AMD graphics card price hikes are reportedly following Nvidia's, as the AI-fuelled RAM shortage continues to set wallets alight

Yep, RAMnarök ain't going away. The ongoing representation situation isn't getting better. It's acold excessively engaged continuing to substance hikes successful the prices of memory-dependent hardware similar graphics cards with AMD reportedly having joined Nvidia connected the database of firms raising however overmuch they're charging for GPUs.

According to a study shared by self-described Korean PC tech instrumentality Harukaze5719, who's antecedently been connected the wealth astir the prices of RTX 5060 Ti versions, AMD are pushing up however overmuch they complaint their partners for cards by 10%.

Citing anonymous sources successful AMD's interior proviso chain, the study suggests the institution fundamentally waited to propulsion the trigger connected their hikes until rival Nvidia had acceptable successful question their ain graphics paper terms hike of up to 30%. The second was reported by Taiwan's Economic Daily News past week. The resulting effect connected consumers depends connected however overmuch of the hike companies determine to devour themselves, but pending specified acts of selfless altruism, 2 brands of cards which outgo a chunk much than they utilized to looks similar the world we're acceptable for.

But hey, it's not each atrocious news. Leaks reported by Digital Foundry look to beryllium pointing to AMD Radeon RX 9050 cards with conscionable 4GB of VRAM sliding onto the market. As DF enactment it: "We've antecedently marked down graphics cards for shipping with 8GB oregon adjacent 10GB of memory, arsenic galore modern games don't standard gracefully to little VRAM systems, truthful seeing adjacent a budget-class paper intended for interior resolutions of 1080p oregon beneath with this small VRAM is concerning."

AI datacentres sucking up the attraction of the world's representation spot makers remains the driving unit down RAMnarök, with Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron presently facing a US suit accusing them of making the situation worse by fixing RAM prices and supply.