The fact NVIDIA are pushing out 300+ watt cards on 8nm tells you AMD has something special in rdna 2 on desktop.
There are a lot of unsubstantiated conclusions you could draw from it - alternatively could be 7nm sucks for GPUs

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The fact NVIDIA are pushing out 300+ watt cards on 8nm tells you AMD has something special in rdna 2 on desktop.
I'm waiting for that to move upwards, looks suspiciously cheap for a good make and model. Personally expecting it to hit £700ish fairly soon, hopefully I'm wrong!
Which board vendor would you recommend instead?I don't doubt they produce good cards and offer a good service still.
- No UK RMA centre anymore (set one up 5ish years ago stating they loved UK customers, then closed it in few years later)
- Have to pay for shipping to Germany RMA centre (not much diff from other AIBs though, but more costly to send to EU)
- No UK customer support staff
- Binned their UK social media team (prob went in hand with the above)
- Gibbo also said last week EVGA are less proactive in the UK so they have to rely on distribution these days, which makes me think their cards will be hard to get hold of and be stock issues
But the lack of UK attention really is frustrating and middle finger to us Brits imo.
Which board vendor would you recommend instead?
You see I dont see why it wont be an even bigger issue with the AIb cards then?
Wtf is up with Gigabyte. They've put the price up on the Gaming OC model AGAIN...
It was £659 I think to start with, then £699, now it's £729 wow.... Robbers!
GBP hasn't dropped that much geez...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr6x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1bu-gi.html
Wtf is up with Gigabyte. They've put the price up on the Gaming OC model AGAIN...
It was £659 I think to start with, then £699, now it's £729 wow.... Robbers!
GBP hasn't dropped that much geez...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr6x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1bu-gi.html
Why the gangster avatars?
It just seems so contrary.
Wtf is up with Gigabyte. They've put the price up on the Gaming OC model AGAIN...
It was £659 I think to start with, then £699, now it's £729 wow.... Robbers!
GBP hasn't dropped that much geez...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr6x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1bu-gi.html
oh it has given me one too, what is the deal with this?
Wise guys and overclockers seems a strange combination.
Whilst looking in the past on this site I thought it was the same bunch of guys, who fancied themselves as some sort of geek mafia!
Realise now it was everyone and anyone who posted?
Is it just me who finds this bizarre?
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I can't keep up with all the posts. - I notice that today, MSI have added a boost clock speed to their 3080 Gaming X Specs: 1815Mhz!
Do we yet have any indications of what these cards will actually boost to?
I think my EVGA 2080 ti xc boost clock was rated at 1635 MHz, naturally boosted to about 1950 or 2000, and OC'd rock solid at 2100 and was voltage or power limited there.
So wondering if these new ones will OC 500 over rated boosts, too?
Up to you ultimately? Gigabyte... Zotac... Founders...
I knew Gigabyte and Founders were reputable, but is Zotac at the same level? Is it as popular as the others? I only ever bought Nvidia founders or EVGA in the past so not very familiar with other AIBs.