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Besides mass murdering everyone who can't help themselves and wait a couple of weeks before purchasing something which will be sold for two years what measures can they take?
Their measures were apparently letting people know this time beforehand that there's only limited supply3080-launch reloaded? I thought Nvidia said, they'd taken measures...
It was a bit like challenging 4chan to a DDoS.Their measures were apparently letting people know this time beforehand that there's only limited supply
Yeah, 1 per customer at least for 3080'sDid the Nvidia store limit the number of cards per order?
Besides mass murdering everyone who can't help themselves and wait a couple of weeks before purchasing something which will be sold for two years what measures can they take?
They fixed the Titan RTX mixed precision spec too, from 65.2 to 130.5 TFLOP, Nvidia is reading this forum
Cool, apparently some other stores were not limiting per customer.Yeah, 1 per customer at least for 3080's
I really doubt that we're looking at three months of satisfying the initial demand. It'll more than likely be resolved by the end of October completely.
It's also very possible that many of those who couldn't get a 3080 right now will instead wait for 6900 and 3080 20GB cards since we're basically about a month away from the former at least. So the demand will die down a bit over the next couple of weeks IMO.
Same for 3090. I could just see that after putting it in the basekt and before their shop-system refused to let me advance through the purchasing process any further.Yeah, 1 per customer at least for 3080's
That's my impression too.I just managed to run both versions (since I had a copy of the older one) through a PDF compare and it does look like the Titan RTX spec fix and the GA104 clarification/details were the only two changes.
And consoles were at a completely different price point for a whole system, not a component only.It didn't help consoles to stock for months. At least I have been unable to get a preorder in for ps5 :/
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-3090-strix-oc/38.html24 GB VRAM is definitely future-proof, but I'm having doubts whether you really need that much memory. Sure, more is always better, but unless you are using professional applications, you'll have a hard time finding a noteworthy difference between performance with 10 GB vs 24 GB. Games won't be an issue, because you'll run out of shading power long before you run out of VRAM, just like with older cards today, which can't handle 4K, no matter how much VRAM they have. Next-gen consoles also don't have as much VRAM, so it's hard to image that you'll miss out on any meaningful gaming experience if you have less than 24 GB VRAM.
NVIDIA demonstrated several use cases in their reviewer's guide: OctaneRender, DaVinci Resolve and Blender can certainly benefit from more memory, GPU compute applications, too, but these are very niche use cases. I'm not aware of any creators who were stuck and couldn't create, because they ran out of VRAM. On the other hand the RTX 3090 could definitely turn out to be a good alternative to Quadro, or Tesla, unless you need double-precision math (you don't).
Haven't even managed to get through half of the available reviews yet, but Computerbase comments a bit about the more than 10GB VRAM being beneficial in today's games ,by pointing out the 3090 has a repeatable 22% higher frametimes compared to the 3080 in Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09.../2/#diagramm-ghost-recon-breakpoint-3840-2160
https://www.igorslab.de/en/what-rea...tabilities-of-the-force-rtx-3080-andrtx-3090/There are emerging numerous reports of crashing/freezing issues with the 3080, like
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...x-3080-hitching-and-crashing-across-all-titl/
No official statement yet from Nvidia.
That's all good, but these issues affect Founders Editions too, not just AIB cardshttps://www.igorslab.de/en/what-rea...tabilities-of-the-force-rtx-3080-andrtx-3090/
To sum it up:
Board partners got surprised by record smashing power consumption, (board partner, not reference) circuit designs working perfectly well for smaller GPUs don't work for the 3080/3090. Used the wrong capacitor types around the power pins of the GPU. Several custom designs (like ZOTAC Trinity 3080, Gigabyte, some ASUS models(?)) are pretty much broken by design, and won't run stable unless parts are replaced or boost clocks are drastically limited.
Apparently not yet decided who is to take the fall, as the faulty choice of components was apparently permitted by NVIDIAs specifications.
Yes, and also reported cases for MSI and EVGA models which used the same parts list as the Founders Edition. Albeit not reported at the same frequency as models using POSCAP on the NVVDD rail too. May be same issue, but with a higher error margin, may be unrelated issues. Difficult to tell apart from PSU problems.That's all good, but these issues affect Founders Editions too, not just AIB cards