AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!

[Rroff]

Nobody knows, OcUK have gone for the approach of not putting them on sale until the release hype has died and they have enough stock to sell so they can manage it better.

Pretty much same story everywhere - lots of places waiting for enough stock to make it worth enabling purchasing.

 

[FoxEye]

they are mostly automated anyway with sceleton crew
if we can have a cars factories why not a PC components ?

I don't think that's the case.

Look at Foxconn's mega factories in China. They have tens of thousand of employees on site, doing repetitive assembly jobs, for very low wages (compared to the West).

Fairly sure that's the case for most of these companies. Low wages, lots of cheap assembly labour. Very little automation outside the actual chips themselves.

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

Worse launch ever.

 

[pmc25]

But then the only explanation is that TSMC have massively reduced capacity.

I suppose it could be the consoles launch causing it.

There was never going to be enough capacity for all 3. I suspect the Huawei situation may have further bu%%ered things - they will have been rushing to fulfil orders before the cut off date, impacting other customers. The slack won't be reigned in until probably Q2 next year.

Also bear in mind that CDNA and Zen 3 server / TR already started production some while ago, and take priority over desktop. New Cezanne & Lucienne chips will be in production by now too.

This is why I strongly suspect AMD will launch RDNA 3 and potentially Zen 4 (or an optical shrink of 3) ASAP. They have their own custom 5nm node which TSMC are pouring billions into. People claiming it'll be 18 months (many in tech press) are off their rockers. AMD need to make hay whilst the sun shines ... and they can't sell anywhere near as many of their top CPUs or GPUs, or rout Intel in laptops, if everything is on a finite supply of 7nm. As soon as that custom 5nm production line is ready, it'll be go time.

 

[Zernath]

Ah ok, is there any ETA on stock ? I really want an 6800 XT or RTX 3080 can't find anything ...

Nothing concrete, just rumours. I would say this year is probably a write off, supply wise.

 

[JediFragger]

but you can't even have claimed to meet any demand at all.

They met the demand of the entitled Youtubers, what more do you want??

 

[JediFragger]

Try to hold on guys, these cards are *epic* AF!! Undervolting FTW

 

[JediFragger]

Also loving the revised Wattman, hasn't lost my settings once unlike previous iterations @LtMatt

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

Also loving the revised Wattman, hasn't lost my settings once unlike previous iterations @LtMatt

I also had that issue but I was told it wasn't an issue.

 

[breaking_fad]

Meant to be 195 6800s in around then, not xt variations though.

are these still coming in pal ? cheers

 

[JediFragger]

I also had that issue but I was told it wasn't an issue.

Yeah if I got a crash it'd lose settings, only had a couple stability testing so far on this new one but been fine.

 

[Gerard]

are these still coming in pal ? cheers

Next week now it seems.

 

[Scougar]

Try to hold on guys, these cards are *epic* AF!! Undervolting FTW

What TDP/total board wattage are you able to get it down to?

 

[JediFragger]

God knows fella, how far do you want me to push it?

 

[harney]

are these still coming in pal ? cheers

No.. NTSC only unfortunately

 

[ColdAsIce]

No.. NTSC only unfortunately

I laughed

 

[thebandit]

No.. NTSC only unfortunately

 

[ScottiB]

The Twitter link was the last straw for me, that was beyond stupid or they wanted more visitors to the site, I guess we will never know.

It was an honest 'mistake'. The marketing guys were just doing their jobs, oblivious of the situation unfolding on the website.

For launches like this they are essentially under contract with the vendor to do certain activities in return for regular MDF payments, game promotions and launch allocations. Of course, we have the ability to veto anything that we don't think is reasonable (as shown with the AIB launch). But last week we they no reason to give the standard social posts a second thought.

We're all on lockdown, working from home, so they were more 'disconnected' than usual.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Try to hold on guys, these cards are *epic* AF!! Undervolting FTW

Overclocking and undervolting with out validation is pointless, you can set a high OC and it be applied but the performance can be worse. So make sure you do 3dmark run after each clock you apply and compare the scores

 

[TheBloke]

So undervolting can improve performance? I've never done any GPU overclocking. On CPUs, you normally need more voltage to run faster. But undervolting can help get more performance on a GPU? Is that because of the power limits?