EVGA Announces Cancelation of NVIDIA Next-gen Graphics Cards Plans, Officially Terminates NVIDIA Partnership

[Vario]

I am also wondering if there might be something else on EVGA's books that we don't know about.

If they are to continue, I think they should go all in on customized DDR5 (much like Gskill, Corsair, Team) and motherboards.

 

[P4-630]

If they are to continue

They do, they will focus on motherboards and PSU's.
They do not plan to expand into new product categories for the time being they said.

 

[tfdsaf]

They are likely to expand into peripherals like mouse, keyboard, headphones, cooling, gaming chairs, maybe even into ram memory and SSD's, otherwise I'm afraid they'll just slowly die off in obscurity! They are literally 1% of mobo market and even less in psu market.

Though ram and ssd's can be difficult as well with unpredictable pricing and big highs and big lows.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

They do, they will focus on motherboards and PSU's.
They do not plan to expand into new product categories for the time being they said.

Now maybe they'll invest more time in making a better motherboard.

 

[1234chgm]

This news was just totally unexpected and came right out of the blue for me.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I am also wondering if there might be something else on EVGA's books that we don't know about.

If they are to continue, I think they should go all in on customized DDR5 (much like Gskill, Corsair, Team) and motherboards.

My worry is that they are going to die a slow death.

 

[wheresmycar]

EVGA Announces Cancelation of NVIDIA Next-gen Graphics Cards Plans, Officially Terminates NVIDIA Partnership​

Sad news indeed.

I don't know much about EVGA other than buying into my last retail purchased card being a EVGA GTX 1080 TI SC BLACK EDITION and G2 PSUs (which were/are fantastic).

What i'm going to miss the most is that GPU industrial looking chunky grill aesthetic without plastic shrouds overindulging their presence like we see on most cards. My next upgrade was going to be something like a 4080 with an EVGA exposed chunky heatsink, something which looks like this:

Oh well... i guess we'll have to look at other options now.

 

[freeagent]

The day of the news I was going to buy a 3080Ti from them, but big shocker that their flagship cards are out of stock.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

The day of the news I was going to buy a 3080Ti from them, but big shocker that their flagship cards are out of stock.

Likely holding them back for warranty purposes what any decent company would do. Most companies would just sell them all off.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

8 shops still sell them today in my country in EU.
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Talking about their direct site... once sold to retailers they can't get them back. Man those prices are terrible though.

 

[P4-630]

Talking about their direct site... once sold to retailers they can't get them back.

Right, was just thinking about that after my post...
Nevermind..

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Sad news indeed.

I don't know much about EVGA other than buying into my last retail purchased card being a EVGA GTX 1080 TI SC BLACK EDITION and G2 PSUs (which were/are fantastic).

What i'm going to miss the most is that GPU industrial looking chunky grill aesthetic without plastic shrouds overindulging their presence like we see on most cards. My next upgrade was going to be something like a 4080 with an EVGA exposed chunky heatsink, something which looks like this:

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Oh well... i guess we'll have to look at other options now.

Me as well.... I really like my 3080ti ftw aesthetics and overall noise/temps much better than my 2080 ti stix card.

 

[64K]

The day of the news I was going to buy a 3080Ti from them, but big shocker that their flagship cards are out of stock.

If you don't mind using Amazon in Canada you can still get one.

Amazon.ca : rtx 3080 ti

 

[oxrufiioxo]

If you don't mind using Amazon in Canada you can still get one.

Amazon.ca : rtx 3080 ti

FTW3 is showing out of stock for me.

 

[mechtech]

Wonder if this is in the top 10 of most posted threads?

For their motherboards did they make them or partner up with someone?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Wonder if this is in the top 10 of most posted threads?

For their motherboards did they make them or partner up with someone?

They make them although until recently only the Dark done by Kingpin was any good.

 

[AleXXX666]

Sales alone worth nothing if you can't hit the margine...

ooh, with THEIR prices in EU, i believe there is a BIG headroom for MARGINE lmfao

 

[lexluthermiester]

What most don't get is computers are all going to be SOC or APU situations.

There's going to be some of that, there already is, but that's a far cry from "all", which is a VERY narrow minded and nonsensicle train of thought. It'll be a cold day on the surface of the Sun before the traditional desktop PC comes to an end. So hush up about it.

 

[OneMoar]

ooh, with THEIR prices in EU, i believe there is a BIG headroom for MARGINE lmfao

do you not understand how taxes work ?

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Speculation: CEO wants to retire; doesn't have a successor, doesn't want to go public, but wants to get some money out of the company. Solution: trim the business back to the higher-margin, easier-to-manage product lines. Keep the venture rolling until you can arrange a sale of the brand to a holding company (i.e. pull an Antec).

Signs had been accumulating that all pointed to something, just didn't know that it would be this.

 

[R-T-B]

somebody says psu what brands that come to mind

I'd say for me the first three are Corsair, EVGA, and Seasonic. Not in that order neccesarily.

Now maybe they'll invest more time in making a better motherboard.

Their motherboards are excellent actually. I'm using one now on my main rig. The starting msrps are geared towards their "will buy anything" fanbase, but if you wait, you can get them at much more realistic prices (I got this board in specs for $225 shipped, it's msrp is like $500 something lol).

The bios updates are even timely on Ryzen. Yeah, not buying the idea they are giving up there.

Speculation: CEO wants to retire; doesn't have a successor, doesn't want to go public, but wants to get some money out of the company. Solution: trim the business back to the higher-margin, easier-to-manage product lines. Keep the venture rolling until you can arrange a sale of the brand to a holding company (i.e. pull an Antec).

Signs had been accumulating that all pointed to something, just didn't know that it would be this.

I find this believable.

 

[Bwaze]

Speculation: CEO wants to retire; doesn't have a successor, doesn't want to go public, but wants to get some money out of the company. Solution: trim the business back to the higher-margin, easier-to-manage product lines. Keep the venture rolling until you can arrange a sale of the brand to a holding company (i.e. pull an Antec).

Signs had been accumulating that all pointed to something, just didn't know that it would be this.

Wouldn't it be just as simple and more profitable for a CEO to just sell the company as is, with large percentage in graphics card sakes?

 

[Vario]

Wouldn't it be just as simple and more profitable for a CEO to just sell the company as is, with large percentage in graphics card sakes?

If it is a future sale, it may have to do with sale valuation relating to accounting for future revenue for 4th gen cards due to the uncertain NVIDIA MSRP.

 

[cvaldes]

Yeah enough with the brand hate, it's a two horse race ladies, stop pretending to care about EVGA when most of you wouldn't touch them with a barge pole because they were Nvidia only.

Your hatred of Nvidia doomed EVGA, well done.

Not true. Nvidia GeForce commands about 80% of the discrete desktop graphics card market compared to AMD Radeon's 20%.

EVGA was selling lots of cards (nearly 80% of company revenue). The problem was declining gross margin over a long period of time (over a decade) for AIB partners. There was no trend of GeForce losing large amounts of market share to Radeon.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Wouldn't it be just as simple and more profitable for a CEO to just sell the company as is, with large percentage in graphics card sakes?

Not necessarily. A buyer would purchase based on future prospects. In this case, the value is in the EVGA brand and potentially the distribution network and/or existing partnerships. Evidence suggests that the GPU arm struggles with ROI, a problem a new owner would have at least as much trouble solving as EVGA itself does right now. An entity not interested in the GPU side would need to deal with divesting it if they bought the whole shebang while that division still existed.

TL;DR, you want to buy assets, not liabilities. If EVGA management has deemed their GPU business a liability, it's highly likely a buyer would also consider it such.