Certainly would be but surely you can wait til tomorrow :)
Hold on - 2080S seems to be going for $600+. Hmm.
I donāt think I have a choice than to wait till Thursday either way :)
Yeah, prices will still be high on those for a while to come as theyāre actually available.
KevinC
6747
The supply issues with the 3080 are seriously ridiculous. By the time they become readily available I might just wait for the refresh/super or Ti or something.
This is old news (we talked about it when it broke about a week ago), but also you canāt cancel something that never technically existed. You might have missed it because for some reason we have two threads to talk about the same thing.
They totally canceled the shit out of that rumor, man.
There have actually been fresher rumours about 'Tiās I think. Weāll see.
jpinard
6752
With the way Nvidia is going, AMD may be the only way to actually get a next-gen card.
A few of us have one.
Iāve seen a lot of chitter chatter that there will be a lot of 3070ās but guess what that is? Another rumor :)
stusser
6756
Hardware g-sync doesnāt work on AMD GPUs. Unless you have a new monitor that specifically says it supports it, I guess-- hadnāt seen that before.
I was initially planning on a 3080, but now I find myself more and more interested in a 6800xt
Because you would be wasting a feature you spent extra money on with no ability to use the substitute version of that feature AMD provides (unless you have a monitor capable of both). My Acer Predator has g-sync. It canāt out before the compatible stuff was a thing. My presumption is that itās completely loose VRR with an AMD Card, which Iām not willing to do. Iād need a new monitor to take advantage of that, as Stusser said.
Editer
6759
So my EVGA ālet me know when itās in stockā that turned into āyou have a reservation in lineā came through the day before the AMD announcement. (And I need a card for my work/multiplayer rig that my kid uses when he needs Windows because the GTX 660 in there now, well, does a nice job with Excel.) I had 8 hours to decide.
Given my decision, I expect AMD will have an offering that beats the 3080, for less money, tomorrow, shipping in quantity immediately. ;-)
Soma
6760
I seriously doubt they will be shipping in quantity tomorrow, given they have to manage supplying XXX/S and PS5 in quantity. Even if it is available to ship tomorrow, it is open question whether there is QC issue. 3080 is a solid buy at this point IMO, if you have the cash to spare.
Aceris
6761
Like @stusser says, DLSS is a game changer. Even if AMD can reimplement the software side, I havenāt heard anything about RDNA2 havign tensor cores so it would have to use itās standard FP32 instead. And Nvidia claim 1 tensor core is worth about 20 floating point cores for this kind of workflow. The 3070 has 184 tensor cores soā¦
Even on raytracing, NVidia have been working on the low level technology since at least 2012, and will be on their second production iteration of the technology. It sounds like AMD are at least going to have dedicated hardware for this, but AMDās hardware and software is unlikely to be as good. They might be able to get that performance back with raw silicon efficiency and higher clocks.
So yeah, 3080 is a good card :) Glad to hear EVGAās queue system works.
This is the only thing I currently doubt. Last rumor I heard was mid-November, but Iāve personally got zero inside info. Looking forward to the announcement and official (albeit likely cherry-picked) benchmarks today.
I think all @Editer was saying is that since he bought the 3080, there would be some cosmic comedy in AMD having a vastly better, vastly more available offering the following day.
So if it does work out that way, I thank you for your sacrifice!
