Nvidia reportedly scales down Geforce RTX 2060 production to prioritize “Ampere”

The hardware autumn of 2020 was the start of a cavalcade of exciting hardware, where graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia hit hard for many enthusiasts – a joy that in many cases turned into disappointment due to the persistent lack of circuitry. To mitigate the meager supply, Nvidia has resorted to several tricks, including methods of holding miners gone includes strangled crypto performance and the graphics card series CMP, earmarked for just crypto breaking.

To increase supply, the company has also taken back retired cards to the production lines and then specifically the old “Pascal” and the previous generation “Turing” -based Geforce RTX 2060, with circuits that are also used in the said CMP family. Now the Chinese hardware site IT Home reports that third-party manufacturers have been informed that circuit deliveries for RTX 2060 will be halved from June. The production capacity will instead be put on RTX 3000 “Ampere”.

To the inmate, this move may seem contradictory at first glance, as “Turing” is manufactured on TSMC’s 12-nanometer technology and “Ampere” uses Samsung’s 8 nanometers, so they do not fight for the same manufacturing capacity. However, memory circuits and necessary passive components are common to graphics cards regardless of series – parts that are also plagued by limited availability. It is probable that the said shift also counts the parts outside the graphics circuits, which third-party manufacturers can buy as packages.

Another possible reason for the re-prioritization is if larger volumes of the graphics circuits are on the way. This can to a greater extent make said components a limiting factor if the “Turing” family lives on. The future may show whether Geforce RTX 3000 cards will find their way into the market in larger volumes during the second half of the year, but if the production rate for circuits at Samsung is kept unchanged, fewer graphics cards will reach store shelves than before.

The latter scenario is closer to the picture painted by the analysis agency Trendforce, where a lack of memory circuits is expected to raise the prices of graphics cards by 8–13 percent during the year. It remains to be seen if this will be the case, but even if the pressure on the Geforce RTX 3000 cards that are released will be even higher when the “Turing” variants decrease. At the time of writing, it is unclear whether the same reduction awaits the CMP cards.

Source: IT Home via Wccftech

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