After some earlier rumour-mongering, confirmation has finally been given by Gigabyte that it is to release a new Radeon RX 6750 card, specifically a GRE edition. This will be exclusive to China but this doesn't mean you won't be able to pick one up, potentially in a pre-built system as with the RX 7900 GRE, if you're looking for something a bit different.
It's only been a few years since the world was battling with a pandemic but it feels so much longer ago. But one aspect of how everything and everyone changed during that time, that still impacts things today, was the rampant increase in cryptomining. From individuals in their bedrooms to large organisations, people were snapping up graphics cards in the thousands to turn them into vast number-crunching systems, all in the hope of making a pretty penny off the cryptocurrency market.
Such was the demand for GPUs that enormous orders were placed with TSMC and Samsung, the respective manufacturers of AMD's RNDA 2 and Nvidia's Ampere chips. The problem is that you can't just order a few thousand processors and have them all ready by the end of the week. It takes at least a month to fabricate a decent amount of chips and, back then, those manufacturers were struggling to keep up with the overwhelming demand.
Once the pandemic receded and the cryptomarket slumped, AMD and Nvidia were left with inventories overflowing with unsold GPUs. This is partly why you're still seeing endless Radeon RX 6000-series and GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards on retailer's shelves today. RDNA 2 chips were especially popular with cryptominers because they used less power than Ampere GPUs and the cards that used them also sported lots of VRAM.
So what has all of this got to do with Gigabyte's
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