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Went to EVGA this morning to get prices and took a while to get in (Kept getting an error due to high traffic on the page). By the time I was able to access the RTX 3080 page, either they had already sold out or they haven't listed any stock yet as all of their 3080 cards show to be out of stock.
Prices in Finland (VAT included);
Asus 3070, EUR 720 and EUR 750 (Sales starting on Oct.15)
Asus 3080, EUR 800 and EUR 950 (No date yet)
Asus 3090, EUR 1650 and EUR 1950 (Sales starting on Sep.24)
They're all sold out. I checked all the US brands and they all seem to be sold out. I'm guessing that beyond some third party folks selling at inflated prices there are no cards available.
Yeah, it's just like trying to get tickets for Comicon... if you can get into the site, that means they're already sold out.
Did anybody really get a 3080 today (17/09/2020), all the retailer websites crashed....
, the NVidia official site suddenly changed to "out of stock" from "Notify me", I even didn't get the chance to glimpse the button "add to cart"
Looks like my 1060 will have to keep me going a while yet! Dumped my 2070s too cheaply by the looks of things :(
The fact the Amazon.co.uk aren't involved in sales probably show the UK had little stock (Founders was a joke). I don't trust any of the sellers in the UK, all have bad reps and Scan were scalping Oculus VR in lockdown they had no hope of fulfilling and taking money immediately. I did order the Zotac Trinity card from Amazon.de, still up for pre-order so I doubt that will come. I wanted the Founders or EVGA based on 28.5cm length but getting a Zotac 5 Year warranty would be OK.
Happy too with my 2070 Super (+NVLink) but noticed it coming down 30% (EUR 670 -> EUR 470)... Hmm... 16GB VRAM for EUR 470+120... Tempting...
I totally understand the pent-up demand and huge interest in the 3080; it is such a great price for what it offers, and I can see a lot of gamers thinking $700 is worth clicking on a web page for hours.
I'm curious if the 3090 will get the same crush of orders; regardless of value/features it is a $1,500 piece of hardware-is that going to generate the same amount of frenzy?
I was tempted but luckily when I clicked the 'Buy Now' button it just wouldn't load the cart. I think it's a sign to wait for the 3090.
It costs $50 more; it isn't worth $50 if you calculate the performance per $
... In fact all but two of the games I saw, it was worse or at best 1fps better.
I may get a founders edition, otherwise, I'm thinking AMD and Blender is the way to go.
Someone looks to be price gouging, but some take advantage.
...got an email this morning from Newegg about the 3080.
I was going to go for an EVGA model, but might just get the FE instead, as there is no reason to pay an extra $50 just to get the EVGA card over the FE, in fact the FE did much better for the bench marking tools and rendering engines over EVGA!
So apparently Nvidia has apologized for the 3080 stock situation. https://www.legitreviews.com/geforce-rtx-3080-sales-demand-unprecedented-nvidia-apologizes_222120
I find it kind of odd that they did not expect this much demand when the hype has been going strong for months. But they did promise that stock would be shipping out every day. So no, the day 1 stock was not everything they had.
I've been seriously looking at getting a RTX3080 but I'm not getting sucked into this new release madness, best to sit back and wait for things to calm down...
Steve.
+1
Sitting on our cash is never to our disadvantage.
I consider the FE 3080 to be decent value for a gaming card. It makes up for some of the price hike (seriously rediculous on the 2000 series); if you lookd at the performance gain over the 2000 and 3000 v the 1000, then what you have is roughly the improvement normally expected over two generations.
I'm talking gaming here, as that is the intended purpose; we're fortunate in that we either don't game or only a little - obviously there will be some gamers who are Daz customers, but I I think(?) they are the relative minority. That fortune I talk about is that for rendering, the performance is better - at least going off the 2000 series; a couple of indications whilst hopeful is by no means conclusive for the 3000 series.
But if someone is in need of upgrading and could get their hands on limited stocks then yes the 3080 is a good card for the price. If you have an older card that just won't do it anymore and are in need of an upgrade this won't be a bad choice.
If i can get a founders from nvidia, I will
I want to replace both cards, which are over 5 years old (970/980ti), and the 970 is damaged.
If I can't, I'll wait to see what AMD do; it's possible to have both manufacturers's cards in a system - although it can be a pain. I render in Blender, so I would be doing it limiting my self only to Blender unless I wanted to use CPU (hahaha - it's good in Blender but not in Iray)
My own opinioin, is that AMD's new cards are going to be good. (Wish I had a crystal ball on how good.)
Reports are that the scalpers used bots to buy the entire stock within seconds of the stores going live.
Others are speculating that it was a "paper" launch and that there was no real stock available anywhere outside of the review cards sent to the YouTubers, etc. Of course that's full-blown tin-foil hat.
I highly doubt that. There are a number of people trying to counter the scalping by not paying the money. They are offering up huge dollar amounts, and effectively wasting the scalper's time. So odds are this is one of those. There is sort of a war going on between them.
GN went to AIBs directly and most have said that the stock was similar to the Turing launch, so no, this was not a paper launch. The issue here is the demand is totally insane. Several retailers all crashed when the cards went on sale. The retailers also said they they received record amounts of traffic during the launch, more than Black Friday. Obviously that would not happen without huge demand. And sure, some of the traffic probably came from bots, too.
The video is kind of long, 30 minutes, but Steve goes into great detail here. He discusses past launches, and how several big launches this year all sold out super fast. The COVID situation has changed things, as more people are at home.
But the conclusion is that this is not a paper launch.
Everything about this looks legit. New seller: check. Stupid round bid: check. Pre-order: check.
I checked with someone I know who works at the local Microcenter. They got more than they got for the launch of Turing. They had a parking lot full of people more than one hour before opening, they started giving out numbers one hour before. They had sold out before the store opened and that was with a one per customer rule.
This is what is different than before. You don't typically have so many people camping out for the launch of a PC part. For gaming consoles, yes, that has been routine for years. I waited in line for a Sega Dreamcast! HA! But GPUs? That is pretty unprecedented. You often see a few of the diehards at any such launch, but not a parking lot full of them. This really illustrates the incredible demand for these cards.
If anything, this tells us one thing: PC gaming is bigger than ever before.
Also, with how the websites crashed and then showed no stock before many could even place an order, this also tells me that buying these GPU in person at a physical store may have been the way to go. At least for launch. The scalpers can't game the physical retail system without paying extra people up front to wait for them, and that defeats the purpose of the scalping mark up. So if some people really want one of these cards, driving to the store each day before they open may be the best option.