Nvidia RTX 40 series graphics card production was revealed to be cut by 50%, Huang Renxun: Blackwell samples will be sent this week

This site reported on July 30 that Jen-Hsun Huang attended the SIGGRAPH 2024 Summit held in Denver, USA yesterday (July 29) and stated that he would start sending Blackwell architecture samples to customers this week.

Source Economic Daily also revealed yesterday that Nvidia has significantly reduced the supply of consumer-grade graphics cards in preparation for Blackwell products, with a maximum reduction of 50%, resulting in a shortage of graphics card supply and a new round of price increases.

It is reported that due to the price increase of NVIDIA, manufacturers such as ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock and others are brewing a new round of graphics card price increases.

Supply chain sources indicate that Nvidia’s production cuts this time are for high-end graphics cards, mainly the RTX 40 series. In particular, the shortage of high-end graphics cards for RTX 4070 and above is most obvious.

The source stated that Nvidia’s reduction in RTX 40 series graphics card production capacity is mainly due to two factors:

Transfer the production capacity of consumer-grade high-end graphics cards to Blackwell products.

Start tightening the supply of RTX 40 series in preparation for the upcoming RTX 50 series.

Industry sources say that Nvidia’s products are showing signs of cutting production capacity as early as the first quarter of this year. The relevant information attached to this site is as follows:

In the first quarter of 2024, NVIDIA RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti began to experience supply shortages

In April, RTX 4060, 3050 and GTX 1650 entry-level graphics cards began to increase in price

Now RTX 4070, 4080, 4090 mid-to-high-end graphics cards are exposed to price increases

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