That price/performance may be just enough....to get me to wait and see what AMD's offers.
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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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That price/performance may be just enough....to get me to wait and see what AMD's offers.
It's like I said yesterday. The price difference denotes how long the card will last.
Apparently they are doing a 20gb version of the 3080 also, but expect it to arrive in a while and cost a lot more. Just like the 4gb variants of the 680 and 770 etc.
I think unless you #need a new graphics card right now, then you'd be a little crazy not to wait and see. What's the worst case scenario, you let everyone else be the BETA testers if AMD don't bring anything you are interested in?
EDIT: Launch date seems to actually be end of September as well, so no reviews until then.
Guess it depends on the level of need. My worry would be everything goes OOS and pushes prices up even further. Supply and demand and all that
Need being the operative word here. I will be needing some cards for projects, but won't be buying any for personal use that is for sure.
My worry would be everything goes OOS and pushes prices up even further. Supply and demand and all that
OOS is usually a temporary thing.
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That's what they want you to think. What a bargain this card is at £1500 as it's spec looks more like a Titan which last gen cost £2500. Add in the 90 which suggests this is above a 80ti and Nvidia marketing are off to a flyer.
Even if it comes in at last gen prices for the 2080ti it still looks like you are getting extra because this is a 90 not a bog standard 80ti.
If it's true this 80 model uses 320w then surely the 3090 is going to be somewhere around 400w.
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A wink aint good enough anyway. Why don't people just reveal what they know? What difference does it make? Do it under a different name, send it anonymously to someone, there's no way they could identify who it was.
If I worked for somewhere that had secrets like that I would reveal them somehow, and I wouldn't get caught.
If only it was that simple, you build relationships on trust something you obviously can not be relied on for. Companies also spread false information so if it is leaked they know who or where it has come from.
If it's *faster* than the Titan RTX and cheaper, then fine.
They may want to make a high-margin card that taps into the people who opened their wallets for high-end Turing. If there are people willing to pay a lot more money for a little more performance, why not give it to them?
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It's traditional
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If you're intelligent about it though, you just release what you know for sure to be true. And if you don't know anything robust, then you say so instead of saying nothing. Why not come on and say "yes I do know things but I can't reveal them"? Be honest about things?
Re the trust statement - I think it comes a point where you have to decide what should be a secret and what shouldn't. Its not about betrayal. For example, so what if the release date is public? So what if the date that OCUK is expected to get stock is provided? That doesn't change anything. If there were genuine consequences to revealing the info then fair enough.
Too many secrets in this world.
It is not worth it to people as if caught that will be the last time they are given any information, invited to previews etc. If it is your line of work it is just not worth it. It could also be deemed as commercially sensitive!
Nope, as long as it’s reasonably quiet and it performs, not at all.
There's not gonna be much of a performance difference otherwise (max 20%) but you can bet price is nearly double so they had to excuse it somehow.
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It could be how Nvidia play it. Bring out a 3080 10gb and a much faster 3090. When all the milking of those cards is done throw in a 3080ti 20gb that sits in between and bring in extra dairy farmers for uber milkage.
Who knows with Nvidia they are just a well oiled money making machine atm.
If this did happen though and they still had a titan rtx Nvidia would have created another slot in the mainstream line up to get the prices up some more.
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