Had an Evga 3090 in the cart and once again lost, maybe at the end of October, when the deluge of stock comes in ill have better luck.

I read an article that NVIDIA stated over 300 thousand 3080 and 30 thousand 3090 are being shipped at the end of the month to compete with Big Navi ill try to find the article. https://www.youtube.com/w...zmbvUK93npo&t=267s

This guy has no real good sources. You shouldn't believe what he's saying.

Tabemaju

Dezlok
I read an article that NVIDIA stated over 300 thousand 3080 and 30 thousand 3090 are being shipped at the end of the month to compete with Big Navi ill try to find the article. 

I call BS.  There's no competitive advantage to Nvidia holding stock until after Big Navi releases.  On the contrary, I think they rushed to market to sell as much before Big Navi is anounced.

yeah why wait? everyone's hungry for gpu's. no advantage to wait.

buttabean

Tabemaju

Dezlok
I read an article that NVIDIA stated over 300 thousand 3080 and 30 thousand 3090 are being shipped at the end of the month to compete with Big Navi ill try to find the article. 

I call BS.  There's no competitive advantage to Nvidia holding stock until after Big Navi releases.  On the contrary, I think they rushed to market to sell as much before Big Navi is anounced.

yeah why wait? everyone's hungry for gpu's. no advantage to wait.

I think his argument is that Nvidia is creating a false shortage in order to push demand through the roof.  If that's true, then success.  They still have no reason to wait for the Big Navi announcement.  If Big Navi looks competitive, Nvidia risks losing a lot of the demand they generated because not only will there be a competition, but people will inclined not to go with Nvidia due to their botched release.  Either way, it would be a dumb move, and I don't think Nvidia is dumb when it comes to marketing and distribution.

chrisdglong
Funny how these "shortages" pretty much happen with all Nvidia launches. Sure, this one is worse, but this game of theirs always takes place.

They happen with all high demand items.

arock0627

chrisdglong
Funny how these "shortages" pretty much happen with all Nvidia launches. Sure, this one is worse, but this game of theirs always takes place.

They happen with all high demand items.

No, Nvidia is the worst. I've been playing their games for many years now.

At least I was able o pre-order a Quest 2 and was able to pick it up in person.
Too bad they won't do such a thing for 3080's but I have an EVGA 3080 FTW ULTRA got it by email notification.

Huntercyril
This guy has no real good sources. You shouldn't believe what he's saying.

There are a handful of these guys that regurgitate news and rumors. I don't find his content interesting and is speculative at best

AngryAce

Huntercyril
This guy has no real good sources. You shouldn't believe what he's saying.

There are a handful of these guys that regurgitate news and rumors. I don't find his content interesting and is speculative at best

This. Moores law is full of it, he says bogus stuff to garnish hype to get youtube views.

FlyingMonkeyPaints

Tabemaju
I call BS.  There's no competitive advantage to Nvidia holding stock until after Big Navi releases.  On the contrary, I think they rushed to market to sell as much before Big Navi is anounced.

Sure there is.  Look at all the panic and consternation this whole launch has caused.  Timing all the stock to be available the instant that AMD announces their offerings will cause a flurry of panic-buying for all the folks frustrated they have not been able to but a card.  Those folks will buy the instant they can, even if AMD's GPU is better on performance or price.  FOMO will take over, Nvidia will sell a ton of cards *and* suck all the wind out of AMD's sails for their launch at the same time.  Double win.

Anyway, we'll know soon.  If suddenly Nvidia cards get relatively easy to buy right around the 28th you'll know Moore's Law is Dead was right and Jensen is just a d*ck.

technically the 3090 cards should be easier to get no matter if the rumor is true or not. You won't be able to tell. Last time around I got a 2080ti nov 13th and I'm pretty sure a lot of others did too but they still would sell out until December+. My brother snagged a 3090fe this week already and using distill.io for the notification. I watched it stay in stock for a good 5-10+ minutes before it sold out. The 3080 sold really fast.
 
This time around, demand is higher for the 3080 than 3090. So if the 3080's stay in stock I would say the rumor has some weight to it but I highly doubt jensen is holding stock back. Everything nvidia has done states the contrary. 
 
Allowing only bestbuy to release the FE card indicates there is a real issue with bots and enormous traffic. Bestbuy has had 2 days this week with stock that I could tell. That would indicate we should start seeing a steady flow of cards like they have already said would happen. 
 
It seems to me Nvidia's lack of preorders is another indication they didn't have stock. You can't preorder something they don't have an eta to release. It's clear that they wouldn't be able to commit orders before AMD released their new cards and is the reason why they rushed to release the card before them. Another reason why all these board manufacturers had no time with the cards I would ASSume on top of not wanting leaks.