EVGA Step Up Program: https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/
 
EVGA Step Up Sub-Forum: https://forums.evga.com/E..StepUp-Program-f34.aspx
 
The short of it - if you registered your 2070 within 14 days of the purchase, and are within the 90 day step up window - you can step up your card. If you didn't register within the 14 day window, you must purchase an extended warranty to be able to step up within that 90 day window (there are no exceptions to the 90 day window). Once you're in queue, it's a line - you are guaranteed your step up card, and can continue using your old one until it's time to swap out. You pay the difference in MSRP of the new card to the price paid of the old card (minus taxes and shipping). And I do believe that you pay for shipping your old card to EVGA.

You will probably have a higher chance of buying a RTX30X0 from a retailer or etailer before you get a 30X0 from the step-up program....

This is what I posted in another thread.....
 
You'll probably get your step up card some time in Feb or March.
 

WARNING
Anyone currently considering buying a lower end card to get in the step up que needs to fully read and understand the terms:
 
https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/
 
- When I stepped up to a 2080 Ti in mid-2019 it took me about a month to complete the process and have a 2080 Ti in hand.  This was well after the launch in Sept '18.  It took months for some of the people who signed up in '18.
 
- I did it because I wasn't getting enough out of the 2080 I had bought for 4K gaming, 2080 Ti's were generally available at the time from many sources.
 
- You reserve your step-up model at Step 1, so any step-ups started now get the FTW3 card
 
- Supposedly Step-Up cards are from *available inventory* and are normally reference cards.  If vendors are demanding cards and cards are constantly selling out, there will not be cards made available, or maybe they will make just a few available at a time.  Step-ups are last priority for who gets cards.
 
- If reference cards are in lower demand / higher availability, eventually they will be the Step-Up option, this could change any day.
 
- People have been discussing doing step-up on various other forums for the last month or so.  The list is a mile long now and anyone serious about it signed up right when it became live.
 
- The program is to allow people to upgrade who need more performance, not to "pre-order" them.
 
- There is extremely high demand for 3080 step-ups, far more than 2080 Ti's two years ago.
 
- You definitely will be able to buy a card outright in the next month or two, faster than using step-up.
 
- The only way I would step up right now is if I HAD TO ABSOLUTELY get a gpu for my machine RIGHT NOW and was OK with waiting several months, paying full MSRP, and the downtime to step up.  Granted, this does let you spread out the cash outlay.
 
- IMHO, anyone who orders a lower card TODAY and starts a step-up when they get it, will not get a step-up 3080 in hand until some time in 2021.

 
But like, that's just my opinion man. 
 
If you insist on doing it, I'd get a 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra from Newegg, it's a good fast card with a good cooler and high power limit, selling for MSRP $599 in stock, it should keep you happy for many months if you never had a card as good.  Just keep in mind you're locked in so if you find a 3080 on the open market before your step up happens, you'll have to sell the 2070S at a loss.  Or just buy the cheapest card you can get by with, if you're going to actively keep looking.
 

kevinc313
 
If you insist on doing it, I'd get a 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra from Newegg

Now I'm confused. I thought you could only step up to the same class? like if you bought a 2070, you could only step up to a 3070?

yaggaz

kevinc313
 
If you insist on doing it, I'd get a 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra from Newegg

Now I'm confused. I thought you could only step up to the same class? like if you bought a 2070, you could only step up to a 3070?

You can step up to anything of a higher performance tier than your current card. So you could step up to even a RTX 3090 if you wanted to. 


 
I will put this out there though. I started the step up process day 1 (Sept 17th) when the RTX 3080 launched and I still don't even have a number in the que, still no email for step #2. I knew it was going to be months before availability was enough to start fulfilling step up requests but I did it for 2 reasons 
 
1) it is for my "VR" rig where the RTX 2070 Super is currently and honestly the RTX 2070 Super plays everything in VR just fine
2) I didn't feel like going on an Easter Egg hunt trying to find a RTX 3080 in stock
 
So, if you do want one sooner rather than later, forget about the "step up" option. It's not a viable path to acquiring one in a timely manner. Sure you are "guaranteed" one once you enter the que, but don't expect that to be before the end of the year. 

 
Good point made on this thread -
 
"So, if you do want one sooner rather than later, forget about the "step up" option. It's not a viable path to acquiring one in a timely manner. Sure you are "guaranteed" one once you enter the que, but don't expect that to be before the end of the year. "
 
I decided, and I might be wrong, that the step up program was worth a shot.  I will consider it a win of I have my EVGA 3080 FTW before XMAS.  I really don't see winning against the bots, paying twice  or more the list price on ebay.  So yeah.. if the cards are out in force online to buy in late November and early December I doubt you will see the "good" ones.  Sure you want to settle for something worse then a founders card.. it might be there.  However the EVGA 3080 FTW3 will be sold out.. again, again, and again  (my prediction).  And getting a ASUS Strix.. LOL.. never happening until maybe next summer if you just want to do online.
 
I just received my EVGA 2080 Super FTW3 today, ordered it just for the step up, its likely going in my rig this weekend, replacing what will eventually become my spare card, a ASUS Rog Strix 2070 Super Advanced.  I decided to try it out since it could be the card I use for a long time if things are as bad as I think they will be trying to get my 3080.  I got the auto notification that I am in the queue, my invoice is uploaded.
 
 
However:
 
I have 24 days left to return my EVGA 2080 Super to the online reseller.  If I can't find a acceptable 3080 in that 24 days I will just have to be ok getting my step up card in Feb, March, April.. whenever... I will consider it a bad choice but one made just in case supply is so bad that it was the only way to get an acceptable GPU.  It was a decision I made after careful thought.. I might be wrong.. hell I might not see the step up card until next summer and maybe by then I won't want it because the 3080 Super will be out... that happens I will take it and sell it and buy a 3080 super.
 
There are only 2 partner brands I trust for gpu's:  ASUS and EVGA.  This entire launch was a mess and the availability of quality components is very low due to the pandemic.  I am annoyed at Nvidia and at the big partner brands.  Customers that use the equipment have been preyed on by kids running bots and gouging the price when they resell. 
 
Depending on how this ends up for me this could be my last Nvidia based card... AMD based cards are cheaper and for the games I play now.. maybe enough.
 
 
 

hey will this program still work with a new 2070 super off a seller on newegg?

do you know if a new one from target would work i found the same one and it wont let me link

yup thats the one and i also found a evga rtx 2070 super black on newegg, can you link that list please?

im gonna pull the trigger on this one thank you, ill make sure its the one sold by newegg

Well I entered the step up and am using the 2070, but the only thing that came in the box is the card itself..

I bought a brand new 2070 super from bestbuy.com , it came in the normal retail box, but there isn't anything that needs to be in the box, besides the card itself and a small install guide. 

Most cards do not come with accessories anymore.