Gigabyte eagle 3080

[Nismors]

Been waiting for one of these since September last year and still 8th on the queue since January. Anyone have any idea why eagles are taking so long?

 

[xPETEZx]

I think in the last 3-4 weeks, almost no 3080s of any flavour have been coming in.
Look at the pre-order queue on a certain competitor, all orders been "TBC" for weeks. Before there was a steady trickle of 10-20 cards a week. Sometimes even more.

 

[Gerard]

They have had to rework the Eagle with more power connectors so that might add to the delay as well as the obvious reasons.

 

[Aretak]

I think in the last 3-4 weeks, almost no 3080s of any flavour have been coming in.
Look at the pre-order queue on a certain competitor, all orders been "TBC" for weeks. Before there was a steady trickle of 10-20 cards a week. Sometimes even more.

It's been very noticeable how few 3080s have been around recently. Same die as the 3080 Ti, so maybe they're using them all to build up stocks of those. Yields on the chip seem good enough, since the 3090 has been perhaps the most readily-available Ampere card (or if not, close behind the 3070).

 

[Steviepunk]

Very likely that big miners are not taking any chances around the LHR cards so have been going the extra mile to grab all the available 3080s while they can. Combine that with a possible drop off in production of the non-LHR chips.
At the very least, supply will hopefully return to what it was a few months ago once the LHR cards launch properly

 

[Nismors]

I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever see my card, 9 months and been 9th in the queue since December last year. Scalpers are the worst of people.

 

[StephenJ]

Very likely that big miners are not taking any chances around the LHR cards so have been going the extra mile to grab all the available 3080s while they can. Combine that with a possible drop off in production of the non-LHR chips.
At the very least, supply will hopefully return to what it was a few months ago once the LHR cards launch properly

My feeling would be its this, and maybe the whole 3080ti production switch if that's true

 

[Harlequin]

Isnt the Eagle end of line?

 

[Aretak]

Isnt the Eagle end of line?

Are all original models not technically end of line now? Nvidia's blog post yesterday said that the new LHR versions will be specifically labelled as such, with identifiers on the box and cards. Seems like a good opportunity to call it a new SKU and get rid of all those pesky "cheap" orders still waiting to be fulfilled.

 

[StephenJ]

Are all original models not technically end of line now? Nvidia's blog post yesterday said that the new LHR versions will be specifically labelled as such, with identifiers on the box and cards. Seems like a good opportunity to call it a new SKU and get rid of all those pesky "cheap" orders still waiting to be fulfilled.

Should this be called pulling a msi ?

 

[xPETEZx]

Should this be called pulling a msi ?

And thats the beauty, let one manufacture take the bad press and fall, then all do it.

Just look at the VW diesel thing. Most manufactures seemed to be doing some form of cheating / fudging.... yet ask Joe Public and most just remember it was VW.

Basically what I am saying is all companies are unscrupulous when they think they can get away with it. ASUS or Gigabyte or no 'better' than MSI.
And really... even going back to the original sin, was it MSI's fault too many retailers had huuuuge X Trio queues? Had MSI committed to fulfilling those orders or was it the retailers taking that gamble to fulfil them?

End of the day... these companies are out to make money. And its not like we have a lot of choice in voting with our feet.

 

[Cooler running]

This card hasn't been seen in some time.
Last 3080 Eagle we know of

 

[Nismors]

Got my eagle 380 today, really great card. Glad I waited as its over 1k now to get one and my one isn't a low hash rate one, not that I could be arsed mining anyway.

 

[stooeh]

Lol grats dude