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Originally Posted by chemgear
So I'm catching up on the AMD releases and it seems like they were even worse than Nvidia's? That's pretty crazy.
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Even worse is the mark up for some of the cards. Asus is selling a AIO 6800xt for 1100$ US. only the AMD reference cards are selling for MSRP, and all of the AIB vendors are charging more than what they are charging for Nvidia equivalent cards.
1100$ ask for a card that's supposed to go up against a "699$" US card.
All of the lesser light youtubers have been talking about supply chain and how pretty much all of the chip wafers that AMD has purchased so far is mainly for PS5, Xbox, then their Ryzen 3 processors and RDNA2.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/in-q4-amd-supplied-a-total-of-120k-ps5-and-xsx-processors-limiting-zen-3-and-big-navi-production/
Revisit sales in 90 days, and see what the supply is like in February, maybe arounds Valentines Day, as historically February is one of the worse times for hardware sales. although during pascal hoped for price breaks were a mirage due to the whole bitcoin bubble.
Christmas rush is also here, so new video cards will be scalped. It'll be interesting to see if the wider rollout of 3060ti will also be scooped or if there will still be supply chain issues into march. (slightly better than 2080 super performance for 2080 super prices! /sarcasm )
One other note buried in day one reviews is that 6800/6800xt have a power spike draw during high FPS games/Furmark burn in. Note the power draw chart at around 25:30
https://youtu.be/NbYCF_h2aVM?t=1530 If the computer's PSU is already running at limit, then this could be one of the situations where starting up a program will cause a crash to psu reset.
It'll also be interesting at the end of next year when chiplet design graphics cards are also supposed to drop.