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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

Lol no wonder there was no stock.

"We began shipping GPUs to our partners in August, and have been increasing the supply weekly."

August the 31st? :D
 
It's looking like I can be intensely relaxed. All the benchmarks are really telling me is how good my 2080 Ti is. I'm not fussed about RTX (granted it's nice), but I can wait until the stock situation improves and even then probably not bother until Hopper. That'll be 4 years for my 2080 Ti and thus about £20 a month.

Of course, if AMD release a cracker, GPU prices will come down and make one or the other a better value proposition.
 
Zeed said:
WE SO SORRI from Nvidia :D
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/
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You can tell something is spooking Nvidia to launch like this.

RDNA2 might be a total stormer. or crap... but nvidia seems to think its a problem so have pushed things that bit further.
 
Zeed said:
WE SO SORRI from Nvidia :D
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/
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There is so much BS in that apology. The fact is they hyped the Ampere series to hell and back, ensured people were frothing at the mouths, and then did not build up enough inventory for demand to be even remotely close to satisfied. Not having a pre-order and queing system is also just borderline unforgivable. :rolleyes:

What also stinks is that Jenses in his launch video said "To all my Pascal friends, it's now safe to upgrade"... which means he KNEW there would be a ton of Pascal AND Turing owners looking to grab a new card so the demand HAD to be more than Turing. Nvidia are going to get some reputational damage from this launch, that's for sure.

I also really think that waiting is the smart thing to do. Wait to see what AMD have, wait to see if Nvidia release any updated cards... don't fall for this FOMO and then have buyers remorse in a couple of months if AMD pull it out of the bag and then Nvidia release updated cards with more VRAM or higher specs. If this happened I would not like to be a 3080 launch owner. :o

Hardware Unboxed also kee repeating that they are seeing VRAM pushed to its limits at 4k and they think it will be a bottleneck in 1-2 years. They said spending an extra 15% for double the VRAM may be smart in the long-run, which to me seemed quite clear anyway.

Interesting times, I'm looking forward to seeing how the next couple of months pan out! :D
 
I think that these months people have more time to stay at home and connect their systems with their 4K TVs which obviously is the most popular TV type today.
You get the demand because the old cards provide terrible performance, otherwise why would people tend to spend so much money in a time of otherwise said crisis.

The smart thing today is to keep your money for darker days.
 
imginy said:
What an apology, it starts off by saying best GPU launch ever.

Everyone I spoke to said it was a **** show.
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They did say both best and worst - from their perspective the much higher demand is good to see. I'm somewhat surprised by the level of traffic involved - completely unrelated sites were seeing what they thought was a DDOS attack due to it.
 
Rroff said:
They did say both best and worst - from their perspective the much higher demand is good to see. I'm somewhat surprised by the level of traffic involved - completely unrelated sites were seeing what they thought was a DDOS attack due to it.
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It does not say worst. It would be nice if they actually admitted it was worst launch ever but they didn't. They are claiming best launch ever.

To me even though I managed to get one but it was the worst launch I ever seen.
 
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