Back in July, there was one report from ITHome which mentioned that Nvidia is ostensibly discontinuing and retiring the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and RTX 2080 Ti Turing cards.
Since that announcement, NVIDIA’s board partners/AIBs have started the process of delisting their own current high-end flagship Turing cards, and some retailers have started giving promotions to clear the current stock of Turing GPUs. 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.
Now, according to a latest confirmed report from the Chinese website MyDrivers, the production of the RTX 2070 SUPER has now been completely discontinued. They also mention that the last batch of chips has already been dispatched, and we should also not expect any further orders for this particular GPU model. No new orders will be taken, which gives the RTX 2070 Super an End of Life/EOL status from now on. Whatever chips are remaining, they would be the last to be sold through retailers, after which you won’t be able to buy them.
The Chinese website MyDrivers has a very strong and credible track record when it comes to graphics card production and availability/pricing; after all, most of these cards are made in China itself.
It was reported before by IThome that ending production of select GeForce RTX 20 graphics cards will lead to severe shortages in the coming months. This is because of the rising high demand in the ‘Mining’ sector which has revived in recent months. So the Mining craze and growth will again inflate the price on all the existing high-end Turing cards. This could lead the high-end Turing graphics cards to be out of stock much sooner than expected.
There are two GPUs which have not been discontinued by Nvidia though, the GeForce RTX 2060 and the GeForce GTX 1660 Super. These cards are in very high demand, due to the current ‘cryptocurrency mining’ trend in China, and they have gained much more popularity than before. As a result of this, the shipping and the retail selling price of these two GPUs has been increased by almost 15-20 USD, meanwhile the factory prices are expected to increase by 30-40 Yuans (4-6 USD).
The price hike will continue in the coming months and 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 other major big clients, such as Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm, so the foundry’s services are always in high demand and limited. Nevertheless, NVIDIA has ended the production of the following SKUs:
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2070
The report also mentions that the next-gen upcoming Ampere NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3080 cards are expected to officially release around September 17, while the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 series will follow up in October and November. This has not been confirmed by Nvidia though, but we can expect the company to announce the availability of these new Ampere cards at Gamescom 2020, which starts on August 27th, which makes sense given the current RTX 20 Turing series cards were also introduced a day before Gamescom 2018 started.
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Great ,if my RTX 2070S dies i will get an RTX 2080
What kind of warranty do you have? My MSI 2070 Super has a 3 year warranty and the 2070 Super has only been out for a year now. Just replace it under warranty unless you want to upgrade to an Ampere but if you want to keep it for 3 years (the full warranty period) then wait for the generation after Ampere. By then a 2080 will look pretty slow.
i have 5 years warranty from gigabyte
No point in upgrading to the RTX 2080, if you have already used the 2070 super before. Not much of a performance difference though.
You would be much better buying off a high-end RTX 30 series card
This is why I keep telling people: Don’t bother with the rtx 20 series, these gpus are just beta phase for ray tracing and overpriced
Been gaming for over 1 1/2 years on them, If I went off your mentality I would never get to game on anything. There is always something new coming that’s better,faster,cheaper.
Why stop at 20 series? Why not wait for 2040 apu’s or mobile phones that will play crysis remastered with full ray tracing?
Hey, i still use I5 2500k cuz im waiting for the next next gen CPU’s from AMD/Intel 😀
Its true
Sad life.. If you don’t belive me, wait till you upgrade.
The worst problem is the ram. It keeps running out while gaming+talking to friends+checking websites.
The CPU only becomes a real problem while video editing (which i have done.. a ton.. like 1400 videos on that old CPU) or while playing the latest AC games. Like Origins and Odyssey
because right now raytracing in games is just a massive gimmick that adds nothing of value, but detracts much from enjoyment – because technology is in its infancy. Yeah you get slightly better reflections that you won’t even notice most of the time – because no GPU is capable of having other advantages RT provides at a reasonable framerate.
Buying a $1200 GPU just to have unstable 60 fps at 1080p is an absolute waste of money. And anything less than RTX2080Ti right now is absolutely pointless for raytracing.
And I mean – good for you if you have money to waste. I on the other hand don’t see the point in spending extra like that time when tessellation happened and all we had is rounder helmets in Stalker COP that cut FPS in half.
I get what you’re saying but a Turing did make sense in some cases. I am gaming at 1440p and my 980 Ti just wasn’t cutting it anymore so I bought a 2070 Super a while back which is roughly equivalent to a 1080 Ti and got a very nice boost in performance.
Yeah, your 2070 SUPER GPU is almost faster by 40-51% for 1440p gaming, vs the GTX 980 Ti.
I’m pretty sure the RT 30 series models are going to pack even more punch, giving us a huge performance jump ! This never ends though.
Each upcoming next-gen of cards are faster by a reasonable percentage/margin. The same will happen with Ampere lineup as well. Ampere’s successor is going to be revolutionary for sure.
We have to see how much of an improvement Ampere is in RTX translated to games (that and the prices). So far, for 99.9% of the games out there, an 20 series is overkill for àlmost anything on 1440p.
And for the few raytracing games, they are fine (agree 20 series was kinda like a beta at release, with almost no games to use its main feature), specially with those supporting DLSS 2.0.
The company mostly follows the same policy every year before the release of their next-gen architecture of GPUs.
But I’m damned if these stupid Miners inflate/hike the prices of these cards, also the Ampere lineup. Mining sucks BIG time !
The Mining craze is once again on the rise. Its bad. I just expect the worst when it comes to the pricing of the next-gen Gaming video cards, from both Nvidia and AMD..
Built a new PC from scratch with Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX2070 Super in December of 2019. The old build was 5 years old at that point with i7-4790 (locked), GTX970 and 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM. Jumped from 1080p 60Hz to 1440p 144hz. But still I wish Ampere cards were there sooner.
Planning to get a 3070/3080 and Ryzen 4700 at the same time selling 3600 and 2700 Super. But something tells me the prices on both new generations of CPUs and GPUs will be pretty high.
”i7-4790 (locked), GTX970 and 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM.”
I have the exact specs on my current 1080p/60Hz rig. Just instead of the GTX 970, I’m using an RX 480 card now. Sold my ASUS Strix GTX 970 GPU before on Ebay !
The i7 4790 (nonk-K) is still a very solid processor of its generation, imo. All Games run like a breeze. Even the GTX 970 was a good card, despite the controversial 3.5GB VRAM issue, which hardly affects the majority of players.
But people still love to complain though, lol. Anyways, for 1440p/144Hz you obviously need a beefier GPU, and your current RTX 2070 Super is a solid contender.
Yeah it was pretty good for 1080p/60 Hz but I figured I should sell it now while I still can given it was getting a bit long in the tooth.
Also here we’re very dependent on the currency fluctuations which are pretty damn frequent so I didn’t want to put it off till prices skyrocket again as they did with the previous crypto-currency mining boom in 2016.
I hope it can maintain 60FPS at 1440p in CP2077 with RTX off.
Why is there only the 2070 Super in the title?