NVIDIA Reportedly Stops Production of Certain "Maxwell" GPUs

Kaapstad · 18 Apr 2016 at 06:45

http://www.techpowerup.com/221783/nvidia-reportedly-stops-production-of-certain-maxwell-gpus

crapler8 · 18 Apr 2016 at 06:55

well what a shame.... all good things come to an end

Phixsator · 18 Apr 2016 at 07:05

Going to be interesting to see if the cards will be sold out before release of pascal and therefore perhaps raising the price of second hand.

Klunt Bumskrint · 18 Apr 2016 at 07:08

Then suddenly Pascal comes out, a bit crap so everyone wants to sli their Titan X's. Used Titan X value rockets to £15000 each, the world starts to crumble...

Silent_Scone · 18 Apr 2016 at 07:12

Nothing really surprising about this.

HaloUK · 18 Apr 2016 at 08:32

The way I see this is Nvidia being greedy ******'*. We all know how good the 980Ti's are so yeh, lets stop making them and force people to buy the new Pascal cards.

What if the Pascal cards don't live up to our expectations... I for one would have reverted and bought a couple of 980Ti's at a reduction in price due to the new Pascal's being released. This just stinks of greed to me.

Jono8 · 18 Apr 2016 at 08:39

HaloUK said:
The way I see this is Nvidia being greedy ******'*. We all know how good the 980Ti's are so yeh, lets stop making them and force people to buy the new Pascal cards.

What if the Pascal cards don't live up to our expectations... I for one would have reverted and bought a couple of 980Ti's at a reduction in price due to the new Pascal's being released. This just stinks of greed to me.

Lol what? They arent going to sell all the 980tis made by June at current prices.

You will no doubt be able to pick up a new 980ti for peanuts when the new cards come out.

Remember, 780Ti's were sold off for £300 when the kepler stock clearence sales kicked in.

Simon Belmont · 18 Apr 2016 at 09:06

HaloUK said:
The way I see this is Nvidia being greedy ******'*. We all know how good the 980Ti's are so yeh, lets stop making them and force people to buy the new Pascal cards.

What if the Pascal cards don't live up to our expectations... I for one would have reverted and bought a couple of 980Ti's at a reduction in price due to the new Pascal's being released. This just stinks of greed to me.

They've done this every generation.

Ayahuasca · 18 Apr 2016 at 09:24

Makes sense, majority of those wanting a new GPU have either got one of the newer cards or are waiting for the upcoming ones, they likely still have hundreds of thousands of them stockpiled to tide them over till Pascal is in a steady flow.

MooMoo444 · 18 Apr 2016 at 09:27

Now we can finally get some great EOL deals. Unleash the discounts!

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 18 Apr 2016 at 09:59

So they are copying Intel - Intel did the same with Haswell before Skylake and it meant they did not need to have fire sale prices with deep discounting. They just let the inventories run dry with minimal deep discounting.

triss · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:04

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
So they are copying Intel - Intel did the same with Haswell before Skylake and it meant they did not need to have fire sale prices with deep discounting. They just let the inventories run dry with minimal deep discounting.

I'd say its a common practice with most company's.

jupiter_man · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:07

I wonder why people gone crazy about it...it happens every year isnt it?

Finners · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:11

Good news I think, some reports were saying we wouldn't see a 980ti beating pascal based card until Q1 2017. Halting production must mean we will get it soon

wunkley · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:20

Weirdly, don't prices usually go up when this happens? I'm glad I bagged 2 980tis for £480 each now. In the world of mad pc hardware pricing I'm quite happy with that.

Squink · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:22

Finners said:
Good news I think, some reports were saying we wouldn't see a 980ti beating pascal based card until Q1 2017. Halting production must mean we will get it soon

None of the above suggests the new cards will beat the 980ti. NVidia will do what is good for nVidia and if that means producing an equivalent card with lower power consumption or whatever, and withholding the fastest parts, that's what they'll do.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:34

triss said:
I'd say its a common practice with most company's.

With graphics cards we tend to see short period of major discounting before or during a new launch or refresh - hence the GTX780TI being available for £250,a GTX780 for £190 and the R9 290 for £170.

If Nvidia stop production of the GM204 and GM200 based cards earlier than normal they can let inventories deplete at normal prices(or even higher) as demand will be enough to sustain them.

What is more interesting though is the GM206 production is still going on - it might be mean midrange Pascal this year is coming later than the higher end one.

It might mean we see Nvidia and AMD releasing cards in areas they are not directly competing in this summer.

nashathedog · 18 Apr 2016 at 10:58

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It might mean we see Nvidia and AMD releasing cards in areas they are not directly competing in this summer.

That would be good for AMD as it might allow them to claw back some market share.

I'm not sure what it'll do for there rep though...

spot35 · 18 Apr 2016 at 11:34

Reputation is a tough thing to acquire. It's even tougher to maintain, and nigh on impossible to reacquire after losing.

I reckon AMD can achieve this if what is being rumoured is true and they'll be entering at a different market this time round to nvidia. They already have the console market. If they can do the low to mid range market well as well, I think their rep will do well out of it.

I haven't been following the AMD news very much. Is big polaris (is that 10 or 11?) releasing this or next year then?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 18 Apr 2016 at 12:22

Polaris 10 and 11 are meant to be value focussed parts - Vega is supposedly being released at the end of the year.