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Here's the reason WHY EVGA is no longer working with NVIDIA: ----- > EVGA and competing board partners have told us in nearly every launch that they don't fin
by gzer0 4y ago
Here's the reason WHY EVGA is no longer working with NVIDIA:
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> EVGA and competing board partners have told us in nearly every launch that they don't find out basics about the very product their partner to sell, like the MSRP until Nvidia CEO is on stage. We're told this is true even for costs to buy the chip and video apparently only give us placeholder costs for some GPUs like flagships until the MSRP is revealed publicly.
> It's hard to run a business when you don't even know what the cost of your product is that you're imminently launching, we've learned that NVIDIA has both a floor and a ceiling for card prices on some cards so only flagships for the ceiling, with board partners restricted from selling flagship models above a certain cost.
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TL;DR
EVGA and competing board partners said they don't know the MSRP until Nvidia's CEO is on stage. Even processor and video expenses are unknown until the MSRP is released.
When you don't know your product's price, it's challenging to manage a business. NVIDIA has a price floor and cap for select cards, and board partners can't sell flagship models above a certain price.
- jimbob45 4y agoIt's hard to run a business when you don't even know what the cost of your product is that you're imminently launching This strongly seems like a lie. They've been in business long enough that the current relationship between them and Nvidia appeared to be successful. If it truly wasn't successful, they could have moved over to manufacturing AMD GPUs. Instead, they just dropped the business entirely. It seems much more likely that they recognize that the five-year GPU boom is over with the ETH merge, didn't want to have to weather the coming bust cycle, and are trumping up excuses to exit the business so that their brand isn't damaged for their other products.
- xxs 4y agoIf it is any help, their decision was made in April, 5 months before the merge. They told they lost money on 3080+ cards as well.
- jasonlotito 4y agoIt was June, not April. See the correction. Regardless, they knew the merge was happening, and what that would mean to the market, so it's fairly suspicious nonetheless.
- KaoruAoiShiho 4y agoOh wow the price cap must be infuriating during the mining boom.