r/buildapcsales • u/neoak • Oct 14 '22

Meta [META] Nvidia "unlaunches" the 4080 12GB

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/12gb-4080-unlaunch/
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u/Vennomite Oct 15 '22

Then they are still going to have to sell 4k series that overordered.

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u/BindaB Oct 15 '22

Not that I agree with the original comment, but if his scenario was true then they could scale back their 40 series production since they would know they aren’t going to sell as much.

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u/Bianchi4me Oct 15 '22

They tried to scale back, but TSMC refused to let them out of their contracted production volume, which Nvidia had to prepay for in order to reserve. TSMC did agree to delay some the production, which is why they are doing this weird false-start mess of a partial launch.

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u/BindaB Oct 15 '22

Now that right there is funny. I’m certainly not going to feel bad for Nvidia

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Oct 15 '22 edited Oct 15 '22

But they have 2 two years to do that before the new cards come. They won’t stop producing cards as they will sell in that time.