Nvidia recently launched the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Ampere lineup of GPUs, but the launch was plagued with stock availability issues since day one. NVIDIA has also delayed the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU launch by two weeks to October 29th.
Many were hoping to purchase these cards, but it was just another paper launch. The RTX 3080 stocks were sold out immediately within few minutes at several retailers across the US, UK and Europe. Some Major e-tailers also experienced extremely high wave of traffic, and this brought their entire website down as well.
Even NVIDIA’s official store had an issue where people couldn’t finish their purchase, after adding the item to the shopping cart. Many customers claim that the listings disappeared in 15 seconds, and cards sold out before the Add to Cart button even worked for them. The stock immediately depleted, almost as if there was no stock at all to begin with. NVIDIA also issued an official statement regarding the RTX 3080 GPU’s stock availability at launch day.
Now in a recent Q&A session at the 2020 GTC Digital event NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang confirmed that the GeForce RTX 3090/3080 Ampere GPU shortages are likely to be expected until 2021, coming via Tom’s Hardware:
“I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply throughout the year. Remember, we’re also going into the double-whammy, the double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it, the Ampere factor, and then you add on the Ampere holiday factor, and we’re going to have a really really big Q4 season.” – Jensen Huang.
“The 3080 and 3090 have a demand issue, not a supply issue,” said Huang, “The demand issue is that it is much much greater than we expected – and we expected really a lot.”
“Retailers will tell you they haven’t seen a phenomenon like this in over a decade of computing. It hearkens back to the old days of Windows 95 and Pentium when people were just out of their minds to buy this stuff. So this is a phenomenon like we’ve not seen in a long time, and we just weren’t prepared for it.”
“Even if we knew about all the demand, I don’t think it’s possible to have ramped that fast. We’re ramping really really hard. Yields are great, the product’s shipping fantastically, it’s just getting sold out instantly,” said Huang.”I appreciate it very much, I just don’t think there’s a real problem to solve. It’s a phenomenon to observe. It’s just a phenomenon.”
Nvidia CEO: GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 Shortages To Last Until 2021 https://t.co/nhn0LwqTfD pic.twitter.com/lpvQTZoFiU
— Tom's Hardware (@tomshardware) October 5, 2020
Jensen Huang said that the issue is more to do with the demand rather than supply, and emphasized demand as the most major factor. Several China-based media outlets have already predicted before that the shortages would last until 2021, and TweakTown’s Anthony Garreffa also reported before that no stock will be available till the end of this year.
It seems this year it would be hard to purchase a new NVIDIA Ampere-based flagship graphics card. Recently, Gigabyte AORUS’s newly launched RTX 3080 Master custom graphics card saw a similar fate where despite Newegg implementing new measures to counter bots couldn’t stop the scalpers from getting them before actual customers.
The cards were quickly listed on eBay and there was a lot of drama surrounding the whole launch as reported by Wccftech. This whole situation doesn’t look good for the RTX 3070 GPU launch either, since we can expect the demand to be even greater than the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards, given this is a mainstream budget GPU costing around 499 USD.
Meanwhile, some manufacturers/AIBs have also been providing daily updates on social media outlets and forums, apologizing for the delay in availability of these Ampere cards. This GeForce RTX 30-series launch has seen an excessive demand, with several retailers fighting over each shipment to fulfill their pre-orders. What’s even worse is that a lot of the RTX 3080 graphics cards didn’t even ship to gamers, because scalpers purchased these graphics card in bulk to sell them for profit elsewhere. Scalpers were demanding anywhere from $1000 to $2000+ USD for these cards on EBay.
The company has promised to implement more security measures to combat people buying cards using bots, and they also plan to implement CAPTCHA. This whole Ampere GPU launch appears to be a mess right now, with gamers and customers criticizing Nvidia for poorly managing the situation.
The company has already cancelled several orders which were placed using BOTS. This is definitely one of the most broken launch events ever witnessed for a flagship graphics card which indeed had a huge demand, but unfortunately, this has created much unrest in the gaming community.
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I am glad I have managed to get over the hype. They definitely hooked me after that reveal. but now… I am perfectly fine with what I have. Might have to give a thanks to Gamers Nexus smacking some smart up feels my way. My video card is perfectly fine. I really really do not need a new one.
its easy for gamers nexus to tell people to relax, its just a video card when he has like 10 of them, 3080 and 3090 received for free, before the public release and he doesnt have to worry about money or availability.
🙂 its easy to tell people hey chill when you’re views are so warped due to the fact you get them for free. Its the same with most tech channels, be they phones or anything. They lose sight of how a normal person sees things when they get all the stuff for free and before they hit market
I totally agree with you. But still I did fall for the hype and felt the need to buy one even tho i don’t need it at all. He was still right regardless if he owns 10.
Which card do you have now buddy?
I have that Lightsaber Star Wars Titan XP. It’s still a great card and doesn’t need to be replaced. I was just being greedy
I back-ordered an Asus TUF RTX 3080 in store on launch day and it came 12 days later. However, only 2 came in to that store and I was second on the list. Everybody behind me is still probably waiting. Supply is sh*t.
Artificial shortage confirmed.
Just like with diamonds? 😀
No, more like your brain cells.
Proved your ignorance then :S
lol
That would make sense if the shortages were across the board but you dont see any press complaining. Youre talking about literally thousands of people who got theirs neatly on time, every time. And its not like theres millions of cards being pre ordered, the reality is i think its a classic paper launch.
The truth is…30 series are going to remain at shortage till the stock of 20 series are all sold out.
I wonder when this site will have access to one of the cards.
Not anytime soon. They have a 2080ti which should be good for the next 2-3 years while the backlog of in development games dish out. After 2-3 years the games will get more demanding at 4k and a 2080ti will not be able to push beyond 30fps.
Artificial shortage
it is a supply issue first and demand second
the production of 8nm from samsung has not reached full production
the aorus launch had only 36 cards and were sold out on newegg before even been listed assuming friends of site employees
What a load of crooked sht, This has been planned from the start.
How do you know that?
Looks like AMD alredy won
Timing is not by their side. They would have won only if they had a COMPETIVE product READY to ship out. Which they don’t (probably) and they won’t (shortages will hit AMD plus a “belated” date).
By the time AMD is able to ship strong NV will also do. Peformance wise we know the 3080 and 2080 what they are capable of..We have no clue about BigNavi, only speculations .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQ202CFKzA&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=2kliksphilip ,
Disclaimer : tinfoil opinion alert !
We found out alot of unexpected hardwarebugs that would not double the performance as told by our overpaid marketing departement..so until then we sell them that we have a “shortage” to buy us some time.
Could you stop with the BS and just release a product people want instead of playing games?
Unprecedented demand!
Maybe they shouldn’t have sent so many free units out to these useless YouTube influencers and looked after their long standing consumers instead. Not that I’m upgrading anytime soon.
You don’t say.
I’m in queue position 160 for an ASUS TUF 3080 OC ordered on the 18th from http://www.overclockers.co.uk.
Feel like a kid again waiting for christmas.
Let’s see if this “phenomenon” continues after AMD launches its Navi.
Double-whammy up your greedy a$$ Jen Hsun. AMD has a golden opportunity to gain in market share by releasing a worthwhile product which is also not plagued by supply shortages.
3090 shortage? There are idiots for everything.
For sure. Ones like you that lack the intelligence to understand why someone would use a 3090. I like to block low intelligence incels. It really makes my DSO Gaming browsing experience better.
You should not have such god-like powers.
Only f*gs reply to say “im gonna block you”, stupid f*gs at that.
So you admit that the entire lifespan of the Amperes will be left to scalpers to profit on Mr. Huang?
You have completely botched this release Mr. Huang.
Your black leather jacket does look pretty cool though.
Me? I’m just a Good Old Boy. I drive fast and straighten the curves but sometimes that’s a little bit more than the law will allow.
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So you admit that the entire lifespan of the Amperes will be left to scalpers to profit on Mr. Huang?
You have completely botched this release Mr. Huang.
Your black leather jacket does look pretty cool though.