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ARCHIVE - *** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 SERIES STOCK SITUATION *** - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION

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Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
 
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Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
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MSFS2020 for the most part.
 
becrazed said:
Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
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8K minesweeper
 
becrazed said:
Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
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I don't think you're seeing the situation correctly. My view is that nVidia put a lot of people off upgrading last time with the RTX20 series because of poor performance gains and sky high prices, and a rushed ray tracing technology which wasn't well realised. What you are seeing now is the pent up demand from customers who decided to skip a generation - and there was a lot of them. You can read on these forums people now wanting to upgrade from 9 series let alone 10 series, who refused to pay the rapacious prices. Now performance has massively increased and prices are reasonable people are more than willing to part with their cash - en masse.
 
becrazed said:
Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
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4k gears of war 4 & 5, watch dogs legion, cyberpunk 2077. So hopefully I'll have mine before watch dogs is out.
 
becrazed said:
Can I ask a seemingly obviously question, what games are you all planning on playing with the new cards. I've the amount of people selling 2070 supers and 2080tis suggests it can't be about performance increases from much older cards. I would hazard a guess that the majority of people won't be looking to go 4k, feels like what you have now will still be more than adequate for what you need for the next 3 months, the crazed panic buying here has caused this issue and promotes bounce bot scalpers and in turn everyone complains about supply shortages at launch. Bananas.
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I'm definitely looking at 4k I've had a monitor for over 4yrs. Pascal whilst a good generation of GPUs never had enough of a perf uplift for me and I simply refused to buy into Turing due to its shocking price/perf ratio. I've basically hit a 4k wall now games that I enjoy are struggling, I gave up on Metro Exodus and daren't go anywhere near RDR2.
 
I'm planning on getting an Ultrawide monitor (hopefully Samsung G9) so will probably need to upgrade my 1080 to get the most out of it. Didn't order on launch day though, so probably be waiting a while now :D
 
[Please note that I'm not the dev, that would be @DEADMONSTOR]

As far as I know, this takes your order number and subtracts the earliest known GPU order number to get your position in the total queue (assuming that no one sat through the multiple refreshes to buy, say, a new keyboard).
Then, it sees what percentage of the-card-you-bought are currently in the spreadsheet (totalReports/183) to get a percentage. It then returns that percentage of your total queue position, which gives you some idea of how many in the queue ahead of you bought your card.

This makes some assumptions, like "each type of card was bought at the same rate through the day", but is the best we've got.

So, say your order number was 5861000 and we thought the earliest number was 5860000, and you bought a Zotac which has 12% of the data so far:
Queue position = 5861000 - 5860000 = 1000
Zotacs purchased = 12%
Your Zotac queue position = .12 * 1000 = ~120
 
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Jeeva said:
[Please note that I'm not the dev, that would be @DEADMONSTOR]

As far as I know, this takes your order number and subtracts the earliest known GPU order number to get your position in the total queue (assuming that no one sat through the multiple refreshes to buy, say, a new keyboard).
Then, it sees what percentage of the-card-you-bought are currently in the spreadsheet (totalReports/183) to get a percentage. It divides (OK, multiplies?) your queue position number by that percentage, which gives you some idea of how many positions in the queue are ahead of you that bought your card.

This makes some assumptions, like "each type of card was bought at the same rate through the day", but is the best we've got.

So, say your order number was 5861000 and we thought the earliest number was 5860000, and you bought a Zotac which has 12% of the data so far:
Queue position = 1000
Zotacs purchased = 12%
Your Zotac queue position = ~120
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I'm pretty sure you're correct here
 
Interesting, if troubling reads:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/7491....it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=tweaktown

"But there is one story I wanted to sit down and make sure I wrote, and that was from an industry source who told me that post-launch there will be "no stock will be available till the end of the year". The first wave of cards is said to be small, very, very small -- possibly the smallest launch in many years."

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/y...getting-an-nvidia-rtx-3080-or-3090-until-2021

"Citing industry sources, the report claims that stock will be “extremely low” for the next couple of months, with stock levels to be in tight supply until the end of the year."

Since then however nVidia has said that yields are good and they have moved into mass production raising hopes somewhat.
 
Stollaz said:
Given that I ordered my TUF late on Thursday I'm gonna assume that I'm at around 1,500 in the queue (since I can't access the calculator and I never got an email confirmation anyway)... ouch. Looks like I'll use this order as a guarantee I'll get one some time in early 2021 while I look for another option, ready to cancel this pre-order. Unless the batch sizes are huge and frequent, we're all gonna be waiting a while. I knew I should have just bought a partner card early instead of waiting around for founders information for ages until the sites all crashed :))))))
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The cards were all held back from sale until 2pm, AIB and FE alike. And every site that let you actually give them money pretty much blew up there and then.
 
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