GPU Mining Is Dead, Where Are My Cheap GPUs?
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Revolution 11
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If prices are not dropping, there are only two reasons. Either supply is lower than expected or demand is higher than expected. We know that supply is going to vastly increase over the next few weeks and months with used mining GPUs. That means demand is rising as prices are dropping.
Keep your pants on, you greedy fools, and don't buy a GPU until prices get lower, much lower.
It's also governed by profits and loss. If it's true that Nvidia GPUs have less profit built-in then it's unlikely the prices will fall significantly until companies start to feel the pinch from lower sales. At some point they may have to dump 30 series if the new AMD cards show better price/performance. For example, if I can get 3080Ti performance at $700 instead of $800, you may see some adjustments. On the other hand if AMD is at parity in price and performance, then prices will remain high, until such time as companies need to reduce inventory.
Black Friday sales should be interesting this year.
I would argue that after the 40 series announcement they are not getting steadily lower. In fact, I've seen some price increases in the last week. The 2 GPUs I'm tracking haven't move a penny in the past 2 weeks. Mobos have dropped a tiny bit, maybe $10-20. Otherwise, things are either out of stock, or at the same price.
They're all sh1tcoins. People always make this mistake: they expect past performance to be indicative of future results. ETH's story of success may never be replicated. There's a big chance ETH's merge could throw all POW under a bridge. But tell that to a guy who spent a ton of money on a mining rig.
brucek
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I don't know how much capacity AMD has available and how quickly, but Nvidia seems to be leaving them a very nice window to introduce say a 7800, 7770, and 7600 at prices well below the new Nvidia cards with performance that would still be exciting to be many consumers and maybe make themselves a nice jump in the market share with it.
Alfatawi Mendel
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My guess is that both Nvidia and AMD will create a false shortage of the new products until they can sell off their remaining inventory of the previous gen. By that time, the gullible will be bursting to give them their cash for the new (very expensive) stuff, that gives them 10 more FPS in their games.
godrilla
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As long as their is a gap in pricing like the price model Nvidia shown off 4000 series on top and 3000 series on the bottom. Nvidia wants them to coexist 1) probably because Ampere yields are so good that they are still making a profit and have room to move. 2) they want to sell as many as 4000 series cards as possible especially before AMD can launch and have competitive products.
I have heard that they will likely have more the 4090s at launch than the 4080s source Moore's law is dead ( which is what they did with the 3090s vs 3080s at launch)
Once AMD launches 7000 series Nvidia can take the worse dies from ad 102 and will likely make a 4080ti and also make a fuller fat gpu 4090ti to fill in the gaps and adjust the price stack accordingly. Nvidia is selling the ad 104 chip with 192 memory bus for $900 they want as many suckers to buy this as possible.
I am not sure if Nvidia can afford to artificially hold back on the 4000 series supply to create a panic response to increase demand.
What I do see happening from both camps is they will not release new mid to low end products until previous gen stock dries up. So that means previous generation is used as the new mid to low end and new gen is only launching as high end/enthusiast as we are seeing.
Update the 4000 series have a hidden cost of a new psu with the current news of adapter cables burning and wearing out.
People wake up !! The only reason that you don't need this **** is not only the prices ,its the actual gain gaming wise ,really ,I have a 2080 rtx with a 1440p 240hz monitor ,can get 240 fps so I was thinking to buy a new card just to get there, a good reason ok !!but let's see what it will bring to my visual experience, NOTHING ! so what the point to pay 1600 euros to buy a 4090 that will give like 30 fps or 40 or 60 fps more and the price doesn't include the rest of the hardware needed to be able to use it PSU CPU MB ,so who cares ,unless prices go down at a human level and not alien level nothing is happening for me .. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION-- WHAT IS THE COST OF PRODUCTION FOR ONE 4090 ;;;
defaultluser
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yeah man cyber Monday was when the highest clearance pascal cards went on sale: they offered Zotac oem 1070 cards for $175(better than half), and their two 1060 cards for half-off!
I missed the 1070,but 1060 AMP: edition for $125 was incredibly good value, and hope to see a 3060 AMP to upgrade my htpc for the same price as that 1070 (once miners get freaked, and start liquidating stock)
or worst case l compromise AND GRAB A 3050 FOR $125 (currently running 960 on htpc,so 50% higher performance at 4k plus dlss over my 1060 6gb wold be a nice upgrade)
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theUnforgiven
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I wish we could have those low GPU prices in Oz 
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kmo911
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If we tink about dx12 3dmark benchmark there would be a welcome with 76% more speed.
games that runs good must peform 100& better on new 30xx ti to 40xx ti. amd giving yeah best gpus witouth rtx rtx. their own tecnology. rtx nvidia are somehow new and it takes time to get it inside games. when you can inplent it in older games and new ones yhats fantastic..
the price are a big lol when blaming on c-19. stop bugging us with those darn prices and give back us real prices. not 100 000 nok/usd for a old gpu. 10 000 usd in nok would be about 100 000 nok. oil price 9.76 or 10.?? oil index should not tell europans how high it it selling with taxes and mva. we just want normal sale.
games that runs good must peform 100& better on new 30xx ti to 40xx ti. amd giving yeah best gpus witouth rtx rtx. their own tecnology. rtx nvidia are somehow new and it takes time to get it inside games. when you can inplent it in older games and new ones yhats fantastic..
the price are a big lol when blaming on c-19. stop bugging us with those darn prices and give back us real prices. not 100 000 nok/usd for a old gpu. 10 000 usd in nok would be about 100 000 nok. oil price 9.76 or 10.?? oil index should not tell europans how high it it selling with taxes and mva. we just want normal sale.
"Is this a deliberate strategy from Nvidia to limit losses from the high volume of RTX 30 series inventory left to be sold?"
Yes. They said exactly that on their end of quarter investor call. Nobody should be surprised at all they said that they had adjusted 30 series pricing in anticipation of the 40 series launch for a coexistence through the new year.
Yes. They said exactly that on their end of quarter investor call. Nobody should be surprised at all they said that they had adjusted 30 series pricing in anticipation of the 40 series launch for a coexistence through the new year.
Avro Arrow
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That's because, according to an article from today, they're busy flooding the used GPUs with pressure-washers!
Denialism with price corrections is common, especially after a period of shortages. Then, overhead begins its inevitable squeeze, and the price goes down. Panic ensures, and price declines more aggressively.
Nvidia management screwed up by overpaying for manufacturing capacity, couldn't renegotiate its contracts, and is trying to pass on those costs to the customers and slow walk wall street with these gimmicks. Delay in case surprise bails them out. Gpu miners screwed up by investing in a bubble. They are hoping the market bottoms and another coin bails them out.
No one wants to book a loss, so be patient.
Nvidia management screwed up by overpaying for manufacturing capacity, couldn't renegotiate its contracts, and is trying to pass on those costs to the customers and slow walk wall street with these gimmicks. Delay in case surprise bails them out. Gpu miners screwed up by investing in a bubble. They are hoping the market bottoms and another coin bails them out.
No one wants to book a loss, so be patient.
Nobody can give you an actual answer, because such information is propitiatory and kept under close supervision. One can make some educated guesses though. The AD102 has a 608 square millimetre die and is fabricated on TSMC's N4 process - this is based on their N5 node, but is a little cheaper to manufacture. A single 300 mm wafer, on the N4 process, can produce approximately 90 dies in total, although the percentage that will be usable, let alone 4090-usable, is unknown.
But let's say 70% of them are good enough to be used in the relevant models and out of those, say 40% are for the 4090 (the remainder will get used for the professional line of Lovelace-powered cards, and the new 4080s). A single wafer can cost up to $15k to manufacture, and given that N4 is relatively new, there's not going to be any huge cost savings yet. But let's take a round number of $10k - that means each AD102 die costs around $110 to make. However, since 25 dies from each wafer end up in a 4090, Nvidia will charge a higher price for them to AIB vendors, simply because the supply of them is less than the more damaged ones that get used for the 4080s.
The dies need to be packaged and it's anyone's guess as to how much that costs, in terms of materials and manufacturing, but then one needs to add in the mainboard, all of the components on it, 24GB of 21Gbps GDDR6x, and the cooling system being used. Once again, the price of that RAM isn't made public, but given that all electronic components are still in relatively short supply/priced higher than normal.
Nvidia stores and distributes its packaged GPUs from a center in Hong Kong, as the manufacturer of every other part is based in China or Taiwan. So those costs need to be included, as well. So one could be looking as high as $400 to $500 to manufacture and distribute a 'standard' 4090, perhaps considerably more.
Nvidia charges a small fortune for that model for three reasons: (1) because they can; (2) because it's an LVS (low volume seller); (3) market positioning.
Jensen can eat my *** with a spoon. YOU serve gamers. Gamers will not bend to your will. You are going to learn that real fast Jensen. The age of affordable GPUs IS returning. Mining is over. Get bent.
Thanks for the effort!
takaozo
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Does it look to you that people here care about this?
You opened an account just to say this?
This is no Coin forum FFS.
JamesBlond
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If you believed mining was the cause of Shortage and price increases ...well then you deserve to pay more
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