A funny thing that nvidia was rumored to have done at the end of last year involved them shutting down production of cards. It being the holiday season, people may have settled and bought a card at a higher price, and them stopping production would make the item scarcer. Thats one way to look at it, but I also wondered if nvidia stopped production because they knew that their sales and revenues and profits would all take a hit in q4 2022 and didn’t want the decline to look uncontrollably drastic to investors in the earnings report that would come out in early 2023…
That ended up being completely fake. NVIDIA revenue and volumes have actually been on the incline ever since 2020, there was no reduction in production, and this shows up both in their financials and in actual measurements like the Jon Peddie Research GPU market reports (which are the gold standard for this) and Steam Hardware Survey (more granular but perhaps less accurate numbers). They are actually pumping volume even more this quarter on top of not having reduced them as some previously predicted.
> Q4’21 sees a nominal rise in GPU and PC shipments quarter-to-quarter
NVIDIA is like Apple, there's a certain clique that really really hates them and is willing to make shit up and see what sticks, and there's a huge number of people willing to automatically believe the worst, because "green man bad". It's utterly irrational and goes far beyond the technical merits, people have a viscerally negative emotional reaction to these companies and it's mostly not fact-based, it's just the result of two decades worth of fanboyism and grudges.
(I expect this reply will be followed by a bunch of people trying to list off everything bad they think NVIDIA has ever done, a lot of which will have been "massaged" by that same clique. Like bumpgate... but AMD had tons of GPU failures due to bad solder bumping in the 2012 timeframe too, that's why "baking your GPU" was a thing for everyone. Etc etc. NVIDIA is the hillary clinton of companies... they're a broadly competent competitor who does a decent job, but a decade worth of propaganda has convinced everyone that gosh, there must be something there, because I keep hearing about them!)
Yep, why I pointed this out to be a rumor. The linux gaming community makes nvidia cards out to being total bricks on linux, and so far I haven't had any issues I could tie to exclusively using an nvidia card (it actually runs some older games better than the AMD I had before it).
