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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

3t3P said:
Anyone actually got anything more substantial on that?
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Well they liquidated the London sub company in 2019, and moved all of it to Germany. That meant one of the companies I work with had to stop using EVGA parts completely, as they aren't allowed to procure parts from companies that have no UK presence and cannot be easily audited.

3t3P said:
They're my favourite due to ease of transferable warranty and friendly cooler removal policies.
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Indeed, one of the best features, and if you look at BFG they were very much like this too, and they've gone.

EVGA's worst nightmare would be AMD having competitive cards at this point, they are a tiny company compared with MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, Palit etc. who can afford to have a poor couple of years.
 
Sibbers said:
I thought zotac were notoriously bad for the RMA experience? I thought that’s why EVGA was so high on people’s list.
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I have never had a issue with EVGA i had a 980ti go pop after 2 years the whole process took 3 weeks for a replacement and they sent me a brand new card and it was the better version
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Surely this must be down to the fact they couldn't shift them?
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In essence yes, so if they see a decline in demand they obviously look at what the risks are in terms of production. If you recall EVGA recently acquired some special 106 dies for their RTX 2060 KO which appear to be repurposed 104 dies (RTX 2080) with disabled or failed shaders etc no use for gamers but actually really good value for certain workloads like encoding I can't remember exactly. Point being they sold very well for EVGA and they went for very targeted products not the general purpose ones.

TLDR: They shifted these special KO cards a lot faster than they thought imho, but are cautious about about production on the others imho
 
IvanDobskey said:
My 1070 is a Zotac Amp edition, it's been excellent.
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I had a 1070 Zotac Amp Extreme Edition and that was one of the best cooled cards I have ever had. The cooler was a beast and tamed the 1070 very well. The fan would never have to ramp up. It was probably the closes one could get to water cooling performance as it boosted well too. Kind of wish I had just kept that card.
 
Also don't forget EVGA had/has a 90 step up programme... would they want to sell lots of cheaper Turing GPUs 90 days before the release of Ampere? Probably not, like Nvidia themselves they want a solid margin
 
TNA said:
I had a 1070 Zotac Amp Extreme Edition and that was one of the best cooled cards I have ever had. The cooler was a beast and tamed the 1070 very well. The fan would never have to ramp up. It was probably the closes one could get to water cooling performance as it boosted well too. Kind of wish I had just kept that card.
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They are for me the best I’ve had no problems with this card my next card (if any will be a zotac).
 
Nvidias RMA is very good when I needed to use it. One of my 2080 Ti's out of the box had a faulty RTX logo lighting issue, GPU itself was absolutely fine.

Whole logo was red at boot and orange in windows, setup an RMA with nvidia online chat and all they wanted off me was my serial number and address, they sent a brand new sealed 2080 Ti to my house at no expense to me while I still had the faulty one within a week. Nvidias RMA has been the best I've seen.
 
Raiden85 said:
Nvidias RMA is very good when I needed to use it. One of my 2080 Ti's out of the box had a faulty RTX logo lighting issue, GPU itself was absolutely fine.

Whole logo was red at boot and orange in windows, setup an RMA with nvidia online chat and all they wanted off me was my serial number and address, they sent a brand new sealed 2080 Ti to my house at no expense to me while I still had the faulty one within a week. Nvidias RMA has been the best I've seen.
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I think I waited 2 weeks for a replacement 2080ti OCUK were Exellent with my rma kudos we’re it is deserved.
 
Raiden85 said:
Nvidias RMA is very good when I needed to use it. One of my 2080 Ti's out of the box had a faulty RTX logo lighting issue, GPU itself was absolutely fine.

Whole logo was red at boot and orange in windows, setup an RMA with nvidia online chat and all they wanted off me was my serial number and address, they sent a brand new sealed 2080 Ti to my house at no expense to me while I still had the faulty one within a week. Nvidias RMA has been the best I've seen.
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Interesting, as I may consider going direct with them also from release. It is either that or Zotac.
 
Sibbers said:
I thought zotac were notoriously bad for the RMA experience? I thought that’s why EVGA was so high on people’s list.
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EVGA are great but good you have to pay for the privilege. Plus in recent years they have given up on the EU/UK market. They seem to ignore us more, we never get the deals and offers they give the US market and we were the last in the queue for FTW cards last time which left a bitter taste in my mouth after I spent thousands over the years on EVGA stuff.

I used to accept the higher prices because you were getting something better/faster but like I said earlier. There really is no performance difference between the top Asus card and the bottom clown card so really its all about warranty and value for money for me nowadays/.
 
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