My bet is that one of the Chinese reviewers has close contact with some of the miners and leaked to them the Mh/s figures. Very easy to do. Again it may be just fake news. Because ultimately I dont think Nvidia are worried since they know the mining market very well and that ASICs covering most of it would probably be more cost effective and efficient.
Is it? Oh sh!t .. still cant believe Nvidia releasing Ampere without being aware of the mining aspect and its impact on the gaming market. Do they want everyone to be on consoles?
OK, although I dont care for this guys personal opinions, he may have an interesting bit of info here re 3080 FE availability. synopsis: that the cost of the cards is higher than Nvidia is comfortable with due to the new cooler design (which according to Igors Lab is thought to be around $150). Therefore Nvidia have not bought many of these coolers so the FE models may be in short supply. This according to one of his "sources". And that Nvidia are relying on AIBs for the bulk of their sales, which will use cheaper coolers but selling at higher prices than the FE. End result? Nvidia gets better margins this way than if they sold the FE @ $700.
NVIDIA Should Finish Arm Acquisition By Next Week For Roughly $40 Billion September 12, 2020 https://wccftech.com/nvidia-arm-acquisition-40-billion/
Nvidia Buys SoftBank’s Arm for $40 Billion in Biggest Chip Deal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ank-s-arm-for-40-billion-in-biggest-chip-deal
The NVIDIA’s RTX 30 Series whitepaper: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/...pere-GA102-GPU-Architecture-Whitepaper-V1.pdf
Compilation of 18 launch reviews with ~1910 benchmarks: The GeForce RTX 3080 (FE) is faster as ... +32% vs. 2080Ti +58% vs. 2080S +72% vs. 2080 +83% vs. 2070S +88% vs. 1080Ti +149% vs. 1080 https://www.3dcenter.org/news/gefor...ltate-zur-ultrahd4k-performance-im-ueberblick
NVIDIA hints that RTX 3080 with a different memory layout could come out later. https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-teases-geforce-rtx-3080-with-20gb-memory
Gigabyte confirms GeForce RTX 3060 8GB, RTX 3070 16GB and RTX 3080 20G https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-confirms-geforce-rtx-3060-8gb-rtx-3070-16gb-and-rtx-3080-20gb
Looks like DLSS is getting more modes. From NvRTX/UnrealEngine github repo: Setting DLSS Quality r.NGX.DLSS.Quality 0...4 0 Performance 1 Balanced 2 Quality 3 Ultra Performance 4 Ultra Quality
How Bots took over the RTX 3080 Launch ... The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 launched yesterday, then promptly sold out in 5 minutes according to stores like Newegg and in 15 seconds according to some very disappointed would-be customers who weren’t able to place an order. The likely culprit? Bots run by scalpers. The evidence is pretty cut and dry, but now thanks to the folks at PC Mag, we have admissions from the people running the bots, as well as an explanation for how exactly they snatched so many units away from folks hoping to get the new best graphics card. In an article published yesterday, PC Mag spoke to the people behind Bounce Alerts, as well as a few of their customers, about how the company’s automated purchasing bots work. For the uninitiated, Bounce Alerts is a service that members can subscribe to for $75 a month which then gives them access to scripts that monitor store pages and automatically purchase items when they go in stock. The company first sprung up in the sneakers market, but there’s nothing stopping savvy resellers from applying it to tech as well. Bounce Alerts first came up as a culprit for hogging the 3080 launch when some resellers took to Twitter to publicly thank the company. Some of these posts have since been deleted, probably to avoid orders being cancelled by Nvidia, but others are still up. One particular deleted post, which PC Mag caught in a screenshot before it got taken down, showed a reseller who managed to buy 42 units thanks to the script. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-the-bots-stole-rtx-3080-launch-mass Thanks to A1xLLcqAgt0qc2RyMz0y
Here's one more 3090 video @ 8K that you can select 8K youtube settings. Seems at least technology is making great advances.
