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> These card makers now have to sit on inventory and reprint boxes and repackage everything?

If it is a simple rename, they can just prefix a new sticky label on top of the "4080 12gb" with "4070" for an example.



I can already see the PR nightmare from the YouTubers getting stuck into that news story with them literally peeling the stickers off


More than that is the injection molded shrouds and backplates on many of the cards in question, not to mention reboxing and recalling existing/shipped inventory.


Most of them just say "GeForce" or "NVIDIA", most brands didn't mold numbers into the shrouds/backplates (because until the launch announcement, they have no idea what the SKU placement for any particular chip will be in the first place).

It's a mess but no need to make it out to be worse than it is, GN already confirmed that NVIDIA is compensating partners etc.




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