By shattered.io
Publication Date: 2026-10-11 16:23:00
AMD has told its graphics card board partners that the price of GDDR6 memory went up effective October 1, 2026, according to reports from Wccftech, TechPowerUp and XenoSpectrum. Nvidia, by contrast, has not sent a comparable notice to its own partners covering GDDR7, the memory standard behind its GeForce RTX 50-series cards, as of October 10-11. Neither company has confirmed the move publicly, and the exact size of the AMD increase has not been disclosed. But the asymmetry between the two GPU makers is already rippling through a supply chain that board partners say gives them little choice but to pass costs along.
The GDDR6 price increase lands at an awkward moment for AMD’s Radeon lineup, much of which still runs on GDDR6 rather than the newer GDDR7 standard Nvidia adopted for its RTX 50-series. It also arrives against a backdrop of a…
