In Other News: Rumor Has It NVIDIA Wants to Bring The GTX 1080 Ti Back Into Production
These days you stand a better chance at stumbling upon a raw uncut diamond than find the latest graphics cards in stores or at your favorite vendor's website. Seriously, even your latter-generation graphics card are in short supply. PC builder's all know too well that the graphics card is the pinnacle component needed to play visually stunning video games. The importance of having such hardware is real. So what is the solution to the short supply of GPUs? Well, according to circulated rumors, NVIDIA is bringing the previous generation GPUs back into production, which allegedly will include the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti once was a flagship graphics card based on Nvidia's Pascal GPU architecture. And even in the present day, it's still a popular graphics card.
Here's where it gets interesting. In the Quasar Zone forum, someone submitted a damaged EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 graphics card to the company for repair and warranty or a complete replacement. Well, seemingly, the person received a brand new card, as there is a 2021 production date next to the serial number.
Image Source: Quasar Zone
As claimed by others from the Quasar Zone forum, they recently received GeForce GTX 1080 Ti from EVGA from the FTW product line. Keep in mind; this card is at least four years old, launched to market in March 2017. My take on this whole rumor, NVIDIA is quietly ordering and sending older Gen GPUs to AIB partners as an optional alternative, or while consumers patiently wait for an increased supply of newer generation graphics cards.
To add more speculation that Nvidia is reproducing last generation graphics cards, in China, the company has been flooding the market with a mass supply of GeForce GTX 1650 cards based on the latest Turing technology.
We'll keep you posted on future developments.
Info Bits and Bytes: Noted: Quasar Zone is a popular technology website based out in Korea.
