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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by Tuna-Fish on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:56PM (#24921131)
It's not just that there is not enough to meet the usual demand, the supply is definitely much lower than typical. I see numbers for a major European distributor network, and there is maybe a fifth of the supply of what there was for the 2000 series, same time after launch.

Something is very definitely wrong.

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by quantummkv on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:00PM (#24921181)
Nvidia's issues might have to do with the yield issue on the new and untested Samsung 8nm process. But AMD is on the tried and tested 7nm TSMC process. I doubt they will have the fab issues, given that Apple's move to 5nm would have freed up a lot of capacity for AMD to use.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by Miraste on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:27PM (#24921573)
> new and untested Samsung 8nm process.

It is not new and untested, it's been in use since 2018.

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by kllrnohj on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:31PM (#24922411)
It's been used since 2018 for smaller, power optimized designs. This would be the first significant high performance design, and at comparatively huge die sizes. Also claimed the process was semi-custom for nvidia, not the "standard" 8nm. Unclear what exactly was different, though, but depending on the changes (if any) it may actually not be yielding as well as a 2 year old process should
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by zimpenfish on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:08PM (#24924170)
Currently at day 41 of waiting for my 3080 card in the UK.
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