@PEB, you really have to stop spamming the share button from your Google News "Technology" feed. Everyone's exasperated with it. You post all this crap when haven't even read/viewed the material you're sharing yourself, much less critically assessed it, and it's obvious to everyone in here, man. You're just cluttering the thread with clickbait. You find these headlines interesting, but apparently not interesting enough to actually read.
How many times do we have to explain to you that NVIDIA story is fabricated? The writer made it up out of thin air to garner clicks from gullible people to make money.
We've explained this to you. The retail value of video cards is through the roof. That means demand exceeds supply. NVIDIA themselves are charging more to their partners than ever before, and none of these partners can keep their video cards in stock. We're not just talking about the latest and greatest, either. They can't keep
any GPUs in stock. That's money hand over fist.
Obviously the reason you don't understand this is because you don't understand what happened the last time. Last time, AMD blitzed out supply of previous generation of video cards because the most sophisticated foundry lines were overburdened, and couldn't keep up. That meant they cranked out RX 580's because this was actually just their refinement of the GCN 4.0 that the RX 400 series used which launched in June 2016. Meanwhile, their Vegas were nowhere to be seen. Even after the crypto-bubble popped, there was never a surplus of Vega cards on the market.
Contemporaneously, NVIDIA was content to keep cranking out 1060's and 1070's (launched in early 2016) throughout the tail end of the bubble in 2018 because they were complacent, due to the lack of competition from AMD, and were in no rush to introduce a fresh line. So when the bubble popped right before they
did introduce their fresh line of RTX cards in late 2018, and there were a million 1070's out there, the demand from their partners for the older cards evaporated more quickly than anticipated.
Nevertheless, where in the blue hell is this revisionist history that it decimated RTX 20 series sales coming from? That was another silly fabrication. The RTX 20 series was the worst value NVIDIA GPU lineup at launch in history, and yet I still recall that it was sold out everywhere for the first several months after launch. It was a race for every drop. The surplus strictly affected partner demand for the older cards, and due to the relatively weak value of the RTX series, they ended production of those older cards sooner than expected to incentivize gamers to buy the newer cards.
NVIDIA doesn't care if the value of cards craters on the resale market. They aren't involved in those sales. They only care about whether or not their partners are still ordering. They aren't remotely close to fulfilling
current demand for the RTX 30 series, much less building a surplus which could affect the value of a future line.
And that brings us to the next point. What have you been reading to think that future line is anywhere close to launching? Their current lines debuted just one year ago (NVIDIA RTX 30 series = Sep-2020; AMD RX 6000 series = Oct-2020). Even under normal circumstances they aren't anywhere close to a fresh launch in the cycles we've seen for the past 7 years. Meanwhile, neither AMD nor NVIDIA is in a rush to put out a new line on a more aggressive timetable when they're printing money with the current lines.
NVIDIA
- (11-2009) Geforce 300 series
- (04-2010) Geforce 400 series
- (11-2010) Geforce 500 series
- (03-2012) Geforce 600 series
- (05-2013) Geforce 700 series
- (09-2014) Geforce 900 series
- (05-2016) Geforce 10 series
- (09-2018) GeForce 20 series
- (09-2020) GeForce 30 series
AMD
- (06-2007) Radeon HD 2000 series
- (11-2007) Radeon HD 3000 series
- (06-2008) Radeon HD 4000 series
- (09-2009) Radeon HD 5000 series
- (10-2010) Radeon HD 6000 series
- (01-2012) Radeon HD 7000 series
- (10-2013) Radeon 200 R5/R7/R9 series
- (06-2015) Radeon 300 R5/R7/R9 series
- (06-2016) Radeon 400 series
- (04-2017) Radeon 500 series [rebrand]
- (08-2017) RX Vega series
- (07-2019) RX 5000 series
- (10-2020) RX 6000 series
TL/DR stop abusing the forum.