I think it’s just to say that a decisive characteristic of Launch of the RTX 50 series was an overall lack of availability. Not a day goes by without my checking the lists of graphics card for new stocks, to be continuously welcomed with a minimum of available cards and ridiculous prices accordingly. However, according to known X leak @Zed__wangNvidia began to use GDDR7 of SK Hynix for RTX 50-series cards, starting with the RTX 5070.
Nvidia recently started using SK Hynix GDDR7 for the RTX50 graphics card. Started with RTX5070 first.April 8, 2025
Bench The reports according to which the SK Hynix memory modules began to send the AIB partners for production at the end of March. Nvidia currently uses the Samsung GDDR7 modules in new cards, it is therefore not clear if this switch would mean using the two suppliers both for consumption GPUs, or traveling on Wholesale for SK Hynix Memory in the foreseeable future.
If these reports are correct, this would mean that the new stock of graphics cards (from the RTX 5070At least) can be on the way at some point in the very close future.
Ifs, but and Maybes. However, Nvidia already has agreements with the two memory suppliers In place through its wallet, including HBM3E memory with eight samsung eight layers used for low level AI processors sold to the Chinese market and SK HYNIX 12 HBM3E in its all-at-all and all-whole Blackwell ai Products.
If a restraint in the NVIDIA consumption GPU supply chain was due to the production of memory of Samsung, then erase this bottleneck with a SK Hynix solution would be an aid to provide.
Samsung has already admitted fighting to meet Nvidia standards In the field of memory production, although it is more a question of meeting the requirements for flea performance rather than satisfying the overall supply. However, one can affect the other, of course, but it was compared to HBM3E and not to GDDR7 used in game cards.
And then there are prices to throw in the equation. Since the Trump administration seems Change your mind to American prices Currently, it is reasonable to think that a supplier switch could help Nvidia navigate in water in difficulty, although the two manufacturers work mainly outside South Korea for the production of GDDR7.
The supply chains are complicated things, however, and the big price for pricing on which we all seem to turn is even more complex.
The manufacturers of technologies worldwide seek to consider their options at the moment, and the question of who does what and ships it from where it is always present during the production of a product in these troubled times.
Anyway, more GPU supply seems to me to be a good thing. At the very least, an influx of 50-series RTX cards could bring the market back in the right direction, by which I mean, players can buy a new GPU for a reasonable amount of money. Wouldn’t that be good?