I got about 10 alerts yesterday from HotStock of 3080s available at Best Buy. I tried the first few but of course none of them were ever in stock when I hit the ‘Add to Cart’ button.
One of them, funny enough, gave me a message saying “this item is not available for online purchase quote when I tried to purchase it. That message appeared right next to the message on the page where it says “this item is only available for online purchase.” So yeah.
I’ve tried to purchase them sort of as an academic exercise because I can’t imagine that I’m ever going to be fast enough to beat the guys who have scripts or bots running or whoever it is who buys all these things. I guess scalpers.
Sucks if you really want a 3080.
stusser
8027
DLSS is now widely available as an Unreal engine plugin.
AMD still doesn’t have any response to this.
Nor does Unity as far as I know!
How much do you think a 2800 FE would sell for these days? Thinking of selling mine and buying something better some point in the future.
stusser
8030
Looks like around $800, on eBay.
Cool, I have to see if I have an old card lying around that has dual-DVI output for my 1440p monitor.
I’m guessing that would be $650 in my pocket after delivery and Ebay fees.
stusser
8032
If you live in a decent-sized area, I would suggest selling in-person on Craigslist and only accepting cash.
Only question is how long will you have to wait for your next card. Feels like months to me.
Otherwise, I’d certainly sell in that situation.
Not too worried, only really game on the laptop and the PS5 at the moment anyway.
What’s the practical upshot of this? Apart from the whole pre-approval thing they were doing before, does it actually change the technical implementation?
stusser
8036
DLSS is widely available for anyone on Unreal now, while before it wasn’t. So I would expect to see it more widely used.
Unreal is the most used engine but Unity is #2, so hopefully that will be fully supported next. After that it’s just studio-specific stuff like Frostbite, Anvil, etc.
But it was available on Unreal before,right? I’m curious if this changes anything from a coding perspective.
stusser
8038
Sure, games with DLSS 2.0 have been out for months, just not widely available.
I’m not a game developer so I can’t answer what it changes from a coding perspective. My guess is nothing, but who knows? That’s probably under NDA too.
From what I’ve read, while Unreal Engine had a special branch with DLSS support it was gated off, watermarked, and Nvidia had to approve your game using it. Since most games aren’t building from special UE branches it wasn’t trivial for most teams to bother with, let alone smaller teams using UE with limited resources.
So this opens it up so that even indies have the ability to relatively easily add DLSS support.
fdsaion
8040
Recently added 2 slim 15mm Noctuas as bottom intake recently, dropping full load temps on my 3070 by about ~10-12 degrees, greatly reducing total system noise
Enidigm
8041
I am tempted to sell my 1080 vanilla for the crazy prices that are around right now… mainly because it feels irresponsible not to.
My 2080S is listed right now and bids are around what I paid at the end of 2019…
Its crazy, the card shortage and now mining has gobbled up all the 30xx/20xx and now some of the 10xx series. Damn miners!
vyshka
8044
I guess I will be using my 2080 for a while longer.
Lamalo
8045
Today I managed to sell the old 1080TI for around 500 USD. Only because of the lack of availability of new hardware.
