Nvidia's allegedly cutting desktop GPU supply in favor of gaming laptop chips
Nvidia is reportedly diverting some desktop GPU manufacturing to keep the notebook market fed in China. That is according to a new report (via HardwareTimes) which claims gaming laptop manufacturers have been increasing their demands for the green team's mobile graphics chips.
The desktop DIY market for graphics cards is supposedly in a fairly robust state, and so the report suggests Nvidia isn't increasing production capacity and is simply pushing its Ada Lovelace GPUs over to the notebook makers instead of desktop manufacturing.
The expectation is that this would be around the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 level of GPU, though given the machine translation it's not clear whether that refers specifically to desktop or mobile as they use different GPUs. The RTX 4070 in laptop land uses the same chip as the desktop RTX 4060 Ti, though the RTX 4060 is specced identically whichever platform you're running it on.
Whatever, it still means there will inevitably be a corresponding drop in the supply of the relevant desktop GPUs. The concern is that could mean supply of desktop graphics cards will start to become constrained and we end up in a situation where GeForce GPUs start to become scarce in retail later in the year
The cynic would say that this could be a possible move by Nvidia to maintain the high prices of its current range of graphics cards. The general consensus about the RTX 40-series is that they're good cards, just priced well above the odds. And with ample supply of these cards, and limited demand owing to the comparative pricing increase over the previous generation, there have been some retailers offering deals on select cards in order to increase sales.
If there is restricted supply, however, and fewer options to buy
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