Official 6x00 Stock Thread(or lack thereof)

[LordHawkwind]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04

Very funny Bill but it doesn't change the narrative does it

[SuperGeil]

They are starting to stock up, but with a bit of premium

[Riptide]

The Dallas micro center was cleaned out yesterday afternoon when I went over there to nose around. Hardly any graphics cards left and no 3000 or 6000 series of course.

Never been to a micro center before. Those of you who have one near you are lucky to have it. What a great store for nerds.

[Crawdaddy79]

The Dallas micro center was cleaned out yesterday afternoon when I went over there to nose around. Hardly any graphics cards left and no 3000 or 6000 series of course.

Never been to a micro center before. Those of you who have one near you are lucky to have it. What a great store for nerds.

Yep. It sucks that mine is located where it's a minimum 40 minute drive no matter which way I go, despite being 12 miles away (need to go north and all main thoroughfares between are east/west) but it's worth it every time, even if I don't buy anything.

I'll see so many things on shelves that I didn't know existed. Got my daughter a bluetooth fidget spinner.

Need a card reader? Pick from one of these 40 different brands!

[Leprechaun]

Haven't looked at any amd gfx since the high Frank Azor availability day. Just been scoping rtx 3000s daily. Just checked now and there's 20+ cards just sitting locally. Too expensive for what they are and worse at mining. Not sure how much the latter is affecting sales.

Also, to date nobody has explained the point of the 6800 vs 6800 xt. The price difference is negligible, yet performance has a decent difference

[Crawdaddy79]

Also, to date nobody has explained the point of the 6800 vs 6800 xt. The price difference is negligible, yet performance has a decent difference

Negligible price difference?



Kind of a joke, but I literally just went to the AMD store to see if they had any stock and saw this. Thought it an appropriate response.

https://www.amd.com/en/shop/us/Graphics%20Cards

EDIT: I clicked the "Check Retail Availability" link and saw this. Got very excited.


The AMD one leads to a 404 not found, but Insight will be happy to ship you a $650 card for $1217.

[Leprechaun]

^

I meant here in Canada. $1000 for 6800. $1200 6800 xt.
MSRP is the biggest lawlz of 2020/2021

[LordHawkwind]

Negligible price difference?



Kind of a joke, but I literally just went to the AMD store to see if they had any stock and saw this. Thought it an appropriate response.

https://www.amd.com/en/shop/us/Graphics%20Cards

EDIT: I clicked the "Check Retail Availability" link and saw this. Got very excited.


The AMD one leads to a 404 not found, but Insight will be happy to ship you a $650 card for $1217.

Whoa. Just went to the AMD UK store and they had the 6900XT listed at £1,397.99 again available from Insight. Jeepers. What's going on? That's about $1,500 USD give or take (removing UK VAT). They haven't got them in stock of course.

https://www.amd.com/en/shop/gb/Graphics%20Cards

[LordHawkwind]

FFS a guy just posted on the AMD Radeon Graphics facebook page asking for advice on settings for his 6900XT. Says it's his first gaming PC and doesn't understand what settings are best for the card. Claims he's only getting 70fps at Far Cry 5 on an Asus 1440p 165hz monitor. Absolute ****head and this is why real enthusiasts can't buy cards ATM because of morons like him who probably paid a scalper.

[CyanBlues]

yah who are close to a microcenter and still in need of a card/processor really needs to join the unofficial microcenter discord, people usually wait in the morning and they usually give updates on stock once the store opens, will save you a drive. https://discord.gg/W438Vz2

[pax]

LOL desperate times call for desperate measures:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/l1kz7t/newegg_responds_to_gpu_cpu_shortages_with/

Newegg Responds to GPU, CPU Shortages With Controversial Lottery System

[acroig]

LOL desperate times call for desperate measures:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/co...hortages_with/

Yeah, thanks newegg...

[Crawdaddy79]

Saw a Kotaku headline that said "Newegg Holds Lottery That Lets People Pay Full Price for Hardware."

Actually: "Lucky Winners Of Newegg's Lottery Get To Pay Full Price For PC Parts" Real headline is more incendiary than I remember haha.

https://kotaku.com/lucky-winners-of-neweggs-raffle-get-to-pay-full-price-f-1846101417

[bill dennison]

why would i want a ****ing intel motherboard or anyone

lets bundle them with sh*t we can't sell



wonder what they do if i return the MB for refund

[acroig]

wonder what they do if i return the MB for refund

Not anymore, all must be returned or all kept.

[bill dennison]

Not anymore, all must be returned or all kept.

i could see what Capital One has to say about that

i would take a AMD mb but not a intel

[Nascar24]

I saw that raffle Bull chit that newegg was doing, what a sham!

[acroig]

I saw that raffle Bull chit that newegg was doing, what a sham!

Ya, total horse manure.

[bill dennison]

I saw that raffle Bull chit that newegg was doing, what a sham!

yep and the 3080 strix is 959 30 bucks over the new jacked up MSRP

[Riptide]

The asrock phantom 6900 card seems to be a better undervolter than the sapphire nitro +. I am able to hold 1080-1090mv and without any memory overclocking timespy scores are over 19800. With some memory overclocking, 20000+ is possible.

I suspect also that this setting in the driver here is causing timespy scores to be lower:
Settings->Graphics->Advanced->10-bit pixel format

Is someone able to please check if that is enabled, assuming they have a 10-bit display and it is allowed in the driver, does their timespy graphics score feel an impact?

[LordHawkwind]

Yeah for the first time since launch I've seen for sale a Made by AMD (MBA) 6800 for £700 and a MBA 6900XT for £1,199. AIB Powecolor Red Devil is £1,399.

The 6800's and 6900XT's are still available if anyone in the UK is interested but you need to look in the 3D Printers section of the site which they used to stop bots and scalpers so why they're still available. There's even a 3070 for £720. Apparently all the 6800XT have gone so don't know how much they cost.

If you want one grab one quick.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/peripherals/printers-and-scanners/3d-printing/3d-printers

[bill dennison]

newegg

[LordHawkwind]

Yeah for the first time since launch I've seen for sale a Made by AMD (MBA) 6800 for £700 and a MBA 6900XT for £1,199. AIB Powecolor Red Devil is £1,399.

The 6800's and 6900XT's are still available if anyone in the UK is interested but you need to look in the 3D Printers section of the site which they used to stop bots and scalpers so why they're still available. There's even a 3070 for £720. Apparently all the 6800XT have gone so don't know how much they cost.

If you want one grab one quick.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/perip...ng/3d-printers

Wow still in stock for 6800 & 6900XT. Obviously not popular at those prices as it's the longest I've seen any cards be available to buy.

At launch date I'd have bitten their hand off for a 6900XT. Unfortunately the boat has sailed as the saying goes.

[LordHawkwind]

Wow still in stock for 6800 & 6900XT. Obviously not popular at those prices as it's the longest I've seen any cards be available to buy.

At launch date I'd have bitten their hand off for a 6900XT. Unfortunately the boat has sailed as the saying goes.

Amazingly even today you can still buy a 6800, 6900XT and 3070 and some models have 10+ stock. The MBA 6900XT's range from £1,199 to £1,289. The AIB Sapphire Nitro+ OC 6900XT is £1,399 as is the Powercolor 6900XT Red Devil.

The Sapphire Pulse 6800 is £719.99 and the Nitro+ OC £749.99. There's an MSI 3070 Suprim for £719.99. As Gibbo put these in the 3D printer section the bots and scalpers probably got confused and can't hoover them up.

Maybe what it does show is gamers just aren't interested in these cards at those prices so aren't buying them. Who knows but with all the lack of availability it does seem strange TBH.

[Crawdaddy79]

[LordHawkwind]

Makes things look even worse aah.

https://hexus.net/business/news/components/147344-taiwans-chipmakers-agree-prioritise-automotive-products/

[acroig]

[bill dennison]

Makes things look even worse aah.

https://hexus.net/business/news/comp...tive-products/

that's all kinds of major BS
auto makers are not essential right now

there is no shortage of new cars at any lot i have drove buy lately all over town

more likely of a shortage of new car buyers with most people locked in working form home or not working at all
most people are not buying big things like new cars right now

[pax]

Well theres a pretty massive shortage of hybrid cars that have more tech in them...

Its an 18+ month wait list for the Rav4 Prime.

[Nascar24]

I heard cars are starting to sell again, which I find surprising, must be all that free money!

[LordHawkwind]

that's all kinds of major BS
auto makers are not essential right now

there is no shortage of new cars at any lot i have drove buy lately all over town

more likely of a shortage of new car buyers with most people locked in working form home or not working at all
most people are not buying big things like new cars right now

Seems the car manufacturers have important friends in high places. This affects the allocation of wafers and not to do with the process node. The domino effect is beginning.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/319583-samsung-believes-the-automotive-chip-shortage-could-impact-phones

[Crawdaddy79]

BUILD MOAR FAOUNDRIES

[Trunks0]

BUILD MOAR FAOUNDRIES

TSMC is building up capacity, as is Samsung, but honestly... were ****ed. I kinda feel like in hind sight, we should have all seen this coming when Global Foundries basically bowed out. Leaving only TSMC and Samsung as the big "open" foundries.

Intel stumbling over itself and now ALSO having to use TSMC probably isn't helping matters.

[bill dennison]

TSMC is building up capacity, as is Samsung, but honestly... were ****ed. I kinda feel like in hind sight, we should have all seen this coming when Global Foundries basically bowed out. Leaving only TSMC and Samsung as the big "open" foundries.

Intel stumbling over itself and now ALSO having to use TSMC probably isn't helping matters.

it's going to be 2024 for the TCMC fab in Phoenix before it opens and starts making anything

[acroig]

it's going to be 2024 for the TCMC fab in Phoenix before it opens and starts making anything

3 years in the tech industry is a long, long time.

[bill dennison]

3 years in the tech industry is a long, long time.

yea

but it takes that long to build a fab .

[Jasef]

Thank god I've got no time for new games and is too poor for fancy new cars.

[SuperGeil]

Thank god I've got no time for new games and is too poor for fancy new cars.

Don't worry, most AAA games are poorly optimized benchmark suites for grossly overpriced video cards these days.

[demo]

My buddy just picked up a 6900xt paired with 5900x, will run it through its paces against 3090

[acroig]

My buddy just picked up a 6900xt paired with 5900x, will run it through its paces against 3090

Clash of the Titans!