Normally, when purchasing new hardware, it is our opinion that you should ignore the rumors and buy what you need today. However, even if there was no convincing noise proclaiming the death of the Nvidia Turing GPU for enthusiasts, we would not in good conscience recommend buying a new high-end graphics card today.

With the release of AMD's Big Navi RDNA 2 and Nvidia Ampere GPUs just a few months away, purchasing anything other than the budget end of the current graphics card generation will cause serious regret for PC gaming buyers.

The situation is further exacerbated by recent rumors that Nvidia is set to effectively end production of its enthusiast-class Turing GPUs. The news was first reported by Chinese site ITHome (via WCCFTech) and then spread throughout the tech world. The article, written by Watermelon/Internship (thanks for that gem, Google Translate), states that the top four GeForce GPUs are being discontinued, the RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and RTX 2080 Ti cards The report states that this is all that is currently in stock and will remain so.

We reached out to Nvidia for comment, but given the Green Team's habitual refusal to be drawn into the rumor game, we won't hear anything official until they are ready to talk about GeForce Ampere.

Last week it was suggested that Nvidia recommended a GPU price increase because of low production and the odd suggestion that crypto mining is making a comeback. However, it was also claimed that the shortage of RTX 2080 Super and 2080 Ti inventory is due to problems with TSMC's production capacity availability.

TSMC is currently in the process of producing large quantities of AMD and Apple silicon and may also produce Nvidia chips, unless Samsung has all of the upcoming Ampere production.

Therefore, if you were encouraged to get an Nvidia 20-series GPU because you could get a free copy of "Death Stranding," I would probably hold off on upgrading for a bit.

As inventory thins for the launch of the Nvidia Ampere RTX 3000 series cards, prices for the current generation of enthusiast graphics cards are only going to go up, and once the Ampere launch date is confirmed next month on September 17, it will really It will be ridiculous.

However, the situation is not so bad at the low end of the GPU spectrum. Considering that the more affordable Ampere RTX 3000 series and even the mid-range AMD RDNA 2 cards are not expected until next year, the mainstream market will not be too badly affected by the upcoming releases.

Now, unless MyDrivers' report that demand for crypto mining is increasing is to be believed, the GTX 1660 Super and RTX 2060 are reportedly in trouble. Also, if mining is making a comeback, it would confirm once again that we are indeed living on a dark timeline.