Hi everyone, very excited for these new cards !!!! 
 
I assume this has been answered in some capacity in these past 32 pages, but due to my limited time I'm just gonna go for it:
If I am eligible for step-up on the 17th/24th, and the cards sell out instantaneously (which likely will happen), can I queue myself into a line so that when "a card" becomes available I can still qualify for step-up for it?
 
My step up ends on like October 5th or something, so obviously I am not expecting the cards to be back in stock for sure before then, I just hope that there is a "get in line for step-up" and when you "get in line", it stops your step up from expiring?
 
Thanks everyone, appreciate your time!
 
Edit* changed date of my step-up expiration, oops!

evga STILL hasn't put up the links for the products page?

wenzeld
Hi everyone, very excited for these new cards !!!! 
 
I assume this has been answered in some capacity in these past 32 pages, but due to my limited time I'm just gonna go for it:
If I am eligible for step-up on the 17th/24th, and the cards sell out instantaneously (which likely will happen), can I queue myself into a line so that when "a card" becomes available I can still qualify for step-up for it?
 
My step up ends on like October 5th or something, so obviously I am not expecting the cards to be back in stock for sure before then, I just hope that there is a "get in line for step-up" and when you "get in line", it stops your step up from expiring?
 
Thanks everyone, appreciate your time!
 
Edit* changed date of my step-up expiration, oops!

Once you join the step up queue, you are in queue, and just have to wait for your number to be called. As long as you have time left, you can actually hop out of queue to join a different queue. Example, you jump on the 3080, but decide you prefer the 3090 when it launches, so you drop the 3080 and get in line for the 3090, but you still have to be within the 90 days to be able to switch queues, and you also go to the back of the queue line as well.

Your number will not be visible, but everyone goes in order from when they submitted their step up request.

It could be a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months.

Just be aware, it is usually the base model cards in the step up list, so be prepared for the Black or XC3 model to go on the list at most. The other cards will not get listed, especially not the hybrids, FTW3’s, or K|ngp|n’s.

Newegg has a couple different SKU's for the XC3 3080
 
This one shows a little faster GPU speed:
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card, 10G-P5-3885-KR, 10GB GDDR6X, iCX3 Cooling, ARGB LED, Metal Backplate 
Whats the price difference? from the 3881-KR ?
 

Nice

Is 780 3gb and 780 6gb that hard to differentiate?

When you factor in the fees ebay and PayPal charge along with the shipping the profits you think they are making aren't nearly as much.

You don't have to pay 13% of the profit to eBay / PayPal you have to pay 13% of the entire amount charged even the shipping.

For example at $1000 for a $700 card after fees and $40 in shipping they end up with $130

Its profitable sure but not nearly as profitable as a lot of people think. At $2000 for a $1500 they only see about $200.

They can't even sell them for less than ~850 (@700 cost) without losing money.

$1500 card would have to sell for $1775 to basically break even.

If anyone's making off like a bandit it's eBay / PayPal.

rdmetz
Is 780 3gb and 780 6gb that hard to differentiate?

I don't know how things are done now, but when I bought my GTX 770 in 2014, I had no clue there was a 4GB variant. I knew that the 770 was a 2GB card, so it never occurred to me to check for different RAM amounts. The problem is producing different versions of the same product name, instead of at least differentiating them by name, such as '8800 GTS 320', '8800 GTS 640', and '8800 GTS 512'.
 
When I purchase products like that, or build a system, I assure you that I do a lot of research, and still I only found out several months ago that a 4GB 770 ever existed, lol! I can't imagine that the average Joe would have fared any better than I.

rdmetz
I feel pretty safe with a 3090 that no matter how things shuffle underneath it will remain the top card just like 2080ti did last time.

It seems like you are ignoring the TITAN RTX for some reason? The 3090 is being promoted as a TITAN-level card.
 
You can't arbitrarily ignore it based upon price: The MSRP of the TITAN RTX was 150% higher than the 2080 Ti, while the 3090 is 114% higher than the 3080. So the 20 Series price gap wasn't radically different than the 30 Series gap.
 
In fact, very few people paid $1000 USD for a 2080 Ti, with many or most paying ~$1200 - $1700+.

Anyone knows what's up with the eu store? It's listing prices but you can't actually buy stuff.

Flonkam

rdmetz
I feel pretty safe with a 3090 that no matter how things shuffle underneath it will remain the top card just like 2080ti did last time.

It seems like you are ignoring the TITAN RTX for some reason? The 3090 is being promoted as a TITAN-level card.
 
You can't arbitrarily ignore it based upon price: The MSRP of the TITAN RTX was 150% higher than the 2080 Ti, while the 3090 is 114% higher than the 3080. So the 20 Series price gap wasn't radically different than the 30 Series gap.
 
In fact, very few people paid $1000 USD for a 2080 Ti, with many or most paying ~$1200 - $1700+.

And we have already seen a leaked Quadro with the full GA102 die with 48GB GDDR6 just switch that to 24GB GDDR6X at the full 21Gbps instead of 19Gbps and they have a Titan with 5-10% more performance than the 3090. Plus there still is a GA100 die with no announced products. 

Flonkam

vulcan1978
See the gaping chasm in price and performance between the 3080 and the 3090?

 
The problem is that I only see a gaping chasm in price. The 3090 has ~20% higher FLOPS than the 3080 for a 114% higher price. The difference in apparent raw performance between the 3080 and 3090 is far less than than between the 3070 and 3080. And that means that there is also no performance room at all for a 3080 Ti....a 3080 Ti that isn't a complete joke, that is.
 

vulcan1978
Yeah, NGreedia have something up their sleeve for Big Navi, whether that will be a 20GB 3080 or 3080S is the question. 

Whatever they do, they better never, ever again release cards with different RAM amounts and exactly the same naming scheme, lol. The only thing worse is releasing the same card with a 128-bit and 256-bit version and leaving the poor average gamer to figure that out for himself.

If youre coming from 2080 Ti the math works out like this: 
 
+$700 (FE) for a 30% bump in rasterization and 60-70% bump in RT vs +$1500 (FE) for a 50% bump in rasterization and 80-90% bump in RT. Add the fact that the 3080 may be VRAM limited with next gen console ports, to say nothing of VR (seeing 10.5GB of usage in Half Life: Alyx on the Index, and I'm upgrading to the Reverb G2 with 5.5% more actual resolution). 
 
Basically the 3090 truly is like the 690 in terms of a performance proposition, taking you to near 3080 SLI performance coming from say a 580. If the 3090 was 30% faster than the 3080 in rasterization then it would look like this: 
 
$700 for 30% bump in rasterization
$1500 for 60% bump in rasterization 
 
Get it? 

Duppex77
Nor sure if already been posted. But they are looking too nice 🤓
 
https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/145429-evga-shows-geforce-rtx-3090-xc3-ftw3-gpus/
 

I really like the look of the XC3.

Airikay

vulcan1978

Add the fact that the 3080 may be VRAM limited with next gen console ports, to say nothing of VR (seeing 10.5GB of usage in Half Life: Alyx on the Index, and I'm upgrading to the Reverb G2 with 5.5% more actual resolution). 

There is a difference between VRAM allocated and VRAM used
https://youtu.be/mxsBZgHM7CE?t=26m15s

I definitely think 10GB is a little light when the Steam hardware survey shows an average of 8GB VRAM. I think it’s inevitable to see a refresh with 20GB, especially if the AMD 16GB rumors pan out.

Omoeba

F5alcon

Flonkam

rdmetz
I feel pretty safe with a 3090 that no matter how things shuffle underneath it will remain the top card just like 2080ti did last time.

It seems like you are ignoring the TITAN RTX for some reason? The 3090 is being promoted as a TITAN-level card.
 
You can't arbitrarily ignore it based upon price: The MSRP of the TITAN RTX was 150% higher than the 2080 Ti, while the 3090 is 114% higher than the 3080. So the 20 Series price gap wasn't radically different than the 30 Series gap.
 
In fact, very few people paid $1000 USD for a 2080 Ti, with many or most paying ~$1200 - $1700+.

And we have already seen a leaked Quadro with the full GA102 die with 48GB GDDR6 just switch that to 24GB GDDR6X at the full 21Gbps instead of 19Gbps and they have a Titan with 5-10% more performance than the 3090. Plus there still is a GA100 die with no announced products. 

The GA100 is used in the A100 datacenter accelerator and *100 dies almost never appear in consumer GPUs.

Yeah I don't expect the GA100 to end up in a Titan unless Big Navi is significantly faster than a 3090, which is not expected. Nvidia is not about to let AMD have a faster flagship.