The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series was previously expected to be launched in September, with just over two months left. Therefore, those who want to buy a new graphics card may want to wait and see the performance and price of the RTX 40 series before making a decision. The bad news is that you may have to wait longer. Recently, a well-known hardware leaker YouTuber revealed in a live broadcast that with the recent emergence of a large number of second-hand GeForce RTX30 series in the market, due to inventory pressure, the launch of the RTX 40 series is likely to be delayed, and it may not be until November or December at the end of the year.
Due to the large number of second-hand NVIDIA RTX 30 series graphics cards on the market, the launch of the RTX 40 series may be delayed
A few days ago, Moore’s Law Is Dead, a well-known hardware news YouTube channel, said in a live broadcast that NVIDIA graphics cards are now in oversupply, so AIB manufacturers asked Lovelace to postpone the launch (adding that Lovelace is the code name of the GeForce RTX 40 series), otherwise it will become difficult to sell later.
The latest rumors indicate that the RTX 4090 has a base clock of 2235MHz and an overclocked clock of 2520MHz. The actual maximum clock reaches 2750MHz, which is 60% higher than the base clock of the existing RTX 3090 graphics card of 1395 MHz. Therefore, the performance improvement can be said to be very large, and the power consumption is 450W, which is only higher than the RTX 3090. A little more, and the price can’t be too expensive.
Overall, if the RTX 40 series is launched at a time when graphics cards are rapidly collapsing and second-hand graphics cards are flooding into the market, it will indeed greatly affect the sales of the RTX 30 series. Miners aside, NVIDIA does not need to be responsible for them, but the cooperative manufacturers are different. Now almost every company still has a lot of RTX 30 series graphics cards in stock. When the time comes, they will be slow to sell or even lose money. NVIDIA will definitely be scolded. Why ask for trouble? Therefore, delaying the launch is reasonable.
Moore’s Law Is Dead also shared that when he was trying to find a new RTX 3090 graphics card on eBay last year, a seller mentioned that he bought it for nearly $2,800. He thought graphics card prices would remain this high. According to the latest data at the end of June 2022,The RTX 3090 is now available brand new for only $1,500, if this seller is still here, he will definitely be compensated to the point of crying. Maybe it will be even cheaper this month:
He also mentioned that many people are now worried that graphics card inventory cannot be sold, and prices have been falling, and they are falling almost every day:
The current latest schedule for the RTX 40 series may not be released until October, and it will not be available until around December. It should be noted that this may only be the RTX 4090, and the other RTX 40 series will not be launched until next year.
There is still up to half a year until December, so if the graphics card you want to buy is the RTX 3090 series and you are not in a hurry, you can wait. However, if other RTX 30 series graphics cards are now available at good prices, you can actually buy them directly, especially mid- to low-end graphics cards.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese