[pandemicsyn]

is that the case? They sold a bunch early on but theres been lots of press about the lousy 40 series sales volume this year and their struggle to get people buy 4080/70's.

In Feb they artifically constrained 4090 volume to try and push 4080s no one wanted. The 4070 was dead on arrival and had production cut by April.

They've near stopped production now - theoretically because the AI stuff is so lucrative, but if they were really "shipping a ton of units" of the 40 series and didn't have excess inventory i doubt they'd have done that.

- https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-4070-production-repo... - https://www.dexerto.com/tech/nvidia-rtx-40-series-production...

[Miraste]

I blame it on Nvidia's product segmentation falling apart. Only a few years ago, the 1060, 1070, 1080, and Titan Xp had price differences that matched their performance differences. In their current lineup, buying anything that isn't a 4090 is getting ripped off. The 4060 and 4070 are basically e-waste. The 4090 had a 100% performance improvement in a lot of tasks over its predecessor, and the 4060 managed 10%. Sometimes. I don't know why they bothered making them--it's no wonder they cut production.

[Ekaros]

Have to fill that line-up so they have something to sell to OEMs and retail customers have something to pick up.