ASUS confirms ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card with 20GB memory

chrcoluk · 10 Jan 2021 at 18:27

ancientmariner said:
Been holding out for the Ti but I imagine it will be months before they are obtainable.

There will probably be some launch stock using chips that should have gone to 3080 backorders.

cliffy · 10 Jan 2021 at 19:02

ancientmariner said:
Been holding out for the Ti but I imagine it will be months before they are obtainable.

I wonder if the reason stock is so bad is because Nvidia are with holding all the chips for the TI variants. I can't imaginer Nvidia want another repeat of the current stock shortage fiasco so soon

chaparral · 10 Jan 2021 at 21:16

cliffy said:
I can't imaginer Nvidia want another repeat of the current stock shortage fiasco so soon

They didn't care about the 3080 & 3090 stock shortage fiasco that was going on when they released the 3060ti & 3070

cliffy · 10 Jan 2021 at 22:43

chaparral said:
They didn't care about the 3080 & 3090 stock shortage fiasco that was going on when they released the 3060ti & 3070

I am just guessing, probably joping more than having any rationale behind my thoughts. I just think another failed launch would really screw their PR

Stu · 11 Jan 2021 at 12:53

cliffy said:
I am just guessing, probably joping more than having any rationale behind my thoughts. I just think another failed launch would really screw their PR

I don't think they care about PR when they sell everything they make. They obviously didn't care about PR when they decided to sell so much stock to miners, and the bad PR around the 2000 series doesn't seem to have taught them anything.

I think they've witnessed the spending frenzy going on, and see more expensive Ti models as the optimum way to take even more money from people using the exact same GPUs.

Richdog · 11 Jan 2021 at 13:00

Stu said:
I don't think they care about PR when they sell everything they make. They obviously didn't care about PR when they decided to sell so much stock to miners, and the bad PR around the 2000 series doesn't seem to have taught them anything.

I think they've witnessed the spending frenzy going on, and see more expensive Ti models as the optimum way to take even more money from people using the exact same GPUs.

It's not as simple as they do or don't care about PR... they do obviously care about PR... but it's just that everything they is weighed against the business impact. Caring about PR becomes less of a priority when their bottom line and long-term strategy are at risk.

Stu · 11 Jan 2021 at 13:10

Richdog said:
It's not as simple as they do or don't care about PR... they do obviously care about PR... but it's just that everything they is weighed against the business impact. Caring about PR becomes less of a priority when their bottom line and long-term strategy are at risk.

Isn't it the other way around? PR is less of a priority when financials are looking good?

nikoliath · 11 Jan 2021 at 13:13

VincentHanna said:
Steam hardware survey is a bit flawed as my primary monitor is 3440x1440, but I game on my 4k OLED.

I'd be surprised if this scenario is common enough to heavily skew the figures.

nikoliath · 11 Jan 2021 at 13:20

Jacky60 said:
I'm referring to games I might actually WANT to play or do play. 'Many' of today's games isn't good enough for me but if you're easily bought, or satisfied or buy into the hype all power to you. I remember you telling me I was accusing CD Project of lying in their CP 2077 recommended specs for 4K and bragging how you'd be playing 4K ultra 60+fps with RT on your 3090. How's that working out for you? I assume you have trackIR for MSFS2020 and if you do you'll realise that panning in flight can be nausea inducing at much less than 60fps.

Good lord, no way you'd have managed playing sims on the old days then, single digit frames on an amiga. We are so spoilt today.

Richdog · 11 Jan 2021 at 13:26

Stu said:
Isn't it the other way around? PR is less of a priority when financials are looking good?

I meant when they need to make decisions that help financials knowing it will come at the expense of PR.

gpuerrilla · 14 Jan 2021 at 14:07

So when will you be picking up your 3080Ti then Dave?

mods1965 · 14 Jan 2021 at 14:10

Gamers Nexus reporting 3080Ti (including other refresh SKU's) on hold to allow Nvidia to focus on current line-up and meet demand. I can see the sense in that due to the stock issues and why make other cards when the ones you have sell straight away.

Sleepy Stu · 14 Jan 2021 at 14:14

Yep been confirmed that the 3080ti is on hold indefinitely until they can meet current demand. Even Nvidia as bad as they are realised that releasing new SKU's when you can't provide the current ones was taking the ****!!

Woodsta888 · 14 Jan 2021 at 14:46

You can make 2 3080's with 20GB of GDDR6X instead of one 3080Ti

ti stands for Tiny Increase....in performance

benjii · 14 Jan 2021 at 14:54

Well this post aged like milk.

gpuerrilla · 14 Jan 2021 at 15:20

mods1965 said:
Gamers Nexus reporting 3080Ti (including other refresh SKU's) on hold

benjii said:
Well this post aged like milk.

Stu · 14 Jan 2021 at 16:50

Why take money from customers once when you can do it twice... need to supply 3080 models to customers first, then entice them to upgrade!

mikehhhhhhh · 14 Jan 2021 at 17:39

I think the issue is that if they released a ti today with lots of pre-orders unfulfilled, those preorders would just be cancelled.

TNA · 14 Jan 2021 at 17:46

Th0nt said:
So when will you be picking up your 3080Ti then Dave?

Th0nt said:
More than one Dave on here mate..

Bluntwrapped · 14 Jan 2021 at 17:49

Plenty of ti’s inc, extremely limited numbers on the other cards. You read it here first