Not surprising, they are bloody rare now due to the huge gap in time since the cancellation of Turing: https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphic...production-high-end-turing-gpus-china-source/
I finally bit the bullet and went for the Zotac 3090 with an EK block. So far I have been pleasantly surprised. Was it worth the money over the 3080? Of course not. But I'm impatient and I didn't fancy waiting another 3-4 months for a 3080 to arrive.
Possible new cards incoming (again) https://www.igorslab.de/en/die-gefo...die-gtx-1060-3gb-bekommt-eine-nachfolgerin-2/ Don't worry, the page is in English.
They were approaching - approaching, mind you - reasonable here pre-RTX 3000 release. Now a 2080Ti is a similar price to a 3090... and the 3090 is actually easier to find! Absolute insanity. nVidia really ballsed this launch up in glorious fashion. Not that the AMD 6800/6900 launch has been a whole lot better.
Not for them. They are selling out as soon as they hit the shelves, allowing people more time to save and the possibility of buying a higher tier card when they finally do get to purchase.
At the rate cards are dribbling into dealers, I should have enough for a 4090 by the time I can actually get a card!
They've done a Fermi. Stopped making cards and then there's this big barren patch between product. They ceased production of the 200 series 9 months before you could get a 400 series card ffs.
Well, I promised myself I wouldn't get a card this generation - but tomorrow I retire (well, repurpose) my 1080ti and will be putting a MSI Suprim 3070 in the PC - I dropped from 4k to 1440p earlier in the year, so am hoping I won't miss the VRAM.
I just came across 3 x 3070 in stock at Insight I'm not sure if this is accurate, but it might be useful to someone here.
FYI several 3070's in stock at Curry's currently: https://www.stockinformer.co.uk/site.aspx?a=6213&b=2&c=13 https://www.stockinformer.co.uk/site.aspx?a=6216&b=2&c=13
You have to be really quick with Currys as well. Twice this morning, I had a 3080 in my basket that disappeared before I could complete checkout!
Maybe a holistic take on the situation would be to simply forget the 3000 series exists for a bit, develop a fascination for gardening or wood turning or something, and 'rediscover' PC gaming in 4 months' time...
Curry's had 3080's in stock for all of 20 minutes and I just missed it! Probably for the best a Curry's RMA is horrible!!!
And they're still there, but probably for good reason. I ordered once from them in June 2010. They're more of a business to business retailer (as shown by their front and centre ex-VAT pricing). After ordering I reveived a follow-up email stating that they weren't going to charge my card without ID verification. Partly because I didn't have enough to prove who I was and mainly because I felt it was an overreach (they wanted 2 of utility bills, bank statements, tax bill and driving licence). They didn't accept passports so I cancelled the order as not being a homeowner at the time, I could only offer my driving licence and a bank statement which then as now didn't sit well with me. At least GDPR rules should have changed that. Even older cards are affected. I sold my Asus Strix GTX 970 in April 2019 for £100 which was by far best case scenario, £80 was about the median average sale price on eBay at the time so was rather please with that. £100 now appears to be the median sale price and one went for £147 - for a 6 year old card! It's almost as bad as Nintendo releasing games with a finite time of sale and announcing in advance that it will only be available for 3-6 months before permanent delisting (though at least store based purchases won't be limited by manufacturing). I just feel that intentionally creating demand by limiting supply is probably the cause, even though I don't see how Nvidia or AMD actually benefit, as they won't get a cut of the scalper sale price
