And up and up those prices go.....

[Ar558a]

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/thanks-to-miners-and-scalpers-ebay-pricing-for-ampere-rdna2-gpus-continue-to-rise

 

The price of all latest gen GPU's continues to rise as shown here. At this rate people will be selling cars to buy GPUs

[CommanderAlex]

If people didn't want to upgrade to the latest graphics card and boycott buying from scalpers, you'll see how fast those people will change their mind if people cared about money and a warranty. 

[Guest]

"Nvidia hopes to stabilize GPU shortages by releasing stocks of RTX 2060, GTX 1050 Ti"

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-new-stocks-rtx-2060-gtx-1050-ti/

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

"Nvidia hopes to stabilize GPU shortages by releasing stocks of RTX 2060, GTX 1050 Ti"

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-new-stocks-rtx-2060-gtx-1050-ti/

Speaking of which, why the hell were they keeping stocks of older graphics cards anyway?? Were they planning for this by purposely stating "We weren't expecting the huge demand for Ampere" etc.?? 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

Speaking of which, why the hell were they keeping stocks of older graphics cards anyway?? Were they planning for this by purposely stating "We weren't expecting the huge demand for Ampere" etc.?? 

I think it's it'd do with the GDDR6 shortages

https://www.pcgamer.com/gddr6-memory-shortage-now-said-to-be-behind-nvidia-and-amd-stock-woes/

 

This certainly didn't help either lmao

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-rtx-3090-stock-stolen-msi/

"MSI is even going as far as offering clemency to anyone who took part in the scheme, so long as they help track and recover the cargo"

($15k bounty for $330k worth of product, hmmm)

 

According the Nvidia the 10 series was never End of Life, just had such little demand they were barely making them

[CommanderAlex]

4 minutes ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

I think it's it'd do with the GDDR6 shortages

https://www.pcgamer.com/gddr6-memory-shortage-now-said-to-be-behind-nvidia-and-amd-stock-woes/

 

While true, doesn't explain for the reason for holding onto older stock, just seems like "Let's purposely produce lower quantities of Ampere cards so we can make money on inventory that didn't sell," (again this is my hypothesis and may or may not be based on fact).

4 minutes ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

This certainly didn't help either lmao

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-rtx-3090-stock-stolen-msi/

This will only reduce the supply of RTX 3090s in the market, but doesn't demonstrate why Nvidia did not ramp up production months before launching Ampere. At the end of the day, MSI is just a AIB and they don't produce the physical GPU dies themselves. 

 

[Doug_Dangger]

GPU and ammo prices keep climbing.

 

Only one of them will be worth something in an economic crash and shtf.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

doesn't explain for the reason for holding onto older stock,

 

I don't think they had them in stock, I think they're literally producing new 10 and 20 series cards from TSMC or assmung

 

1 minute ago, Doug_Dangger said:

Only one of them will be worth something in an economic crash and shtf.

top kek

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

I don't think they had them in stock, I think they're literally producing new 10 and 20 series cards from TSMC or assmung

 

top kek

Isn't Samsung and TSMC at max production right now with chips?? 

[Guest]

Just now, SpiderMan said:

Isn't Samsung and TSMC at max production right now with chips?? 

Yes lol, TSMC in particular because of AMD

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, Sp4gh3tti said:

Yes lol, TSMC in particular because of AMD

Well, they are in a tough spot due to allocation of the manufacturing allotment for the different manufacturing node processes. AMD is at the mercy of TSMC and also whatever they agreed on in their contracts. Apple has a huge chunk of 5nm production I believe. I think Nvidia might be trying to get chips produced at Samsung's factories due to TSMC at max capacity. 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

I think Nvidia might be trying to get chips produced at Samsung's factories due to TSMC at max capacity. 

They've already been talking since September for the 30 series but idk how shits changed since then

[Helpful Tech Witch]

24 minutes ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

15k bounty for $330k worth of product, hmmm

15k? You could sell one of those 3090s on eBay for that much.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

15k? You could sell one of those 3090s on eBay for that much.

Yeah literally, that bounty ain't gonna do shiz

Granted they did say "for any information"

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 minutes ago, Sp4gh3tti said:

Yeah literally, that bounty ain't gonna do shiz

Granted they did say "for any information"

I'll tell them I have onfo.

Me: The people who stole them have them somewhere.

Msi: Ok, where?

Me: Idunno. But they're somewhere. Can I have the 15k?

[Guest]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Me: The people who stole them have them somewhere.

Msi: Ok, where?

Me: Idunno. But they're somewhere. Can I have the 15k?

And people wonder why these shortages last so long