Does anyone do SLI any more? I did it once with some 3dfx cards maybe? Can’t recall. Seemed like a hassle whatever it was. Besides, wouldn’t you need like, I dunno, your own personal power plant to run these things in SLI?
stusser
10300
No, and the 3080 doesn’t support SLI anyway, only the 3090 and assumedly the 3090ti do.
Daagar
10302
Only you can prevent climate change.
I tried SLI about 10ish years ago… long enough that I can’t even remember the card versions. I found it more hassle then it was worth.
stusser
10304
SLI never worked particularly well, which is why everybody decided to just up and kill it with the current generation. MS and Vulkan have explicit multi-GPU support which basically asks the game to handle sending tasks to each GPU, but basically nobody is using this technology, even though many of us do have multiple GPUs in our systems-- the iGPU in the CPU, and a discrete GPU in a PCIe slot.
Has “this is the year of proof-of-stake” replaced “this is the year of Linux [on the desktop]”?!
Nvidia have a big announcement saying Our stuff’s in stock!
… with lots of links to out of stock cards. Still, getting there :)
I think that model’s now $870 direct from EVGA, so your buddy didn’t do you any favours!
Nope - supply is definitely catching up. I ended up having to sell this one at a loss to get it off my hands. Local teenager got a steal at $700
Soma
10311
Demand has caught up with supply… 1.5 years after launch. We are truly living in the future!!!11
As we all know, time keeps on slippin’. Slippin’. Slippin’. Into the future.
And if you know those lyrics, you’re living in the past, man.
Just waiting with baited breath for the new shortages when the 4000 series¹ and Zen 4 ship. It’s going to be so exciting waiting in line overnight for the slim chance at spending 200% of MSRP on PC hardware, again!
¹ - although looking at the power requirements and associated heat output that must make, RDNA 3 seems more tempting these days
Local MicroCenter has more than 25 EVGA 3090s in stock right now, and at least 50 3080ti’s stocked across different brands. Crazy. For two years you couldn’t beg, borrow or steal an nVidia 3080 or 3090, and now there seems to be a market glut.
Which has me wondering: what’s the retail agreement on these with manufacturers? For instance, if MicroCenter is desperate to get any 30xx card in stock back in 2021, do they pay whatever the manufacturer is then charging them for the card at wholesale, and then if there’s a price drop and they’ve still got cards on shelves they bought at heavily marked up prices is it “Sucks to be you”?
I still think all these surplus cards were going to Russia for most of the last 2 years.
Lots of cards. But, were they being sold by msrp?
