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Yea right. Keep dreamingThe people actually buying up the entire GPU supply in bulk...they hire ex-Nvidia engineers/developers. Nvidia can make driver and VBIOS changes all they want--those people can rewrite the driver to do what they want it to. They have been for a while. The only people that this will stop are consumers buying single cards....not the corporate/industrial hashing operationsNvidia splitting its production into even more SKUs, e.g. mining-specific, there is no stock of--means there's even less GPU supply to actually go to system builders. It also means there's even more e-waste when the latest mining boom is over--because the cards cannot even be used for anything else.2021 is a loss for GPUs at this point. Simply forget about it.I would be shocked if there's anything on shelves before Black Friday. And once the US holiday season rolls around again--forget about it. Every update since September's disastrous Ampere 3080 launch, AMD/Nvidia promise stocks will 'stabilize' by next quarter....every time they're shown to be liars. It isn't even that they're wrong or 'mistaken'--their internal analysts know the demand, and know how many wafers and GPUs they're cranking out and sending to AIBs, and know how many cards they're selling direct to miners etc--and know that they'll never be able to meet demand, they're simply lying. They haven't even YET made enough GPUs to satisfy day one stock requests from retailers.The zeros say it all:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.proshop.de/RTX-30series-overview[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.proshop.fi/AMD-Radeon-RX-6000-Series-overview[/URL]Big silicon isn't alone. The entire bicycle industry has basically stated there's not going to be anything to buy the rest of the calendar year. They're at least being honest about it.
Yea right. Keep dreaming
2021 is a loss for GPUs at this point. Simply forget about it.
I would be shocked if there's anything on shelves before Black Friday. And once the US holiday season rolls around again--forget about it. Every update since September's disastrous Ampere 3080 launch, AMD/Nvidia promise stocks will 'stabilize' by next quarter....every time they're shown to be liars. It isn't even that they're wrong or 'mistaken'--their internal analysts know the demand, and know how many wafers and GPUs they're cranking out and sending to AIBs, and know how many cards they're selling direct to miners etc--and know that they'll never be able to meet demand, they're simply lying. They haven't even YET made enough GPUs to satisfy day one stock requests from retailers.
The zeros say it all:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.proshop.de/RTX-30series-overview[/URL]
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.proshop.fi/AMD-Radeon-RX-6000-Series-overview[/URL]
Big silicon isn't alone. The entire bicycle industry has basically stated there's not going to be anything to buy the rest of the calendar year. They're at least being honest about it.