Nvidia to finally bolster production of RTX 30-series GPUs to counter shortage

Nvidia is reportedly limiting the production of RTX 2060 graphics cards in order to bolster RTX 30-series production. The company issued a notice to board partners that it will cut the supply of RTX 2060 chips by half in June in order to divert production resources to the highly sought-after RTX 30-series cards, which could help alleviate the GPU shortage. Chinese outlet ITHome discovered a few posts on the closed Board Channels forum that detail Nvidia’s plans. This forum is closed to the general public and focuses on distributors and board partners. Since the start of the GPU shortage, the RTX 2060 has been a popular choice. The card was one of the few options that was in stock at the start of the shortage, and although it’s significantly less powerful than the RTX 3060, it still delivers RTX features like ray tracing and DLSS at a reasonable price. Nvidia increased production of these cards to combat the shortage, but they’ve been consistently out of stock for many months now. The shift in strategy may look like too little, too late, but it’s actually a proactive move for Nvidia. There are many factors contributing to the GPU shortage, but a big one is demand from cryptocurrency miners. The prices of popular coins like Ethereum and Bitcoin have seen steep declines over the past couple of months, which could ease some of the pressure on GPU supply. Nvidia also recently introduced Lite Hash Rate (LHR) GPU cores to its RTX 30-series cards that limit the Ethereum hash rate. Nvidia’s push for more production of its latest cards could mean that the company sees a way out of the GPU shortage. Although executives from Intel and IBM say that the global semiconductor shortage will drag on for at least another year, lower demand from miners and recovering supply chains could help Nvidia deliver more graphics cards to gamers. Although this news indicates that more supply is coming down the pike, it doesn’t mean that graphics card prices will go down. GPUs coming out of China are still subject to high tariffs in the U.S., and recent reports suggest the price of the DRAM modules, which are critical to graphics cards, will increase over the next few months. Nvidia announced a host of new GPUs at its GTC 2025 conference on Tuesday, including the RTX Pro Blackwell series. The highlight component of the series is the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU, developed for workstations. The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU is also available in variants to support desktops, laptops, and data centers. The component is intended to aid professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives, the Verge noted. The RTX Pro naming sequence allows the Blackwell-based GPU to stand out against previous architectures, including Ada Lovelace, Ampere, and Turing, as well as the standard consumer product GPUs, Tech Radar Pro noted. Popular graphics card monitoring and overclocking tool, MSI Afterburner, has received a beta update enabling owners of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs to boost their GDDR7 memory speeds by up to 10%. This enhancement allows data transfer rates to reach up to 36 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), surpassing Nvidia’s standard specifications. The RTX 50-series graphics cards are equipped with GDDR7 memory modules rated between 28GT/s and 32GT/s. However, Nvidia often sets default data transfer rates slightly lower, at 28GT/s for most models and 30GT/s for the RTX 5080, to ensure stability and longevity. The new update to MSI Afterburner unlocks the potential to exceed these factory settings, offering enthusiasts the opportunity to maximize their hardware’s performance. Nvidia is trying to make its GeForce RTX 5000 series seem more impressive to the media by suggesting that the latest GPUs are selling better than the previous generation. However, many pundits aren’t buying the claim. PC Mag pondered whether Nvidia has orchestrated a “paper launch” of the RTX 5000 series, suggesting that there might not be much of a product available for consumers. The majority of the people with their hands on the GPUs, especially the high-end models such as the 5090 and 5080 appear to be reviewers, influencers, and other determined enthusiasts as opposed to everyday gamers, who are still using prior generation GPUs at higher rates.