I gave up looking for a gpu all together. It's not worth it right now with the price hikes. In the meantime I have both next gen consoles to tide me over.
They probably made all of about 5 of those cards, so I wouldn't expect it to go anywhere anytime soon. Even before this point there were alleged to be grumbling from the AIBs about increasing costs and inability to make a profit at MSRP. I think it's telling that there's no reference card from Nvidia at the $330 MSRP and that the number of AIB cards sold at that price will be no higher than contractual obligations require.
It's the one that says Auto-notify next to the product. You can check the official forum to see the queue status with a spreadsheet.
^ 100% Agree. Yes, miners are gobbling everything up, but if there was solid supply that wouldn't matter. I was always able to easily buy GPUs in 2017, it wasn't remotely like conditions right now where they are full on unobtanium. During the height of the mining boom I grabbed tons of 1070s, 1080TIs, 580s, etc easily. This is a supply problem that's just exacerbated by miners.
AMD's GPUs are fabbed in Taiwan and Nvidia's are fabbed in South Korea. Maybe the final assembly is done in China, but they aren't responsible for wafer shortages.
I know that China has a giant GPU spigot. They laugh and grin as they turn it off. That's the analysis.
People on reddit seem to be getting incredible increases in minimum FPS, like 30 FPS going to 55 FPS and so on
He's not even close with the cuda cores but he got the memory right
videocardz.com
The same 384-bit memory interface and memory technology as the 3090 but with lower prices?
Says the official memory speed is 19 instead of 19.5 but 384-bit yes. It is apparently going to have a different hash rate limiter so there might be a window where miners might not be interested until it's cracked.
Even if you can't mine with it as effectively, it'll probably get cracked soon enough. Even if it doesn't, the cards can still be flipped for a massive profit, so there's still reason to buy up as many as you can.
NV would have to take a big step to stop mining. They'd need something like two PCBs, one for gaming and one for mining. The mining card would have a small ASIC that it initialized with some crpyto key at the factory and allows full rate hashing after doing some hardware handshake with the GPU. Gaming cards wouldn't even have the pads to solder on the mining enabling ASIC. Something along those lines; anyway, they won't have a solution for Ampere, maybe for whatever comes after that. They can enforce build percentages via contracts and by regulating the availability of the mining 'enabler' chip. Having to create a work-a-round for hardware is a bigger PITA than software hacks.
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