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No real loss and you're probably better off with another brand. Hard to forget Kingston's bait&switch debacles - V300 etc

No, they won't. 10GB will continue to be the most sought after 3080.

If it's as fast as a 3080 in 4k it won't be in stock

This isn't inflation.

Shhhh let him believe. Already too many people buying up the PS5 supply just to play Demon's Souls because it looks g.d. incredible. Wouldn't be surprised if Sony tries to acquire Bluepoint.

Pointless to speculate, and really doesn't matter because 3070 will have even greater demand than 3080/3090, as a function of the pricepoint being a lower barrier. Won't matter what numbers Navi launches with (and they'll all be insta sold-out too), 3070 will be hard to buy for months.

Nope

Except they don't need to "artificial scarcity" a product that already had insane demand, and hype was already 10/10. There's no business upside, it loses money. Artificial scarcity is to prop up a middling product that there isn't great confidence in.

High demand product is high demand. Other companies only wish they had this problem.

Don't underestimate the Halo Effect. Halo products, and a brand developing a reputation for always having Halo products - the best or fastest of something - has an effect that trickles down the entire product stack, and influences buying decisions at every level. It's hard to measure in...

Benchmarks are useless.. for you. I don't care about cinebench and blender, and the claim has been that Zen3 will finally beat Intel in single threaded IPC. So we'll need to let the benchmarks do the talking, not wishful thinking.

I'll need to see some benchmarks

No, just pay attention to who it's being fulfilled by and make sure it's Amazon.

3090 vs 3080 isn't merely a difference of memory size, but ultimately not relevant since my response was to your presumption that Nvidia wants 20GB 3080's on the market because they'd be more expensive and that would help them (somehow). It was unclear how you came to the conclusion. Again...

Not sure how you came to this conclusion, but the opposite is true - more expensive to produce, but not more profitable. Reselling a higher quantity of expensive GDDR6x modules per card isn't where Nvidia makes their margin.

Yep. MS is continually and sneakily blocking their crapware from being removed even by powershell commands that once worked in older builds. Only way is ripping it out by the roots and deleting from the install ISO, with MSMG Toolkit or NLite.

Because it's not their business model.

This. "If its too good to be true, it's probably QLC"

Except if there are enough humans all trying to do the same thing at the same time then some will be faster than others and you get beat indistinguishably the same; in musical chairs if there are 1000 people and 100 chairs then - bots or no bots - there are 900 people getting beat. It doesn't...

Have to agree. My RMA experience with EVGA has always been "replacement on my doorstep the next day", no questions asked, come to think of it. ASUS on the other hand, it's more of a dice-roll where the "technicians" inspecting the returns seem to look for any excuse to deny a repair, like a...

Not only will the Nancy's feigning outrage now buy the game regardless, but they would be the ones screaming the loudest about "broken, shit, unfinished game" if it launches full of bugs because CDPR didn't do all they possibly could to minimize them. An insanely complex RPG 8+ years in the...

This.

Or create another surge toward 3080 from fence-sitters that were waiting to see how Navi measured up. Either/or.

It's great clickbait + opportunity to virtue signal and feign outrage though.

A bunch of drives glued together into a single "drive" that costs 5 or 6 digits for the industrial/enterprise space isn't what I was talking about. Capacity growth in terms of form factor and price/TB trendlines for the consumer space - meaning a single 2.5" or M.2 stick - we've hit a wall at...

Problem is Apple will endlessly appeal. They have more money than god and can appeal for the next 3000 years. No way in hell will they allow Epic to establish any precedent where every app developer will then want their own store and direct payment scheme. The judge already declared "this...

I can't.

You sure you watched the video? So far it's looking like the boost algorithm had just needed a tweak.

Prepare to wait 5-10 years then, because the historical data and trendlines tell a different tale, as NAND doesn't just linearly or infinitely scale. If anything, spinning disks have been making a resurgence, as SSD sizes have hit a bit of a wall. People have been blindly assuming the demise of...

This sounds like it jives with the behavior der8auer noticed, where there's a big transient/spike in frequency right before crash - the GPU is stable around 1890/1905, he adds another 10Mhz and the boost overshoots to 2055Mhz for 1.5 seconds and crashes. And he noted that switching out the caps...

He seems to have nailed it.

Are you communicating from the future? How's the civil war going and did Katy Perry lose the baby weight? Anyhoo, back here in present reality I'm looking to get my mitts on a EVGA 3080 soon.

You forgot : - Free lucky pot of gold autographed by Peter Dinklage Now its reasonable. Seriously though, hoping for a strong AMD showing is good, but expectations should probably be tempered instead of fantasyland.

Connection.com has always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason - wannabe CDW with braindead and hard to reach customer service; I'll keep rolling with my G1 until I can get a G2 from Amazon. Might be waiting until Dec/Jan, that's okay.

I swear the entire click-o-sphere needs a Stalin-like purge. Every tech Youtuber right now:

Case in point re: my previous post. The problem is everybody on reddit is running Nvidia-snatcher now too.

I wouldn't even bother with Nvidia's site for now, since it's the site that everyone has their own personal bot pointed at. The step-by-step instructions for doing your own bot have been spammed everywhere.

Send it my way.

Not sure what Cyberpunk has to do with anything. Unfortunately none of the outrage over CapGate actually changes anything. For every one person mad on a forum or reddit about Ampere right now and saying they're going to wait (and I don't blame them), there are hundreds of people frantically...

All good. It's just another guy whining he couldn't get a 3090 on launch day.