--- title: GDDR7 pricing is holding the 50-Super series hostage,... description: Nvidia's RTX 50 Super series GPUs are reportedly ready at board partners but stuck in a launch hold, with GDDR7 memory pricing being the likely culprit. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gddr7-pricing-is-holding-the-50-super-series-hostage-and-it-just-cost-me-my-next-upgrade-id9laf8sy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GDDR7 pricing is holding the 50-Super series hostage, and it just cost me my next upgrade | daily.dev og:description: Nvidia's RTX 50 Super series GPUs are reportedly ready at board partners but stuck in a launch hold, with GDDR7 memory pricing being the likely culprit. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gddr7-pricing-is-holding-the-50-super-series-hostage-and-it-just-cost-me-my-next-upgrade-id9laf8sy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iD9LAF8SY.png og:image:alt: GDDR7 pricing is holding the 50-Super series hostage, and it just cost me my next upgrade og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GDDR7 pricing is holding the 50-Super series hostage, and it just cost me my next upgrade **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nvidia's RTX 50 Super series GPUs are reportedly ready at board partners but stuck in a launch hold, with GDDR7 memory pricing being the likely culprit. The 3GB GDDR7 modules needed for the refresh carry a threefold markup, and since Nvidia no longer supplies VRAM chips directly to AIBs, board partners must source them independently at inflated costs. This threatens to make the 50 Super lineup either prohibitively expensive or severely supply-constrained at launch. The author, a 4070 Ti Super owner who values the Ti Super tier for its VRAM headroom and versatility, laments that the DRAM crisis may effectively kill the upper mid-range GPU segment before it even arrives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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