Graphics cards have a limited lifespan, not only if we talk about how long they last for a user, but also in terms of the company that develops them, since when a certain time passes they stop manufacturing them to give life to a new generation. that offers superior performance. This is what is currently happening with the RTX 40since with the release of the 50 NVIDIA has stopped production of the previous generation, and this could cause stock problems that, in general terms, would end up translating into a rise of price for the brand’s Ada Lovelace GPUs.
A few days ago we learned that NVIDIA has ended the production of the company’s graphics cards. series 4000and the production lines that manufacture the AD102, AD103, AD104 and AD106 chips belonging to this range will no longer continue manufacturing them to begin the massive development of the new series 5000. This is something that can be really good for many people, those who are eagerly waiting to see the new features of the RTX 50 that are just around the corner, but at the same time it is a negative point for those who want to buy a graphics card from the series 4000 thinking that its price will drop when the new ones come out, since the opposite could happen.
The RTX 40 could have stock problems due to the stoppage in production
It’s been two years since the RTX 40graphics cards that came with a large number of new features such as the third version of DLSS and that have managed to dominate the market thanks to their performance, but for NVIDIA They have already reached the end of their useful life. This implies that we will not see how new graphics of this range are manufactured to give priority to the new ones. RTX 50something that we already knew, but that could result in a problem since it would imply a supply problem that would lead to an increase in the price of these models.
One of the main affected by these changes would be the RTX 4070 Ti SUPERsince it is one of the models that has manufactured the fewest units, so it is expected that the stock of this version will end up running out relatively soon, since it could sell all the units in stock during the last two weeks left of November . This is something that would also end up happening with the RTX 4080 SUPERsince like the previous one, it has had a really low production compared to the most basic versions.
On the other hand we have the RTX 4070 both normal and SUPERwhich have had a much larger production and would take a little longer to completely sell the existing stock, since it is expected to end in January since there is a supply greater than the demand for these models. In general, all this could end up affecting the general price of these products, something that, as we well know, would lead to an increase in the prices of all the models belonging to this range, something that we have seen on several occasions due to the lack of stock that NVIDIA graphics have suffered on several occasions.
