EVGA, one of the most well-known brands in terms of computer graphics cards, is exiting the market. After a long partnership with NVIDIA, EVGA will no longer continue to make GPUs with them, nor any of their competitors such as Intel or AMD. This is a major upheaval for both, as 78% of EVGA's entire business is comprised of GPU sales, while EVGA-branded NVIDIA graphics cards represented around 40% of NVIDIA GPUs sold in North America. The news initially broke when two tech industry YouTubers were brought into a meeting with company CEO Andrew Han, in which Han discussed how EVGA was planning on cutting ties with NVIDIA, claiming that NVIDIA wasn't treating their partners well.

Some of these instances included how NVIDIA would not allow its partners to know vital information until the public was informed, that most GPUs are sold at a loss, and most importantly, that EVGA believes NVIDIA is undercutting and undermining them by selling the cheaper "Founders Edition" graphics cards that NVIDIA themselves sell at low cost.

EVGA will continue on as a company by still manufacturing PC peripherals, motherboards, and power supplies, as well as supporting customers who have purchased their current generation graphics cards. For now, employee layoffs are not planned, despite the notable decline in future revenue.

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[pustal]

@Chary I take you saw my post in the Meme Box, no?

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[ZeroFX]

I liked evga, all my GPUs were/are evgas and they still work.

 

[x65943]

I suspect this means graphics card prices will skyrocket in the near future

And they just started to normalize ;A;

 

[Cris1997XX]

I just bought a new computer after years of shitty laptops, and its GPU is an RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM. I suspect it's made by EVGA, which is really worrying for me

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Not surprising, given how shit Nvidia has been treating partners lately. I'm hoping they'll decide to branch out into other tech beyond the other stuff they do now, maybe start looking into making laptops again since we haven't see any since 2018 or so IIRC.

Either way, no big loss for EVGA since profit margins on GPUs were so shit, they make way more money off everything else they make.

I just bought a new computer after years of shitty laptops, and its GPU is an RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM. I suspect it's made by EVGA, which is really worrying for me

Won't be a problem whatsoever, it'll still get Nvidia updates like any other Nvidia GPU would and EVGA still plans on honoring any warranties for their products until they all expire.

 

[Kioku]

This is actually terrible news. Guess I'm going AMD in my next build. I hope they at least consider going red in the future. Their customer support has been unparalleled for me.

 

[Cris1997XX]

This is actually terrible news. Guess I'm going AMD in my next build. I hope they at least consider going red in the future. Their customer support has been unparalleled for me.

Will you ever consider the Ryzen 7000 APUs? lmao

 

[Kioku]

Will you ever consider the Ryzen 7000 APUs? lmao

You're probably joking, but yeah. I would and have considered more recent AMD APUs for mini builds.

 

[Kioku]

Not surprising, given how shit Nvidia has been treating partners lately. I'm hoping they'll decide to branch out into other tech beyond the other stuff they do now, maybe start looking into making laptops again since we haven't see any since 2018 or so IIRC.

Either way, no big loss for EVGA since profit margins on GPUs were so shit, they make way more money off everything else they make.



Won't be a problem whatsoever, it'll still get Nvidia updates like any other Nvidia GPU would and EVGA still plans on honoring any warranties for their products until they all expire.

GPUs allegedly were 80% of EVGA's revenue... It's a pretty big deal.

 

[Cris1997XX]

You're probably joking, but yeah. I would and have considered more recent AMD APUs for mini builds.

I'm not really joking (Mostly). I was thinking of building an emulation machine as soon as the new APUs released, but I've already spent a lot of money on a normal computer and I've heard they'll be expensive anyway

 

[xdarkx]

This is sad to hear. Curious if EVGA have a good plan B moving forward since they are cutting 78% of their revenue and I don't think just selling PC peripherals is sustainable.

 

[Willgheminass]

Ah geez. I really do hope this doesn't raise prices for GPU's overall, I've been planning to get an AMD card next month when I'll be able to afford one. I currently have a GTX 1650 Super in my system from EVGA. I've always wanted to run games off of a Win10 KVM without having to worry about shutting it down internally first before being able to return the GPU to Linux if I were to stick with my one card, which is why I've put off doing any KVM related stuff until I got one.

 

[Wolfy]

Honestly this makes me pretty sad, but I understand EVGA's stance on things. Just never had an issue with their cards so thankfully the 3080 and 1080ti I got from them will probably last me a good 5 or more years granted no doomsday comes around.

 

[Ryab]

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EVGA, one of the most well-known brands in terms of computer graphics cards, is exiting the market. After a long partnership with NVIDIA, EVGA will no longer continue to make GPUs with them, nor any of their competitors such as Intel or AMD. This is a major upheaval for both, as 78% of EVGA's entire business is comprised of GPU sales, while EVGA-branded NVIDIA graphics cards represented around 40% of NVIDIA GPUs sold in North America. The news initially broke when two tech industry YouTubers were brought into a meeting with company CEO Andrew Han, in which Han discussed how EVGA was planning on cutting ties with NVIDIA, claiming that NVIDIA wasn't treating their partners well.

Some of these instances included how NVIDIA would not allow its partners to know vital information until the public was informed, that most GPUs are sold at a loss, and most importantly, that EVGA believes NVIDIA is undercutting and undermining them by selling the cheaper "Founders Edition" graphics cards that NVIDIA themselves sell at low cost.

EVGA will continue on as a company by still manufacturing PC peripherals, motherboards, and power supplies, as well as supporting customers who have purchased their current generation graphics cards. For now, employee layoffs are not planned, despite the notable decline in future revenue.

Source

From what I can tell. This seems to be due to distaste towards Nvidia's extremely strict limitations they put on their partners. They will not even tell their partners what their new hardware can do and they find out the same time the public does.

 

[diggeloid]

EVGA is one of the best companies making PC hardware, so this is sad. I really hope they survive this.

I've only bought a couple of GPUs from them over the years, but I've bought a ton of power supplies and all the EVGA ones I've ever bought still work.

Also, relevant:

 

[Nincompoopdo]

Funny that a CEO chose Youtubers for the interview. Mainstream media wouldn't have cared, and if the news came from Youtubers - it's treated as gossips, to avoid legal actions.

 

[Kioku]

Funny that a CEO chose Youtubers for the interview. Mainstream media wouldn't have cared, and if the news came from Youtubers - it's treated as gossips, to avoid legal actions.

Gamers Nexus is more than just a "Youtuber". It's also not gossip as it's an official interview with upper management from EVGA. The only people who treat it as gossip are cynics and idiots.

 

[codezer0]

Funny that a CEO chose Youtubers for the interview. Mainstream media wouldn't have cared, and if the news came from Youtubers - it's treated as gossips, to avoid legal actions.

Gamers Nexus and Jayztwocents are more than just average tech youtubers. They're both leagues above the swill of Linus Tech Tips by an entire star system, for one. Both have had some history of collaboration with evga for charity competitions, the occasional company tour, et al. And Steve of GN, has even taken up a working grasp of Mandarin, which helped with being able to ask certain questions in Han's nattive language.

I don't think eVGA is going anywhere in the short term. They're in a rare position where they own the property their headquarters are located in, and that's all paid up according to Andrew; so to that end, I don't see them being in a hurry to leave. I'm more worried about their present staff.

I'm also wondering about Vince Lucido (a.k.a. Kingpin); his job was effectively to overclock the crap out of their graphics cards to keep their brand up among the world record leaderboards in stuff. So he may need to suddenly update his resume.

 

[SS4]

Well, guess once my FTW card gets too old i'm gonna switch over to AMD GPU . . .