Last month I reported regarding the Global chip shortage issue which is going to last till 2022 and as a result, NVIDIA and AMD GPU stocks are also going to be affected. Now we have a report to further back up this claim that this whole GPU availability and supply situation is going to get worse.
According to a press report from Digitimes (coming via Sweclockers), and despite Nvidia’s attempt to improve this situation, the RTX 30-series graphics card shortages are going to last till Q3 of this year. So we can expect this trend to continue until the next year as well, i.e. 2022.
So it seems unlikely that the RTX 30 series GPU shortages will ease even during the third quarter of this year.
“Digitime’s report is in line with the recent SweClockers talks with industry insiders, which flag that there are increasing indications that the shortage will remain throughout 2021.” -via Sweclockers.
But Digitimes is also reporting that Samsung’s 8nm manufacturing yields for Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs are poor, with the Korean manufacturer having trouble getting good numbers of working chips from each wafer.
“In several places, however, there have been problems with Samsung, whose 8-nanometer technology is used for Nvidia’s latest generation of graphics circuits. This is reinforced by Digitimes, which claims that Samsung has difficulty producing enough working circuits (yield).”
Back in January 2021, Nvidia’s CFO Collette Kress said, “Supply does remain tight at this time. We expect the overall channel inventories, meaning the inventories that are with our AIC partners as well as in our e-tail and retail channels will likely remain lean throughout Q1.” via Seeking Alpha.
However, if this report from Digitimes is accurate, then this is certainly disappointing news for gamers, since the coming Q2/Q3 period is also going to witness the same trend.
As Collette Kress explained, “Our overall capacity has not been able to keep up with that overall strong demand that we have seen. We’ve seen in terms of constraints, constraints really from the overall global surge of compute and the overall capacity, capacity that may be necessary for assembly and test and/or sub trades as well.
But again, we remain focused on this and working each day to improve our overall supply situation.”
According to several industry analysts, GPU stock is going to suffer through until 2022, and because the demand for chips now exceeds supply by about 30%, it will take almost three or four quarters for the supply to catch up with the demand.
This means that chip shortages are going to last till 2022, at the very least. Your chances of buying an AMD, Intel, or Nvidia gaming GPU might get affected by this market trend, and we already know the current demand and supply condition, and it has been almost nigh impossible to buy a gaming GPU/CPU or a console since last year or so.
Since last year’s pandemic disrupted the world’s economy, the demand for semiconductors is generally at an all-time high. Furthermore, these chips are getting more complex as well as harder to produce.
According to Financial analyst Christopher Rolland of the Susquehanna International Group, chip shortages could get even worse as we head into spring, after countries cease lockdowns and economies restart.
Maribel Lopez, principal analyst at Lopez Research, explains that the current semiconductor industry is facing a “perfect storm” of demand and supply, which is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.
We also know by now that Scalping has become one of the most frustrating things to happen lately, which in turn has affected and disrupted the whole PC hardware and the console gaming market as well.
Scalpers had the opportunity to buy a product for the sole purpose of just making a profit out of it, and more specifically for selling it at a much higher price than the initial MSRP. On top of that, the astronomical rise in the price of cryptocurrency has started another “Mining craze” resulting in severe GPU shortages and price hikes lately. Sadly, this whole situation is not going to improve anytime soon.
It has been nigh impossible to buy any gaming GPU or CPU at least at the minimum MSRP rate set by companies. The demand continues to outstrip supply thus leading to a global shortage of these gaming cards. This is going to get worse further down the line, which certainly is bad news for gamers.
To sum this up, the current situation of demand outweighing supply is predicted to last for another three or four quarters, and then followed by a further one or two quarters “before” inventories can reach normal levels.
So it’ll be sometime in 2022 before the whole global industry gets back to normal, hopefully. But I digress.
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no games need a 30 series card yet for playable frames. and none have been announced this year anyway.
But some of us have high refresh rate displays and want to use them as close to their potential at possible.
Most “good” games don’t need latest GPU anyways. Most of latest games are unoptimizated POS trash(exception Doom Eternal my GOTY2020).
If you game at 1080p or lower.
Even DOOM Eternal doesn’t need the latest GPU. I beat the game at 1440p max settings on a GTX 1080, which was almost 4 years old on the game’s release. You just need enough VRAM, really.
Exactly. For what it’s worth, even my AMD RX 480 GPU can max out Doom 2016 and Eternal. Though, I game on 1080p/60Hz screen, but the ID Tech engine is very well optimized. Scales very well !
But despite that the RX 480 is still a decent 1080p GPU, at least in my opinion. I mostly play OLD PC games though, with some exception of new titles, so for me the RX 480 is a boon in disguise, LOL.
By “old” I mean PC titles starting from early 1993 when DOOM was first released, and the early/mid 2000 PC titles. .
God I miss the old days. I need to figure out how to make my dads old crt monitor work with hdmi and relive the old days.
I’m actually thinking of building an Windows XP OS RIG though, just to play these old PC games without any hassle, and/or workaround.
Just need to grab a compatible OLD GPU which will fully support this OS. There are some old GPU models out there in the market, but most of them are overpriced.
I recently re-played Wolfenstein 3D (1992) and Colonial Conquest (1985) and The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) and I can recommend all of them.
Almost all of the old games that I have played work fine on Windows 10 with a modern GPU.
Yup, these old games also play on Windows 10 OS, but I really need to use some old game Trainers/cheats, which don’t sometimes work properly, since they were coded for Win XP/Vista tec.
I will email you a site that has almost always worked for trainers and on Windows 10 with modern GPUs
Thanks. I got your email. Yes, I know about that website, CH. I’m also a lifetime member of this site, but I was referring to some other third-party independent trainer groups.
They have coded their trainers differently though, but I really like that CH website. They also offer high quality clean Trainers, though sometimes they won’t work properly though.
There was a trainer creator and coder by the name of LINGON, and he used to make pretty good trainers, with some really awesome options. But sadly, using his trainer is either a hit or a miss. Sometimes they don’t work at all.
I get an occasional flag by my anti-virus on CH trainers but it was just a case of my AV being to sensitive to trainers and I don’t use them much anyway. CH uses 78 security products to scan trainers before they are allowed on the site.
I’m sure you know this but others may not. The reason trainers get flagged by AV is because they are running in the background while gaming and altering certain memory locations.
Yeah, I know about false positives with AV software.
Hey, thanks for your recommendation. I will surely look into those GPUs. Nice XP system, btw.
35 bucks is pretty cheap for the GTX 570, but this card will be overkill for OLD pc game which I play, but of course grabbing this card never hurts, if we are building an old XP rig.
There are even other alternatives to buy, but the current GPU and hardware market is in a mess right now.
Btw, I have never heard of this Memory manufacture before though, Nanya.
I’ve been watching decino’s DOOM playthroughs on YT for a few years now, and he inspired me to try a few custom map packs for DOOM. I beat Eviternity last year, and just started Ancient Aliens. Can’t beat the classics.
to be honest Doom Eternal is kinda sh*t . the first doom is way better in every way
The Ampere series is the worst Nvidia has released in decades. RIP.
As someone who owns a 3080, that’s definitely true in a lot of ways. The only reason it got so much hype is how bad/overpriced Turing was. If the 2080 Ti had cost $700, in line with previous cards of that class, the 3080 would be seen as a decent but relatively unimpressive upgrade.
Despite Ampere being a bigger improvement over Turing compared to Turing vs Pascal, Turing also brought major architectural improvements (simultaneous FP32 + INT 32, ray tracing, tensor cores, etc). Not to mention Ampere needed a pretty substantial power increase to get that performance.
I’m happy with my card, especially since I got it for MSRP, but reviewers saying its Nvidia’s biggest performance jump ever are just plain stupid.
How is it an unimpressive upgrade ? At 4k, its 32% faster than a 2080TI on average. You can get some games where its 40-45% faster. Its 70-80% faster than a 2080. In ray tracing its double the perf of 2080.
Its not the biggest jump ever, but it is up there with some of the bigger ones.
Flagship to flagship, those increases aren’t very impressive compared to what we’ve got in the past, especially when you take into account the power draw increase. And of course the 3080 is massively better than the 2080, the former is a 102 class chip (GA102), vs the latter being 104 class (TU104). Compare the 980 vs the 1080 Ti, and tell me 80% increase is still impressive.
The 980 performance wise was pretty much on par with 780 Ti. It was a sidegrade mostly. They held the 980Ti to counter amd. You’re not comparing chip names here, you’re comparing price/performance. 700 bucks being 40% faster than the previous 1200 bucks card is not small.
Nvidia has brainwashed you. You seem to forget that the $700 price to performance of the 2080 was the exact same as the 1080 Ti. So that’s an 80% increase over 2 generations. That’s about equal to 980 Ti vs 1080 Ti, except it took 3.5 years instead of just under 2 years.
“700 bucks being 40% faster than the previous 1200 bucks card is not small.”
I already addressed that in my previous comment. Turing was so bad, reviewers were actually telling people to buy Pascal instead when it launched. Had Turing been priced in line with previous generation lineups, Ampere would not have looked nearly as good, especially considering the lack of VRAM increase (outside of the 3090) and increased power draw.
How is it an unimpressive upgrade ? At 4k, its 32% faster than a 2080TI on average. You can get some games where its 40-45% faster. Its 70-80% faster than a 2080. In ray tracing its double the perf of 2080.
Its not the biggest jump ever, but it is up there with some of the bigger ones.
Ampere is what Turing was supposed to be.
The only thing sh**ty is the lack of ram. And it does really suck especially in Call of Duty which completely maxes your ram and stutters. If there was more ram the game would run much better. It would be nice to run games at higher resolutions too since I like to downsample at 5k sometimes and the ram bottleneck is there too. Other than that the 3080 is f*king amazing.
What are you smoking? This series is great just unavailable.
Let me re write this with no PC content.
Nvidia doesn’t care about the gamers, so all the money they made selling the GPU specifically to the miners , has gave them enough returns, that they don’t care to make more for gamers, because gamers come second. When Nvidia sells to the miners for 2k+ each, they don’t give a F about the gamers. So now Nvidia has enough money to make new series and sell it again for miners in future. Because Crypto mining is the future so gamers come second. There you go.
You’ve just described what every company would do if they were in Nvidia’s place.
i literally sold my 1070 last friday, guy paid $400 for it in a back alley, did not care to test it, he took my word that it was good, it was, but thats how desperate people are now. I bought the 1070 used for $180, cant believe ive used it for so long for free and then sold it for a profit. unbelievable.
In my country, stock is limited, yes but the bigger issue is the pricing. There are still some cards that are available atm but most of us are not willing to pay 3x the msrp. Maybe the retailers are doing this to combat the miners and scalpers?
Retailers are doing it because they can. They did it back when mining peaked with the Pascals only not to the extreme that we are seeing now. There are several factors here. Shortages of chips, PCBs and components for the cards and transportation issues due to the pandemic.
Right now is the absolute worst time to try to upgrade.
It will end when the next crypto crash happens!
Going to happen eventually but who knows when, Maybe next year if they planned it. lol
I don’t think it will though. These are unusual times we are living in. The mining boom is just making things worse for gamers looking to upgrade but it’s not the only issue.
The pandemic has caused a lot of trouble. There are vaccines for the virus which are mostly effective but there are new strains popping up that have yet to be addressed. Right now there are 121 million reported cases worldwide but there are probably tens of millions of unreported cases due to lack of medical facilities in poorer countries and some are carrying the virus and spreading it because they don’t have symptoms of being infected.
korona is fake and plandemic.
I have heard this before. That it’s a plot to try to control people by the governments. There are now 121 million people that have had Covid 19 around the world. Since all countries are reporting cases I don’t see where all of the countries would agree on spreading lies about the virus.
virus is real but pandemic isnt. 99% survival rate, so enjoy being enslaved like china. did they inject chip you yet?.
WHat??? Pandemic isn’t real? Then I’m late for WORK!!!!!
Pandemic of mental illness and delusional paranoia is real. Fake news presented as “truth” is spreading throughout the world and is more infectious than any virus. Unlike the virus, there is no cure.
The Fauci-Xi Virus is real; tyrants around the world have been exploiting the opportunities presented by it.
2021 = the dark age of vga for all pc gamer…… ?? T_T
Not gonna lie, this whole GPU/CPU shortage makes me happy I decided to get a 5700 XT / R5 3600 back in late 2019.
BIG F for the New PC Builders 🙁
As expected it got worse. I think in 2023 we might think of buying a gaming GPU at some reasonable price.
i dont care much about the stock because i want the gpu to go back at pre 2017 prices until then it will be second hand market for me when my gtx 1080 wont be enough(which is still is at the moment)
even if there were stocks, the prices are not worth it.
The second hand market is horrible right now. Everything and I mean everything is overpriced and it’s a miracle if you can get a gpu for what it’s actually worth. As long as new gpu are unavailable I don’t see the second hand market changing.
Can’t believe I was lucky enough to get a 3080 FE for MSRP a couple months back. Feels good man.
Same. Though I sold a 3070 I got for way too little. At least someone else gets to game.
Man, screw all you guys. I was trying since day 1.
Managed to bag a ASUS 3080 TUF OC for £719 1 day after launch. Awesome card.
The shortage isn’t going to end in any quarter unless the scalper issue is addressed.
Mahn I really wanted to build my new rig this year…sux!
Will have to prollywait very long…plan was to build a AMD 5900/5950X based rig. Have been using my current rig with a 4770K for ~9 yrs now!
Damn! 9 years is a long lifetime for a gaming rig. I can understand why you are wanting to build a new rig. My rig is still hanging in there for 4 years now with a i7 7700k but I did upgrade the GPU to a RTX 2700 Super before the prices got ridiculous.
TSMC is building a new fab in Arizona but what slows them down is that it takes years to build a MegaFab and costs billions of dollars.
So by then you might aswell wait a few more months for their next GPU.
Well that’s just GREAT! That’s great! Now what are we supposed to do?? What are we supposed to do??
i think i’ll just play mobile games till 2022.. RIP PC gaming..