List of video card countries of manufacture?

[Throckmorton]

With the state of the economy and concern about trade imbalance, people are starting to think about buying American again, or at least which foreign country our stuff comes from.

Can we compile a list of video card manufacturers and where they build their cards and source their components?

So far through googling and reading various forum posts I've learned:

EVGA - based in USA, components sourced in China and Taiwan, assembled in USA (not conclusive because EVGA doesn't make any statements)

Gigabyte - based in Taiwan, has factories in Taiwan and China

 

[3DVagabond]

Unless the laws have changed recently in The States (I've been away for 4 yrs.) where something is manufactured has to be listed on the package. Go into a store and look at the boxes would be the easiest way to know.

 

[shangshang]

EVGA assembls their stuff in the USA? Hard to believe that anything requiring soldering and intending to sell to mass consumers is still being made in the USA. I take it that "assemble" in this case means putting the accessories in the box????

ASUS = taiwanese
MSI = taiwanese

 

[Sylvanas]

Pretty much every Tier 1 and 2 company manufactures their products in Taiwan or China. I highly doubt EVGA assemble or do anything in USA apart from putting a sticker on a box and shipping it to Newegg. EVGA cards are after all, reference design boards that, like everyone else, come out of TSMC (the GPU) in Taiwan and assembled by Foxconn (probably) in China (PCB, components etc).

 

[santz]

when it comes to buying, nomatter what you or anyone else says, even price is not as important as the quality and reliability of the product.

Although price and country may sway some, In the end, the reputation of the company will carry it forward to the consumers, not the price and certainly not the country its made in!

 

[blastingcap]

The components are made in various locations, the board makers don't necessarily make everything.

E.g., a card might have:

Japanese capacitors
Taiwanese GPU (TSMC)
Korean memory (e.g., Samsung, Hynix)
Chinese PCB, cooling fan, and heatsink (e.g., Foxconn)
Hong Kong offices/address (e.g., PINE/XFX)
USA packaging, offices for customer service, advertising (e.g., EVGA)
USA retailer (e.g., Newegg)

 

[Throckmorton]

The components are made in various locations, the board makers don't necessarily make everything.

E.g., a card might have:

Japanese capacitors
Taiwanese GPU (TSMC)
Korean memory (e.g., Samsung, Hynix)
Chinese PCB, cooling fan, and heatsink (e.g., Foxconn)
Hong Kong offices/address (e.g., PINE/XFX)
USA packaging, offices for customer service, advertising (e.g., EVGA)
USA retailer (e.g., Newegg)

That's exactly the type of info I want to compile. You can't find it just by googling.

Just because parts come from a lot of different places doesn't mean you can't support certain countries by buying certain brands. For example, given the choice between a manufacturer that assembles in Taiwan vs China, of course I'll choose Taiwan, even though some parts inevitably come from China.

And if EVGA really assembles in America, no contest

 

[nyker96]

The components are made in various locations, the board makers don't necessarily make everything.

E.g., a card might have:

Japanese capacitors
Taiwanese GPU (TSMC)
Korean memory (e.g., Samsung, Hynix)
Chinese PCB, cooling fan, and heatsink (e.g., Foxconn)
Hong Kong offices/address (e.g., PINE/XFX)
USA packaging, offices for customer service, advertising (e.g., EVGA)
USA retailer (e.g., Newegg)

don't forget: USA buyers

 

[blastingcap]

don't forget: USA buyers

Actually AMD had a marketing slide in one of those leaked Barts or Cayman slides. I think Barts. Which showed that Asia/Pacific actually buys the most cards... though perhaps not by revenue but just by volume.