Best Buy will have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 available in select stores tomorrow July 20th. Limited supplies with tickets handed out to the lucky. This one sells for $1499

3 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Don’t need to wait in line anymore, crypto is declining, China ban on crypto, demand for GPUs has dropped.  Availability has increased, you can get GPUs now at MSRP.

Cheers, Rob

Where Rob?

Yea, I saw that.  But the selected BB stores are very far from where I live.  SMH  No luck with EVGA either with their notification system.  Newegg I have no luck always getting "Sorry, you didn't get selected" for the Shuffle...😝

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I actually got selected for a Newegg shuffle once for a 3080TI, but when it came down to plunking down $1800 for it, I said no thanks.  My old 1080TI is on it's last legs, so hoping I can get a new card at a reasonable price soon.

3080's are shown as well.  And look at the price!  Selected stores.  None near enough for me to risk a three hour round trip.

https://slickdeals.net/f/15171958-bestbuy-nvidia-gpu-stock-tomorrow-7-20-select-stores-499?src=frontpage

My local Best Buy sold out. I didn't even attempt it. Credit to Best Buy as they don't price gouge.  Looks like I'll be mining unobtanium a while longer 

Only two Best Buy stores in Mass had video cards available. Neither of these two stores is one of four near me. The closest store that had some is about 40 minutes away.

I really need to stop getting my hopes up.

Maybe I will wait for the 4000's and then move up to 4k. 1080 looks very good to me and is smooth, but I haven't seen MSFS in 4k yet.

When I lived in mass my closest Best Buy was in New Hampshire and the next one was Danvers

Police steamroll 1,000 bitcoin mines after ‘electricity theft’ prompts power outages (msn.com)

And in the UK the Fraud Office just cracked and arrested the biggest fraud case using Bitcoin to launder funds from crime 1.5 million pounds. 

This could help dropping the price in the future.

Well here in Australia I have just done something I have stated previously on this forum that I would never do - purchase a 3090 for a price in Australian dollars that has a 3 in front of it.  Partly because these 3000 series GPUs are now quite readily available locally and prices have fallen by about 20-25 % from earlier highs.  LIke many others in Australia I am also the beneficiary of Government largesse that will shortly appear in my tax refund due to COVID economic stimulus measures.  I am still paying 100% over US MRSP but that is not unusual for tech purchases locally when you add currency conversion, tax and an additional markup that seems to get added in Australia just because they can.  The Aussie dollar has also started heading south again so any further price drops closer to MSRP could be negated by this.  Not sure if I have made the right choice in going for a 3090 over a 3080ti.  From what I can can make out there is little to chose performance wise between a 3080, 3080ti and a 3090 apart from VRAM availability. However coming from a 1080ti with 11 gigs of VRAM it was always a hard ask to accept a 3080 with 1 gig less or a 3080ti with just 1 gig more.  While I don't find VRAM usage in P3D an issue even at the 4K resolution I have been using for some years I find it quite easy to hit over 10 gigs in FS2020.  So for 20% more over the local asking price for a 3080ti I went for a 3090.

Bruce

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Looks like the AMD 7900XT GPU will be out late end of this year (2021).  My 3090 will hold me over, but I'm really looking forward to the AMD 7900XT, some of the leaked specs from reliable sources are VERY impressive.  So if one is in the market for a GPU and can wait it out for 4-5 months, I'd recommend waiting.

The 7900XT is essentially multiple GPUs on a single card but is viewed by the OS as a single GPU so all the "Crossfire" work is all native hardware and no special driver support required nor any special game support.  It's a brilliant idea from AMD, their new CEO has really pushed AMD in the right direction taking on Intel and nVidia for top performance honors.

It's great to see AMD back in the game, I'm sure prices are not going to be cheap, but at least there is valid competition now.

Cheers, Rob.

All you need to hope is that like the present AMD hardware it`s not vapourware, Intel are gaining market share back from AMD you can`t buy AMD. And Nvidia will have the RTX40 series ready 

47 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Not sure what you mean, why can't you buy AMD?  I did recently (2 of them), for MSRP.  I think the nVidia 4000 series is for late 2022 under current information?  The specs of the AMD 7000 series and it's scalability are really impressive if the rumors of 2.5X faster than a 3080Ti are true.

Lets see if AMD sell at more reasonable price points than nVidia.

Cheers, Rob.

They are not even listing the 7000 series in the UK and the 6000 series is limited stock for the 6900.