It just sounds to me like another artificial hype from Nvidia. Let's apologize that our cards are in short supply and oh my, the demand is so great, because the cards are so super great and everyone has to have one first day. Oh please Nvidia, really, that's enough.

Apologies only go so far. They need to build and release new stock pretty quickly. Big Navi news comes out in around 5 weeks. So they need to start burning the midnight oil.

Just ...makes me dislike Nvidia even more.

Amaze:

Demand IS way higher than for the 2080. The question is why?

I see it as a type of scam, people buy them all up then sell them at a higher price.... at least this is what I'm seeing.

ITGuru:

What a croak of sh....t, 25%-30% in REAL GAMES faster than 2080 ti if that with no TI in sight, why is everyone so overhyped ? i don't get it....that is even less than the previous gen. Remember the 3080 does not overclock well, my 2080 ti runs at 2160 core rock solid stable (water cooled), so the difference might be 15-20% if that, and 10 GB mem size ? that is a slap in the face, these clowns are going backwards. People, you are being conned,,,,,wake up!

And lets not forget the FE is the equivelent of the A-dies on the RTX2000 series. There is a slower version for the masses, but the reviewers will be send the top of the range A-die cards and build up hype.

Classical fan the flames of demand make a product artificially exclusive by either pricing it huge and hype or restrict supplies to create a buying frenzy or both, I fell for it with the 2080ti and over paid wont be doing it again the uplift is not worth it on my liquid cooled 2080ti am going wait for big navi first and then see how the market pans out

"Underestimated demand for 3080 FE cards" oh sweet sweet lies

Got information that boost clock can vary alot when getting a card from 3rd party manufacturers Highest boost clock was 1750Mhz, unlike what you can see in reviews where it goes beyond 1900Mhz clock easily. Btw in this case it's Gainward, even second card does not reach more than 1850Mhz boost.

I think the demand is so high because the 1080 was such a good card for the money that when the 2080 came along people thought it overpriced for what extra you were paying for, ie the RTX side was not worth the outlay or extra speed for the cost, so kept with that generation. Those people now think the price and performance makes for a good upgrade path. However, the question still arises why do people have to buy on the first day apart from being to present the new toy on forums etc? We all know that prices right at the start are going to be over the odds with price gouging before the supply ramps up. Buying before seeing if any cards have make of cards has any issues is strange. We know that sometimes AIBs make a mistake and have to rectify a card or cards. This time nvidia kept the drivers away from the AIBs until really late and also the AIBs are all doing their own board design and cooling, away from a recommended nVidia board based on the FE, due to the FE cooling for the 3080, so even more chance of picking up a clunker on the first day compared to normal. Is having it first worth the potential downsides, I don't think it is. It will be interesting to see how the 3070 launch goes because at $499 we know that card is going to be even more popular if bigger than 2080 performance.......

It's almost cute.. 🙄

Demand is not higher than usual, supply is simply lower, way lower.

FrostNixon:

Demand is not higher than usual, supply is simply lower, way lower.

I don't expect you have any evidence to back that up do you?

Supply is way to low, this is the aftermath of the corona virus sadly. The demand is very high so its sold out so fast. Real reason is, lower price than last gen, low supply, high demand, finally far better 4k gaming card and last but not least, mining performance is much better vs the price value, down side is the huge power consumption. I hope these scalpers get what they deserve now!

FrostNixon:

Demand is not higher than usual, supply is simply lower, way lower.

/thread They divergently chose two paths; crank up the price and stifle supply to rationalise the high price. IF the geforce range of products were their only product, my logic falls down, but as they got money coming in from a multitude of differing product lines and services, they 'fabricated' this.

Loobyluggs:

/thread They divergently chose two paths; crank up the price and stifle supply to rationalise the high price. IF the geforce range of products were their only product, my logic falls down, but as they got money coming in from a multitude of differing product lines and services, they 'fabricated' this.

Demand outstripped supply by a large multiple. I'm guessing between 5 to 10 times. Do you seriously think that Nvidia would NOT want to sell 5 to 10 times as many units? Adding a 0 to revenue figures is generally considered a good thing in business. They are not cheap but have the same pricing as the previous generation and far greater performance per $ so it's simply not true that they cranked up the price as you suggested.

Well I would have thought demand would definitely be higher. First the 3080 is so much cheaper than what I paid for my 2080 ti, it’s a shame to also see the online retailers putting up prices too which are well above previously advertised prices also who on here didn’t have a holiday this year so maybe the thought of a nice new 3080 sitting in their computer would spend some of that holiday cash.

This "release" is one of the biggest piles of lies Ive seen a company to produce, and Ive seen a lot already. 3080 is NOT 2x 2080 The real performance of AIB cards will be lower than the golden samples FE Cards are not even available (like 20 cards for a major vendor I know about... not 200 or 2000 cards, but 20) 3090 - the "BFG" is 10% faster than 3080 but costs 1000USD more.. yet is still a GAMING cards, because it has no PROdrivers. This is steaming pile.. enjoy your preorders. I will absolutely not support company like that. What so ever.

I wonder if it's the same with the 3090 launch...

southamptonfc:

Demand outstripped supply by a large multiple. I'm guessing between 5 to 10 times. Do you seriously think that Nvidia would NOT want to sell 5 to 10 times as many units? Adding a 0 to revenue figures is generally considered a good thing in business. They are not cheap but have the same pricing as the previous generation and far greater performance per $ so it's simply not true that they cranked up the price as you suggested.

As I said, if it was their only product, my logic falls apart.

HybOj:

This "release" is one of the biggest piles of lies Ive seen a company to produce, and Ive seen a lot already. 3080 is NOT 2x 2080 The real performance of AIB cards will be lower than the golden samples FE Cards are not even available (like 20 cards for a major vendor I know about... not 200 or 2000 cards, but 20) 3090 - the "BFG" is 10% faster than 3080 but costs 1000USD more.. yet is still a GAMING cards, because it has no PROdrivers. This is steaming pile.. enjoy your preorders. I will absolutely not support company like that. What so ever.

I mostly agree with you. Mostly.