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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by bart_spoon on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @01:51PM (#24921901)
Deep learning, cryptocurrency, and the resurgence of PC gaming have all taken place over the last decade, so its hard to pin production issues on any single factor.

Personally, I think its less due to these and more due to people using bots to buy up stock for scalping. The same stocking issues have happened for the new Xbox and Playstation, and even for non-tech hardware, like the newest Warhammer 40k box set. The bot scalping issue is just becoming more pervasive.

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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by saberdancer on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:37PM (#24923209)
Add Covid-19 to the list, lot of people at home. Another aspect is VR which needs as much hardware as you can give it.
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by thrwyoilarticle on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:35AM (#24929392)
Also 1440p was largely ignored, so in a jump from 1080p to 4K there's a massive increase in demand from the hardware. And at the same time, we want better refresh rates than ever. 4 times the pixels and 3 times the frames isn't easy!
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Re:AMD Reveals the Radeon RX 6000 Series, Coming November 18th by saberdancer on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:03PM (#24947672)
I recently moved from 1080p 16:9 at 60Hz to 1440p 21:9 at 160Hz. 6 times the amount of pixel/frames. One of the reasons why performance isn't stellar even though I bought 3080 at the same time. Most games can't run anywhere near 160 fps.
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