Recent #graphics cards news in the semiconductor industry
➀ AMD's David McAfee acknowledges the unprecedented demand for Radeon RX 9070 series;
➁ AMD is working to restock partners and ensure availability at expected market prices;
➂ McAfee discusses the complexities of the graphics business and AMD's efforts to increase supply of Navi 48.
➀ AMD's desktop GPU shipments increased to 1.43 million units in Q4 2024, its strongest result for the year.
➁ The overall GPU market saw a slight increase in shipments in Q4 2024, but a decline compared to the same quarter in 2023.
➂ Despite a modest Q4, the year 2024 was good for the discrete desktop GPU market, with Nvidia shipping 30.2 million units and AMD shipping 4.42 million units.
➀ A Reddit user has reported a GeForce RTX 5080 FE with fewer ROPs than expected;
➁ This issue is similar to the one previously reported on Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 Solid and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti;
➂ NVIDIA confirms a 'production anomaly' affecting a small number of cards, promising to replace affected units.
➀ Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards may have only 104 ROPs instead of the advertised 112;
➁ The issue is similar to the one found in the RTX 5090 and RTX 5070 Ti;
➂ Nvidia has confirmed a 0.5% defect rate in the affected GPUs.
➀ A Redditor reports a $2,799 Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 GPU caught on fire due to a capacitor fault.
➁ The incident involved a system shutdown, followed by a restart that resulted in the GPU catching fire and smoke emitting.
➂ The damage is evident on both the graphics card and the motherboard, with burn marks near the capacitor.
➀ Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5080 FE has been reported to have instability issues;
➁ The problem may be related to the multi-PCB design of the card;
➂ PCIe 5.0 signal integrity is suspected to be the cause of the issue.