New Nvidia Cards

[KlaxonCow]

By all reports this launch isn't just a paper one, it's a tissue paper one. Rumours of 20k cancelled Amazon pre-orders and almost zero availability before 'at least October'.

I wonder if nVidia rushed the launch here because, as I theorised earlier, they were trying to "grab the market" and encourage folks to upgrade their PC gaming, in this gap before the AMD-powered consoles are out.

So they rushed this "launch" to get that timing and get ahead of the market - ahead of AMD, basically, via the consoles and Big Navi to come - despite the fact that, really, they were just not at all ready manufacturing-wise.

That, if they weren't trying to grab the headlines, then it really would have been launched next month, once they'd built up the stock. But they rushed it - the instant a few cards came off the production line, it was like "Quick! Launch it right now!" - because they realised delaying it would let the new (AMD-powered) consoles get a look-in and grab the headlines first.

[MattyP]

Still pondering over all this.

Have a first gen Ryzen based system so actually thinking that a 3080 card would be wasted on my setup at the moment as I don't really want to do a full system upgrade.

Looking around I thought the prices of 2080Ti's might have dropped a bit with the recent events but they are still over a grand - insane. I have the offer of a second hand one for £600 but not 100% about spending so much on second hand electronics.

Think I should perhaps leave any upgrades to next year and see how things pan out. I have a 980Ti in my system at the moment which seems to be doing OK at 1080p/1440. So no massive hardship waiting. First world problems eh?!

I mean AMD have yet to play their next card with the PC variant of their console GPU, which I expect will release early next year. Also games aren't going to take advantage of all this GPU horsepower for a while.

Waiting is always a good thing with tech I guess
Gets cheaper usually and more powerful. The software seems to take a while to catch up with everything.

[MattyP]

Double post. Delete me!

[Dio]

The 3080 is just the start of the generation transition - it will be complete by mid-next-year then it slows down for a bit.

[MattyP]

The 3080 is just the start of the generation transition - it will be complete by mid-next-year then it slows down for a bit.

Indeed! I've decided to shelve a GPU update for now and upgrade my PC instead. I think it needs tweaking a bit to ready it for the next 3 years. Gone with a 3rd Gen Ryzen 7 processor and 32GB RAM on a x570 based main board should be good for a bit.

I'll look at GPUs again next year sometime when AMD get their act together.

Hopefully the new toys will arrive this week sometime!

[Daniel]

This launch was rushed for sure.
First there was nowhere near enough gpus available to meet demand.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/2144 ... age-issues
https://www.windowscentral.com/rtx-3080 ... t-together
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing ... questions/

Now there are lots of reports of malfunctioning RTX 3080 boards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/272540/rtx- ... ile-gaming
https://www.pcgamer.com/evga-confirms-n ... d-crashes/
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/gefor ... aming.html

[gilesgoat]

Ok "it's late at night" but I had this idea .. what if AMD would so ALSO a set of playing cards to promote their new cards ?





/me takes coat






.. belive it or not, my previous company DID it, to promote some of the stuff they were selling .. and I think they were even made by Modiano ... ( and they did the pens and the hoodies and the jackets and the .. and ... ) .. and someway did work ..

[Nixie]

RDNA2 looks pretty good! Though I was after something with a bit more vram ideally and alot of my 3d apps probably prefer cuda cores, at this point though I'll take whichever is actually available first...