they are expecting GPUs to become scarce again. Not until ETH 2.0 rolls out or crypto blow off top commits and crypto winter comes.
Combo that with the fact that they will be just as supply-constrained as AMD is (both use TSMC,) I don;'t have much hope.
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This is juts as pointless a graphics card launch as the 6600 XT: even using such a small chip, the availability out of TSMC is shit.
If they roll out a 1060 that would be a massive win.
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The 1060s are harder to find because Pascal has been officially discontinued for years now, but when your cheapest offering is $700 for the new hotness, then you have no hope for Intel magically fixing any supply issues for you (they both source from the same shared pot of 7nm chips as AMD, Sony and MS)
Intel is also on a push to build local fabs: Intel: Upcoming US Fab Will Be a Small City, to Cost $60 to $120 Billion | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)
So 3-5 years before anything magical will happen, but the environment is perfect for them to launch their initial GPUs which will undoubtedly be horrible and would have gotten absolutely destroyed in a normal year.