After the pathetic launches of 3080 and 3090, who like me has now become content with their current card and will wait for any of the following?
 
Full 102 die (3090ti?)
3080 20gb
4xxx series in 2-3 years
 
Just curious if anyone else had the wind knocked out of their sails seeing 100s of 3090s on ebay for 2-3x the price within an hour of launching.
 
Side note, push your reps to expand the BOTS Act of 2016 to be revised to include any high demand items. They did it for tickets, no reason they cant expand it to sneakers, graphics cards, consoles etc.

Not like most of us has a choice , with the bot services all snapping up the majority of any cards that come in stock.....
Most people won't even have a chance for a new card by the time AMD offering is presented next month. So the choices will be possibly available by then ....

AMD will soon be botted and scalped soon.

3080 hydrocoppers won't be widely available for months, maybe not even this year. So that gives me plenty of time to re-evaluate if I even need one (I wanted RTX for Minecraft, but maybe I can just do without it). It also means by the time they come into stock a 12GB "3090" or whatever they wish to label it will probably exist. Most of the performance of a 3090 without most of the price.
 
At this point I expect NVIDIA's 4000 launch to be no less of a disaster. NVIDIA's own admission was they forecast the 3000's to be a record breaker, but they still elected to not stockpile some measure of inventory before hand. For all the good launching before AMD's 6000 cards will do NVIDIA now. Poor AIB relations are why XFX jumped ship to AMD, NVIDIA may find it's burned one too many bridges some day with all the extra costs and ire its AIBs are enduring over the 3000 cards. 

Xavier Zepherious
you may have 4000 series next year
 
all depends on performance by both AMD and INTEL and how fast they plan to push out variants and new series
I wouldn't sit on my laurels if AMD and Intel are biting at my heels and might be taking some market from me
 
5nm is avail next year 
AMD plans on 5nm with the next series so that leaves Nvidia moving to 7nm

There is zero chance you're getting the 4000 series before 2022.  Even if AMD put out something comparable...which they also have zero chance of doing, NV would just dip the price $50 or whatever and be back on top.  NV is like Intel, people are going to choose them over AMD just on brand alone.
 
As far as I'm aware, Intel is not targeting desktop gamers with their GPU efforts.   At best you'll maybe eventually see some mobile GPU competition, most of the actual effort is going after server accelerators.

Sold my 2080 so not waiting too long.

20gb is likely overkill. 

I was in school so I was stuck with GTX 480s until I built a new system with 1080s and later upgraded to 1080 Ti. I recall these cards were hard to come by and were always out of stock. I skipped the 2000 series but those cards were sold out immediately when they launched. So here we are again with 3000 series being sold out immediately.

What makes you think a 3080 Ti or 3090 Ti or new 4000 series cards wont sell out immediately when they launch? As long as people are willing to pay 2 or 3 times the amount then scalpers/bots will continue to be an issue.

I'm not waiting I have two more systems to upgrade and once those are done then I'll wait for a couple of cycles and do it all again.

AngryAce

What makes you think a 3080 Ti or 3090 Ti or new 4000 series cards wont sell out immediately when they launch? As long as people are willing to pay 2 or 3 times the amount then scalpers/bots will continue to be an issue.

I'm under no illusions that any newer cards won't sell out. At this point though my 1080ti only bogs down in borderlands 3 and a few select settings dialed back still has me running at 4k smoothly.

Would I like a 3080 or 3090? Yes, but the current situation combined with my machine running fine has me now uninterested.

Who knows maybe bots act will be updated and by 4000 series ebay legally will be required to remove any scalper listing.

Im still gonna get one, im just super frustrated that they were sooo unprepared