Nvidia is forcing AIB partners into RTX 2000-series contracted shipments,
despite GTX 1000-series overstock
Nvidia now dominates the discrete GPU market with over 70% share, which
makes it easy for the green team to strong-arm AIB partners into contracted
shipments for the new RTX 2000-series. (Source: Fortune)Nvidia now dominates
the discrete GPU market with over 70% share, which makes it easy for the
green team to strong-arm AIB partners into contracted shipments for the new
RTX 2000-series. (Source: Fortune)
Just like AMD, things went unexpectedly well for Nvidia in the second
quarter of this year, even though the crypto market decline was heralding a
gloomy period. Nvidia managed to pull this off by forcing some AIB partners
into overstocking Pascal GPUs, and the green team is doing this again with
10 major partners that were forced to contract shipments for the RTX 2000-
series in order to be the first to deliver the new cards.
by Bogdan Solca, 2018/08/24Business Desktop Gaming Geforce MSI AMD
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When prices for the GTX 1000-series started slipping under MSRP this July,
many Nvidia AIB partners and online retailers reported considerable
overstocks on Pascal cards, mostly due to the crypto market debacle that
started back in April.
Nvidia itself tried to delay the launch of the RTX 2000-series so that the
market could absorb the surplus of GTX 1000 cards, but, even with prices
falling well below MSRP and special offers, most gamers considered that it
would be wise to wait and see how things turn out with the greatly
anticipated new RTX 2000- series. Now, Digitimes reports that Nvidia is up
to some shady business, as AIB partners are forced into accepting contracted
shipments for the new generation of GPUs, even though partners like Asus,
MSI and Gigabyte are still sitting on thick stocks.
The pascal shipment contracts allowed Nvidia to get slightly higher revenues
for the second fiscal quarter, despite the lower projections made amid the
crypto market decline that triggered a drastically decreased demand for GPUs.
Digitimes sources claim that Nvidia now commands more than 70% of the global
discrete GPU market, which allows the green team to resort to price
bargaining strategies when dealing with its AIB partners. Thus, more than 10
such partners are now forced to sign shipment contracts in order to be the
first to release the new custom RTX 2000-series cards on the market.
According to TechSpot, this will have good and bad repercussions. Good in
the sense that gamers will be able to get GTX 1080 / 1080 Ti cards for a
fraction of their MSRP, but bad because AMD’s market share will sink even
further, and if the red team does not come up with a strong answer in the
form of the upcoming Navi, the company may be in trouble. Not to mention
that Intel is willing to soon step into the discrete GPU arena, as well.