Now could be your last chance to buy a high-end RTX 2000 GPU before prices rise ahead of Ampere launch
Nvidia’s RTX 2070 and 2070 Super, plus 2080 Super and 2080 Ti are being killed off
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Nvidiais pulling the plug on its higher-end graphics cards for the currentTuringgeneration, and production of the GeForce RTX 2070 and 2070 Super, plus theRTX 2080 Superand 2080 Ti is being halted, according to a new rumor.
We’d be careful around this particular piece of speculation, as it doesn’t come from what we’d describe as a trusted source, but still, this is apparently the case according to a Chinese tech publicationIThome(as spotted byTom’s Hardware).
While this is good news on the face of it – production is stopping because Nvidia is about to launch its next-gen Ampere (likely RTX 3000) graphics cards, or that’s the theory, and one therumor mill has been peddling lately– there is some bad news here too.
Namely that these current high-end RTX 2000 series cards are set to have their prices hiked imminently, so if you do wish to buy a speedyNvidia graphics cardin the very near future, you’re going to be paying through the nose for it.
Supply and demand
At least that’s the allegation, and we’d be particularly cautious about this. IThome argues that because stock of these Turing GPUs will be dwindling, obviously enough with things winding down, plus apparently TSMC, the foundry that makes the cards, is focusing elsewhere anyway, with supply issues therein too.
Couple this with a reported increase in demand for crypto-mining GPUs – yes, that’s a thing again apparently – and you’ve got supply and demand issues pulling in nasty directions, with graphics cards thinner on the ground as a result. Meaning one thing: rising prices for these RTX 2070 and 2080 models.
As we said, though, the price rise element of this rumor certainly needs a good deal of salt tossed around, but the state of play with production of these GPUs being wound down is obviously perfectly believable given that RTX 3000 graphics cards are expected to be launched soon anyway.
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The most recent rumor we’ve heard is that Nvidia is targeting aSeptember launch– andAMD may be as well– with mass production cranking up in August, and indeed IThome has floated a date of September 17 for the launch of Ampere GPUs.
If that date is about on the money, that gives us two more months of Turing products being on sale – but perhaps only a few weeks before the prices of these current-gen models start rising (perhapsbeing the key word here).
Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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