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Comment by WrtCdEvrydy | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, this is about par for the course for Nvidia.

I wish AMD had a working product to kick their teeth in...

They do. The 5700XT is still an excellent card, the 6700 and 6700XT are coming out soon, and the 6800 and 6800XT are both absolutely killer cards as well, especially at the reference prices.

Vendors and demand have effectively driven prices to an insane amount, and you just can't get them, unfortunately. Short of AMD doing something like Nvidia is doing here, I doubt we'll see them on store shelves any time soon.

And the reason you can't buy them is exactly the same reason nVidia is adding limitations - to try to make the cards less appealing to scalpers so the actual customers may get some.

I think you mean 'miners' - scalpers don't care.

Except you won't be able to buy any of them, even when they are released.

You might not like the price, but the 6800/6900 ones tend to stay in stock these days in at least some parts of the world [0][1]

[0] https://www.mindfactory.de/Hardware/Grafikkarten+(VGA)/Radeo... [1] https://www.alternate.de/Grafikkarten/Big-Navi

5700XT costs 1000$ in Ukraine. It cost 500$ when it just got released. WTF?

Edit: 1100$ actually.

I just sold a used one for $1100 that I paid $380 for on release. It's because crypto has gone up so much.

AMD already did this. The RX6K series are terrible cards for mining. The radeon 7 smokes the new cards because the new ones where designed to be as bad at mining as possible without effecting raster performance.

RX 5700 will hit 55mhs and the RX6K series will do ~68mhs, but the cost of the 5700 is typically like half that of a 6800.

There's a reason it's easier to find the new AMD stuff in stock than nvidia stuff, they've got a terrible mining roi.

Vega 7 is a compute beast. The RX5xxx and RX6xxx are tuned for gaming performance and sacrifice unnecessary compute performance for better power efficiency. No wonder the V7 is way better at mining.

They mostly do, the problem is that they're even more supply-constrained than Nvidia right now.

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