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

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Just a thought, regardless of what is causing the crashes, the likely outcome is reduced clock speeds most seem to agree.

So all the reviews and benchmarks from launch when we all ordered are on hand picked cards that we cant purchase.

All of a sudden that 25% lead over the 2080ti isnt 25% anymore? (because the fix will lower boost clocks for everyone).

So the 3080 is at least £100 over MSRP now, (£250 in my cards case), and the FPS lead over prior gen is less than reviewed and advertised?

How is the 3080 good value at this point vs waiting for AMD?


And yes OC stockpiling customers money in the OC investment account is getting a bit fecal matter!
 
Wow, you guys have been tapping away this afternoon and evening!
Will make some interesting bed time reading tonight...I'll be here 'til sunrise :eek:l
 
Tiny_D said:
So all the reviews and benchmarks from launch when we all ordered are on hand picked cards that we cant purchase.
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Reviews are done against the earliest production cards yes, but in most cases these will be the same cards as those that hit the shelves. They are however also using early drivers, probably the biggest cause of any difference in performance.

Ultimately, maybe that 25% lead that you suggest is actually 24% or 23% if boost clocks are reduced in the drivers or firmware. Or you could end up getting a better card that happens to have good silicon, that does 26%. Or maybe optimisation future drivers will manage to bring it to 27%.

My point is: the differences are really going to be very small, not big enough to worry about. It hasn't suddenly lost £100 in value.
 
Shiari said:
Reviews are done against the earliest production cards yes, but in most cases these will be the same cards as those that hit the shelves. They are however also using early drivers, probably the biggest cause of any difference in performance.

Ultimately, maybe that 25% lead that you suggest is actually 24% or 23% if boost clocks are reduced in the drivers or firmware. Or you could end up getting a better card that happens to have good silicon, that does 26%. Or maybe optimisation future drivers will manage to bring it to 27%.

My point is: the differences are really going to be very small, not big enough to worry about. It hasn't suddenly lost £100 in value.
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I realise what your saying, Im wondering though that the performance drop and the huge hike in price combined really makes the 3080 the value prospect as reviewed and advertised?


At this point personally I may just cancel and wait for AMD or the 3080 super that will be out 'if' AMD match or best the 3080, Im 15th in line for a £900 card but thats still 2 weeks off release, what's another 4 weeks if AMD drop something that can actually deliver on the promises, certainly is going to be cheaper, worst case? my RTX2070 crunches on until 3080s/Ti drops next year.
Th 3080 really is loosing it's shine quickly!
 
Well, I paid MSRP for the preorder, I wouldn't pay £900 for it nope, particularly not for a small upgrade, but for me a 3080 would be over twice the performance and i'm at 4K.

"Drop" in performance is really overstating it though, remains to be seen if lowering the boost clock eliminates the problem, and remains to be seen if that is even noticeable in benchmarks. But yeah, if you don't think it's worth it and you don't think you'll be happy with it, cancel your order.
 
Sod it preordered a Asus tuf 3080 also ordered a new 10 core avengers and strix e to busy with work to be worried about waiting and the water block is not out till mid October so I’m thinking mid November new shiny rebuild
 
TheBB88 said:
https://www.pcgamer.com/evga-confir..._source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw
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Nothing new, the EVGA announcement was picked up here yesterday. However, all this POSCAP bad stuff misses out two important factors. 1 They're not POSCAPS they're SPCAPs 2 not all SPCAPs are created equal. There are better and worse models and according to some the SPCAPs EVGA were trying to use were cheapo nasties. Each of the brands seem to be using different rated capacitors with Palit for example using 220s and Giga using 470s. Not sure what difference this actually makes, because personally I still haven't seen any actual facts backing this theory up. I'm still convinced the problem is software related with an over aggressive boost to blame.
 
SniperSmithy said:
Nothing new, the EVGA announcement was picked up here yesterday. However, all this POSCAP bad stuff misses out two important factors. 1 They're not POSCAPS they're SPCAPs 2 not all SPCAPs are created equal. There are better and worse models and according to some the SPCAPs EVGA were trying to use were cheapo nasties. Each of the brands seem to be using different rated capacitors with Palit for example using 220s and Giga using 470s. Not sure what difference this actually makes, because personally I still haven't seen any actual facts backing this theory up. I'm still convinced the problem is software related with an over aggressive boost to blame.
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am im sorry for the *repost* if thats the case.... but still looks like @Digital X ddint see it until just now.. :) hope your having a good day :)
 
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