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It's crazy to see them go, they've been a big name in the GPU space since as long as I can remember. If they truly don't expand into AMD GPUs or something else as they've said, I don't see them sticking around in the long term. A bit sad, they have been a good company to their customers.

I don't blame them though, it sounds like Nvidia is a PITA to deal with, and the recent pains with GPU shortages and mining have likely exacerbated it as well.

My best wishes to their employees, hope they all find good work elsewhere.

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I have one of their GTX 960s, and it's been rock-solid even when it has been continuously crunching on BOINC projects for months on end.

I was hoping that the crash in crypto mining would bring some sanity back to the GPU market, but (like all too many things) it's really not a market after all, and sanity is too much to ask for.

I'm sad to see them go as well, but if they can't make money building graphics cards, then I don't blame them for getting out.

The crash is pretty evident, for what it's worth. Founder's Edition 3090ti is in stock at Best Buy for nearly half off in the US.

Damn, you're right. An absolutely excessive and possibly outright pointless purchase, but for someone it's a deal

For what it's worth, I managed to get an EVGA 3090 at retail two years ago just to play Minecraft RTX.

This'll probably be a deal for anyone who has esoteric expectations of their hobbies like I do.

I wasn't aware of Minecraft RTX, but it looks sweet. So do a few other games

They’re very useful for deep learning!

I do hope it is a feint and they end up in AMD-land.

I would not be the least bit sad if I never put another dime in Nvidia's pocket. They're not the ugliest scumbags out there, but definitely in the bottom 20%.

They do a lot of things besides nvidia based cards. They have a lot of talent and will do fine. This is clearly a survival decision though, I guess nvidia has become so bad they are just losing money hand over fist trying to maintain a partnership. This is why everyone went nuts when nvidia tried to buy ARM, it's an awful company, up there with Oracle.

Right- I've been a loyal EVGA customer for 10+ years but only for GPUs. I was planning an upgrade to the upcoming 4000 series but now I'm questioning whether to upgrade at all. But I agree with the sentiment expressed above, thanks for all the high quality GPUs over the years and good luck with what's next.

EVGA was pulling out of gpus for some time, they e.g. Did t sell gpus in some EU countries but sold PSUs.

I see that EVGA selling through amazon in Italy, I don’t see any availability from their own website. Paying the amazon’s cut seem like even adding things on the top.

I miss their GPU+PSU bundles (and i need one now again). Their PSUs are great as their GPUs.

The problem is that AMD GPUs basically don't work. Intel also has issues. ML is big, and that's NVidia's game.

Many years ago, Matrox had a nice niche. Their cards were stable, reliable, and open-source. They weren't the fastest, but they were widely used for CAD, workstation, and business work. I'd like something like that today. I'm surprised Intel can't pull it off.

Define "Basically don't work"? They've been competing at the top end with Nvidia for at least the last couple generations. It was a toss up between things like the 3080 and 6800XT for the same price. They've been on a hell of a roll for awhile now.

Yeah, what? I've been pretty happy with my 6900xt. ML workloads are not as good without Nvidia branded stuff, but games run great and with lower power draw/heat than competition.

Ryzen 5900x / RX 6900xt here

Life's pretty good in Linux land too. Around the launch of the 6000 series AMD pushed a bunch of good stuff in the kernel. With Vulkan being the big boy in town I can practically play any game I want sans shooters, and that's because of anticheat.

How is ROCm playing out? I am eying new GPU, especially for stable diffusion, very curious about this. As i see, AMd is loaded with vram but lacks cuda-thingies, is it right?

Modern AMD GPUs are fantastic, and I would recommend them over NVIDIA cards for most people. I'm not really sure where you're getting this from.

Dude what? Ok sure older and cards were hot garbage but not nowadays

The only reason I switched to team Green was the noise reduction for microphone. My 5700XT worked just fine.

You know that you not need. NVIDIA card to using a AI noise filter ? RRNoise does the same thing and not need a Nvidia GPU to work.

A happy user of RRNoise on Linux with an AMD GPU

Ah, no I didn't.

Well, to be honest the 3070 is twice the performance of the 5700X so I'm not going to get upset. But that's good to know for the future.

Intel did pull it off.

Which company did you think shipped billions of chips with integrated graphics in the 2010-2017 era, before Ryzen? Their iGPUs weren't amazing, but they were good enough to be used in business/office PCs across the world.

Have you bought an amd gpu in the last decade? They don’t beat nvidias top cards but they perform well. Xbox/PS4 use amd hardware and so does the steam deck. I have no idea why this comment was even made?? Have you compared their open source driver to nvidias? Night and day difference.

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