Rumor mill: Is Nvidia making ready to delay the RTX 4000 sequence to December? While it is solely a rumor, the oversupply of current-gen playing cards coupled with frugal shopper spending as the price of dwelling rises does counsel AMD may beat its rival to market by a month or two.
According to YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead, which cites business sources, Nvidia is contemplating delaying the launch of the RTX 4000 (Ada Lovelace) playing cards till November and even December. While most rumors from nameless business sources must be taken with a heavy dose of salt, there have been indicators {that a} postponement may very well be on the playing cards.
The first indication got here final month once we heard Nvidia might kill off the RTX 3080 12GB GPU. The transfer is believed to be as a consequence of an extra of unsold RTX 3080 10GB playing cards, which, due to falling costs, now value the identical as the marginally extra highly effective 12GB variant; a value parity that has left shoppers choosing the latter card. Nvidia desires to shift the remaining RTX 3080 10GB GPUs earlier than Lovelace arrives, and the easiest way to try this is by killing off the 12GB variant, of which there are fewer items.
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Furthermore, a latest report from Asia claimed that Nvidia is dealing with decrease demand for the RTX 4000 sequence in gentle of extra restrained shopper spending, the results of rising inflation and gas costs pushing up the price of dwelling. The firm has returned to TSMC from Samsung for its next-gen shopper playing cards, however it now desires to delay these 5nm orders.
Another issue is the crashing crypto market flooding eBay with low-cost former mining playing cards. Lovelace is anticipated to hold a hefty premium, and price-conscious shoppers might want to save lots of a couple of hundred {dollars} by choosing a used Ampere card.
If Nvidia actually does wait till December to launch Lovelace, it will imply AMD’s Radeon RX 7000-series playing cards arriving first, probably someday between October and November.
