Cheaper graphics cards with lots of memory are an endangered species

Cheaper graphics cards with lots of memory are an endangered species

  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    “They cannot produce only high-end or low-end [products]… but they can, for example, they have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, five segments. They focus on 1, 3, and 5, and reduce the percentage on 2 and 4, because on 2 and 4, the revenue contribution per gigabyte of memory is lower. They will calculate how much revenue [each segment] contributes per gigabyte of memory.” [Emphasis added]

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    Moving up the stack, the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti contribute the same gross revenue per gigabyte, meaning that the cheaper-to-produce 5070 will likely be favored over its Ti sibling (which uses a bigger, more power-hungry GPU and a more complex board design)—or that both cards are likely to be deprioritized in favor of the more profitable RTX 5060 Ti 8GB.

    Looks like it will be difficult to get the 5060, 5060 Ti 16GB and possibly 5070 Ti (and 5070?).

    So everything below the 5080!

    • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      source: Hardware Unboxed pinned comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE

      "So the current timeline is as follows:

      1. We request RTX 5070 Ti samples from Asus (and other partners)
      2. An Asus PR rep looks into it, comes back and says they cannot provide 5070 Tis due to supply constraints, saying their models are “end of life”
      3. We ask Asus to clarify whether the RTX 5070 Ti is end of life. They confirm it’s end of life.
      4. We reach out to retailers to see whether they can purchase RTX 5070 Ti stock for their stores, to fact check Asus’ claims. They say there is no supply.
      5. Given we have received an on the record statement from Asus and confirmed the supply constraints with retailers, we publish a video with this information
      6. Nvidia says all GeForce SKUs are being shipped
      7. Asus reaches out to clarify that Nvidia told Asus that the RTX 5070 Ti is not end of life, but that Asus are “streamlining some models”
      8. We publish that statement
      9. Asus reaches out again to provide another statement (the third statement we’ve received from Asus), now saying the 5070 Ti is not discontinued or end of life. This directly contradicts the original statement.
      10. We immediately request RTX 5070 Ti samples now that the cards are not discontinued or end of life. We haven’t heard back yet.

      And that’s where we are currently at.

      At this point, the proof will be in the supply, as we can’t tell you which of Asus’ statements is truly accurate. We believe the RTX 5070 Ti is heavily supply constrained to the point of being effectively killed, but we’ll see whether that’s truly the case across the next few months. "