UndesiredSanity

AJ090
 
  NO COMPANY ON EARTH loses 80% of their revenue overnight and survives.  PERIOD!  This announcement is tantamount to a "going out of business" notice.  There is no freaking way that EVGA survives just selling two different mobos and power supplies and a few peripherals.
 

 
I agree, but they have no other options from the sounds of it. If EVGA are selling GPU's at a loss and 80% of the company revenue is operating at a loss, then what choice do they have? All other AIB's have other products to survive on. ASUS and GIGABYTE have motherboards, PSU, Monitors, etc. If the company is going to bleed to death, might as well try to minimize the major cuts which would to stop selling product at a loss. 

They do have an option, suck it up buttercup is what I would say to the CEO. This is the business world all around. Kind of sounds like this person's ego bubble is bruised because he wants to be treated "better". You think you're the only leader of a company to be "disrespected"? Don't throw a tantrum and put your team that busts their butt for you down into a spiraling downfall.

ExcaliburXVII
Linus Torvalds moment. nVidia must have acted extremely poorly towards EVGA in order for it to come to this.
 
I wish you guys and gals the best going forward. There will be a lot of fanboy responses due to EVGA having been an nVidia-exclusive partner for so long but the company would be more than welcomed producing video cards for AMD. Best of luck to all of the employees, and thanks for the years of hard work.

 
Well said, and classy response. Wish more were like this.

gsrcrxsi

Dooms87
wow this is terrible news i wasn't expecting this today. Who is the next best manufacturer for US customers? I always bought EVGA cause of the customer service.

Essentially no one. EVGA was miles above the rest for customer service and ease of warranty for customers in the US.

I’ve done RMAs with Asus and Gigabyte in the past. But their process is terrible and you get almost no communication through the process. You send your part back and wait an unknown amount of time until a replacement shows up, or you get your old part back denied warranty for some ambiguous and nebulous reason.

 
MSI is no better. I'm glad I grabbed an RTX 3080 Ti XC3 through the ANTOnline bundle way back when. I may need to grab an RTX 3080 Ti FTW or a 3090 Ti FTW if I can wing it, and then be safe as I won't need a 40x0 card for anything.

Optim1
I dont blame you guys for not working with Nvidia anymore, we all know the stories. But to hear you'll be exiting the gpu market completely is a bummer. I loved you guys and have been a fanboy since 2012 when I got my gtx 570 from you. If you ever reconsider, I'll be there. 

 
I feel you on that - over 15 years here.

Shock4ndAwe
Really unfortunate. I've been using EVGA GPUs for 15 years. I'll still be buying your motherboards and PSUs but this hurts.

Yeah, 8800 GTS --> GTX 260 (+ GTX 260 SSC for SLI) --> GTX 560 Ti 448 Core --> GTX 970 --> RTX 3080 Ti XC3.


*sniff*

Every single GPU I've ever owned, all the way back to my first (an 8800 GTS SSC) has been EVGA. Really sad to hear this, and I think it's an awful decision tbh. I don't really see any reason to buy any other EVGA product lines if I'm not being anchored with the GPUs, so my EVGA 3080 may well be my last EVGA product, period.
 
End of an era. 
 
 

itraumatik
Now i see why they were reluctant to reimburse customers that just ordered a gpu and didnt even receive it yet then 3 days later they dropped the price 250$.  EVGA and Nvidia knew since April 2022 quote from GN.  I also have been buying only EVGA gpus since 5xx series.  The above made me want to switch to Asus gpus but i will stand with evga and not buy 4xxx , at all and hope others will also. 
 
Hopefully nvidia sees how many customers they might/will loose from this.  If everybody would band together and say screw the 4xxx series and also let nvidia know Nvidia might get off their high horse and try to remedy this.  These big companies only understand money and how much they will loose to change things.

I'm with you 100%. I had no plans to buy a 4000 series but this seals the deal for me. If there's no 4000 series EVGA cards forget it, not going to happen.

:( was hoping for a 40 series evga card but guess not now. Will have to wack a 3090 ti in my evga system. Don't know who to turn to now for gpus as every other aib I've used has had poor customer service. I really don't know which aib to go with now for a gpu :( please don't leave EVGA come on guys

EVGA is going out of business. No company can survive losing 75% of its revenues overnight. I have been buying EVGA since the 4xx series until my Strix 3090, but I still bought a 3080 that I am currently using. Sad news indeed. 
 
What I don't get is this - a quote from the article, "The company said to Gamers Nexus ‘it’s about respect’.  It was a principal decision to break ties with NVIDIA, not a financial one." So someone from EVGA is willing to go out of business because he or she felt "disrespected" by NVIDIA? Really?

bloot

namcost

gsrcrxsi
I would urge against Radeon cards. AMD's software/drivers suffers big time. it'll be more of a headache for EVGA to deal with that. Intel has a better handle on driver stability, but they are just reemerging to the GPU space so there will be some growing pains there too.
 
but it sounds like EVGA isnt going to make any GPUs for the foreseeable future. With the mismanagement of things during the chip shortage, and then them killing off the Bucks program, the writing was on the wall for something like this to happen. I'd be surprised if they're still in business in a year.

Nothing wrong with AMD drivers. YES their driver team is smaller than Nvidia's 100's of 1000's of employees. But I actually own both an EVGA 3090 and PowerColor 6900xt and guess what, in a 100 game benchmark they go head to head, win some lose some, each. Making them basically "equal". Sure pick one game only you could say "the 3090 beats the 6900xt in battlefield" but then you could turn around and argue "the 6900xt beats the 3090 in call of duty warzone" so the arguments kinda flop. In reality, AMD has reached parity. And actually owning an AMD product, multiple years (6900xt, radeon vii, 390x) and owning multiple Nvidia cards (1080ti, 3090) I have never once had a driver issue on EITHER brand.... not once. so to claim "muh nvidia better" is just shortsightedness.
 

 
Yeah AMD gpu drivers are just fine since 6000 series launch, some bugs have appeared in between but that happens everywhere, overall gpu drivers work and performs just fine. It would be interesting to see EVGA changing logo boxes from GeForce to Radeon, XFX had some experience with this before, and they just survived.

you both sound very uninformed. AMD drivers is the single biggest complaint about their GPUs. always tons of random issues that take forever to get fixed, if ever. and dont count on any fix for older gen cards. once a new card comes out, they cease all real driver dev for the older cards. looking at you Vega and Navi10.


and 3090 vs 6900 being "basically equal" lol. yeah if you ignore all the other features that the 3090 brings. turn on RT and tell me they are equal, do some ML/AI compute and tell me they are equal, do some media transcoding and tell me they are equal.
 
big LOL.

I'm crushed this news and the fact that EVGA has no plans to partner with AMD or Intel. I've bought all my video cards from EVGA and took it for granted I would be able to continue to do so. I'm really sorry this happened and I'm sad for the EVGA employees affected. EVGA really did a fabulous job of customer service and video card design. Thank you to all the EVGA employees that made this one of the few companies I was proud to support. EVGA was truly one of the good ones.

Off to the video card Valhalla with other great ones long passed.... 3dfx, Hercules, BFGtech (just to name a few).

While not my first graphics card vendor, it's still sad to see it come to this after a good 20 year run.

End of a era.

gsrcrxsi

bloot

namcost

gsrcrxsi
I would urge against Radeon cards. AMD's software/drivers suffers big time. it'll be more of a headache for EVGA to deal with that. Intel has a better handle on driver stability, but they are just reemerging to the GPU space so there will be some growing pains there too.
 
but it sounds like EVGA isnt going to make any GPUs for the foreseeable future. With the mismanagement of things during the chip shortage, and then them killing off the Bucks program, the writing was on the wall for something like this to happen. I'd be surprised if they're still in business in a year.

Nothing wrong with AMD drivers. YES their driver team is smaller than Nvidia's 100's of 1000's of employees. But I actually own both an EVGA 3090 and PowerColor 6900xt and guess what, in a 100 game benchmark they go head to head, win some lose some, each. Making them basically "equal". Sure pick one game only you could say "the 3090 beats the 6900xt in battlefield" but then you could turn around and argue "the 6900xt beats the 3090 in call of duty warzone" so the arguments kinda flop. In reality, AMD has reached parity. And actually owning an AMD product, multiple years (6900xt, radeon vii, 390x) and owning multiple Nvidia cards (1080ti, 3090) I have never once had a driver issue on EITHER brand.... not once. so to claim "muh nvidia better" is just shortsightedness.
 

 
Yeah AMD gpu drivers are just fine since 6000 series launch, some bugs have appeared in between but that happens everywhere, overall gpu drivers work and performs just fine. It would be interesting to see EVGA changing logo boxes from GeForce to Radeon, XFX had some experience with this before, and they just survived.

you both sound very uninformed. AMD drivers is the single biggest complaint about their GPUs. always tons of random issues that take forever to get fixed, if ever. and dont count on any fix for older gen cards. once a new card comes out, they cease all real driver dev for the older cards. looking at you Vega and Navi10.


and 3090 vs 6900 being "basically equal" lol. yeah if you ignore all the other features that the 3090 brings. turn on RT and tell me they are equal, do some ML/AI compute and tell me they are equal, do some media transcoding and tell me they are equal.
 
big LOL.

So you are best informed based on what you read elsewhere, not on your own experience? I've got a 6800XT since launch and have had no big problems with it. Anyway, if you don't like AMD gpus nor drivers you don't have to buy one in case EVGA switches to Radeon (which is pretty likely to happen).