I don't think AIBs like EVGA are allowed to make server cards and the demand for those is not unlimited.

It's not like they are not allowed, it's that no one will sell them actual chips to make them.

There are server cards that use GA102, GA104, etc. which EVGA has a glut of.

It's not the same variant of a chip, though.

A10 uses GA102-890-A1 and there is no retail card on that variant. Variant is very important because Nvidia drivers are...well...not consumer friendly?

For example, Nvidia vGPU only works on certain cards if you ignore ways that break EULA. I don't remember the exact details, but there was also a software lock that prevented using some optimized paths on the consumer's GA102, but used the optimized path for GA102-890-A1.

If Nvidia is great at anything, that would be hostile market segmentation by their drivers.

I gave up playing around with AI partly because the drivers are proprietary and not too good.

Only in the past year or two has Nouveau developed well enough that some games are playable. But only on cards not enforcing signed firmware.

How much more anti-consumer can you get after requiring signed firmware? That is when I started my boycott.

Nvidia has control to fix that though.