Yayin da muke tsayawa kan madaidaicin sabon ƙarni na katunan zane daga Nvidia da AMD, tattaunawar da aka saba da ita ta samo tushe akan layi - shin ƙarni na GPUs na baya har yanzu yana da darajar siyan lokacin da wani sabon abu, mai haske da ƙarfi yake kan sararin sama?
Zan iya share muku hakan: uh, eh.
Hujjar ta kasance iri ɗaya kamar yadda ta kasance a cikin 'yan shekarun baya-bayan nan na sakewa - cewa ba shi da ma'ana don siyan samfur a gab da ya zama 'marasa aiki' kuma farashin sau da yawa ba sa faɗuwa don sa ya cancanci kuɗin. Akwai is dabaru ga wannan gardama, amma ya kasa yin la'akari da babbar al'amari: da GPU kasuwar ba ta bi dabaru na dogon lokaci.
Aƙalla ba a cikin hanyoyin da ke da mahimmanci ba. Ee, a cikin shekarun da suka wuce zaku iya tafiya zuwa kantin sayar da bulo-da-turmi na gida kuma ku ɗauki sabon katin zane tare da dangi sauƙi, zama sabon samfuri a MSRP ko ƙarni na baya yana maye gurbinsa akan ragi mai daɗi, amma ƴan shekarun da suka gabata sun tabbatar da cewa kawai ba za ku iya hasashen makomar kasuwa ba, GPU ko akasin haka.
When GPUs like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 were first released, plenty of PC gamers and computing enthusiasts believed an upgrade from the previous generation couldn't be justified by the insanely high prices, and that waiting for the 3000 series to drop was the more sensible option – and then all hell broke loose.
Tarihi na iya maimaita kansa
Rare Gundam mai jigo RTX 3080 GPUs da aka gina a cikin injin ma'adinai ya haifar da hayaniya akan layi. (Hoto Credit: I_Leak_VN)
The Ampere series of cards like the GeForce RTX 3060 had a divisive pricepoint – some finding it to be reasonable, while other lamented the apparent death of affordable graphics cards – but a terrible cocktail of word issues also made them almost impossible to find.
The Cryptomarket saw a boom in Ethereum, which made the cards very attractive to miners who snapped them up in bulk for use in cryptomining farms, while the Covid-19 pandemic caused supply chain issues and a chip shortage that affected almost everything in the tech world, from computing components to cars and appliances.
All this scarcity inflated the price of GPUs to wild levels, with the GeForce RTX 3080 hitting an average resale price of almost x3 times its original MSRP during the height of the Great GPU Shortage. AMD fared a little better, though even Team Red was still blighted by shortages and scalpers.
One difference between how the two companies approached the situation was in regards to cryptomining, with Nvidia eventually re-releasing updated models of almost its entire Ampere series equipped with anti-mining preventatives.
These LHR (low-hashrate) cards weren’t completely uncrackable, but they may have helped dissuade folks from snapping up mountains of RTX 3060s. On the other hand, AMD acknowledged the situation and stated that once a customer buys a GPU, they’re free to do what they like with it.
Babban al'amari duk da haka, shine wannan ƙarancin bai shafi wannan ƙarni na katunan zane ba - ya kuma haɓaka farashin kusan kowane GPU a kasuwa. Muhawarar jira har zuwa tsara na gaba na graphics katunan da aka fito da domin a karye sama mai rahusa, tsohon model ko wani fairly farashin sabon saki gaba daya bace gaba daya na dare.
It's your money, your requirements and your choice
Me yasa tayi farin ciki haka? Wanene ya sani, amma na ci amanar GPU ta yi daidai abin da take buƙata. (Saƙon hoto: Shutterstock)
Will this happen again? It's hard to say.
The shortage was caused by a variety of issues that just happened to occur at the same time, but should Covid-19 cause more supply chain constraints then it's likely that both Lovelace and RDNA3 GPUs could see their prices start to skyrocket due to demand. The crypto market also has every likelihood to recover given its volatility, so you shouldn’t feel like we’re out of the woods just yet.
I do have a simpler argument in all of this though: it's worth buying a new GPU if it’s worth it zuwa gare ku .
Older GPUs still very much have a place in the market right now. You only have to look at the Steam Hardware Survey to see how many gamers are still using cards that are several generations old at this point, and depending on the games you play, it's likely you don’t actually need an especially powerful graphics card. Most first-person shooters and battle-royale style games intentionally keep the system requirements low to attract more players for example.
I wrote a piece several months ago off the back of the RTX 3070 Ti getting poor reviews. It was marked down for its price and performance, but the joy it has bought me is beyond value. I won’t feel bad for my choices given the circumstances given graphics cards were harder to find than gold dust. Would I have preferred an RTX 3090? Sure, but did I need one? Absolutely not.
Kamar yadda tsadar rayuwa ke ƙaruwa a ƙasashe da yawa a duniya, babu wata ma'ana a haɓaka zuwa 'babban abu na gaba' kawai don yin hakan, kuma duka Ampere da RDNA2 GPUs za su kasance masu dacewa da iyawa. shekaru masu zuwa.
If you see an especially good deal on a cheap graphics card in the coming weeks, don’t let early adopters try and convince you to wait for Lovelace or RDNA3 unless you’re happy to do so – we simply don’t know what the market will look like when they launch.
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