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i just heard NVIDIA's got a sick new GPU

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for us to play with

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well what part of that is wrong did we not get it or is there no new GPU

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yes wait oh this is the rtx 2060 relaunch isn't

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it yep but

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NVIDIA's new old stock GPU uses the same core layout as the rtx 2060 super but

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instead of that GPU's eight Gigabyte memory configuration they're bumping it

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up to 12 gigabytes of gddr6 at first glance that might sound like a

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decent upgrade but there's more to the story than just the size of the frame

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buffer alone the available memory bandwidth is still being stifled by the

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original rtx 2060's 192-bit bus so in

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that respect it's actually a step back from the rtx 2060 super that means this

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card should perform somewhere between the og 2060 and the super variant rather

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than surpassing them unless you have a specific need for the extra video memory

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and you just might to account for newer titles coming out with bigger and more

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varied assets NVIDIA would have seen fit to give the rtx 2060 some extra juice in

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the caboose not to mention the marketing benefits 12 gigs puts them on par with

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AMD who has for some time been criticizing NVIDIA's lower end cards for

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their smaller frame buffers if nothing else at least it helps to

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ensure that anyone who's buying one of these rtx 2060s isn't stuck with all of

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the limitations of a three-year-old design

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obviously you're not going to be cranking the visuals on these cards but

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you're also not going to be scrambling to upgrade again in a year or so

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maybe we'd love to verify that but we certainly can't today

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not only has NVIDIA canned the founders edition that they briefly listed on

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their website but we didn't get a card to review and they

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haven't been talking to the press either us included as far as we could tell this card was

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still a maybe on the horizon

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rumor as recently as last week there's

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two ways you could look at this first obviously we already know pretty

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much how the rtx 2060 performs so reviews aren't likely to reveal anything

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mind-blowing maybe they felt it wasn't worth bothering

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the second is more troubling

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as of writing i have no idea how much it costs

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each board partner is going to have their own skus with their own pricing

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and NVIDIA hasn't announced a baseline msrp like they usually would instead

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opting for the cryptic it's a premium product so it'll be

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priced accordingly line it could be that this card will be

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very expensive and they're trying to get out in front of a negative news cycle

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full of inevitable comparisons to the 30 series launch msrps and to be fair to

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NVIDIA there's no real benefit to tech press and subsequently consumers yelling

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at them about how their msrp doesn't exist when it's inevitably higher for

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most partner boards now we've talked at length about why msrps have been rising

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and why the msrps that many gpus originally launched at are functionally

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extinct but the tldr is that it's a combination of the ongoing chip shortage

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raw materials skyrocketing in price thanks to coveted recovery and

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speculation and just plain and simple supply and demand

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it's becoming more expensive just to get the chips let alone put it all together

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and this cost isn't going away anytime soon

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NVIDIA sells gpus to everyone else so that they can eat that cost then but

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partners don't have the luxury of selling loss leaders oh this is

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interesting i just got a response from ASUS apparently they don't know what the

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msrp is yet i'd love to say that's surprising but i just don't think it is

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that NVIDIA won't commit to an msrp could be seen as a small mercy

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or another way of messing with their partners whatever the case partners

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won't have to do much to both piss everyone off and sell all their stock at

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once the fact of the matter is that both the rtx 2060s launched at 349 and the rtx

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3060 that's supposed to replaced it launched at 3.29

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if the price ends up being anything higher than that our slash hardware is

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going to lose their minds whether it's justified or not

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it feels like NVIDIA is hanging partners out to dry again while

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they continue to enjoy the positive perception of reasonable msrp on their

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cards that board partners have no hope of matching with this release or any

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other either in terms of price or performance

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we'll have them link down below once they're available but i'm not hopeful

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it'll be a good deal though as unpopular as this take might be it'll still be a

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bargain at least at off-the-shelf prices compared to scalper rtx 2060 prices on

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ebay i mean look at this they are regularly selling for more than 500 to

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600 depending on whether it's the super variant of the card and whoever bought

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this one for over 800 us dollars must

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have been pretty desperate the people buying these scalped

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secondary market cards are the people who will benefit the most they've

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clearly already accepted that they're going to have to shell out flagship

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money for a less than flagship experience and more cards on the market

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means that there's less pressure for these second-hand gpus

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i mean it's really a win-win for consumers as far as i'm concerned just

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like our new swag kit on lttstore.com it's heavier than a sweater and lighter

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than a jacket everyone wins except

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not really if NVIDIA has been holding on to these

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gpus because they couldn't sell them before now then this is more of a

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positive for them than for anyone else and it means that these gpus have a

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finite quantity but i don't think that's true NVIDIA would have sold remaining

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stock for cheap or to a system integrator for pre-built or what have

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you before now remember the 7900 gto

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those were basically 7 900 gtx chips that were perfectly fine but deprecated

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by the outstanding 8800 series besides

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there's no way that they'd have enough surplus to launch a whole new sku at

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this point across their entire range of partners 7900 gto as you might recall

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was MSI and evga exclusively due to its

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limited quantities now turing rtx 20 series was produced on

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tsmc's 12 nanometer node and more likely

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what's happening is NVIDIA is utilizing otherwise idle production because you

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got to remember guys even though tsmc offers seven nanometer and five

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nanometer for cutting edge products and is working on ramping three nanometer

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they haven't necessarily just taken their last gen old equipment and hucked

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it in a bin due to the large upfront investment that

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kind of stuff ends up getting phased out very gradually i mean even AMD's

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flagship x570 chipset is still using 14

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nanometer because it's economical so if no other gpus are being produced

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on 12 nanometer right now any new capacity that NVIDIA gets out of

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those fabs is new capacity as far as the

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GPU market is concerned and i think they made the right call going with the rtx

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2060 super cores as well because assuming that they're going to be using

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the relatively small tu-106 die they

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should be able to get more good dies per wafer than they would with something

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like a 2070 super redux or something

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along those lines okay this is starting to make sense

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except for the fact that NVIDIA is bundling these gpus with 12 gigabytes of

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gddr6 gdgara 6 was a large part of the production bottleneck that played both

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NVIDIA and AMD through the 2020 and 2021

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phases of this shortage and i haven't found any evidence to

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suggest that things are so much better now that a relief skew like this can

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reliably use so much memory 12 gigs at 192 bit means that we're looking at six

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16 gigabit dies the exact same layout of

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the rtx 3060 well this might have been done so partners could use the same or

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similar pcbs it means that this memory is not going into rtx 3060 production or

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rtx 3050 production which is expected sometime in early 2022 get subscribed so

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i can only assume that they have their reasons clearly NVIDIA knows more about

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supply chain management than we do at this point or indeed than they did when

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they launched the 8800 series all those years ago it did seem that around summer

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of this year demand for gddr6 had fallen

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in comparison with supply so who knows and on the subject of lessons

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learned it does say a lot about the mature way that NVIDIA is handling this

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by straight up calling this card what it is 20 60 12 gig remember how NVIDIA

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rebranded fermi and then later kepler into two generations each i mean we got

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new gpus with new names but they were

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the same bloody thing it's stupid that they have to get a gold

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star for calling a spade a spade in this industry but

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here we are and as long as the logistics do work out this is going to be a net

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benefit to the overall availability of graphics cards for

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at least a little while which is good for everyone just as long as we don't go

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back much further than this i had a dream the other night that NVIDIA

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re-released the gtx 780 and everyone was happy about it i mean 28 nanometer is an

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even less utilized node these days right so

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i don't think that dream's coming true anytime soon re-releasing an older GPU

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is only remotely feasible because we are in such

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desperate circumstances and because the process node for that GPU is still in

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production and maybe not fully tapped by other industries it

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certainly carries with it some challenges like the fact that NVIDIA

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might have to continue to support 20 series cards for much longer than they

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might have originally planned in order to maintain their reputation for

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industry-leading long-term driver support this move then requires some

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lateral thinking on the part of both NVIDIA and prospective buyers

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hey it's not going to be for everyone but we live in interesting times and the

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market is clearly there for this class of GPU i just hope that the power

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consumption per hash rate is not appealing enough to make it appealing

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because i doubt they respun it for a light hash rate version

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right that you should have built a pc back in 2019 but for all the wrong

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