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Post by castletonsnob on Sept 16, 2022 16:35:41 GMT -5
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Sept 16, 2022 18:08:58 GMT -5
NVIDIA’s greed to chase the crypto trend is going to have so much ripple through in the GPU industry now that Ethereum has changed how it runs things and thus crypto miners no longer need their fleets of GPU racks to power the grift. EVGA bouncing is just the first domino, to be certain.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 16, 2022 18:15:24 GMT -5
End of an Era. I can't even blame EVGA because Nvidia kept them out of the loop and undercut them (and many other third party manufacturers) with their cards.
I assume they have their own AMD line?
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Sept 16, 2022 18:23:44 GMT -5
End of an Era. I can't even blame EVGA because Nvidia kept them out of the loop and undercut them (and many other third party manufacturers) with their cards. I assume they have their own AMD line? From what I know EVGA was NVIDIA-only. They are just straight up exiting the GPU business. The amazing thing is GPUs made up 70% of their revenue source but according to EVGA, cutting out GPUs barely changes their profit margin. The profit margin on GPUs, certainly NVIDIA one’s at least, is so thin currently that a company whose whole business was GPUs can just stop doing them and barely see a blip in their margin.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 16, 2022 18:53:19 GMT -5
End of an Era. I can't even blame EVGA because Nvidia kept them out of the loop and undercut them (and many other third party manufacturers) with their cards. I assume they have their own AMD line? From what I know EVGA was NVIDIA-only. They are just straight up exiting the GPU business. The amazing thing is GPUs made up 70% of their revenue source but according to EVGA, cutting out GPUs barely changes their profit margin. The profit margin on GPUs, certainly NVIDIA one’s at least, is so thin currently that a company whose whole business was GPUs can just stop doing them and barely see a blip in their margin. I wonder if the profit margin is any better with AMD's chips.
Not surprised that doesn't change a whole lot. Whatever revenue they make in GPU's is probably offset from the cost of licensing NVIDIA. I wonder what else EVGA makes besides RAM and I think power supplies, motherboards, and cooling systems?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 16, 2022 19:17:33 GMT -5
Holy f***ing shitballs is my reaction.
Sad day for consumers. Their customer service has the best reputation by far.
Only reason I didn’t go EVGA this gen is because I wanted that sweet purple and green ASUS Evangelion 3080.
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