Here is an ad for the 3080 on ebay. Listing after listing of 3080s - not the actual video card, but A PICTURE of the 3080 for $600 to $700. Pure scammers. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GeForce-RTX-3080-Founders-Edition-PAPER-EDITION-read-description/133522748421?hash=item1f16937405%3Ag%3AJz0AAOSw6rxfZDJr&LH_BIN=1

I think it was the circus guy B.T. Barnum who said something about a sucker being born every minute?😏

What's sad is a 10 fps average increase in frames over the 2080Ti  I upgraded from a 1070 this week and paid $200 for 2080Ti 11gb never used. 

9 minutes ago, Camsdad13 said:

What's sad is a 10 fps average increase in frames over the 2080Ti  I upgraded from a 1070 this week and paid $200 for 2080Ti 11gb never used. 

in fairness the benchmark I just watched (linus) did show 10FPS (4k) increase.  However that's 32%.  Difference between the two is particularly significant for those of us who lock frames.  More testing to be done.  But the 3080 is going to provide a good amount of horsepower over the 2080ti in those situations where you are right on the line of smooth flight at stutters.  My guess is the 3090 will be even better.  But we will see.  

1 hour ago, Camsdad13 said:

What's sad is a 10 fps average increase in frames over the 2080Ti  I upgraded from a 1070 this week and paid $200 for 2080Ti 11gb never used. 

So are you saying you upgraded to a 2080Ti from a 1070? Didn't get you.  

Not sure about in the sim, but in games the 3080 is miles ahead of the 2080 ti. 

Something like 87 frames instead of 47 at 1440p. 

On 9/18/2020 at 11:21 AM, RobJC said:

So are you saying you upgraded to a 2080Ti from a 1070? Didn't get you.  

Yes, been using a 1070. I bought MSFS. I still really use fs9. I bought a 2080ti 11gb still in box last week for $200. Sold my 1070 for $150. MSFS GPU usage and memory usage dropped way down. My old 1070 was the bottleneck. I'm running ultra with no problem. So now I'm going back to FS9 until MSFS gets the bugs worked out and start seeing good 3rd party ATC, AI traffic with realistic aircraft and liveries, Add on aircraft and scenery. I don't play any other games than FS. 

Where did you get a 2080ti for $200? I'd like one .....

15 hours ago, pgde said:

Where did you get a 2080ti for $200? I'd like one .....

Private sale on our neighborhood marketplace. There is also Saitek Cessna yoke, Cessna pedals, Cessna trim wheel. Cessna throttle. Regular saitek throttles. Every Saitek panel add on for $550. Barely even touched on that one.

Amazon has 20,000 back orders for the  Zoltec 3080. 

Unfortunately scammers using websites like Bounce Alert bought up the 3080 cards within minutes of release to resell at ridiculous inflated prices!

Edited September 21, 20205 yr by MartinRex007

I think I am going to wait a bit longer. I am hoping we see RTX 3080's with more than 10gb of ram later this year or sometime next year. The 10gb that the RTX 3080 currently comes with seems a bit low.

And seeing as I am building from the ground up and not upgrading 1 or 2 components, I want to see what happens with the next generation of CPU's before building a new PC. 

Look at this auction

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GIGABYTE-GeForce-RTX-3080-10GB-GAMING/324303191861?hash=item4b81f9ff35:g:9zMAAOSwB3VfaLKe

this is insane!

This guy explains this whole scam thing pretty good! 

 

54 minutes ago, enyap said:

Look at this auction

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GIGABYTE-GeForce-RTX-3080-10GB-GAMING/324303191861?hash=item4b81f9ff35:g:9zMAAOSwB3VfaLKe

this is insane!

That's just people screwing with the scalper.