Interested in getting your hands on a GeForce RTX 3080 this month? Don’t get your hopes up. According to TweakTown’s sources, the supply of RTX 30 Series graphics cards will be tight. Very tight. Absurdly tight, even, as one source suggests that NVIDIA’s GPUs won’t reach normal stock levels until next year.
This scenario seems plausible based on the reactions we’ve seen to the RTX 30 Series thus far. Many NVIDIA fans have already expressed their desire to upgrade – particularly those who have remained loyal to the Pascal generation (e.g., GeForce GTX 1080 Ti). Samsung’s 8 nm yields may also be an issue.
“…there is one story I wanted to sit down and make sure I wrote, and that was from an industry source who told me that post-launch there will be ‘no stock will be available till the end of the year,'” the author wrote. “The first wave of cards is said to be small, very, very small — possibly the smallest launch in many years.”
“Another source had something much more damning to say, but I want to flesh that out before I write it. For now, I’m being told stock will be extremely low for the next couple of months. Why? Samsung 8 nm yields are unknown at this point, NVIDIA might not want to make too many before the yields improve.”
What makes this even better is that NVIDIA is not doing pre-orders this time around. That’s according to r/NVIDIA’s NV_Tim, who posted that “there are no pre-orders for the RTX Founders Edition.” Good luck battling those scalper bots.