As per one recent report posted by the Chinese publication IThome, Nvidia is ostensibly discontinuing and retiring the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and RTX 2080 Ti Turing cards.
It makes sense to phase out some of the high-end Turing-powered models, so that the company can dedicate resources and make more room for the upcoming Ampere graphics card lineup.
The report also claims that not only would the production be halted on these four graphics cards, but they will also be de-listed by major vendors/AIBs including NVIDIA themselves in the coming months.
It has also been reported that ending production of select GeForce RTX 20 graphics cards will lead to severe shortages in the coming weeks. This is because of the rising high demand in the mining sector which has revived in recent months. So the Mining craze will again inflate the price on all the existing high-end Turing cards. This could lead the aforementioned graphics cards to be out of stock much sooner than expected.
The price hike could occur this month and according to a report by My drivers, even the mainstream GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER & the GeForce RTX 2060 cards are going to be affected. It has been stated by ‘My Drivers’ that NVIDIA has internally notified its AIB partners to adjust the price accordingly based on the demand.
An insufficient supply on TSMC’s part could also be a contributing factor for the Green team to take this decision. For context, TSMC manufactures the Turing silicon for Nvidia on the 12nm FinFET process node. However, TSMC also has many other major big clients, such as Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm, so the foundry’s services are always in high demand and limited.
Nevertheless, NVIDIA will be ending production of the following SKUs, assuming the above report is accurate:
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2070
Though we should note that, while the current inventory is being cleared up, we can expect the price of Ampere based Gaming graphics cards to be much better at launch as compared to the last generation. If the Turing inventory is out of stock during Ampere’s launch, then retailers/AIBs can put more focus on the new cards and price them accordingly to the MSRP as given by NVIDIA, instead of selling them at an inflated price.
‘IThome’ has also reported that a possible launch date of the upcoming GeForce RTX 30 series is currently expected around September 17th. Though, there is little credibility in this claim, since Nvidia has not made any official announcement regarding the Launch dates. So you should take this entire news/leak with a grain of salt, and treat this as a ‘rumor’ for the time being.
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I agree. Those bloody miners have ruined the GPU landscape.
Damn right
I despise cryptocurrency mining, and everyone that partakes in it. Complete, selfish waste of energy on a global scale for simple personal gain.
The only exception would be CureCoin.
this is why nvidia abandoned turing https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3c8eb1ab92b2fcba03e857c206d08329896600f42b7d362e953b3753c0a1e7b5.jpg
lol, Sell your Kidney for an RTX !! Nice.This Meme got good sense of humor though !
the sad thing is it doesnt worth it.
You mean buying an RTX card is not worth it ?
Depends on what’s valued most really. If its performance over money its well worth it… if its price/perf – then its unlikely.
Go Nvidia! Crush AMD and those POS “next-gen” consoles!
Well you don’t actually want NV to crush AMD once again.
I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen anyways and we’ll be in the same situation as we are right now; meaning NV leading the BS charge with prices so high even god’s gotta look up.
Agreed, competition is needed in the enthusiast space. Nvidia can charge an arm and leg and get away with it currently.
Its going to be the same as Turing launch I bet ! Huang is money minded so his stupidity and ego won’t allow the company to price the Ampere cards reasonably, so that even average gamers can also buy their so-called GPUs.
No. they will jack up the price if there is lack of competition from AMD.
If it is priced too reasonably, then the miners will just buy the Ampere cards and there will be none left for the average gamer. There is no proof requested at purchase that you are a gamer and not a miner…
It could be different this time due to one reason… the new consoles. He don’t want to loose to many customers there… on the other hand the new miners will likely put a big pressure on the supply and that usually means the outlets will gauge the prices according to supply and demand.
Go AMD! Crush Nvidia and those POS “next-gen” Ampere cards.
You just sounded like a stupid fanboy !
Yes, because having a GPU that constantly crashes and making a GPU with the power of a TWO-YEAR-OLD GPU sure makes you a strong competitor ???
I have RX 5700XT (upgrade from GTX 1070) and ZERO crashes from a day it was bought. 🙂
They should just reduce the price, and give it at a discounted rate right now to Gamers willing to upgrade.
F*** those miners !
Nvidia knows that those cards will be dead in next few months when developers release games like Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs Legon, Halo Infinite, Medium and more titles with complex RT support.
There are a lot of leaks about much faster RT in both Ampere and RDNA2. I belive that because RT performance of RTX 2080 TI in both Cyberpunk 2077 and Watch Dogs Legion is really bad even in 1080p. This ia proof that game developers currently use much faster hardware than RTX 2080 TI
How fast can be Ampere or RDNA2? Really fast! Current 12 Tflops RDNA2 GPU from Xbox Series X is only around 250 mm2 (whole APU with CPU and GPU is 360 mm2). Big PC GPU from Nvidia or AMD around 500 mm2 will be 24 TFLOPS
2080 TI – 13 TFLOPS on 754 mm2
RDNA2 – 12 TFLOPS on around 250 mm2
How fast will be huge 500-600 mm2 RTX 3080 TI or RDNA2 on PC? Performance jump will be huge between RTX 2080 TI and RTX 3080TI.
We don’t know anything for certain beside that the consoles wont look so fresh once the new cards arrives 🙂 Its funny to see the console fanboi’s compare the new to 2-3 years old hardware instead of what will be available at the same time.
I compared Xbox to old Pascal only to show size of GPU. Whole Xbox APU is 360 mm2 including 80mm2 of Zen2 and all other parts. GPU is around 250 mm2 for 12.1 TFLOPS of sustained power on constant GPU clock.
Average size of high end PC GPU is much larger than 250 mm2:
– Vega 64: 495 mm2
– Fury X: 596 mm2
– RTX 2080 TI: 754 mm2
– GTX 1080 TI: 471 mm2
– GTX 980TI: 601 mm2
This give you 20-24 TFLOPS of power for 500mm2 or even 30 TFLOPS for 750 mm2. Those new PC cards will be crazy fast
Yeah a lot points in that direction but some things are unknowns – How much is allocated towards rt/tensors etc – Either way we have very interesting times ahead on all fronts. Seen the new Odyssey G9/G7 oled monitors btw? Insane specs too
Xbox is 12 TFLOPS of RDNA2 + dedicated 13 TFLOPS of RT. All inside 250mm2. I hope that Nvidia use a lot of transistors for RT because this is all that matters in 2020.
We need more RT power if we want full RT global illumination, RT shadows from every light source, RT reflections. Much more than current 10 GigaRays/s
There are so many ways to increase RT performance beside brute-forcing it with more cores and considering the RT cores in the turing was the 1st gen it would not surprise me if they have something more silicon efficient rolling out with amp. Dlss2 will be a big boon for nvidia now that its actually good, enable more rt and even with upscaling that will likely surpass the image quality than native 1:1 without those effects enabeled… all while maintaining the same framerate.
Yeah was thinking exactly the same thing… zero cards available and the new come at ok prices… FAT chance! All retailers will gauge as much as they can along with nvidia who have been uncontested in the high end for too long so they got used to milking prices.
I always think about the bright side of things ! ? ?
That’s just a speculation from my side though, wishful thinking.
Wait for Pascal.
Pascal was the generation before Turing. It will be 2 generations old when Ampere releases.
This will just give them another excuse to keep the inflation going with Ampere. I don’t care how much worse AMD’s cards are, I’m not supporting Nvidia again if they continue charging $400 for a $250 GPU.