NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

Also prices of 2080Ti rising and people panic who sold theirs for £350

God yes - they seem to be selling at £550-£650 again today!
Some even higher...

 

[Besty]

Am I missing something here? The 3080 is over 25% faster than the £1200 2080Ti and at close to half price? Why the hate for the 3080?

hey matey, nice to see you posting on the graphics forum again.

I think the hate can be boiled down to a number of factors, i think the 3080 FE card is decent but there are a number of niggles.

a) only 2GB more vram on the 3080 than the 1080 (launched 4 1/2 years ago)
b) the 3080 chip appears to be running at its limits, the 1080 clearly was not, had plenty of headroom and ran very cool
c) All the AIB launch cards appear to be f-ugly compared to the 1080 launch, might as well buy the 3080 FE. 1080 FE was f-ugly
d) there is a sense (just a sense) that AMD might be competitive with their new card, with a nice looking design and 16GB VRAM
e) 2080ti was a con, price wise, i am not sure all buyers were expecting the depreciation to be as brutal but that's AMD's competition starting to bite. 1080ti was a great card.

All the above was not an issue for the 1080/ti launch whereas it is for the 3080 launch.

 

[Woodsta888]

Hmmm don't hold out much hope for a 3090 either, though it's performance for double money may be a dissuader

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

2080ti was a con, price wise, i am not sure all buyers were expecting the depreciation to be as brutal but that's AMD's competition starting to bite.

Strange that the 2080Ti owners aren't saying that. Plenty of people seem to want to say it for us though...

 

[opethdisciple]

Did you lot crash the forums and website earlier with your F5'ing?

 

[bluetonic]

Nvidia didn't buy ARM from the $40B they found down the sides of the sofa.
They needed to inflate their stock price to make them economically viable for the purchase.
Best way to do that? Release a new graphics card 3x the speed of the last generation but at the same price.
ANNOUCE IT before the purchase (while controling any media around it & limit the suppliers ability to inform customers on availability) but set sales dates AFTER the ARM purchase...

 

[gronf]

So this is basically a paper launch after all then Nobody has stock of anything

https://twitter.com/NvidiaService/status/1306629225345175552

Lol

Eventually I'm intending to go AMD or Nvidia's response (e.g. a 3070ti or lowered+settled 3080). But now it's popcorn time!

 

[RavenXXX2]

 

[Wilko_Dog]

Hopfully people are sensible and buy at 650 or so.

yeah definitely, i managed to do this just before for some unknown reason they jumped up to £710+ (and that was just on oc)

It's a brilliant card for the money if you get it for £650 and it comes with watchdogs legion too.

 

[Toothy1911]

Yup. Ordered at 650 myself. Just will be a few weeks wait. Rather than blasting those frames by tomorrow like some.

 

[Serial45]

Absolute shambles, Nvidia need to be ashamed of themselves, let's hope AMD don't try the same trick.

It will be exactly the same next week with the 3090 and the month after with the 3070.

I'm not so sure man. Do you honestly think many are going to go for the 3090? I'm hearing its only 10% higher performance, more than double the cost.

 

[Harlequin]

Also, hearing that some cars are being cancelled as they require a firmware update before dispatch?

 

[Serial45]

I got confirmation email of my order at 2.13pm from a competitor for a Zotac at £689. Email says delivery tomorrow but status is still awaiting picking. What a shambles.

S**n same here man got my order for gigabyte oc at 2.28. Didn't show payment authorised till 7.30.

 

[Captain]

I'm not so sure man. Do you honestly think many are going to go for the 3090? I'm hearing its only 10% higher performance, more than double the cost.

Not as many as the 3080 but I bet you won’t be able to buy an FE 3090 next week on the 24th.

 

[MiskyBoyy]

Is the ETA dates on the 3080s on ocuk fairly accurate?

Says TUF Gaming ETA 21st September. Is that right, anyone know?

 

[Serial45]

Can I ask will Nvidia stock more founders editions, or is it only launch week?

 

[Cavallino]

Lol....

ebay listing:

"
Hi there, I've bought this EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 but I've realised my older CPU will bottleneck it so I'm looking to sell it so I can upgrade that instead - purchased today with an estimated arrival date of tomorrow (18th) - I will post it to you as soon as it arrives unopened and sealed "

Ive realised my older CPU will be bottleneck.....


Latest bid, 60 grand

Come on... own up... who was it out of you lot ?

 

[danoliver1]

This whole launch reeks of some underhand corporate shinnanagins. Should have know with the watertight nda and lack of any stock numbers.

 

[WesleyBurns]

Lol....

ebay listing:

"
Hi there, I've bought this EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 but I've realised my older CPU will bottleneck it so I'm looking to sell it so I can upgrade that instead - purchased today with an estimated arrival date of tomorrow (18th) - I will post it to you as soon as it arrives unopened and sealed "

Ive realised my older CPU will be bottleneck.....


Latest bid, 60 grand

Come on... own up... who was it out of you lot ?

Looks like some vigilantes are taking care of scalpers, failed auctions...

 

[Gerard]

This is the routine on their other sites currently, on the spain site it shows as in stock, if you keep it at spanish it lets you click buy and throws up a grey black screen, if you translate to english the buy button doesn't work. Was getting the same thing on the uk site earlier....

https://imgur.com/McWwtOr