30xx Series Founders Edition

azazl187 · 8 Feb 2022 at 13:25

SaBBz said:
Hasn’t the 3090 been sat for hours at times as they’re less in demand?

More recently yes

SaBBz · 8 Feb 2022 at 13:52

azazl187 said:
More recently yes

Even at times last year they were around for about an hour or so.

xPETEZx · 8 Feb 2022 at 14:11

SaBBz said:
Even at times last year they were around for about an hour or so.

Even longer than that...
I remember a drop back in Feb 21 where it lasted nearly a whole day... I kept coming back to it tempted to buy.

Minstadave · 8 Feb 2022 at 14:46

SaBBz said:
Even at times last year they were around for about an hour or so.

One time it was there overnight.

g67575 · 9 Feb 2022 at 15:45

I wonder if they will just not bother with dropping cards like the RTX 3080 FE in the UK, from now on? And just sell them all in Europe at a slightly higher price?

varkanoid · 9 Feb 2022 at 16:03

g67575 said:
I wonder if they will just not bother with dropping cards like the RTX 3080 FE in the UK, from now on? And just sell them all in Europe at a slightly higher price?

I cant see them making many more there eyes will be on 4xxx series. What was it 2xxx Aug 2018, 3xxx Aug 2020 so 4xxx Aug 2022 onwards.

petertr2000 · 9 Feb 2022 at 17:57

varkanoid said:
I cant see them making many more there eyes will be on 4xxx series. What was it 2xxx Aug 2018, 3xxx Aug 2020 so 4xxx Aug 2022 onwards.

Are they using the same production nodes for the 4xxx? Otherwise I would expect them to keep making the 3xxx cards due to the demand. That's why they went back to making more 2xxx series cards a few months ago - because there was capacity on that node.

varkanoid · 9 Feb 2022 at 18:05

petertr2000 said:
Are they using the same production nodes for the 4xxx? Otherwise I would expect them to keep making the 3xxx cards due to the demand. That's why they went back to making more 2xxx series cards a few months ago - because there was capacity on that node.

Who knows, they might be sacrificing capacity on one node so they can use the space for other nodes.

doodah · 9 Feb 2022 at 20:22

Ooof the 3070FE unboxing is rather nice.

BriT · 9 Feb 2022 at 23:05

Maybe 4 series will have a vram boost?

g67575 · 9 Feb 2022 at 23:32

Well that would be nice for the RTX 4070 and below. Not a massive difference for other cards though, especially above around 12GB.

petertr2000 · 10 Feb 2022 at 08:57

varkanoid said:
Who knows, they might be sacrificing capacity on one node so they can use the space for other nodes.

Oh yeah, they'll be looking to upgrade nodes, but I imagine they'll do this in a very controlled way to try to fit the demand profiles. They have customers for the capacity on the older nodes - example being nvidia decising to start making more 2xxx series GPUs - would Nvidia rather keep making these, or wait 12-18months while that capacity is offline to upgrade it? Its a tough choice.

But you're right, "who knows" is the real answer

g67575 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:28

CEX are only paying £446 to buy RTX 3070 FEs now... Now less than what I bought one for.

Is the price they pay mostly tied to crypto currency value, while taking into account the impending end of GPU mining on Ethereum?

Harlequin · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:31

ETH and BTC are up, so no

g67575 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:33

So, what's going on then? Are they anticipating that Ethereum mining will be impossible by around June 2022?

Maybe they are hoping people will trade for CEX vouchers instead.

RavenXXX2 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:43

Mining profits are still ****, have been for a month now. Guess it's just coincidence that gpu stock and pricing is improving over this period......

b0rn2sk8 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:46

CEX don’t monitor bitcoin prices, they just follow supply and demand. So either supply is high or demand is low and it’s putting a downward pressure on prices.

Holst1981 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:48

g67575 said:
So, what's going on then? Are they anticipating that Ethereum mining will be impossible by around June 2022?

Maybe they are hoping people will trade for CEX vouchers instead.

Probably reduced demand as well.

Somebody was buying those cards from CEX even at the inflated price.
If those customers are now not buying (miners) and CEX are holding more cards in stock it would make sense for them to drop their buy price.

In normal times CEX give pretty poor prices for electronics, we might be seeing a slight return to normality.

g67575 · 10 Feb 2022 at 18:51

That sounds plausible - A drop in demand from miners buying cards from CEX.

Hopefully they will keep bringing the crazy selling prices down if demand keeps falling, they've only reduced these by approx. 10-15%.

SaBBz · 10 Feb 2022 at 19:38

g67575 said:
CEX are only paying £446 to buy RTX 3070 FEs now... Now less than what I bought one for.

Is the price they pay mostly tied to crypto currency value, while taking into account the impending end of GPU mining on Ethereum?

They probably have loads of cards they’re struggling to shift, so don’t really want to buy any more. However, if someone’s stupid enough to sell to them for £446 they’ll be happy to take the card off their hands.