Tuesday, October 6th 2020

NVIDIA CEO Comments on RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Supply Shortages

Shortages in supply of GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 graphics cards could persist until 2021, according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, responding to a question in a Q&A session of the GTC 2020 (Fall) conference. "The 3080 and 3090 have a demand issue, not a supply issue," said Huang. "The demand issue is that it is much much greater than we expected—and we expected really a lot," he added.

Jen-Hsun predicts that the Holiday 2020 shopping season will only compound availability woes. "I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply through the year. Remember, we're also going into the double-whammy. The double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season, we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it the "Ampere factor," and then you add on top of that the "Ampere holiday factor," and we're going to have a really really big Q4 season." He likened the demand of the RTX 3080 to that of the Intel Pentium in the mid-1990s. "Retailers will tell you they haven't seen a phenomenon like this in over a decade of computing. It hearkens back to the old days of Windows 95 and Pentium when people were just out of their minds to buy this stuff. So this is a phenomenon like we've not seen in a long time, and we just weren't prepared for it."
Source: Tom's Hardware
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115 Comments on NVIDIA CEO Comments on RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Supply Shortages

#26
Xaled
Nvidia's CEO The biggest scum peice of s*** biggest liar of technology's history
Solution is just simple, People should just not buy
Boycott this b******
And his banwdawgon fanboys should not be allowed to spread his propaganda and lies on the internet, like here in TPU.
LocutusHI would like to see a poll, who actually ordered, and got a card - or not.
Manipulating them is so easy. They got a media propaganda/spread lies department. I am sure many guys on forum here are working there.
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#27
LiveOrDie
AMD Drops there cards and it shits on 3090 people bin there orders and now nvidia has to much stock and no buyers LMAO can AMD do another ace in the hole.
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#28
pathfindercod
Why is this an issue everytime they release new cards? Are they not bright enough to learn from history? I tend to think this is done purposely....
Live OR DieAMD Drops there cards and it shits on 3090 people bin there orders and now nvidia has to much stock and no buyers LMAO can AMD do another ace in the hole.
Wont happen unfortunately..
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#29
LiveOrDie
pathfindercodWhy is this an issue everytime they release new cards? Are they not bright enough to learn from history? I tend to think this is done purposely....



Wont happen unfortunately..
people said that about there CPUs to lol.
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#30
Steevo
Sounds like North Korea koolaid, there are no food shortages, there is a surplus of people...


Spin so hard you want to puke
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#31
trog100
there are plenty of these things available on ebay at double the MRSP..

in my old fashioned book the price of something should be set at what the market will pay for it.. quite clearly something is wrong with the system or more interestingly why price something too low knowing that supply will not meet demand..

the ebay pricing seems to suggest that the old 2080ti price wasnt far out.. people seem to be willing to pay something similar on ebay..

trog
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#32
Unregistered
pathfindercodWhy is this an issue everytime they release new cards? Are they not bright enough to learn from history? I tend to think this is done purposely....



Wont happen unfortunately..
Before AMD didn't have the money to compete, now they have better node, RDNA1 was already faster than equivalent Turing, and we know that they can build a bigger GPU, and finally Ampere is underwhelming given its poor performance uplift, so yeah chances are AMD will be up there even against the 3090.
#33
EarthDog
BwazeHow is this a demand ussue, not a supply issue?
Vayra86A demand issue is by definition a supply issue.
No, it isn't. Demand is an economic principle talking about a customer's desire to purchase a good or service. Demand can be there regardless if supply is abundant or non-existent. I want an Xbox Series X... there are none. Does this mean there isn't a demand for it because there is no supply?
MelvisHe can also explain why there is a up to 100% mark up in other countries.......
Why is that 'his' responsibility?
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#34
trog100
the question is.. what is the real price for a 3080 graphics card..

the £1400 quid i can actually buy one for on ebay or the "theoretical" MRSP 0f £700 -ish quid i cant buy one for..

i am lucky in the sense i am in no real rush to buy one so its all academic to me.. but its not for some..

the coming 3070 card which is the card everyone will be really interested in will be an even bigger f-ck up.. he he

trog
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#35
milewski1015
Vayra86First they want them out before AMD, then they are sitting on it for AMD... which is it guys, make up your mind.
Vya DomusWe don't need to make up our mind because that's exactly the point. They got the chart toppers out there as fast as possible for the halo effect, then, for the mid range 3070 and lower which is going to make up the bulk of the sales are waiting for AMD. So they can, again, steal the show right before those come out.
Nvidia:

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#36
kapone32
Vayra86Why does it matter? Its available when its available. Stop being so needy man jesus. New GPU badly stocked what else is new, you act like this is unprecedented or something.

And that goes for most of you tbh. Its so sad to see. Slaves to commerce.
Not slaves to commerce. Just pointing out Nvidia's ways. There is one reason why I do not buy Nvidia cards and that is because I can't trust them not to gimp or lessen my GPU performance without my permission on a product that I already own (GTS 450 SLI). Don't worry I am pissed at AMD too for not allowing us to OC the 5700 anymore to 5700XT and putting their own OC on the 5600XT. At the end of the day you would have thought that a Company like Nvidia (The leaders in the space) after the mining experience (and resurgence) and the last 8 months in PC period (but especially Gaming) would have the foresight to have studied the logistics of this product. This smells definitely like any corporate or street you have to have it product. What really pains me though is that even though they have reduced their stack in terms of pricing, (Probably Covid more than anything else) they still apply those machiavellian tactics in this time in space with Squadrons, Everspace 2, CP 2077, (Whatever killer Game they remaster next) out or on the horizon and Gaming platforms basically giving you Games to play or letting you play those Games for the cost of a Happy Meal. There is justice in the world though because for $500 you can get a 3700X and 6700XT (speculation) with everything running on VRAM and NVME storage (and Ray tracing) in the form of the Xbox1x and PS5 making a $700 GPU alone in the realm of true believers. We will see in this economy how long those GPUs remain at that price.
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#37
EarthDog
kapone32There is one reason why I do not buy Nvidia cards and that is because I can't trust them not to gimp or lessen my GPU performance without my permission on a product that I already own (GTS 450 SLI).
You still believe that bullshit? Come on now... 2.7K posts/3 years here and you haven't seen that bunked yet?
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#38
kapone32
EarthDogYou still believe that bullshit? Come on now... 2.7K posts/3 years here and you haven't seen that bunked yet?
I never talk about something I have not experienced. I am not accusing them of doing that now but giving my reason why I don't buy their cards. Those were my first GPU purchases. I played one Game at the time (Total War) which loves Multi GPU so you can imagine after I bought a 2nd 450 and was totally enjoying double the FPS until a driver update disabled SLI for the 450. That is not an accusation but a fact.
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#39
ExcuseMeWtf
"Demand issue, not a supply issue" LMAO.

The truck doesn't fit under the bridge - it's never too tall, it's the bridge that is too short :roll:
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#40
Unregistered
Well all the scalps will certainly sell off their high priced ones at xmas for sure.
#41
EarthDog
kapone32I never talk about something I have not experienced. I am not accusing them of doing that now but giving my reason why I don't buy their cards. Those were my first GPU purchases. I played one Game at the time (Total War) which loves Multi GPU so you can imagine after I bought a 2nd 450 and was totally enjoying double the FPS until a driver update disabled SLI for the 450. That is not an accusation but a fact.
Disabling SLI is different than 'gimping or lessening GPU performance'. I missed the SLI part initially. They didn't gimp or lessen the GPU performance, they stopped supporting SLI for that card/title you play. There is a difference to me. :)
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#42
kapone32
EarthDogDisabling SLI is different than 'gimping or lessening GPU performance'. If you mean mGPUs/SLI, you should have said that out of the gate for clarity. They didn't gimp or lessen the GPU performance, they stopped supporting SLI for that card/title you play. There is a difference to me. :)
"on a product that I already own (GTS 450 SLI)" and TWWH is Multi GPU with SLI profiles. If I played a game using 2 cards and am getting 55 FPS and then the manufacturer decides to not support that without informing me and now I am getting 32 FPS how else am I supposed to look at that?
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#43
EarthDog
Ninja edited a few mins ago.. missed that. The rest I stand by. :)

Performance of the gpu was not touched. A feature was. Stick to single gpus instead of the hassle of adding to potatoes as one. :p

You don't use a long in the tooth tech, you wont have that issue. There's no reason to avoid them over an mGPU issue from a decade ago is an underlying point. ;)
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#44
mechtech
wow comments

If anyone has any issues.............you know the old saying.................vote with your wallet.
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#45
kapone32
EarthDogNinja edited a few mins ago.. missed that. The rest I stand by. :)

Performance of the gpu was not touched. A feature was. Stick to single gpus instead of the hassle of adding to potatoes as one. :p

You don't use a long in the tooth tech, you wont have that issue. There's no reason to avoid them over an mGPU issue from a decade ago is an underlying point. ;)
So Nvidia have done nothing desultory in the last 10 years to regain my confidence? There is a reason if you are into Multi GPU. As a consumer the first experience can colour the outlook on an item as I said it was my 1st GPU purchase. I am not suggesting against anyone getting the card they are definitely performance leaders.
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#46
TheoneandonlyMrK
pathfindercodWhy is this an issue everytime they release new cards? Are they not bright enough to learn from history? I tend to think this is done purposely....
Exactly.
EarthDogDisabling SLI is different than 'gimping or lessening GPU performance'. I missed the SLI part initially. They didn't gimp or lessen the GPU performance, they stopped supporting SLI for that card/title you play. There is a difference to me. :)
Question, why do people go for bench over clock records with the day 1 driver's if No performance was lost?.
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#47
EarthDog
theoneandonlymrkQuestion, why do people go for bench over clock records with the day 1 driver's if No performance was lost?.
People bench competitively with many different drivers as some perform better than others in certain games or benchmarks. So for example, 420.xy does well in 3DMK, but 420.xz may do better in Superposition. etc..... that doesn't mean performance was nuked necessarily.
kapone32So Nvidia have done nothing desultory in the last 10 years to regain my confidence? There is a reason if you are into Multi GPU. As a consumer the first experience can colour the outlook on an item as I said it was my 1st GPU purchase. I am not suggesting against anyone getting the card they are definitely performance leaders.
If you're into it, sure... like masochism. :p

I get how it can shape an experience, but, holding on to it for a decade when you don't even use the technology today because it's dead (for all intents and purposes) is another thing. You're of course entitled to feel that way... as am I to think that's a bit fickle. I shouldn't be surprised as many seem to do that, as illogical as it seems to me. :)
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#48
gamefoo21
How do you spin supply issues...

Well you blame demand...

That's some serious spin...
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#49
OneMoar
There is Always Moar
I imagine a SEC investigation into stock inflation
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#50
kiriakost
Too much wine or something else.
At the price of RTX3090 you can buy a home in Pakistan.
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