They were available for delivery. Were.... You have to go through Nvidia's website. When there's stick it will show as available on their site, but then take you through to scan for purchasing.
So this happened today, impulse purchase and it was the last one, but more importantly the RED CLOWN LIPS are GONE!! See the packaging, shows red. But look at the card. This was the one thing I didn't like about this model and they have changed it. Noticed on the EVGA website they are all now black....
The million dollar question to which the answer is probably "a million dollars" I'm really hoping the availability of these things into January pushes down prices of 10 series. Once the 1070 is about £140 used it'll be my go-to bargain card. Still loving mine.
I’ll be honest, had no intention of getting one yet, but FOMO got the better of me only seeing one left on the shelf. that said the performance and bright shiny lights helped offset the pain of the cost!
Right, I thought if someone said they'd got it for X amount, they'd say the amount incl. the sales tax (if applicable) ... didn't realise people sort of ignored it in the same way price tickets do over there.
I was about to post about that. Linus did a WAN show and man he was furious. Totally sucks, but then if you didn't know what to expect from Nvidia now you must have been hiding somewhere I also found it very strange that none of the Cyberpunk videos showed the 2080Ti. I thought this was super strange, given it was only one gen old. I was about to stop bothering with these videos when this one popped up in my sub feed. And it explains it perfectly well. They don't show the 3070 because it runs short on VRAM and gets its ass spanked by the Ti. Which I suppose is not what Nvidia wanted people to know. You know? that you can easily pick up a used Ti for around the same or less than a 3070 and it has more VRAM.
Considering the 3090 can't even manage 60fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K Ultra without Raytracing Nvidia really should have just kept their mouth shut. Sort out your normal game performance first before chasing unicorns like Raytracing or trying to shove it down the throat of reviewers...
I'm sure we're all familiar with the arguments for independence in (gaming) hardware reviews so the level of editorial control Nvidia has sought to assert here is concerning.
I can mention it. At 1080p it’s 60-100fps with all the bells and whistles on. Looks stunning. Seeing the reflection of a building in a puddle is awesome.
Deliberate. Nvidia trying to stop people buying them second hand and instead invest into a new ampere card that you'll totally replace when they go back to TSMC. Which is the most ironic chunk of bulkshit in their shunning of HWUB. "Our users are basically poor and buy a GPU every few years, they don't get them for free" Orly asshole? You actually expect these 8gb cards to last right up until you want them to and no more and hint, that won't be years given the latest two new titles ass spelunk them due to the 8gb.
Yeah I was really surprised to see 8GB cards still being the norm. The curve is all weird now. The 1070 is technically preferable, in my mind, to the 1660S, despite being very slightly slower in some measurements, because it has 2GB more vRAM - despite being a generation and a half older. It's bonkers. My go-to card is still the 1070, but I can't ignore the fact that at this stage, they're so old that reliability and card death is a realistic concern.
Actually I eat my hat. 2080Ti prices are now just as insane as they were before the 30 series launched.
ALL the prices are whack at the moment. I've been following it closely for weeks (because customers are always asking for build advice and custom rigs at this time of year) and the xmas season has coincided with the second UK lockdown and with the 3000 series launch and shortages AND with Cyberpunk's release to create a perfect storm of high prices. The 1070 is my litmus test because it has always been spiky in price and good value for money. New it was what, £400 or so? New prices dipped as low as £300 before climbing back up to about £450 in one of the xmas rushes. Used prices were as low as £190 two years ago, and are now well over £220 - some Buy It Now listings on eBay are for over £300. Given the age of the card, that's just bonkers. £300 for a 4-year-old mid-range second-hand graphics card with no warranty (even transferrable EVGA warranties have mostly expired now).
