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3080 AIBs and Retail Launch (7 Comments) (link)
 Monday, 21-September-2020  12:33:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Last week we saw the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition reviews, which are essentially a reference design from NVIDIA. The following day we also saw the AIB or "Add-In Board" designs released from various manufacturers - here's some reviews:

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO on Tweaktown.
GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 SG on Guru3D.
ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming on Guru3D.
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING X TRIO on Guru3D.
Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro on Guru3D.
Zotac GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity on TechPowerUp.
Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC Review: Big, Custom Ampere on HotHardware.
Palit GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Pro OC on TechPowerUp.
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio 10G on NeoSeeker.
MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X TRIO on OCClub.
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio on TechPowerUp.
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio on ThinkComputers.
ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming OC on TechPowerUp.

Techgage have an article on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming At 4K, Ultrawide & With RTX On. Since the RTX 3080 is pretty well-known about now, we’ll expedite this intro a bit, and get right into testing. If you want to learn more first about GeForce Ampere, you can check out our announcement article. Otherwise, you can look through our testing methodology preamble, and then jump right into the results.

However the actual retail launch provoked a lot of online angst, with people saying retail sites instantly sold out (more here) and it seems that bots and scalpers may be at least partly to blame. There are also outlandish bids on auction listings, some topping $3000 or $4000 dollars—even on some of the "paper edition" cards. Sorting auctions by highest bid, the current most expensive RTX 3080 is going for $80,000. Something tells me that payment's never coming through.

NVIDIA have officially responded to the shortage. NVIDIA has promised that they along with their partners will be shipping more GeForce RTX 3080 series graphics cards to retailers every day so that those who were planning to purchase a card but couldn't do so due to the half-baked launch day don't miss out the action. NVIDIA also claims that over 50 major global retailers did have inventory at 6 a.m. Pacific Time but they don't say just how big of a quantity there was, to begin with.

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