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Captain_Yuri said:

You would think but I am willing to bet that majority of the capacity will go to Consoles instead and RDNA 2 for PC will still get a very small allocation. If anything, we will need to wait until the consoles are in stock or RDNA 3 for AMD PC cards to get a good increase in capacity. But here's hoping that's not the case. The sooner the stock comes back, the sooner PC gaming can go back to normal.

Sure, there's quite a bit of the capacity going into the consoles, but here it is also very dependent on the orders from the clients, here Microsoft and Sony. While their demand is not met yet, I don't think they will increase their orders by so much that they would gobble up much of the increased capacity, 20% of those 80% at most, but probably more like only 10%. With CPUs mostly meeting demand now, I'd say most of the new capacity can go into GPUs.

We will see but I would think their goal is to get as large of a user base for their consoles as fast as possible so developers can move on from their last gen consoles to their next gen ones. Usually the thing that prevents devs from going next gen only is the user base. So there's plenty of reason as to why Sony and MS would take up quite a lot of the capacity as I doubt it's a fixed number until supply meets demand. If anything, it's however many consoles AMD can make.

And then you add in AMD's new Epyc CPUs and laptops CPUs taking up capacity as well, I am doubtful that the supply of RDNA 2 cards will increase very much in the short term. But if they do, I'll be glad cause we need to normalize the PC hardware market.