Ampere... what a disastrous launch!

[MissChief]

Probably wanted to get it out there before the AMD announce next month.

AMD announced the dates for Zen 3 and Navi after the nvidia launch.

 

[SonicSW20]

AMD announced the dates for Zen 3 and Navi after the nvidia launch.

It would be very naive to think that Nvidia do not have insider information on AMD and vice versa.

 

[Woodsta888]

Surely the worst launch from nvidia. I can't remember a launch this bad from nvidia.

The issue with this launch is the hype for this new line up was massive and underachied.

The power comes at the cost of being hungry and hot.

Amd get slack for this and so should nvidia fair is fair.

Damn right, I remember when it was the 7970's, 290's etc Nvidia fanboy's beasted AMD for them being hot cards. So many memes referencing the heat.

At least Jensen was upfront taking 3000 cards out of the oven. Shame they are half baked.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

AMD announced the dates for Zen 3 and Navi after the nvidia launch.

We've known for months that they were planning to release them Q4 of this year.

I think they even mentioned it in their Q1 investor call.

 

[jaycob]

Straight up looks like a joke.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Prices on here are still being gouged and pre orders still being taken. That's the Zotac gouged almost £100 from MRSP now, for a pre order with no delivery estimate.

At least the scalpers on eBay have stock to ship, and the way things are progressing they'll be cheaper than OcUK.

 

[Five.Stars]

It was obviously a paper launch when almost a week after sales went live, you can count on one pair of hands how many 3080s I’ve seen in customer’s hands.

Nvidia have been absolute shambolic in how they’ve dealt with this 3000 series launch. 3090 is expected to be worse this week, Gibbo said he has single digit stock numbers on models. How’s that anything but a paper launch?

The best thing Nvidia could’ve done, is just allow pre-orders last week only. Then start shipping cards from 1st October or similar. At least AIBs and retailers would have another 2 weeks to manufacture and supply the chain. Whilst also getting an idea for demand volume on pre-orders.

There are currently 7 entrants on the roll of honour in owners thread on this forum. SEVEN.

Someone said something about them launching with 1% supply compared to demand. I'd be stunned if it was even that high.

Atrocious.

 

[Five.Stars]

I don't get all the rush. There isn't a next gen game out until November. Don't give paper launches time of day, just wait a month maybe slightly longer and order then along with that next gen game that will make use of the new hardware?

People have sold gpu's in anticipation of the new card being available and are left with either an inadequate back up card or no card at all.

 

[Gerard]

There are currently 7 entrants on the roll of honour in owners thread on this forum. SEVEN.

Someone said something about them launching with 1% supply compared to demand. I'd be stunned if it was even that high.

Atrocious.

Yup, NVidia are playing the "demand" card but it's blatantly obvious stock was incredibly limited, why else would retailers be gagged about talking about how many they got?

 

[Nasher]

People skipped the 20 series because it was rubbish and overpriced. Now everyone wants these.

 

[hyperseven]

There are currently 7 entrants on the roll of honour in owners thread on this forum. SEVEN.

Someone said something about them launching with 1% supply compared to demand. I'd be stunned if it was even that high.

Atrocious.

How do you know the majority of the purchasers are even active forum members or even members at all?

What other purchases do you announce on the forum that belongs to the retailer?

 

[Five.Stars]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/ No specific figures mentioned I’ll agree. Unprecedented demand though.

So you just made it up then in other words?

NVIDIA will have known what the demand was. They will also have known that they were weeks, if not months from being able to satisfy even close to that demand.

 

[r22snapper]

People have sold gpu's in anticipation of the new card being available and are left with either an inadequate back up card or no card at all.

I've noticed they've stopped telling us all how clever they were...

 

[Five.Stars]

How do you know the majority of the purchasers are even active forum members or even members at all?

What other purchases do you announce on the forum that belongs to the retailer?

I don't obviously. I was making a point that it is a small number nearly a week after release which is perhaps indicitive of how many 3080's are out there.

I'm pretty sure owners threads on previous launches were far busier.

 

[shrek2]

There's something more sinister at play here.
Have you noticed how the price is creeping up bit by bit? There isn't a single AIB card at MRSP. Look at the 3070 prices on ocuk.
I think this is by design. So in two month time someone paying £750 for the crappy Palit card will think they're getting a "bargain".

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I've noticed they've stopped telling us all how clever they were...

 

[MissChief]

So you just made it up then in other words?

NVIDIA will have known what the demand was. They will also have known that they were weeks, if not months from being able to satisfy even close to that demand.

No, I didn’t. It came from here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-3080-qa/ where nvidia themselves stated ‘At 6 a.m. pacific we attempted to push the NVIDIA store live. Instantly, the NVIDIA store was inundated with over 10 times the traffic of our previous generation launch, which took our internal systems to a crawl and encountered an error preventing sales from starting properly at 6:00am pacific. We were able to resolve the issues and process orders later than planned.’

Ten times the demand of the 2000 series launch.

 

[zoffster1]

I've noticed they've stopped telling us all how clever they were...

At times like this a backup gaming laptop is very useful

 

[Gerard]

Ten times the demand of the 2000 series launch.

And yet retailers are gagged from mentioning stock numbers for what is widely believed to be a paper launch, seems legit.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Like I said, a joke then. Only @MissChief seems to disagree lol (and struggles with facts yet still defending the hill).