with RTX40 and RX7K both around the corner, they will want to clear out all RTX20 and RX6K Inventory.
They also cut shipping to RU/BEL/CHN, guess where a majority of the mining shipments go?
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Why would they cut shipping to China? Belarus and Russia yes, but China? I’m doubtful.
Interesting to say the least.
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Maybe pressure from the Chinese government, didn’t they make mining illegal?
not to get extremely close to the edge of the grey area.
Cutting shipments to CHN:
A. They Support RU
B. They are still the primary mining country
C. China was already proposing banning Intel/AMD/nVidia in favor of their domestic brands, They were planning to do this by the end of 2022, as their CPU’s are in Fab, and their GPUs having EngSamps.
<Removed bit about nVidia Being Hacked, information is sketchy when reviewed>
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Yes and no,
Phase I was the ban on using crypto currency for any transactions
Phase II was the ban on mining crypto currency.
Phase III was trying to force a new CryptoCurrency developed by CHN Government that can be tracked.
Why?
C.C. was being used to pay for things that are illegal, and with C.C. it cannot be traced back.
the issue?
Home Miners have sold off their Equipment, as it’s illegal, obviously.
Underground/Dark Miners are still mining, and still using C.C. outside of the country or in the underground/Dark Net.
It’s being reported elsewhere too:
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I’ll be quite delighted to be wrong, prices have indeed hit an all time low over here, but very slowly. Hopefully it will continue.
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We are back down to Matching Jan 2021 Prices, while availability is up over 3x from this time last year,
And prices will continue to fall as availability continues to climb,
if I hold out I can get a 2080ti for under a $1K instead of settling for a 1080ti for $600 Now
and 1080ti’s in December were still about $1K themselves.
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Prices jumped down to around 1.6xMSRP and have been stagnant ever since. Availability seems a bit better but I’m still a bit underwhelmed.
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Yeah I hope they will fall a bit more toward the end of the year.
But who knows. Might just stay there.
I’m sitting on a 2080 Ti that I am still happy with. The gains to a 30xx card do not appear worth the $2000+ price tag so I’ll wait for the 40xx cards which could happen at the end of this year.
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Lol a bit. I’m thoroughly unimpressed!
Wait for RTX50 and RX8000,
Lovelace looks to be a huge power hungry heater, we’ve been down this road before with nVidia.
RX7000 will be the first Chiplet Series, i’ll let it develop a little bit before I invest 2K in it.
1080ti’s are still in the top 15 Most powerful cards.
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I have a friend who got a 3090 with their new PC. He benched many of the same games as I have and compared to my 2070 (non super/Ti) it was faster, but not FASTER.
Granted we both use 1080p, not 1440 let alone 4k, and I have an i7-12700k and he has the AMD 5900x I think. Whichever is the AMD CPU that is overpriced for just gaming but shines when you do other things with it, that’s what he got…even though he just games. 
To get like 20% more performance for $2k? Yeah no. That also means if I got a 3070 I would see LESS performance for that $600+, so what’s the point?
Maybe the 4070 will be worth it…if I can get one at MSRP. Did I mention I bought this 2070 below MSRP several months after its release, but before the Super refresh came out?
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WTH rode him to get a 3090 for 1080p gaming? I can’t even…
Not only is he getting the worst FPS/Watt deal of all the RTX3xxx cards, he’s also spending most of that energy on FPS he can’t possibly observe.
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True that ! And the observation that the 3090 is only lower-case "faster"than a 2070 does not take into account that the 3090 is “coasting” at 1080p . That usage is a monumental waste of money . Perhaps the owner plans a 4k or VR upgrade …
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I’m with ya, makes no sense. Still makes no sense to me now - 4 months after upgrading my entire system (I went from a 1080 GPU to a 3080Ti, among other things). Stupid price I paid too. And the ‘industry’ will demand I need to make another stupid purchase a few years from now: they will make the hardware faster (run hotter and pull more juice too I’m sure) and people will want more graphical goodies to feed them. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It’s been this way for decades. At some point I will say, “No mas”. But there will be people to replace me…
On a lighter note…I got into a tree-hoppin’, gun/missile exchange with a…think you call it a TOR?..yesterday in the Apache, in VR. I was losing.
Then suddenly it went “poof!”. Some AI Harrier dude saved my arse (I’d forgotten they were in there - my personal mission generator thingy). I was ‘distracting’ the bad guy it seems. And my rotor-head wingman actually was doing pretty well too (seems they really did improve the low-level AI, at least for choppers )
Wow. Amazing. Then I jacked-up my trim and augured in. 
I. Am. Going. To. Learn. This. Beast! Casmo’s doppelganger did an “Okay job”
maybe a good thing I had to re-negotiate my server package and use the money I was saving for GPU to pay off my contract.
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More than slightly OT but man am I happy to see RDNA2 support pop up in ROCm (AMD’s pendant to nVidia’s CUDA). As long as AMDs consumer cards don’t support GPGPU, they are missing out on a big slice of the cake.