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I doubt the AiB have the ability to make that call. Let alone come together to agree on name it a 4080. It was all Nvidia.
Although I agree with you - Nvidia already lost one major partner, I'd say the remaining AIBs would have a bit more influence at this point. How much more and to what angle though? Who knows...
From what we been hearing about how Nvidia is like they don't give a f*** what the AiB want and that hasn't changed with EVGA leaving. Nvidia doesn't need any of them.
That'd only be an effective threat if all midleman companies carried it out and NVidia also refused to sell directly to large retailers. There's too much money to be made for large retailers selling new GPUs for them not to order from someone other than their normal supplier if for some reason they decide they're not going to carry NVidia any more.
Large retailers do NOT ever buy direct. Ok not ever but basically never. Best Buy basically buys 99% of their stock from IM. That includes GPUs they aren't making an exception cause Nvidia wants them to buy direct form them. They deal with IM, its all just in time delivery. Nvidia isn't going to be selling direct because companies like BB have pretty iron clad solid contracts with their suppliers. IM isn't going to hold millions in inventory for the big box players if they are going to be going and buying direct. All the big players stopped trying to warehouse their own product 20 years back... IM will do it for a song, and they make money by being efficient and holding product for multiple box stores like MC and BB as well as tons of regionals.
Supposedly PNY has them already to go. You can pre-order them.
Nah AIB's are all about generic reuse at this stage, custom moldings add costs they try to avoid where ever possible.
Nah, if they're going to advertise the card they're going to hook up a tiny LCD that does RGB and costs an extra $10-20 to the card all so they can charge you an extra $200
They listened to their stock value. The RTX 4000 series launch was a shit show and now they realize they need to do some damage control. RTX 3090's are now being found for mid $700's on Ebay and I've even seen them on Facebook market place in the $600's. When your shit 4080 costs more than a used 3090, you know you fucked up.
If I recall my tax law correctly, this could be very painful to nvidia or their partners. Why? Depending on the state the inventory is sold in, any inventory that has not moved after the end of the tax year is subject to inventory taxes, and regardless, the cost of purchasing said inventory cant be written off as an expense if it is sitting in a warehouse. It's an asset.
I doubt any of these cards to be rebadged are subject to US taxes yet.
This is not correct. A product which has been neither launched nor even announced would not be subject to inventory taxes.
They can't increase the price without bumping into the 4080.
So what you're saying is that the 4080 will be getting more expensive too. And then probably the 4090 to maintain balance in the farce.
It will be $850 now.
It kind of make sense because the 4080 12gb was 100% using the die, so it would make a logical TI of the binned 4070 of the non 100% AD104, if you do not make it the TI, the 4070TI would require to be on down AD103
Leaked performance puts the 4080 16gb about 15% faster than the 3090 TI on average, give or take. So not "super impressive" but still no slouch.
I feel like that's trading one problem for another then. If they used 100% of the die and weren't "just" going to rely on clocks and yields, then what were they supposed to do for the "original" 4080Ti mid-cycle refresh? I guess it doesn't matter, 'cause this theoretical part will never exist. It just seems to me either way they didn't plan this well.
The 4080 does not use all the AD103 die, the 4080 TI could simply use all of it(or use a more cut version of the AD102 if pushed by AMD to do so), this generation could make more sense than usual (i.e all 4080 on the same die, all 4070 and so on)
You misunderstand me. The "old" 4080 is now becoming the "new" 4070Ti. So if that's the case, what would've been the "old" 4080Ti? Or am I missing something here?
That the old 4080 12gb, the actual 4080 (16gb) has yet to change
The issue is Nvidia and AMD cards are at a point where they practically exist in separate universes. 6800XT could drop to $100 and it wouldn't even cause a ripple in RTX pricing. There's a big enough marketshare and mindshare disparity that RTX cards are mostly just competing with each other, which is great for getting a price-perf deal on AMD if you're paying attention. But it seems like not enough are.
I think Nvidia can rest on their "RTX laurels" as something the competition doesn't have, it doesn't help matters (for the consumer) that Nvidia's flagship products show case how great the FPS is with everything turned on such that consumers actually buy that and think when they get their low end RTX card they'll be able to roll with it too.