Tuesday, December 29th 2020
A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Stock for NVIDIA's latest RTX 30-series graphics cards has been a nightmare for customers across the world, with demand far outstripping supply. This opened up a proverbial can of worms, with scalpers taking to the world wide web, casting their own nets in taking advantage of not only the pandemic (and peoples' refuge in gaming in these uncertain times), but also of said unmet demand. So it has to be nothing short of a Christmas miracle that 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics cards have just been found in an unmarked shipping container in South Korea. The container wasn't registered in the port authority, and was therefore left unopened and unprocessed.
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
Geeknetic.es made this as a part of the Spanish Fool's Day, which is December 28th. However, considering the current state of the RTX (and AMD RX) market, this is a nice satirical gotcha which I'll keep on TPU. Let's laugh at our misery instead of wallowing in it.
Source:
Geeknetic.es
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
103 Comments on A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Runs better on Nvidia, in general - 1650S doing a fine job given that it's a budget card:
IMO the sweet spot for CP2077 on old or underpowered hardware is mostly low settings but shadows turned up to medium. The shadows make a big difference in this game so IMO 90% of the visual quality on medium comes from the improved shadows. Obviously quality is subjective and everyone will have their own preferences and limits but I don't think CP2077 looks bad on a sensible low/medium 1080p mix. 30fps without dropping frames at those settings should be available on everything I listed and more.
My brother-in-law's GTX970 is running about 35-50fps on low/medium custom settings at 1080p. That's a six-year-old card with 3.5GB VRAM and he can get 1080p60 on all-low (with a few dropped frames) or much higher settings. He has a 75Hz monitor so he's locked it to 38fps with vsync and honestly it feels great like that given the ancient card.
YMMV but I disagree that it "runs like shit". This isn't CS:GO, nobody is getting 700fps, not even with a pair of 3090s.
Oh, the first world problems. Also, it's a nice throwback to the time I first saw Duke Nukem 3d running in 640x480 on a Trident card after playing it in 320x240 for months.
It even says it under the post
Am I really supposed to believe that a company who suffers worse leaks than the Titanic was some how able to keep it quiet that 2/3 of their production went MIA in transit? Hard data on their 40xx series is already leaking. Yet they kept quiet on more than a quarter billion dollars in product vanishing?
Other sites have already reported this is false. Just like the Amazon Dist worker claiming inside knowledge, its a nice little fantasy. If you compare Nvidias production to AMD's, Nvidia is massively ahead in weekly and monthly units shipped. It seems very likely that we've actually seen them running at no less than full capacity for about 2 months.
It's pathetic and should be removed.
On another note I learned I need to be on guard Dec 28...and now I've got ideas for next year... evil laugh.
I was very late to the party and played it at 4K only a year ago. For a 2015 port of a 2013 game I was impressed but it was starting to look dated compared to modern engines.
Yes, it's true that some areas of Night City aren't particularly detailed but you have to remember that parts of Los Santos look like phoned-in efforts too. It's all too easy to compare random uninmportant parts of Night City with your fondest memories of the prettiest, most carefully handcrafted scenes in GTAV, because those are the bits that stick in your mind, but go back and drive around Los Santos after playing CP2077 and you'll see that it really doesn't have the detail, the lighting, the poly count, or the textures to match it.
i just paid $1040 :( (+ shipping and tax) ($1100 USD) :( , for RX 6800 XT (coming today (YAY :) ) but mining farm just found in California USA, 73 GPUs Mining FARM, RTX 3080's (and AMD) ETH Mining farm, SAY GOOD BYE TO ALL THOSE 500,000 RXT 30 cards... to SCAL{PERS & MINNERS!!!!!! ANOTHER FUCKED UP YEAR!!!
LOST CONTEINER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS??!! FROM FU***G SUMSUNG THEMSELF AND I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING RIGHT NOW!
FROM SAAAMSUUUNG? They would say, "what is that? Our container is nowhere to be found? You find it today and tomorrow call us to say the shipping is in his destination master"
Are you falling for this idiocy?
We complaint for just a box of hardware in middle of Covi-sh*t times and max 2 months is at our door and Samsung + Nvidia lost their container well go f***k yourselves both Nvidia + Samsung + all the idiots falling for this
The fact that it was a joke was literally there.
ETH and BTC both suffering their biggest drops in ages in a sudden snap reversal of their ridiculous growth rates. ETH in particular has lost 25% of its value in a week.
It's almost as if cryptocurrency is made up out of thin air and there are no countries, governments, legislation, or regulators to back up its value!