i thought that as well a friend got a pny from his local and my nephew collected his today from one near him so there some stores getting them
Double the performance in 2 generations at a particular price point is a pretty dam big improvement. Power consumption is up, but extra performance doesn't magically happen. It's not twice as much though, so the efficiency is up, but there's only so much they can do. So, I'm not sure what you're expecting?
Two generations is a very charitable interpretation of 4.5 years! But looking back, a doubling of performance is actually not so far off being in-line with historic trends for this length of time. I guess I have been thrown out of whack by the sudden rapid progress on CPUs, and also the quality of Pascal (and also Polaris and Vega, to be fair).
Yeh without a die shrink of the same architecture from maxwell (possibly due to a lack of competition) there's been bigger gaps between releases. There were the Super cards but I think that was more from a variability in yield and an abundance of chips not good enough, but too good to waste on the next tier down, plus trying to coax people off their pascal cards because money. Now that AMD have got their act together, can seemingly pull big leaps in performance out like it were easy and are trading blows with NVIDIA (and Nvidia's pricing has returned to less eye-watering levels for the main part), I expect to see some proper refreshes on new/tweaked nodes next year.
To be honest if we are seeing doubling of performance every 3 generations or so then that's an average increase of 26% from each generation to the next, which seems pretty decent really? And as @The_Crapman says, power consumption hasn't scaled linearly with performance so efficiency is up, and the price has remained relatively steady. So you're getting more performance per Watt, more performance per £, and pretty solid generation-on-generation raw performance increases. And new tech (DLSS and RTX, although I will concede that these are in their infancy.) Not entirely sure that counts as "meagre progress" really!
First post on here for a while! - I finally managed to nab an Asus TUF OC 3070 last week (notified via Discord). Had to pay £650 though (the Overclockers UK tax) but I am very pleased with the card and it means that I can finally play games again (sold my 1080 back in September ) I play at 1440P with no / low AA so the 8Gb GDDR6 should be ok for a while. I've had a few chances to buy the 3090 FE, but £1399 is just crazy for a graphics card! The 3070FE always sells out too quickly and the 3080 doesn't exist. I would have got an AMD 6800 or 6800XT, but stock is significantly worse than nVidia in the UK!
Beware of being offered an MSI 3090 in a pub:- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...rtx-3090-graphics-cards-were-stolen-in-china/
They do come around, I saw one on ccl for a solid half hour the day before yesterday. Was palit so perhaps not the most desirable.
Luck. Monday seems like a good day to keep an eye on CCL. I managed to get a 3600 and p400d last Monday afternoon, which had been sold out everywhere and were so that morning.
Try this - https://www.stockinformer.co.uk/checker-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-3070-3090 Also try following @PartAlert on Twitter
Jesus christ! novatech have a gigabyte 3090 with a shitty blower cooler for £1850!!! meanwhile currys have the gaming oc for £1600. novatech getting out the melonballer.
Just remember that if Currys page says "collect in store", but also "delivery not available", then you won't find a store in the entire country to collect from. As for me, I'm hoping Scan get another drop of FE 3080s in the week before Xmas (because that's when I'll have both the time off work to hammer F5 on the nvidia site & the pennies for one).
Are they still getting restocked with FE's? I cant seem to find them on the website, would love to add one to my basket
