Nvidia Teases Another Titan X: Titan X Collectors Edition

AresKrieger · November 4, 2017

38 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

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My point was simply that everyone recycles products due to it being cheaper, the situation of the company may be different but money is always going to push towards milking a product for all its got.

(My question was more or less rhetorical)

MoonSpot · November 4, 2017

10 hours ago, Prysin said:

i dunno how they make better margins on the reference design, its info i got from various industry insiders/financial analysts.

9 hours ago, leadeater said:

Must charge something per card for using the ref design or something then. I've heard the same thing for Nvidia too that ref/FE cost more, should look up the explanation of why/how because it's probably the same for AMD.

I'd suspect there are some people through the pipeline whom are confusing margin & profit. The terms aren't generally used interchangeably by people involved in finance, but I fairly regularly see them intermingled by others. I suspect AMD is making more profit by selling the reference board /w GPU to AIBs, simply because there's more overall items being sold. At the same time I'm doubtful the margins are better for AMD there; honestly I'd be willing to bet the margins are worse if not the same.

It's like getting a combo at a fastfood place. They sell more crap for more profit, but incentivize the higher value transactions by taking a hit to profit margin(s).

If not then...I'd start thinking that my supplier is gouging me(if I we're an AIB), and that gets ugly fast.