Monday, October 12th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/3090 Founders Edition Sales Limited to BestBuy in the US
The supply of NVIDIA's newly announced GeForce RTX Ampere lineup has been quite controversial since the beginning. Demand for the new GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs has been rather high and NVIDIA experienced big "demand issues" as the CEO Jensen Huang says. The company didn't expect such high demand and thus hasn't stocked up the chips for that many orders. NVIDIA's AIBs have also seen this problem with GPU demand, as it is too high in ratio to supply. As more chips are manufactured, we can expect this problem only to settle down over time. Today, we got an interesting piece of information regarding the availability of Founders Edition (FE) GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards. NVIDIA has posted on the forums stating the following:
Sources:
NVIDIA, via VideoCardz
Suroosh@NVIDIAWe have heard your feedback regarding the NVIDIA online store and are working to improve the experience.
In the meantime, we will be selling our GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Founders Edition through other partners. In the US, you can shop for Founders Edition at Best Buy - GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090. In Europe, we continue to review Founders Edition fulfillment options.
Founders Edition units are limited, and more will be available in the coming weeks alongside an increasing supply of boards from our global board partners.
72 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/3090 Founders Edition Sales Limited to BestBuy in the US
nVidia sort of improved this by having more ROPs and TMUs which is nice, but all of this extra hardware is going to limit max clock speeds, so it's not as much of a gain as it could have been.
Speculation is a dangerous thing but for me, I think what we're going to see is nVidia and AMD literally switching places when it comes to GPU design. nVidia has traditional kept their GPUs more simple and pushed higher clocks whereas AMD typically had a wider execution pipeline and a lot of bells and whistles that made the GPUs fast on paper. I think what we're going to end up seeing is AMD releasing a GPU that's similar to the 3080s gaming performance, but with a die that's closer to 500mm^2 as opposed to nVidia's 630mm^2 or whatever GA102 is. That means more clocking potential and better yields.
Take off your green baseball cap and socks for once, it's verging on shilling at this point.
www.overclock.net/threads/official-nvidia-rtx-3090-owners-club.1753930/page-119
This was posted 3 days ago, way ahead of any publicity, from a venerable user too. Well of course I just heard from someone, who just heard from someone, so I don't know the authenticity of that.
The fact remain though is that Best Buy got all the stock of 3080/3090 FE, 10 000 is not an unrealistic number. And yeah...they are gone
And hearing from someone who heard from someone who posted on a thread will never be a Fact.
Ever. ..
Unsurprisingly Nvidia FE cards are not about, conspiracy or not , it Was to be expected.
What that fact is or was is irrelevant.
And in my post there was no negative slant put on Nvidia at all, how do you see one?.
And finally you Assume to know what I am buying, Fooooolish in the extreme.
See my systems, do mine look as biased to team red as your suggestion(or yours now I looked), should I have checked your system specs alongside your posting point?!(yes, clarity on your posting history found)
Just stop fooling yourself and accept the truth.
Doesn't matter how much supply there is, when demand exceed supply, price gouging is only a natural outcome.
Don't like it ? don't buy it.
There is no reason to buy hardware with inflated prices. There are numerous stores which offers backorders, place one order there and wait in line if you want a card, don't support those less serious retailers charging a premium for desperate buyers.
www.tomshardware.com/news/zotac-overwhelmed-with-20000-geforce-rtx-3080-pre-orders-from-amazon
And that is a single brand, on a single website. (not to mention probably the LEAST desirable 30xx series brand available)
As for scalpers etc, I doubt anything tech related would ever warrant me buying off a scalper, I would do without, alternate or whatever I had too including just waiting to avoid doing so, and honestly think everyone should just do that but, it's their money, if people are willing to pay over the odds, and more than you to own something like a 3080 or 90, then fair enough, it's their money, and it's also fine some other guy makes some money off him.
For those without, and I'm there a lot, tough shit this Is the capitalist system we built , I can't buy a Ferrari , yaught or ATM even a home , tough shit, deal with it as you must.
morele.net - 9 partner 3080's, all for "pre-order", all limited to 1 unit per customer
x-kom.pl - 13 partner 3080's, all with "delivery expected soon", all limited to 1 unit per customer
RTV EURO AGD - 4 partner 3080's, all "temporarily unavailable"
komputronik.pl - 17 partner 3080's, all "temporarily unavailable"
3 of those retailers are specifically listed on Nvidia's website.
Micro Center also has an online setup.
(I've posted my POV as a consumer: MSRPs are already too high. It would seem there are enough consumers that disagree, these fly from the shelves at current price. Spread conspiracies about Nvidia to whoever will listen to you wont fix that.)
edit: for those of you wondering, yes that was sarcasm. I like the Nvidia CEO, not as much as I like Lisa Su, but he is still awesome.