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.
Sources:
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
Your view on what others do with a name is arrogant, calling out others is political narcissism, censorship is for porn. Please re-read the first amendment since you are trying to step on my right to free speech. That being said, please F88K off. I'm not trying to be hostile, dont take it as such, I find this rather amusing.
I'm not necessarily saying that you're incorrect. I'm pretty sure that when it comes to the internet, it's a free-for-all between people from different nations. So DeathtoGnomes isn't wrong, and neither are you, as weird as that sounds.
But we should probably get back to the main topic. I personally have no idea what NVIDIA was thinking when they showcased these "not for sale" products. To me, it just seems to add insult to injury. I've never cared much for tech halo products, and I couldn't care less for such products during a chip shortage.
In the current crisis how they could even have the temerity to do this sort of garbage is beyond belief.