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If you’re looking to get your hands on an Nvidia RTX 3080 or 3090 graphics card, you’ll probably have to wait until 2021. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced today that the company expects the shortage of both graphics cards to continue for the remainder of the year. Tom Hardware Y Wccftech reports.
During a question and answer session with the press to cover his GTC announcements, Huang responded to the continuing shortage of both graphics cards. “I think the demand will exceed our entire supply during the year,” Huang said.
The RTX 3080 and 3090 had extremely difficult launches, with both cards sold out within minutes of pre-orders going live, but Huang says the issue is not with supply, but with demand for both GPUs.
“Even if we knew about all the demand, I don’t think it is possible to have increased that fast,” Huang said. “We are increasing very, very hard. The yields are excellent, the product shipping is fantastic, it just sells out instantly. ”Nvidia has apologized for the launch of the RTX 3080 and the limited supply of cards.
Nvidia has one more card in the RTX 3000 series that it plans to release this year: the $ 499 RTX 3070. Nvidia postponed the launch date to October 29 in hopes the company can work with retailers to bring the cards. more customers on launch day. . But if it looks anything like the last two releases, it will be chaotic.
Of course, if you’re determined to buy a new graphics card this year, you might want to see what AMD reveals on October 28. The company is hosting a GPU event to reveal the Radeon RX 6000 series and possibly reveal its own GPU competitor for the RTX 3000 series.
