Can't they at least wait until we start to reliably see product on shelves?
Don't know where you got that info but that's definitely false.
If you look at Nvidia's lineup, each GPU has a die that's unique to that product in both size and markings. Sure, there have been/are a few products that make use of the same die but with defects depending on yelds, but those are usually in the same performance class (1070, 1070TI and 1080 had the same die), and not the case you're talking about of entry level GPUs being high end GPUs dies with defects fused off. That's never the case. An RTX 3050 die is a completely different part than a 3080/3090 die.
I do think crypto is demand destroyed due to their own collapse unrelated but related to the economy in general. My expectation is that the next crypto bubble will take longer to inflate this time vs the last, but hell what's the point reading tea leaves. This could be the end of crypto. All we need is a new and exciting meme way for early adopters to sell losing bets into ignorant followers.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/the-end-of-ethereum-m...
Really awesome charts here-
I think this is less about consumer GPUs and more about cost cutting in big corps slowing expansions, and the reduction in crypto demand.
Think about every tech company that says “oops we overbuilt for covid, whelp let’s lay everyone off” well they could be buying fewer servers if they over-anticipated their needs in that department too.
You were unable to convince your executives to adopt huggingface, IOT, and instead they opted to employ phone calls and Excel spreadsheets.
You, consumer, failed to accept Stadia into your heart,... and now you shall pay for your snide indifference!!
Of course real consumers can't buy the hardware, real consumers don't have AAA credit ratings.
You can always eBay a K80 as well if your motherboard supports the >4G decoding switch, but my primary point was about the insane purchasing power that affords large CommSvc sector company the ability to crash the market for a product before anyone even has logistics in place, apparently wishing to gatekeep any applications.
- Game devs haven't made any games that stress a cloud gaming environment, they didn't even push VR.
- Corporate consumers are hardly adopting AI at all, because there's still barely even a workforce.
- Some very vocal people find proof of work a distasteful mechanism to support logistical metacommodity growth.
It doesn't make much sense for NVidia to increase production of 4xxx series when there's so much 3xxx series sitting around in warehouse inventory.
Unless you're willing to spend $1000+ the real world performance differences aren't even that large: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html