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
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."
115 Comments on NVIDIA CEO Comments on RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Supply Shortages
Also, the 30 series are not impressive because of the high initial promises that they don't deliver. Their advantage over the 20 series is extremely game specific, and in many scenarios, they aren't as efficient as nvidia's internal figures show. Sure, the 3080 is a bit faster than the 2080 Ti, but with double the cuda cores and a higher TDP.
Somehow I have a feeling that Ampere isn't a gaming focused architecture at all, which only brings my demand down. I'm also curious to see the fully unlocked chips with generous amounts of VRAM (if that happens).
I wouldn't have paid new money though initially.
I love my lowly 2060 , I use it more than my rig now(tbf to my rig it's busy and a heater brrrr)
You know, the dollar store has really good value too. It's just that nothing of what you buy there, actually lasts without having to buy more. You'll discover the similarities there soon enough. At least an old GPU can go to a next rig when you upgrade. At least your game catalog remains available on your PC when you upgrade. But come the next console upgrade, you get to re-purchase all those rehashes remakes and retextured samey games AGAIN. How long might it take? 3 years this time? You can look at the current gen for proof. Most of what's coming out for the next one, is a straight remake or even just a lazy port with an upscale. And that is after they re-released the last gen with 'better versions' of said consoles. Yep, you can upgrade within the same gen now. FOMO? No worries they got you covered.
Console gaming has never been good value. It just takes some experience to realize that. The great console days are long gone, and have been since halfway through the PS3 era, give or take, when they dragged that out way beyond expiry date and then started adding subscriptions.
Most will be waiting deep into 2021 according to retailers, for 6800 series. 6900 will be a halo product.
Meanwhile thousands of gamers are using Nvidia 3000 series ;)
Thousands ? Like between 1000 - 9999 ? That's crazy bro. And to think they are out for only about 3 months and there are already THOUSANDS of them !