The current generation of graphics cards has certainly not gone quite as NVIDIA had hoped. Apparently there will be news about the next Generatikon in September.
The generation of RTX 3000 graphics cards has probably not really gone according to plan for anyone. Although the cards were well received thanks to their performance, the lack of availability due to the corona problems caused a full board of scalpers and cryptominers to crash, so that prices went through the roof and hardly anyone with common sense went to the dealer voluntarily.
Although the prices have now normalized and the warehouses are full, the demand for them is in the basement, since many cryptomining cards are used and buyers are acting rather cautiously in view of the approaching RTX 4000 generation. This is reflected, among other things, in a sharp decline in gaming sales by 44 percent in the last quarter.
This also puts NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang under pressure, who now assured in the quarterly report that there should finally be information about the Lovelace generation and the RTX 4000 graphics cards at the GTC from September 19th to 22nd. They now want to fight their way through the tense situation and start next year with the new architecture.
“I look forward to next month’s GTC conference where we will present new advances in RTX that reinvent 3D graphics and gaming,” said Jen-Hsun Huang.
It is generally assumed that NVIDIA will start with the high-end models as before, while weaker models will follow later. Their dates are likely to depend heavily on whether and how quickly NVIDIA will be able to sell off the large stock of graphics cards. After the NVIDIA keynote on September 20th, we should be a good deal smarter. The rumor mill about the new specifications can continue to simmer, at least for so long.
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