Tuesday, January 11th 2022
EVGA Launches GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Series
Introducing the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB graphics cards - Built for and designed for gamers. The new GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB features 20% more VRAM compared to the GeForce RTX 3080, more CUDA cores, and faster memory bandwidth to provide more performance headroom for high-resolution gaming and more demanding visual quality settings. For more information, visit this page.
22 Comments on EVGA Launches GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Series
That link is also insultingly devoid of information. Here's the lowdown on somewhere not overrun by marketing gibberish and sales morons:
just wow, the beatings continue.
sorry for the edit/bad math :oops:
www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=10G-P5-3885-KL $880
www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-4865-KL $1250
@Chrispy_ www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-4865-KL www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-4877-KL
The blame Nvidia rightly deserve is in refusing to refresh the 1600-series and leaving it almost two full years to bring an entry-level Ampere to market to tackle the mainstream users. It's profiteering, sure, but I don't think any gamers are fond of AMD or Nvidia for completely ignoring the largest consumer demographic that made them both into the successful giants they are today. If times change and either AMD or Nvidia find themselves in financial difficulty (unlikely, I know), the last four years are going to be hard to forget for any mainstream buyers when both AMD and Nvidia have basically told their largest demographic to pony up for a higher-end model or f**k off.
www.guru3d.com/news_story/asus_announces_nvidia_geforce_rtx_3080_12gb_starting_at_1519_eur.html
I don't like the high GPU prices either but I do have to laugh at people who get all salty at suppliers and manufacturers because they don't understand basic capitalism.
Since before you were born, products were worth what people were willing to pay for them. There is now a high demand from a large group of people willing to pay more than you or I are happy with. Until they stop buying cards at the higher prices, there is no way in hell that GPU prices are going to come down.
For pricing to return even vaguely to 'normal'
- Supply has to massively increase
- Demand has to massively reduce
So yeah, high prices are here for a while. Maybe half a decade or more. That may be pessimistic but I've educated myself in the mechanics and economics, and I'm professionally involved in enterprise IT industry, the system-integrator industry and cryptocurrency industry. My pessimistic guesses are at least informed, calculated guesses that I have actively put five-digit sums of investment into. I'm currently reaping the rewards of those calculated guesses, like any successful market analyst would, and it won't be too long before I'm willing to put six-digit sums of investment into the GPU market. TL;DR, I'm confident enough that I've put my money where my mouth is and it's paying off.(it won't because all of the semiconductor foundries are working overtime and new foundries are being brought online as fast as economically viable)
OR
(which relies on ETH and every other profitable cryptocurrency suddenly collapsing in a way that is so final and irreversible that nobody will continue to mine prospectively. Even if all of the cryptocurrency mining was deleted from the face of the earth and erased from history, demand from gamers and professionals working on their home computers is still massively higher than it used to be pre-pandemic)