Berichten zufolge stellt Nvidia als Reaktion auf die Speicherknappheit seinen GPU-Board-Partnern kein VRAM mehr zur Verfügung. Gerüchten zufolge werden die Anbieter nur noch die Mittel erhalten und gezwungen sein, den Speicher selbst zu beschaffen
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-no-longer-supplying-vram-to-its-gpu-board-partners-in-response-to-memory-crunch-rumor-claims-vendors-will-only-get-the-die-forced-to-source-memory-on-their-own
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EVGA saw the writing on the wall, they were treating their AIBs like garbage
Ohhhhhhh boy. This is gonna get really bad. These cards are gonna be a WILD fucking roulette, and nothing but misery.
This is a terrible idea if true. Offloading the cost of VRAM onto board partners will only lead to worse relations between both parties given the current market.
The cost will mostly then be offloaded onto consumers, increasing prices. That or we start seeing tonnes of cards with weird (low) VRAM amounts, or older generation GDDR modules. (Could they even do this technically? Not sure, but if they can then expect to see all of the above happening).
Does this change any possibility of getting card configs with more VRAM by any chance?
What a time to be alive and interested in PC hardware. I can’t see this not getting real ugly, real fast.
Is there an endgame? You have to push all this hardware very hard to meet AI demands, but those AI demands aren’t profitable yet. Yes, some people get day-to-day output improvements, I won’t ignore that, but that’s at loss leader pricing. The companies offering these services are losing money. That hardware will surely have a short life from such intensive use. Will these companies have the funds to replace that hardware? Will people want AI if it’s expensive?
If this bubble pops, so many companies are going to free fall, because they abandoned the average consumer to hop on this train.
But imagine how much fun talking to schizophrenia inducing chatbots will be!
I don’t get Nvidia angle here. They don’t have their own fabs to make the cards anyways, so it was more reasonable to just cut allocation to partners instead of giving them chips that can’t be made into cards. If this is correct, Nvidia is literally doing a self own by distributing their supply of chips to partners that could be used to make bank for themselves.
Guess AMD is either gon become the only source of consumer AI hardware or consumers are cooked
They weren’t giving them enough to begin with. 8gb vram cards shouldn’t exist in 2025, not even at the low end.
4.5 trillion dollar company btw. I guess Jensen needs a few more leather jackets.
Dear Nvidia and AMD. Please continue to support your older series of viable GPUs given your newer products continue to not exist.
Up yours.
The Internet.
Meanwhile barfing up fully loaded Blackwells for $8k+ like there’s no tomorrow.
I company worth a trillion dollars is doing this.
If a partner can make a 64 or 96gb 5090 for 3 to 5k it’ll sell well
ANNNNND the bubble starts to pop
This will only end well for consumers.
Unless AMD takes up the mantle or Intel miraculously comes up with a competitive GPU alternative, we may be looking at the end of PC gaming in the next 5 years. Studios will be shocked into realizing that they will hit a wall due to no more NVIDIA cards being released for consumers, and the used market becoming bare due to hoarding and buying whatever is left. They’ll pivot to all-in-one consoles or PC like consoles with SOC integrated graphics from AMD or some other Chinese company you’ve never heard of.
Ai takes everyone’s job and then there’s nobody to buy products and services, lol
Got my RTX5090/96GB Liquid cooled.
The tech crash is looming.
Back to DDR3 boys !
ah so this is the insider information that cause the massive NVIDIA sell-offs this past month.
It horrifies me that GPUs are probably going to cause our next financial crash and the inventory of many AI-dependent businesses is going to get dumped into landfill.
so that means the board partners can use different spec for memory right… right……..