Bi a ti duro lori precipice ti a titun iran ti eya awọn kaadi lati Nvidia ati AMD, a faramọ fanfa ti ya root online - ni awọn ti tẹlẹ iran ti GPUs si tun tọ ifẹ si nigbati nkankan Opo, didan ati diẹ lagbara jẹ lori awọn ipade?
Mo le sọ iyẹn kuro fun ọ: uh, bẹẹni.
Awọn ariyanjiyan si maa wa kanna bi o ti ni fun awọn ti o ti kọja diẹ iran awọn idasilẹ – wipe o ni pointless lati ra a ọja lori etibebe ti o di 'igba atijọ' ati awọn iye owo igba ko ba kuna to lati ṣe awọn ti o tọ awọn owo. Ní bẹ is kannaa si ariyanjiyan yii, ṣugbọn o kuna lati ṣe akiyesi ọran nla kan: ọja GPU ko tẹle ọgbọn fun igba pipẹ.
O kere kii ṣe ni awọn ọna ti o ṣe pataki. Bẹẹni, ni awọn ọdun ti o ti kọja o le rin sọkalẹ lọ si ile itaja iširo biriki-ati-mortar agbegbe rẹ ki o gba kaadi awọn eya aworan tuntun pẹlu ojulumo Irọrun, jẹ pe awoṣe tuntun ni MSRP tabi iran iṣaaju ti o rọpo ni ẹdinwo ti o dun, ṣugbọn awọn ọdun diẹ sẹhin ti fihan pe o rọrun ko le sọ asọtẹlẹ ọjọ iwaju ti ọja kan, GPU tabi bibẹẹkọ.
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.
Itan le tun funrararẹ
Gundam toje akori RTX 3080 GPU ti a ṣe sinu ohun elo iwakusa kan fa ariwo lori ayelujara. (Kirẹditi aworan: 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.
Ọrọ nla kan sibẹsibẹ, ni aipe yii ko kan iran ti awọn kaadi eya aworan nikan - o tun fa idiyele ti o fẹrẹ to gbogbo GPU lori ọja naa. Awọn ariyanjiyan ti nduro titi ti nigbamii ti iran ti eya awọn kaadi ti a ti tu ni ibere lati imolara soke a din owo, agbalagba awoṣe tabi a iṣẹtọ owole titun itusilẹ patapata farasin fere moju.
It's your money, your requirements and your choice
Kini idi ti inu rẹ fi dun? Tani o mọ, ṣugbọn Mo tẹtẹ pe GPU rẹ ṣe deede ohun ti o nilo rẹ. (Kirẹditi aworan: 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 si ọ .
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.
Bi idiyele gbigbe laaye ti n pọ si ni ọpọlọpọ awọn orilẹ-ede kakiri agbaye, ko si aaye ni igbega si 'ohun nla ti o tẹle' o kan nitori ṣiṣe bẹ, ati pe mejeeji Ampere ati RDNA2 GPU yoo tun jẹ pataki ati agbara. fun awọn ọdun ti mbọ.
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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