NVIDIA has started restricting the shipment of 8GB graphics cards: players are not buying them, and market share is beginning to decline.

As early as when NVIDIA released the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, players had already expressed that the 8GB version of the graphics card was not popular, and some even said that NVIDIA should not have released the 8GB version of the graphics card. However, NVIDIA eventually released the relevant graphics card into the market, but the final sales were unsatisfactory, with demand far less than NVIDIA's expectations. Currently, there are reports that NVIDIA has decided to limit the shipment of the 8GB GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card in an attempt to minimize losses from unsold inventory.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti has been on the market for quite some time. Through analysis, it was found that people showed little interest in the 8GB model, preferring to pay more for the 16GB model. It can be said that the sales of the 8GB model were very poor. After all, VRAM has always been a major selling point for graphics cards. If the GPU core is the same, a larger VRAM will naturally gain more favor, especially now that AI models are getting bigger, and people are willing to purchase high-capacity graphics cards for local AI model inference.

It is precisely because the 8GB graphics card is not being purchased that NVIDIA has decided to significantly reduce the production capacity of the related graphics cards and limit the supply. There are also reports that NVIDIA does not want manufacturers to reduce the inventory of 8GB graphics cards by lowering prices. In fact, apart from the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card is also similar. The 8GB version is not wanted, and people prefer to buy the 16GB capacity graphics cards.

In addition, hardware statistics on game platforms such as Steam also confirm that the market share of 8GB graphics cards is continuously decreasing, falling by 1.37% compared to last month to 33.66%. It seems that there is no need for manufacturers to release 8GB VRAM models in mid-to-high-end graphics cards, as few people would buy them. It is better to allocate the production capacity to the best-selling models.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7565807935259935286/

Statement: This article represents the views of the author. Welcome to express your opinion by clicking on the 【Up/Down】 button below.