Friday, July 8th 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Could Be Delayed Due to Flood of Used RTX 30 Series GPUs
NVIDIA's next generation of graphics cards, codenamed RTX 40 series, Ada Lovelace, is expected to arrive sometime in October. However, the latest information from the YouTube channel "Moore's Law Is Dead" suggests that NVIDIA could postpone the arrival of the new GPU generation to December. Why, you might be wondering? The report claims that the current GPU market is flooded with used GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. Thus, NVIDIA could postpone the availability of the latest GPUs to keep the demand high and ensure that the market is searching for additional graphics cards.
Retailers are experiencing smaller demand as the used GPU market is full of devices used for cryptocurrency mining, and the recent crypto crash has helped the situation. What we could see is NVIDIA announcing Ada Lovelace GPUs in October, with availability arriving later in December. Of course, these are just the current industry rumors, and we are yet to see how the market and NVIDIA will respond.
Sources:
Moore's Law Is Dead (YouTube), via PCGamesN
Retailers are experiencing smaller demand as the used GPU market is full of devices used for cryptocurrency mining, and the recent crypto crash has helped the situation. What we could see is NVIDIA announcing Ada Lovelace GPUs in October, with availability arriving later in December. Of course, these are just the current industry rumors, and we are yet to see how the market and NVIDIA will respond.
126 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Could Be Delayed Due to Flood of Used RTX 30 Series GPUs
FE stock always stayed steady, but AIB stock increased when digital currency was crashing.
This is a perfect chance for AMD and Intel.
They're waiting on AMD to gauge pricing and gouging potential IMHO as they have many times before.
It sounds like they want to create another artificial scarcity situation so they can jack up the prices even more. $2500 RTX 4090 anyone?
To be fair, I fully expect AMD to do the exact same thing.
Though one of the main reasons I bought a GPU now is because it looks like power requirements are just going up from here. I don't want a 400W GPU. Hell, I didn't even want a 300W GPU, so I've tuned my 6800 XT for "cool" and quiet operation. I've gotten it to only use around 170-190W under gaming loads while still performing significantly better than my old 5700 XT.
you bought 6800xt to play on 1080p? do i understand it right?
*relevant topic comment
*actually my PSU in the pic lol
Nvidia keeping track of the used card market looks like its a boon for them, and the delay gives miners time to sell off everything so they can purchase new 40 series direct from Nvidia, like they did with the 30xx cards.
Forget NV.
as if
who really believes such a rumour/claim?? ;)
And the skepticism continues with this. Too many "Should I wait?" threads popping up, maybe hint at a delay of the next gen tee-hee.
If there will not be a movement from miners, someone would say it's in Nvidia's favor to launch sooner than later in order to prevent some of these sales, but in reality it's not, the only thing that Nvidia would accomplish is to force miners into selling at lower prices making even more difficult for current-gen leftover stock to be sold. (If there is excessive current-gen leftover stock at all)
So the best solution seems to be to wait really.
But I don't buy MLID "report", his stance towards Nvidia in general isn't too friendly (to say it politely) and it had major prediction failures in the past.
Just do yourselves a favor and don't watch channels like that, there are good tech channels out there like GamersNexus that deserve more your attention imo.
After all if Nvidia launch only 4090/4080/4070 models at $1999/$999/$499 there is plenty of room for current gen cards to be sold.
Supposedly according to leaks the announcement is September with October 4090 on self availability, November for 4080 on self availability and December for 4070 on self availability.
So until December every current gen price will be compressed based on 4080 $999 value leaving a lot of room for current gen to be sold (if we suppose that 4080 is around 30% faster than 3090Ti in 4K this means that 3080 10GB would have nearly the same QHD performance/$ at $649, also 3090 & 3090Ti have 24GB that some people need more than the extra +30% gaming performance and the cheaper than 3080 models can be compressed much less (for example 3070Ti has +20% higher SRP vs 3070 while being only 5.5% faster at QHD so if 3080 10GB goes to $649 then let's just say $549 for 3070Ti and 3070 remains at $499 (and all the other below it...)
It's an extremely pessimistic scenario that i hope it doesn't happen, I just used it to highlight the possibilities, does Nvidia really need to postpone the launch in this case?)
But any clever miner even with loss could still trade and make profit on that. It's not the end of the world yet. There's still 21k euro worth of BTC floating around. Thats 1/3rd of what it was a while ago.
Who would want an overmined GPU with no warranty that is likely to fail shortly after you paid over 500$ for it?
It's just a bad excuse from them to artificially keep the shortage situation going as this is how they win the more money.