Unless I heard it wrong, GPUs make up 80% of their revenue but a much smaller percent of their profit. Didn’t give exact numbers, but sounds like their other products are much higher than 20% of their profit.
GPU die allocation for board partners, especially at launch of a new generation, was always a contention point with Nvidia. Now the others will just get more chips from Nvidia to sell.
Iirc, neither of us really own a card long enough for it to matter. This'll be the first time ever that I hold onto my 3090ti longer than needed because Im basically going to swap out the 2070 Super in my g/f's PC with it eventually.
If all the cards below the 3090/ti were losing HUNDREDS of dollars, then thats almost a sure bet that the flagship product for Nvidia is whats propping these companies up and.. that sounds awful when you think of how many people buy the bottom tiers vs the top. But like the guys in my classic guild talked about yesterday - we just have nfc what's really happening behind the scenes, much less the profit margin on each individual card after its RND etc. My first though, as well, was that they would go to AMD. But theyre instead ripping out the entire graphics card department, which I find to just be weird af.
They are losing money now, they absolutely were not before the gpu price crash. They still made profits over the lifetime of the 3000 series.
No. Foxconn and BYD make the FE cards.
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I never had a problem until last year with a MSI card and it has been a nightmare. They have had some of the worst support I've ever seen. The AMD 5500xt card in my son's system started crashing after a couple months. They require the customer to pay shipping for the RMA. Two months later (it took them a month to even start the repair), they sent me a replacement that was DOA. A month later I get a replacement that had crashing issues again. I sent that one back and was informed a month later they couldn't repair it and they didn't have any same model replacements and started offering me downgrade models. I finally agreed to a 1660 super when it was offered, but in the meantime I had purchased a 3080 for my son's system while we were waiting. We had a working MSI card for a few months in the entire first year.
The rumors went like this: The AIBs saw the GPU crypto market crash coming before Nvidia did, because they've been there, and they have the current sales numbers. So they reduced their Ampere chip orders with Nvidia.
People forget what a huge difference customer service can make until they need it. Not to call out Xexx but for lots of stuff, MBs or even CPUs, in the past you were dealing with a physical store. Now with all the tales about AIBs while Powercolor prices look good, I hesitate to drop 700+ bucks unless I could walk into Microcenter and mic drop that thing back in their laps. I've been lucky in that regard but it wasn't too that many years ago, (well, relatively speaking) I had two Shuttle Cubes, of which I had built 7 or 8 for me and my friends, died at almost the same time and Shuttle just ignored my calls and emails. How do you get just replacement mobos for the proto all in one in 2006? Just buy a new one? Not at all when if there was an issue I couldn't find anyone to talk to about the problem. There was no social media to complain on. Think it was the Mobos but I had to build two new PCs from scratch. I had loved that company but when I needed them, nothing but crickets. Time hasn't been kind to them, either.
