When you're a 3T$ market cap company, how the hell do you justify so many fuck ups on the market you've been crushingly mastering over the past decade or so other than proving you're a shitty company ?
Nvidia can justify it because people will still buy cards anyway, and they've been a shitty company for years.
A 3T$ company that already went through several generations of different standards and is leading bleeding edge technology at unprecedented scales managed to fail PCIe5 implementation (despite already having it widely applied it to datacenter cards), has humongous R&D and budget for their software division manages to have blackscreen issues that require a vBIOS update and orders so many chips for datacenter and gaming that they *accidentally* get chips on sale with less hardware than advertised ? I'm especially not buying the last one, just like that one slide with the 5070=4090 (no asterisk, no fine print, no nothing) they perfectly knew what they were doing and just ditched the defective dies in production hoping it wouldn't get noticed or that people with them wouldn't want the hassle of RMA-ing them.
All of the issues Blackwell is going through are inexcusable, and Nvidia hasn't put out a public report on the missing ROPs so they're already getting a free pass for it, and for the power connectors still melting even though Nvidia claimed it was fixed.
The gaming market is only 10% of revenue for Nvidia, with "AI PC" included so who knows how much of it is gaming, or OEM sales. With the issues they're having with Blackwell it's obvious the budget is being shifted away from R&D and the gaming market. When AMD has bad drivers people reletenlessly condem them for it.
I don't know enough about that one particular point
A significant reason why EVGA stopped making GPUs is because they weren't making any margins with the 30 series, because Nvidia has been undercutting their own partners with the FE cards since the GTX 10 series.
In addition to that, Nvidia was making record profits off miners, and EVGA tried to do the right thing by selling GPU's closer to MSRP and lost money doing so. And I can only assume they seen it coming with the 40 series melting power connectors. Gamers Nexus has videos on why EVGA left the market, but geforce buyers still deny the leather jacket man having any blame on contributing to killing off the AIB with the best customer support.
Does it have to ? All we need it to do is deliver solid performance for an acceptable price, which Nvidia has completed disregarded altogether with RTX50, even when the 5070/60Ti/60 drops, I'm pretty sure 3-4 different things about them are going to make them look particularly mediocre and nuke Nvidia's image on the gaming/content creation market (at this point I'm not even sure Nvidia cares anymore and is looking for a pretext to only make AI accelerator card)
I agree, it doesn't have to, all the 9070XT needs to do is sell for MSRP, and if it sells for even close to MSRP, AMD has the chance to grab some sales away from Nvidia.
I mean, idk man, we've seen leaked retailers picture of existing stock since mid January in different countries so... :shrug:
AMD would've had to mess up really badly to not have plenty of stock ready for launch, but I guess we'll see.
