All it does is instill my thoughts that we are just paying customers and neither have any care for us. I am also pretty sure I will be going for a 6800XT now and will probs be in January (stock availability of course).
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The same channel which said AIB availability will be high on launch day. Yeah, good luck with that.
I wouldn’t put much stock into what AMD says. For one, they have already lied to us about good launch day stocks. Secondly, NVIDIA also talked about ramping up stocks in October and nothing happened. Thirdly, what do you think they would have told him? That it would take 4 months for availability? Of course they would say that.
It makes sense for AMD to launch new GPU's even if they make more money from CPU's. The consoles also need GPU's, then there is the mobile market and the APU's. So AMD will do R&D anyway. Plus most of the time you can only sell a certain number of CPU's and you don't have a new console launching every year. They have problems now because they need to make a huge number of chips for consoles. But what will they do in 6 months or a year if they don`t play in the GPU market?
Meanwhile Nvidia...
Meanwhile Nvidia...
You need to keep an eye on the owners threads for example there are almost as many 3090 owners as there were 2080 Ti owners which is not bad going for a £1500 card that has only been available for a couple of months.
ATM there are a lot of cards being sold but demand seems to be huge hence the waiting times.
Yes I saw that it is a surprise there are so many peeps willing to spend that level of money for something that is only slightly faster than the GPUs below it. But these are unprecedented times so maybe it’s not that surprising after all.
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Also the 3080 supply issues may have forced the hand of some buyers who were initially on the fence and they've gone for the 3090 instead (as supply seems to be better slightly on those).
The problem with the ones in stock is they are carrying a very heavy price tag compared to the FE ones.
If there were Asus Strix cards in stock at that price it would be more reasonable.
Also I am absolutely disgusted with EVGA who are prioritising North America at the expense of everyone else.
EVGA can put their 3090 Kingpin where the sun don't shine as it is going to be obsolete very shortly when the 7nm Ampere cards arrive.
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Yeah I dont believe the tubers knee-jerk story is that finite. It would just mean an extra 10% of the supply being hoovered up at a time where people have eyes on the chain. Tubers put 2+2 and got 5.
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I agree both manufacturers are as bad as each other. Promised stock and tried to do politician answers about it instead of being straight up. Just have to roll with the punches and take the body blow now or wait patiently for a better price later.
Now this is what a graphics card should look like.
Yea that is stunning... is that a darker theme? 6900XT?
I think it is just the lighting in the pics.
Ok, the grey looks black and the silver looks grey, it makes the chrome fan branding and surround chamfering "pop" as the Americans would say.
They don't look quite like this IRL but if they made it mat black with grey, make them look more like they do in this light they would look better than they currently do.
A "Dark Theme"
I don't have much to add other than Consoles and PC gaming is in structural YOY revenue decline and has been for 20 years. Mobile gaming and cloud is where the explosive growth is and i feel that's the priority for the wafers. wafers for mining is just a temporary side-story.
If people want to know where our CPU/GPU wafers went, they went into datacentre's and mobile devices, not Chinese miners, consoles or Jimmy Chancer scalping for fleabay.
A third player like Intel will only copy the market trends.
Yeah, that does look awesome. Still love how they did the Vega Liquid though. That was was one of my fav looking cards.
Now this is what a graphics card should look like.
3080 supply issues are intentional. They are shifting the 3080 to GA103 so that 3080 Ti gets all the GA102 when it launches in January. Not only does it lower costs for NVIDIA, some frustrated buyers are also migrating to 3090 in the meantime further increasing NVIDIA’s profit margins. IMHO, the high supply of 3090 and low supply of 3080 is a trap by NVIDIA as the 3080 Ti is on the way with the best of both the worlds.
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It's a computer render.
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