Sapphire podcast explains how the pandemic affect GPU supply

[Nena Trinity]

Summary

From the Sapphire Nation Podcast

 

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Key points:

*More people than ever before buys PC. (work from home, miners and more gamers)

*Limited 7nm supply (AMD victim of their own success)

*Material shortages, crippled supply lines.

*Shipping (60% taken by medical suppies)

*DO NOT BUY FROM SCALPERS!

*Sapphire does not know what a MSRP should be anymore.

*Multiple Q&A with fans.

 

My thoughts

I am sorry to say it but this may last all year if not longer... UwU

 

Sources

 

[Senzelian]

I have a 1080 and was planning to upgrade to a 3080, but now I'm planning to wait for next gen. Hopefully RTX 4080 won't suck, considerung how mediocre 2080 was. Maybe I'll even have to wait till 5080 to make it a worthwhile investion.

[emosun]

27 minutes ago, Nena Trinity said:

I am sorry to say it but this may last all year if not longer.

 

More in this weeks issue of "I'm not surprised at all" magazine.

[StDragon]

MSRP? Hah! They should have just auctioned those cards off if the supply was that limited. 

[Jet_ski]

I don’t think the 30 Series was as great of an upgrade as Nvidia hyped it to be for gamers. If games and the OS support direct Nvme access for the GPU, you’d get a lot of performance boost there for games that are out there. It’s competitive edge is price.

There is plenty of supply if you are willing to purchase an overpriced prebuilt with $300-$700 markup above component prices.

 

Funny how system integrators and miners can always find inventory.

[Dovaogedy]

I got my I5 8400 and RTX 2060 to hold me over for now, i got an RX 570 4GB as a back up should something happen to my current GPU

 

But i managed to get an Xbox Series X and PS5, i like those and will likely wait a year or two and get a completely new PC. Im mostly a console gamer, but i own all the current consoles(series x, ps5, switch) so im really just waiting to see what the requirements are for Age of Empires 4. I like to have all the platforms and keep my options open(yes i know, Xbox is redundant with a PC but my friends and digital library of over 400 games are on there).

 

I returned my digital copy of Cyberpunk that i played like 10-15 minutes of after Cyberpunk wont get the next gen upgrade anytime soon(late 2021) im not in a hurry

 

The tarrifs suck too, im not paying $500 for an RTX 3060 Ti so PC gaming may be out of my future if thats the case

[leadeater]

8 hours ago, Jet_ski said:

If games and the OS support direct Nvme access for the GPU, you’d get a lot of performance boost there for games that are out there

That's not how that technology works neither can it directly increase performance. Increasing data throughput in a system will not increase performance if the computational resources do not scale with it.

 

Also the technology you are talking about requires specific support in the game, GPU drivers, DirectX feature support, and OS support does not enable it in games that were made before it existed. This isn't any different to games being made with DirectX 11.1 feature set not supporting DirectX 11.2 features, everything including the game itself has to support and utilize it.

[RejZoR]

10 hours ago, Senzelian said:

I have a 1080 and was planning to upgrade to a 3080, but now I'm planning to wait for next gen. Hopefully RTX 4080 won't suck, considerung how mediocre 2080 was. Maybe I'll even have to wait till 5080 to make it a worthwhile investion.

RTX 3080 is already a worthwhile investment. Getting one is another. The amount of grunt RTX 3080 has is insane. And same for RX 6800 XT too. I don't think RTX 4000 and RTX 5000 series will be any better with availability as most users trying to get RTX 3000 series are thinking the same as you. Then mix in moronic scalpers and this crap will last for years. It's why I got myself RTX 3080 now, even at slightly inflated price (quite actually, but it's from a locals tore where prices were inflated for years before this pandemic scalping crap) and I'll just sit on it for few years like I did on GTX 1080Ti.

[Senzelian]

32 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

RTX 3080 is already a worthwhile investment. Getting one is another. The amount of grunt RTX 3080 has is insane. And same for RX 6800 XT too. I don't think RTX 4000 and RTX 5000 series will be any better with availability as most users trying to get RTX 3000 series are thinking the same as you. Then mix in moronic scalpers and this crap will last for years. It's why I got myself RTX 3080 now, even at slightly inflated price (quite actually, but it's from a locals tore where prices were inflated for years before this pandemic scalping crap) and I'll just sit on it for few years like I did on GTX 1080Ti.

I guess you're right. Well, maybe I'll get a used 3080 when the 4080 comes out instead. We'll see... I just hope my 1080 will continue running for the time being.

[Nena Trinity]

Does anyone know if AMD still supply RX 580 chips to board partners?

[AndreiArgeanu]

13 minutes ago, Nena Trinity said:

Does anyone know if AMD still supply RX 580 chips to board partners?

Technically it's still in production. I mean you can still buy new cards in store in the UK at least. Though if UK pricing is anything to go by I do not recommend buying an rx 580 new unless you're really keen on paying more or the same price that they were released at.

[Nena Trinity]

5 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Technically it's still in production. I mean you can still buy new cards in store in the UK at least. Though if UK pricing is anything to go by I do not recommend buying an rx 580 new unless you're really keen on paying more or the same price that they were released at.

Yead the only 14nm chip still being made it seems...