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And even with the poor performance/value proposition, it looks like tomorrow morning will be another flustercluck. From the same release:

Since we built GeForce RTX 3090 for a unique group of users, like the TITAN RTX before it, we want to apologise upfront that this will be in limited supply on launch day. We know this is frustrating, and we’re working with our partners to increase the supply in the weeks to come.

That’s beautiful, @mono!

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Did it have new card smell? I heard the smell is wonderful.

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In this case, new card from New Jersey smell, sooooo…

:)

When you figure in sales tax, you barely paid a $150 premium. Considering the stress you saved… :)

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Jokes aside, that is a sexy beast.

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Checked my local craigslist, not a single 3080 under $1100.

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That’s my perspective. We’re all old here at Qt3. I was runing nvidia-snatcher from git hub to find in-stock cards at the expense of helping my kids w/ homework. Something had to give!

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Now you can get the RTX 3080 to do the homework for your kids.

6103

Make sure its the real thing and not something like this:

;)

6105

Heh. Reminds me of the time my coworker bought a Samsung phone on craigslist, but he wanted me to go pick it up for him. I met the guy in a McDonalds and looked it over, it looked like the Samsung phone the guy bought, so I gave him the money.

He fired it up, and it was a piece of shit slow ass phone. Some kind of fake Chinese phone that looks just like a Samsung Galaxy S5, I think it was, but it sure didn’t seem to be on the inside.

6106

I know passing on stuff from rumour sites is pretty low value, but this would be interesting if there’s anything to it. Basically some crash rumours.

6107

I wouldn’t be terribly surprised. New cards, new drivers, I’d expect there to be some kinks to work out for those lucky enough to nab one.

6108

Agreed; pretty typical with any new product so I wouldn’t be alarmed, but it’s good to keep in mind for anyone who gets their lucky paws on one.

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I assume many know that because after new cards are released, a whole bunch of updates for those drivers get pushed to all of us, new card or otherwise, in many cases.

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Wow that article buried the lede. I didn’t know that the 16gb 3070 was also going to be the “3070 Ti/Super”, would come out after big Navi, and will have more CUDA cores which suggests it isn’t just a RAM increase!

My dream card right now is something between the 2080 Ti and 3080 in performance, power usage as close to 250W as possible, no super long chassis, and 16gb of RAM. Looks like 3070 Ti might be my jam. The one downside is it won’t be here by the time Cyberpunk releases, which is the only game I am planning to play at the moment that would stretch the 1080 Ti I currently have to its limits, rendering the GPU upgrade almost meaningless. Hmm.

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Are you sure it would stretch the 1080 Ti? Recommended specs seem awfully low.

Directed to anyone who is interested, early reports with DCS VR and 3080 are… wait for it… NOT ENOUGH VRAM. Seems the later cards may be worth waiting for if that’s your bag (It’s mine).

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The min/recommended specs were supposed to be something like 1080p 30fps at low and high. Or so I think I saw somewhere.

Edit: Ah they don’t mention framerate.

https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/1556/cyberpunk-2077-system-requirements

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Cyberpunk recommend specs are for 720p settings. :P

6114

Right. With like a TNT2 card. It may be that 1080+ cards will scale up to a reasonable res / framerate. No way to know until it’s released.

6115

This 4k monitor I have is very demanding. I really hope the game has a “render resolution” option, then I could scale it down to 80 or 85 and that will usually be enough to get good fps with high quality settings.

I completely agree with you and the others in the thread that have been decrying the lack of VRAM on the 3080. If I am trying to upgrade from the 1080 Ti, it doesn’t feel good as a consumer to spend ALOT of money and alot of effort trying to buy a product that is in two ways worse than what I already have (being VRAM and power draw).