Question What happened to EVGA?

[emitfudd]

My current gaming rig is only about 2 to 3 years old. I have a 5900X and a 3080. When I built it, we were right in the middle of gpu shortages and I had to spend $1900 for a 3080. I was just looking at 4080's and 4090's and they are going from $1300 to $2000. Is this the new norm? What happened to a newly released GPU being priced at $600 to 1K???

There is not a single EVGA GPU on Amazon in the 4080/4090 series. When I bought my 3080 I was on their wait list and I think I finally got the email about 6 months after I had already bought an MSI. If I were to buy a new GPU right now I don't think I would even give EVGA a second thought.

I have read that a 4080 gives about 50% better performance than a 3080. It also has more memory. I'm not unhappy with my 3080 but recent games seem to be so badly optimized that even people with 4090's are getting low FPS. I am ready to play Dragon's Dogma 2 when it releases tomorrow and am reading a lot of posts about it running poorly with specs way above the minimum.

Would a 4080 pair well with a 5900X? I have 32GB of GSkill Ram at 3600Mhz, a Dark Hero MB, 850W PSU and Samsung 980 Pro's. 1440P, 165Hz monitor 27".

 

[Xalrider]

EVGA pulled out of the GPU game because of NVIDIA from what i remember, 3090ti is their latest produced card

 

[Order 66]

My current gaming rig is only about 2 to 3 years old. I have a 5900X and a 3080. When I built it, we were right in the middle of gpu shortages and I had to spend $1900 for a 3080. I was just looking at 4080's and 4090's and they are going from $1300 to $2000. Is this the new norm? What happened to a newly released GPU being priced at $600 to 1K???

There is not a single EVGA GPU on Amazon in the 4080/4090 series. When I bought my 3080 I was on their wait list and I think I finally got the email about 6 months after I had already bought an MSI. If I were to buy a new GPU right now I don't think I would even give EVGA a second thought.

I have read that a 4080 gives about 50% better performance than a 3080. It also has more memory. I'm not unhappy with my 3080 but recent games seem to be so badly optimized that even people with 4090's are getting low FPS. I am ready to play Dragon's Dogma 2 when it releases tomorrow and am reading a lot of posts about it running poorly with specs way above the minimum.

Would a 4080 pair well with a 5900X? I have 32GB of GSkill Ram at 3600Mhz, a Dark Hero MB, 850W PSU and Samsung 980 Pro's. 1440P, 165Hz monitor 27".

As far as your query about EVGA, they cut ties with Nvidia, as I'm sure others will or have pointed out.

 

[emitfudd]

Well, that explains it.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

and I had to spend $1900 for a 3080

Damn, that stings!

@Order 66 hit the nail on the head there.

 

[Order 66]

Damn, that stings!

@Order 66 hit the nail on the head there.

Technically, @Xalrider beat me to it, but I had started typing before then and saw the message that there were more posts to display. Thanks, though.

 

[Eximo]

I had hopes they would at least become an Intel partner, but it seems the layoffs at the GPU division have pretty much gone through. And it doesn't look like they are going to carry on with motherboards either.

Finally seeing some new power supplies though, but pretty much their entire lower end/capacity models have gone out of production.

Still some overpriced AIO. Looks like they are going to target only the highest end products to keep margins high.

I also want them to dip into the gaming monitors. Who wouldn't want an EVGA monitor!

 

[TerryLaze]

Full story here, if someone cares.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9QES-FUAM&ab_channel=GamersNexus

 

[Avro Arrow]

This should explain what happened:
EVGA Quits nVidia - Electronic Design, September 19, 2022

There was a lot of speculation that EVGA was going to "pull an XFX" and switch to Radeon (or maybe even Arc), but that never happened. This makes me think that there was more to it than just nVidia's business practices because if that was the only reason, then EVGA would've just switched teams instead of essentially giving up the ghost like they did.

I know that if I were the CEO of EVGA and I had to cut ties with nVidia for whatever reason, I wouldn't have just shut the video card division down like that. Video cards were EVGA's core competency and I would've just had talks with AMD and Intel to make their cards instead, knowing that neither company would refuse an AIO partner with EVGA's stellar reputation.

Ultimately, what happened is a real mystery and I don't think that we'll ever know the whole story surrounding this.

 

[woot]

Some rumors floating around they are also ditching the motherboard market.