I'm sad to see one less participant in the AIB market.
But regarding their quality, it has not been the best in recent generations;
- 1070/1080 (and more?) had thermal pads without contact with the cooler. This is a major design flaw which wasn't noticed until large quantities of cards were shipped. This means their cards didn't get even basic QA before mass production. This was a big red flag for me, and was the time I stopped recommending EVGA.
- Their 2080 Ti cards had design flaws which lead to very large amounts of RMAs.
- I believe their RMA rates have been high with RTX 3000 series too, but haven't looked into why.
When expensive models get high RMA rates, especially ones which can't be compensated by Nvidia, it quickly cuts into their profit margins.
It smells awfully fishy. One of the big complaints is "the complexity of modern GPUs" which is RICH coming from the guy who greenlit the K|ingp|n lineup. And you could just.....not make the 4090/4080? And he cant make any money? Wouldnt we have heard about this from smaller AIBs by now?
The margins for AIBs on base models are very tiny, but for the premium ones they are very good. EVGA is known for selling large volumes premium versions of their high-end models, and considering two years of record sales, there is no reason why they shouldn't make good money, if they made solid products.
80% of their REVENUE made one third of their profit.
Do the math; That's pretty damning against Nvidia.
That's probably because their peripherals and PSUs are just white label products, right?
With decent brand recognition, those are "easy money" with little risk and development cost. The downside of such products are they add little value to the market, and eventuelly their brand recognition is likely going to fade.
I do hope they end up making AMD or Intel graphics cards, or if this is some kind of power play, get better terms with Nvidia.
And for clarity, I'm not picking sides here.
MLID is a fool and no one should take him seriously. I used to hang out in an AMD fan discord where a member straight up fabricated the SKU list for Zen 2 CPUs and he posted it verbatim back in the day. It was hilarious. Treat anything that comes out of rumor mill channels as rumors and with massive doses of salt.
Him and many other similar channels have been busted countless times for just reciting random speculation from forums/Reddit/etc. and claiming they have inside sources. Massive amounts of salt is irrelevant, they should be ignored once you catch them lying. They make their business lying to people, so you shouldn't trust anything they say.
