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

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So from what I've gathered evga has sent out some 3080s this week and will next week.

I think these are ftw and xc3 from what Jacob has said, though nothing is clear.

I've also seen that scan have updated some of their orders with a post that says they're expecting evga stock to arrive from 25th till the 29th and then the 30th till the second.

Wish there was clearer info out.
 
Shiari said:
All the listings say Pre-Order, and if you click on that you get information that says for Pre-Order payment will be taken immediately, and you'll be put on to the queue. No eta, they don't have it, the customer won't have it, it's their responsibility to pre-order based on that or not.
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Did you actually read what I wrote? There is an eta, and also a number of people who have bought before you. I was given this info, so could make a decision based on that.

Unlike the majority of people on here having to figure out queue positions themselves.
 
Flake87 said:
From all I have learned over the past few days about the supply issues with the RTX30 series, I am left coming to only one conclusion, and that is the fault lies squarely with nVidia / Samsung and the GPU wafer fab.

Foxconn who assemble the boards are capable of assembling massively complex boards like the iPhone - far more populated than GPU, and they can do that in the quantities meased by the millions. I'm not seeing any mention of component shortages such as GDDR6x as happened with the previous generation.

The ampere platform is not specific to GPUs either, nVidia is using this in many other chips, and there is no suggestion of shortages of those, granted it's not the entire same chip, but it is the same technology and if Samsung can turn these out in reasonable volumes there's no good reason they can't be capable of turning out reasonable volumes.

Which leave only one realistic conclusion, that nVidia are holding back on GPUs because of the perceived threat from AMD big Navi, and they don't want to get ambushed like they were in the middle of the RTX20 run by AMD pulling the rug from under them on price and forcing them to release a 'super' version of the card. Big Navi launches 28th October, and very revcent rumours suggest it will compete on Graphics power with the RTX3080, and that nVidia are going to up the memory to 16GB and 20GB just to stay in the game.

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-big-navi-might-still-be-faster-than-the-rtx-3080

https://www.techradar.com/news/nvid...ent-attack-on-amds-big-navi-and-midrange-gpus

It would appear to me, that this is a deliberate corporate action on behalf of nVidia who are running scared of what AMD are going to bring to the table, the GPU power it will have, the memory and the Wattage it will draw.

Who here would be happy to find that the card they bought, is now the same price with double the GDDR ?
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Not gonna happen. With the price of GDDR6X, Nvidia would have to increase the price to have any chance of making a profit.

I admit, I am slightly concerned that they might pull out superior cards at a moment's notice, to complete with AMD, but I have my doubts. Considering how insanely popular the 3080 is (and how much they've screwed up the launch), they'd be shooting themselves on the foot if they were to suddenly present a "better" card from out of nowhere
 
500W 3080 vs a 500W 2080ti.

Very little in it game per game except when you turn DLSS on and then the 3080 pulls ahead by 10-20%. Just goes to show most of the performance boost of the 3080 comes from the extra power they have given the card.

 
Four_G said:
Not gonna happen. With the price of GDDR6X, Nvidia would have to increase the price to have any chance of making a profit.

I admit, I am slightly concerned that they might pull out superior cards at a moment's notice, to complete with AMD, but I have my doubts. Considering how insanely popular the 3080 is (and how much they've screwed up the launch), they'd be shooting themselves on the foot if they were to suddenly present a "better" card from out of nowhere
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The architecture seems to be at it's limits as well, as seen by how little performance uplift there is comparing the 3080 to the 3090.

All they can do is increase the vram on the 3080.
 
Greebo said:
500W 3080 vs a 500W 2080ti.

Very little in it game per game except when you turn DLSS on and then the 3080 pulls ahead by 10-20%. Just goes to show most of the performance boost of the 3080 comes from the extra power they have given the card.

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You keeping your 2080Ti and shunt modding it then? :p
 
kirsty123 said:
Did you actually read what I wrote? There is an eta, and also a number of people who have bought before you. I was given this info, so could make a decision based on that.

Unlike the majority of people on here having to figure out queue positions themselves.
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I did read what you said. I suppose you are expecting these are dates that will actually be met? That's where my disagreement lies: I don't think they have the ability right now to give you a reasonable date as suppliers just don't have much information on what's coming when either; imo it's a made up date.

(f that competitor has barely any orders to start with though then yeah they could probably give you a reasonable date.)
 
The Old School Gamer said:
2x RTX 2080Ti

I knew what you were going to do before you did. :D

At least you going to put it under water, that's something I guess.
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Yeah I reckon with the Asus board and 480W and under water I will be getting close to that 50% faster than the 2080ti which was my tipping point and I really need the hdmi 2.1 so it was always going to be one of them - 3080 or 3090
 
opethdisciple said:
The architecture seems to be at it's limits as well, as seen by how little performance uplift there is comparing the 3080 to the 3090.

All they can do is increase the vram on the 3080.
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But looking at the difference between the 24GB 3090 and the 10GB 3080, why would they need to increase the vram? It's not doing much for the 3090 performance.
 
By any chance has anybody else had a scam call from supposedly DHL? I buy infrequently online, this call was suspiciously about a package to collect but I just hung up out of better instincts. Cheeky bugger almost had me in my desperation!
 
opethdisciple said:
The architecture seems to be at it's limits as well, as seen by how little performance uplift there is comparing the 3080 to the 3090.

All they can do is increase the vram on the 3080.
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Exactly, they wouldn't really be able to make any more gains, and just slapping in more vram would be pretty redundant. I guess it would stop the "10GB is not enough vram" crowd from complaining... :rolleyes:

Shteve said:
But looking at the difference between the 24GB 3090 and the 10GB 3080, why would they need to increase the vram? It's not doing much for the 3090 performance.
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Because the 3090 is catered towards content creators, and the applications they use would require a massive amount of vram. Video rendering takes up a good chunk of it, and in some tests the 3080 actually crashed due to not having enough vram available to render a scene
 
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