there will be a shortage at its launch

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT are close to launch, in particular we know that the reference model will arrive in stores November 18, that is, in less than two weeks. But what will happen to your stock? Will it be as chaotic as NVIDIA RTX 30? New information from ASUS representatives points to the worst. Let’s see what they said.

Lack of stock at the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, ASUS says

As they say, the information comes from ASUS – one of the company’s representatives said the following in the Swedish Sweclockers forum:

It will be quite limited [el stock]: more RX6800, less 6800XT… as with practically all graphics now, we expect everything [el stock] disappears in a few minutes […]

So it will take 1-2 weeks longer to start shipping our custom artwork, it’s too early to tell what supply will look like, but demand will likely remain very high.

This basically means that, at launch, Getting an RX 6800 XT in stock won’t be easy. That’s exactly what happened with NVIDIA RTX, where only the lucky ones got one.

The big question is inside whether this situation will continue over time or not. It’s not a big deal to be out of stock for the first few days (in fact, that’s normal) if a couple of weeks later your custom artwork arrives with a decent amount of supply. The Asus rep says it’s still too early to tell.

If we reflect on the differences between the supply situation of AMD and NVIDIA, the latter has suffered a lot from the manufacturing process of Samsung, which not only does not give them sufficient production but a good part of the chips are not up to par. , and must be discarded for the manufacture of the cheaper models.

From the AMD band, TSMC shouldn’t give you any problems, but you have to take into account two things:

• Taiwanese foundry continues to receive more and more orders from big companies like AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, Mediatek or Intel itself. They are very good, but their production capacity is not infinite.
• AMD RDNA 2 architecture is not limited to computer graphics. There will also be an extraordinary request from PS5 and Xbox Series X / S consoles, that are launched

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Everything indicates that we will have to wait to see a healthy graphics card market. Let’s hope for 2021, because if we’re lucky there will be two good news: that both AMD and NVIDIA are starting to have decent stock and that mid and mid-range models are starting to be launched with the new graphic architectures. We could also see Intel hit the market with its DG2, further fueling the competition.

Do you think that the stock of the new RX 6000 will only be at the beginning, as in every launch, or will it become a prolonged problem? Don’t hesitate to leave your opinion in the comments.