Just a few days ago AMD officially announced its RDNA 2-based flagship Big Navi graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800, respectively. AMD will launch the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT series of graphics cards on November 18th. The RX 6800 XT will be priced at USD 649 while the RX 6800 will be priced at USD 579.
The AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT flagship card on the other hand will be available on December 8th and will cost around $999 USD.
Now, it appears that the RX 6800 XT GPU is also likely to face a similar stock/inventory issue at launch, like the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Ampere GPU. One ASUS Nordic brand representative, David Hammer, posted a statement issuing a warning about the low stock and availability of the RX 6800 XT GPU at launch day.
Following is the statement from the ASUS rep, coming via Wccftech:
“It will be quite limited: more RX6800, fewer 6800XT … as with basically all graphics cards now, we expect that everything will be gone in a few minutes so you need to hang on the lock.
Then it is 1-2 weeks later until we start delivering our Partners cards, too early to say what the supply looks like there, but the demand will probably continue to be great”– Sweclockers Forums.
According to the report, AIB GPU partners are expecting the stock to be sold out within minutes of the launch window. This doesn’t come as a surprise, given the huge demand for these new RDNA 2-based GPUs.
Even though the ASUS rep has specified the XT variant SKU, we expect the demand of the non-XT plain RX 6900 SKU to be even higher than expected, given the price tag and the Gaming market segment this GPU targets. So this card may also sell out pretty fast, despite having a bigger stock.
AIB retailers have already reported that the stock of the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is going to be limited at launch, but the RX 6800 XT GPU was not mentioned before.
The ASUS rep also confirmed that other RX 6000-series AIB custom cards are going to be available around a week or two after the initial launch date, and this applies to the entire AMD Radeon RX 6800 Navi 21 GPU lineup. So we might be looking at a repeat of what we saw during the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series launch day.
“It should be quite difficult to get a new card to be cool. To be honest, it is quite unexpected that Lisa Su dares to bet on this release date. I think it should only start to increase in December.
In fact, the production capacity has always been sufficient, but how much of these production capacity of Navi may depend on Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles.” – via (Google Translation) PTT Forums.
AMD has already issued preventive measures to retailers to circumvent the scalping of Radeon RX 6000-series RDNA 2 GPUs. AMD expects huge demand for its next-gen RDNA 2 GPUs, and has outlined some measures to partners/retailers to prevent scalper bots from obtaining these cards on launch day.
But despite AMD’s initiative, the scalper bots have managed to grab the Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs which have now been listed at eBay with inflated prices. These CPUs were released yesterday.
— Hassan Mujtaba (@hms1193) November 6, 2020
RDNA 2 GPUs are expected to be fabbed on an optimized 7nm process node, and they will support hardware-level ray tracing as well, and are expected to deliver a 50% increase in performance per watt over previous-gen RDNA arch.
Along with an improved performance-per-clock (IPC), we also expect a logic enhancement that will help reduce the design complexity and switching power. The GPU clock speeds are also going to get a boost.
Here is hoping that the demand and supply issue isn’t that aggressive as the Ampere launch. It seems this year it has been hard to purchase a new flagship gaming graphics card. So the demand is bound to be very high.
To make matters worse, Nvidia Ampere GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 GPU shortages will last until 2021, according to CEO Jensen Huang. So gamers might turn to AMD if they cannot wait till next year.
Stay tuned for more!
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Looks like rare earth minerals are finally starting to run out, the modern word will soon face a rude awakening
what “rare” minerals are you talking about exactly?
Neodymium, Gallium, Indium, etc
and how are these related to gaming?
They are used in the manufacturing of electronics
you mean phones?
Not just phones, pretty much any electronic equipment (like GPUs)
how? which one of the elements that you have mentioned?
and how are these related to gaming exactly?
Makes me think of The Expanse. I really wanted to get Season 4 but since Amazon bought the series they have tied it to a mandatory Amazon Prime account. That’s a sh*tty thing Amazon is doing.
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The series would be off the air if Amazon didn’t pick it up. Sci-fy channel dropped it. It is easily the best sci-fi on though and I eagerly await the next season as well.
I also think a lot of the show. It just never got a lot of viewers. Only the first episode broke 1 million viewers the rest ranged between 500,000 and 800,000 viewers.
I guess I will be missing season 5 as well since you will have to pay for an Amazon Prime account.
There’s just not enough content for me to warrant $120 a year..
So for me, they had a promotion for free shipping and a discount on my purchase if I tried Prime for a month so I gave it a shot then I saw that there Amazon credit card also gives you 5% back on purchases made at amazon and Whole Foods. Since I shop at both quite a bit I earn more back from the 5% annually than annual fee.
That is how I justify keeping the service. Prime, Amazon music, prime discounts in Whole Foods, free shipping on almost all orders at amazon etc. You may not have the same lifestyle and do more brick and mortar shopping and in that case it probably would not be worth it.
I guess it makes sense for you then. I buy almost everything from Amazon besides groceries but the credit card I use gives me 3% cash back and I get free shipping anyway but it takes longer than with Amazon Prime. There’s no Whole Foods anywhere near me so that’s not an incentive.
I guess it’s worth it for a lot of people. Just not me.
Too bad they could have gained some market share.
yields on Ampere are absolute trash, wile 7nm tsmc is much better. That was my hope.
told you so AMD cultists. You deserve it, and much more for fetishizing a company
AMD shat all over NVIDIA’s face tho, huge humiliation considering the R&D NVIDIA has.
If it weren’t for the mindshare Nvidia has managed to capture over gullible people, AMD would be the leader by now, if not for the better ethics and morals alone. I know I rather buy products from a company that respects its customers and userbase, rather than one that actively has tried to hinder even their own past products, so that people are forced to buy their newer models (couldn’t turn tesselation off from driver settings in old nvidia GPUs, while on AMD you could. Also suspicious how previous gen AMD GPUs seem to have aged significantly better than their launch counterpart Nvidia GPUs, but like most things in life the fanboys will claim this is all coincidence).
another ‘online-only’ or ‘reviewer-only’ products. lol
This is a really bad time to be upgrading GPU. Nvidia is saying there will be more supply next year but they could be misleading and now AMD is saying there will be shortages. The bad thing about shortages on release is that retailers start price gouging and they usually continue that even when supplies are available.
The only way to fix this is to delay releases until there are plenty to go around.
Or people could just be patient instead we’re talking about luxury items afterall.
I understand the patience thing and I agree with that but like I was saying once the price gouging starts it pretty much stays even when more GPUs are available.
Plus Nvidia compounded the shortages by not limiting to one per household. I saw a seller on Ebay with nine 3080s selling them for $1,050 each and sold them all within 2 hours. The MSRP is $700 but people couldn’t wait to upgrade. I have even seen on Ebay prices ranging all the way up to $1,800 for a 3080.
Stuff like this never should happen if the GPU manufacturers would hold off releasing until there are plenty to go around.
It would indeed be nice but I doubt they really care as a sale is a sale to them whether its a bot or real customer.
When all the people willing to pay double get all their cards the prices cant stay inflated forever once theres a big surplus of stock. Patience is tough because of the hype but it would be the same wait if the launches were next year anyway.
I do think MSRP is a scam now and only there to get favourable reviews.
New gpu launch and limited stock… you don’t say! 🙂