From Bad to Worse, NVIDIA Reportedly Will Cut RTX 50 Series Production by 30–40% in 2026 and Might Stop Providing VRAM to Its Partners

Well when your top tier cards are being stripped of parts to make more ai focused cards for AI data centers eating directly into your Y.O.Y. profit growth what is a plucky little company like Nvidia supposed to do?

Honestly I think Nvidia wants to pull a Micron and fully exit the consumer space. We are exactly pocket change that takes away from their enterprise sell through.

We are the foundation market that Nvidia was built on. But like your college girlfriend that just graduated.. they dont need us and we are holding them back now. 😉
 
Grimlakin said:
Well when your top tier cards are being stripped of parts to make more ai focused cards for AI data centers eating directly into your Y.O.Y. profit growth what is a plucky little company like Nvidia supposed to do?

Honestly I think Nvidia wants to pull a Micron and fully exit the consumer space. We are exactly pocket change that takes away from their enterprise sell through.

We are the foundation market that Nvidia was built on. But like your college girlfriend that just graduated.. they dont need us and we are holding them back now. 😉
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This is truth right here. Get ready to fall in love all over again with discrete video and gaming consoles.
 
I was just thinking, AMD's next gen flagship will be sold to Microsoft for xbox xcloud gaming. Consumers will be lucky to get a cut down gaming version of it. Even if they do it'll cost $$$$

Meanwhile Microsoft is moving towards free tier 5hrs of cloud gaming every month (like geforce now) . And installing xbox cloud gaming app in phones, smart TVs, car displays etc.

Discrete gaming GPU market could shrink and consumers forced to try cloud gaming, maybe
 
Watch how fast millions of us jump ship if they try to force us to use subscription cloud gaming. Indie games will absolutely explode in popularity and sales. They will make games to run on the hardware we are already using. The quantity and quality will skyrocket. Do you want indie to take over? Because that's how you get indie takeover.
 
Us 4k-gamers are taking it in the Donkey on this arent we?

Having 16gb+ is not so optional.

Should I buy one of those 1440p ultrawide? I still dont think 8gb would be, well, good.

I see higher GPU pricing with even higher GPU scalping in the future.

May not be the best at RT, just the same, my 7900XTX still does a good job (for now).
 
Elf_Boy said:
Us 4k-gamers are taking it in the Donkey on this arent we?

Having 16gb+ is not so optional.

Should I buy one of those 1440p ultrawide? I still dont think 8gb would be, well, good.

I see higher GPU pricing with even higher GPU scalping in the future.

May not be the best at RT, just the same, my 7900XTX still does a good job (for now).
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I'm in the same boat though looking at a 5080... just not fully sold. I mean net it would cost me 400.. 1k for the zotac model, sell my current for 600... I just don't know...
 
Definitely would not be surprised to see Nvidia spin off their consumer GPU business
 
Elf_Boy said:
Us 4k-gamers
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There are no 4K gamers anymore. What was the last time you played a new game at native 4K?

nvidia has forgot the thousand year rule they want to stop providing circuses for the people, it can only backfire, but I guess they think they'll use their ai surveillance partners to squash any unrest.
 
Grimlakin said:
I'm in the same boat though looking at a 5080... just not fully sold. I mean net it would cost me 400.. 1k for the zotac model, sell my current for 600... I just don't know...
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If you sell it for $600 in the next 12 months, consider it pre-sold and just let me know when you are ready. AKA, I call dibs. 😁
MadMummy76 said:
There are no 4K gamers anymore. What was the last time you played a new game at native 4K?
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I certainly haven't. Upscaling works so well starting from 4K, providing a higher frame cap.
 
MadMummy76 said:
There are no 4K gamers anymore. What was the last time you played a new game at native 4K?

nvidia has forgot the thousand year rule they want to stop providing circuses for the people, it can only backfire, but I guess they think they'll use their ai surveillance partners to squash any unrest.
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Avowed, BG3, Elden Ring, Forspoken, Hogwarts Legacy, New World, POE 1/2, Starfield, Cyberpunk.

Mind, I don't have impressive times played for every single one, I do own them all in Steam and have had them up and running.

I rarely use upscaling. Only when I have no choice. With RT off my GPU does great with raster performance. So, yes, I play at native in most.

Perhaps I (We few peoples) are a Unicorn - just the same, denying our existence is not very nice. :)

But you asked last time, did you not, no more then 3 days at most (POE 1/2). Picked up Oblivion Remastered and have been playing that, at native 4k, but its not all then new or demanding to the system.
 
Elf_Boy said:
I rarely use upscaling. Only when I have no choice. With RT off my GPU does great with raster performance. So, yes, I play at native in most.
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If you're not maxing out graphics then it is cheating and it doesn't count.
Elf_Boy said:
Perhaps I (We few peoples) are a Unicorn - just the same, denying our existence is not very nice. :)
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I didn't mean it as an insult, but as the sad state of gaming on PC thanks to nvidia.
 
MadMummy76 said:
If you're not maxing out graphics then it is cheating and it doesn't count.

I didn't mean it as an insult, but as the sad state of gaming on PC thanks to nvidia.
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I did not take this as an insult. Merely as an untruth. I assume we should agree that we do not agree.
 
Grimlakin said:
Well when your top tier cards are being stripped of parts to make more ai focused cards for AI data centers eating directly into your Y.O.Y. profit growth what is a plucky little company like Nvidia supposed to do?

Honestly I think Nvidia wants to pull a Micron and fully exit the consumer space. We are exactly pocket change that takes away from their enterprise sell through.

We are the foundation market that Nvidia was built on. But like your college girlfriend that just graduated.. they dont need us and we are holding them back now. 😉
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Everybody and their grandma are saying nvidia will exit the gaming market. I don't think so.
For starters, nvidia has invested billions in gaming GPUs over the years just to let go. Furthermore, it's the undisputed leader (albeit it did lose a little bit of market share, but hey at one time it had like 90%; it is a defacto monopoly and I think they rather lose some market share than face the government) scrutiny. Also, while they have now clearly separated their gaming and AI products they share most of the technology anyway, so you only have to strip down the AI parts to make them gaming parts. Plus, they have proven they can charge whatever they want, and people will still pay premium. I almost forgot, the gaming and content creation/modelling/rendering (former Quadro) cards are pretty much the same, so if you let one go, you let go the other. Not gonna happen
 
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On 2nd thought nvidia could spin-off the gaming gpu business, thing is nvidia is too well stablished as a gaming brand, so I don't really see that happening.

They do still have the 3dfx brand... 3dFX Geforce Voodoo RTX 6090 anyone? naaaaaah... ;) ;) :rolleyes:
 
Eventually this will die off once someone develops a ASIC that's is a lot more powerful and efficient for specific AI needs. I'd imaging storage and memory will be condensed for clustered processing. Just have to give it time.
 
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