This supply chain Sankey diagram for an Nvidia AI megachip is a handy guide to understanding just how easy it is to ruin the prices of graphics cards

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Graphics cards are one of the most powerful components in your gaming PC, and probably the most expensive piece, too. What you might not realise is just how many critical threads there are behind making them, but if you're keen to know more, then one company has produced a visual guide to help you grasp the intricacies of it all.

Business data firm Veridion shared its creation via a post on Reddit, and while it shows the supply chains for making Nvidia's H200 AI megachip, many of these sources are still relevant for the manufacturing of common or garden graphics cards.

The supply chain of an Nvidia H200 chip from r/nvidia

For example, all GeForce RTX 50-series cards sport a GPU that's been fabricated and packaged by TSMC, and the majority of them have GDDR7 VRAM made by Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron (the exception being the Read Entire Article