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Chazore said:

hinch said:

Yeah the situation is little frustrating, for sure. But prices will tumble for sure. In the UK AiB cards can be found at retailers slightly above to MSRP and on marketplaces like Ebay, MSRP or lower. Some cards like the RTX 3090 are selling for around £900 or so preowned on Ebay. Which is quite insane considering its launch price. Bearing in mind though that its only marginally faster than a 3080.

But yeah I doubt many people are biting for these cards when the next generation GPU's are coming within a couple of months or so. Especially at the higher end. Mid/low range buyers will still have to wait up to another year for the 4060 and below cards. And there will be an influx of people wanting to upgrade to 4000 series cards when they release on top of retailers wanting to get rid of old stock.

Going by Jayz2C latest Nvidia vid, I don't think I'm gonna bother waiting for the 4000 series, because it sounds like Jensen's going back to greedsville and raising the prices for them, coupled with the higher wattage req just feels like a massive put-off for me personally.

Prob gonna wait a little longer and just grab a 3080, even though I'd love a 3080 12gb model, the manufacturing for them has stopped and it'll become super rare to grab one, as much as I'd like one (since my 1080ti is 11gb and 1gb shy of the 3080 12b variant).

I can also see the scalping issue happening with the 4000 series, so that just makes for another put-off. I think those waiting for the next series should either buy a higher model 3000 series when they are even cheaper, or just wait for AMD, because the 4000 series is sounding more and more like a bit of a long joke at this rate. 

I mean what else can that series bring to the table that the 3000 series already has and what would even be made exclusive to the 4000 series, that'd make them worth getting?. We already have DLSS, that's being improved upon and I'm sure the 3000 series would still gain access to said improvements, and it's not like that series will end up like the 1000 series, where they didn't get DLSS support and some other features. 4000 series just sounds like the 3000 series, but slightly better, but at the cost of a higher rice, higher wattage and scalpers. 

Personally if you can get a 3080Ti for $600-$700sh which could be possible, it wouldn't be a bad idea to bite. But a 4070 will be more efficient in terms of power as that will be around 300 watts while a 3080 Ti will be around 400 watts and both are rumoured have similar performance. But you will have a much easier time to get a 3080 Ti than a 4070 no doubt. And the 3080Ti will most likely have more Vram than a 4070 (12GB vs 10GB). So getting a 3080 Ti for $600-$700 just so you can get a GPU instead of fighting with scalpers and avoiding the potential price increases might be a good idea.

And I know there's a rumour that says 3080 12GB has been discontinued but it is still selling.

https://www.newegg.com/msi-geforce-rtx-3080-rtx-3080-ventus-3x-plus-12g-oc-lhr/p/N82E16814137712?Description=3080%2012gb&cm_re=3080_12gb-_-14-137-712-_-Product

Everyone laughed at the guy that spent $700 on a 2080 Ti back when Ampere was announced until the scalpers and crypto boom increased the 3070 prices to $1000+.