Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Good news for Nvidia fans. Nvidia is WAY oversupplied with GPU chips. So Nvidia GPU prices should plummet. I wondered why they were falling so fast (GTX1080 down to $500 -- with a free game included)
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One of NVIDIA’s Major OEM Partners Allegedely Returned 300,000 GPUs, Major Inventory Issues Being Cited For Next-Gen GeForce Launch Delay
"Reports out of Taiwan now suggest that Nvidia has a gaming GPU inventory problem.
‘Semiaccurate’ reported on the issue yesterday, and cited excess inventory in the channel as the primary reason for new gaming GPU delay.
The glut is so severe that one top Asian OEM partner reportedly returned 300k GPUs to Nvidia."
..the issue is that they have actually manufactured an inventory [of completed cards] which they cannot manage now.
We are talking about prices that reached over $2000 US for the Radeon RX Vega 64 and the GeForce GTX 1080 which retailed for $699 at launch
UPDATE: A different article says Nvidia will be charging artificially high prices for the top of its new generation -- speculating it comes out in the second half of this year. A result of no competition at the high end from AMD.
