Ah, got it. I was figuring encouraging a mad rush while there’s a modest delay in delivery (a week or two) for most people would essentially accomplish that sense of scarcity and taking any remaining wind out of RDNA2’s sails.
fdsaion
5433
This is a very amusing picture
The reference cards were, but many of these slightly overclocked variants draw more…
I got a Gigabyte Aorus Windforce, not a huge overclock and I measured 300W when stressed.
Whoa. Where’s that from? Is it real? Surely not. It looks like a console in its own right.
A few clarifiers from a Q&A:
DLSS now working for VR was one thing I noticed.
stusser
5436
Alongside VR, DLSS 2.1 also supports 8k resolution on the RTX3090 (since it isn’t fast enough to play 8k natively, obviously) and more importantly, dynamic resolution support. So you can have your cake and eat it too.
I really hope DLSS takes off and is widely supported. It’s magical.
Card looks about the right size to me. It’s just a small MB. Looks like a Strix Mini-ITX of some kind.
Yup, looks like Strix Z490-I
What’s the dynamic resolution in DLSS? Target resolution changes based on performance but it’s upscaled via DLSS in any case…?
If it enables better performance at the low end rather than the high end, I think that would be more impressive. E.g. serious performance from the 3050 etc.
I love that these new things are being tried - DLSS, RTIO…
stusser
5440
My assumption is it dynamically picks between DLSS performance, balanced, and quality modes to hit a framerate target.
How loud was the FE 2080 Super? I sat out that gen (desktop anyway), so I wasn’t really paying attention to noise benchmarks.
They must have it an inflection point where they could stay at 2 slots and increased fan noise, or jump up to 3 slots and decrease noise thanks to the extra room to work with.
One thing I noticed, was that we’re getting screwed!
I wonder why that is. I would thought have you were a nice high margin market :) You’ll still get the other makes though.
KevinC
5445
The boards were rated too hot for people to handle by the Australian Classification Board. Nvidia is currently working on a less sexy 3060 to sell to that market.
Actually wildfire risk does seem plausible.
Soma
5447
Probably supply is constrained as it is, they would rather ship more to 'merica. And save the overhead of shipping to a new destination.
mono
5448
An Nvidia community manager posted on reddit that cards will go on sale at 6AM PST, on the 17th.
If true, as an East Coaster, I like my odds in the inventory lottery just a little bit better…
Bleh I’ll have to set an alarm and be prepared for misery anyway.
Soma
5450
The only forward looking rig you can build right now without breaking the bank (as far as I can see) runs on PCIe 4 mobo, with Ryzen 9 3900XT, and add 3080. Plus a Gigabyte PCIe 4 NVMe SSD for boot, and 32 Gb of ram. It probably will last for the next 4-5 years.
Edit: Samsung Evo 970 plus doesn’t look like it is PCIe 4 compatible.
You will want the Samsung 980 for PCIe 4.0
