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Samsung's process seems to be consistently DOA.... by the time it is stabilized, its already behind everyone else. Consequently, almost all of Nvidia's current
by DiabloD3 6y ago
Samsung's process seems to be consistently DOA.... by the time it is stabilized, its already behind everyone else.
Consequently, almost all of Nvidia's current troubles stem from being unable to do all of their fabrication at TSMC, and the yields for Samsung 8nm being very poor.
Nvidia recently canceled the 2x RAM variants of their 3070 and 3080 cards (and not because of insufficient GDDR6x, only the 3090 takes that), have stopped shipments of GPUs for new cards (they are only continuing to ship to fill existing orders), pushed the 3070 release date until after the RDNA2 announcement; most of this stems from Samsung's poor yields no matter how inexpensively Samsung is selling those wafers for.
This also isn't the first time Nvidia used the Samsung footgun.
- websg-x 6y ago3080 use GDDR6x. Yes, the 20gb 3080 is cancelled, but there is a new rumor about 12gb 3080ti. So maybe GDDR6x scarcity is the culprit, not Samsung's process.
- Dylan16807 6y agoSurely the ram variants use the same chips. Why cancel those because of yield? I wouldn't expect total demand to change by a significant amount...
- zaptrem 6y agoIf the GPU die yield was really that much of a bottleneck wouldn’t they push even harder to launch the VRAM variants to boost margins?
- Hikikomori 6y ago3080 also uses GDDR6x. The 3080/3090 shortage is because of GDDR6x availability from what I've been reading. We'll know when we see 3070 sales/deliveries.