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Pemalite said:

Chazore said:

"What kind of GPU's can we expect to buy in 2021?"

Is that some kind of trick question?.

None of them of course, because miners and scalpers lol. We're in for another fucked year of GPU shortages.

Part of the issue is AMD has a wafer contract with TSMC... Which gives them a fixed supply of 300mm 7nm wafers... And because of the consoles from Microsoft and Sony, AMD has to honor the contract with the consoles, so they get priority on those limited 300mm 7nm wafers.

I feel like nVidia dodged a bullet there... But then again, Samsungs 8nm process has been dogs balls with it's own issues... I.E. It's actually based on 10nm which is actually feature-size, closer to Intels 14nm process than 10nm in terms of geometries... And the yields on that have been terrible for monolithic chips, Samsung just isn't as proficient as TSMC.

Either way, poor supply is likely to stick around for 2021.

As far as I remember, there was a news a couple weeks ago (think in October) that AMD would get a higher amount of Wafers (due to mobile clients moving to 5nm processes, leaving more room for the 7nm of AMD) for 2021. If that holds true, then the supply situation could improve starting March

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 04 January 2021