Sunday, March 28th 2021
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NVIDIA Repurposing Scrapped RTX 3080 Ti GA102-250 GPUs to GA102-300 for RTX 3090
The NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti has experienced numerous delays with the card's launch most recently being pushed to mid-May. The unreleased RTX 3080 Ti has gone through various internal revisions with the card expected to use a GA102-250 GPU until plans were scrapped in late January. The RTX 3080 Ti is now expected to feature the GA102-225 GPU instead when it finally releases. NVIDIA having already produced the required processors is now repurposing the GA102-250 GPUs slated for the RTX 3080 Ti for use in RTX 3090 Founders Edition cards. This switch makes sense as the GA102-250 was rumored to feature the same number of cores as the RTX 3090 just with a smaller memory size. NVIDIA appears to have now enabled the full 384-bit memory bus and has laser engraved the chips to show their change to GA102-300's.
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HardwareLuxx
34 Comments on NVIDIA Repurposing Scrapped RTX 3080 Ti GA102-250 GPUs to GA102-300 for RTX 3090
and btw what I said before is merely quoting verbatim what Linus said about the situation (please go tell him hes wrong too)
Miners don't like 3090s. Too hot, too hard to cool. Likewise, if not for the pandemic I'm confident mining today would be saturated.
It's both at once that kills us.
Linus knows more than you on this topic, trust. I think you grossly underestimate how many people staying at home got into video games and streaming the last year due to Covid. In the US, stimulus checks were basically free computer upgrades or a free ticket to PC gaming. GPU mining at contrast is a much smaller demographic, by far.
It doesnt help also that AMD has a new popular CPU platform (non-apu) that REQUIRES you to have dGPU for their CPU to work, basically forcing people to buy whatever gpu is available or sit there quietly while their new, unused metal box of PC parts goes unused.
I almost wonder if this power play is part of the reason why Intel wants in on the dGPU market.
In the Nvidia UK FE store there has been multiple drops where the 3090 stays in stock for 2-3 hours, so it has been much easier to get and people are buying it out of desperation because they havent been able to get a 3080. Sadly they got themselves in the situation as they sold their old gpu first without realising they wouldnt be able to replace it.
The scalping problem is unreal over here and I honestly think its having a bigger impact than mining.
A UK store has been cancelling orders and banning members when they started seeing ebay adverts within minutes of opening up orders for 6700XT yesterday. Its good to see some action been taken. They matched up ebay address to address of orders.