NVIDIA Is Reportedly Requiring Board Partners to Have at Least One MSRP Model for Its GeForce RTX 5060 Series Launch

So they are reportedly taking a page from the AMD playbook? Interesting.
 
So they will have a card at MSRP than won't be available anywhere... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
Who knew all AMD had to do was release a good mid range card properly priced with functional drivers, and Nvidia is showing all kinds of weaknesses. If AMD can keep it together for a bit maybe they will gain a point or five in marketshare.
Still counting down to 'Nvidia will just price cut'
I suspect Nvidia cant price cut squat.
 
Uvilla said:
Who knew all AMD had to do was release a good mid range card properly priced with functional drivers, and Nvidia is showing all kinds of weaknesses. If AMD can keep it together for a bit maybe they will gain a point or five in marketshare.
Still counting down to 'Nvidia will just price cut'
I suspect Nvidia cant price cut squat.
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If Nvidia wants to win they need to release a 5080 TI with 24 gigs of vram and nearly the in game performance of the 5090, with true multiple powder feeds so they can skip the issues with the power connectors melting and properly error report conditions outside of the norm on power delivery.

I don't see them doing this. Because they don't care right now about the gamer market. They've lost all consoles, other than the Switch 2. And lets be real Nintendo are freaking programming dynamo's when it comes to extracting the most possible out of the hardware they use whatever it is.

They are squarely focused on the enterprise market. And AI... sure gaming led them down the path with their cuda cores and such. But now they just don't see the profits outside of enterprise level hardware markup.

Though they are in a sweet spot right now as far as product stack and being able to bully their AIB partners. Because they literally don't care if they reduce profit for anyone else. All they have to do is promise some chips to make those sweet sweet enterprise grade GPU/AIPU's and board partners will fall all over themselves and promise the world to get them.

Honestly if a AIB can figure out how to NOT let multiple of their consumer cards work on a single motherboard it would be a huge win for Nvidia. Because currently populating a bunch of 'servers' with Gamer GPU's to do AI processing with some software settings to span the GPU's, and they don't need to buy the enterprise grade hardware.
 
Grimlakin said:
5080 TI with 24 gigs of vram
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I think this could happen. To some extend that is what the laptop 5090 is. No rumors of it happening though, at this point that I know of.

Yep, I haven't heard anything concrete regarding FE models for the 5060 series either which is a little odd for this product stack. The x60s are usually bread and butter for them although not all Ti versions don't always get an FE. I expect they will though, at least for the 5060 anyway.
 
Yep, and I think one of the reasons EVGA didn't try to continue with AMD is uncertainty with their GPU division and ability to produce large inventory. A bummer because this time around could've been good for EVGA but even then all three GPU manufacturers seem unable to sustain inventory so it probably would've still been a loss for EVGA.

A little more back on topic. Not going to post this one today because there's a limit to how many times I want to repeat on the same subject but Zotac looks to be making some less-than-consumer-friendly choices. A bummer as I really like my 4080 SUPER that I got from them and have known more than a few folks over the years who've been really happy with their products.


Key take aways:
1. No longer offering an MSRP model.
2. Cheapest 5090 is $700 over at $2700
3. Their lottery/raffle system reportedly involved a "secret" lottery/raffle for select members

At this point, MSI, ASUS, and Zotac are no longer offering any 5090 MSRP models.


On the flip side of availability, I was looking up laptops with the mobile 5090 (a cutdown 5080 but with 24 GB GDDR7) and an AMD CPU (firestrike X3D 16c/32t) and came across multiple releases that are supposed to happen next week. I am only mentioning this because it might mean other inventory could appear as well.
 
It just feels like after the initial launch supply both Nvidia and AMD have given up. As if, that's what you get, good luck, have fun, we're focusing on other things. Want a new card, try your luck at next year's launch.

I say that because supply at my local microcenter after the initial launch allotments has been extremely bad. They'll get in 1 or 2 cards of this or that. They'll have 20 cards of a single model on order and be lucky to get 1 in with no idea when it'll be coming in.

That's info I get from someone that works there.

Pretty soon states will start selling lottery tickets for new GPU's. Buy your GPUBall and Mega-GPU lottery tickets today! Grand prize is a 5090!
 
I don't know I've been in a few mornings around other releases at my local MC and availability of the 9070xt and 9070 has been LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than Nvidia cards. Like... a dozen of the 9070 various models and nothing from Nvidia or a return that they sell to the first person in line.

And that's it... It's been ages since they've seen a 5090 also.
 
Grimlakin said:
I don't know I've been in a few mornings around other releases at my local MC and availability of the 9070xt and 9070 has been LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than Nvidia cards. Like... a dozen of the 9070 various models and nothing from Nvidia or a return that they sell to the first person in line.

And that's it... It's been ages since they've seen a 5090 also.
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AMD did say they sold 10x more of the 9000 series in the first week then previous gens
 
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