Friday, July 9th 2021
NVIDIA Showcases Custom RTX 3080 Graphics Cards at Bilibili World 2021 - Not for Sale
NVIDIA at Bilibili World 2021 showcased some custom RTX 3080 graphics cards - customizations which it commissioned to known modders. In total, three custom graphics cards were shown in a variety of colors, even though all of them shared the same base shroud design. The modders then played with illustrations and color coordination, which resulted in one orange RTX 3080 (featuring the Chengdu Hunters Overwatch clan insignia) and two turquoise/petrol graphics cards with differentiated accents (black and turquoise for the card inspired on Chinese role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy, and white and petrol for the card celebrating the 9th anniversary of the Luo Tianyi anime series).
These graphics cards likely won't be put to sale in any way by NVIDIA; however, they could eventually decide to give them away as a prize for any sort of online competition, much like they did with the gorgeous, Cyberpunk 2077 interpretation of the RTX 2080 Ti some time ago - which the winner eventually sold at auction for $5,200 (at a time where graphics card pricing was actually saner). One could argue that NVIDIA should have just sent these towards the retail channel, but at least we got to see three RTX 3080's at the same time.
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ITHome, via Videocardz
These graphics cards likely won't be put to sale in any way by NVIDIA; however, they could eventually decide to give them away as a prize for any sort of online competition, much like they did with the gorgeous, Cyberpunk 2077 interpretation of the RTX 2080 Ti some time ago - which the winner eventually sold at auction for $5,200 (at a time where graphics card pricing was actually saner). One could argue that NVIDIA should have just sent these towards the retail channel, but at least we got to see three RTX 3080's at the same time.
35 Comments on NVIDIA Showcases Custom RTX 3080 Graphics Cards at Bilibili World 2021 - Not for Sale
Good luck to anyone looking to take the douche bag of the year award from nVidia for 2021, the bar has been set high indeed.
I want the SuperDuperUltraDeluxeMegaQuadZillionTHZOverClockedLN5 Octo-slot edition, with the requisite fire-breathing dragon and transformer-ish conglomerated clusterf*uck prehistoric abortion gone really, really bad diamond studded & solid titanium shroud, as well as the 2 GAUGE/1024 pin, 240ft long superconducting nanographene fiberoptic power cables...
Of course, then I would also need a 1000TW fusion powered PSU to go with it too, hehehe....
Have a nice day.
Can you call me for 4080Ti release ?
Thank you.
Too bad it's not for sale.