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If you want to be among the first to get your hands on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 or RTX 3090, you might have to be quick to place your order.
According to a report from TweakTown, Nvidia’s recently revealed Ampere GPUs could be in short supply until 2021. Citing industry sources, the report claims that stocks will be “extremely low” over the next several months, with supply levels in short supply through the end of year.
The report adds that “the first wave of cards is said to be small, very, very small, possibly the smallest launch in many years.”
The reason, TweakTown says, is due to the uncertainty surrounding Samsung’s 8nm process performance. Nvidia supposedly wants to reduce the number of cards that are produced until performance can be maximized at Samsung’s end.
Nvidia also wants to keep an eye on what AMD does with its upcoming RDNA 2 reveal, according to the report, as it’s currently unclear how Team Red’s Big Navi GPUs will compare to Nvidia’s Ampere cards.
However, it’s hard to believe that AMD can compete when it comes to performance. All of Nvidia’s new graphics cards, including the $ 499 GeForce RTX 3070, are more powerful than the RTX 2080 Ti.
According to Nvidia, the RTX 3080 doubles the performance of its next-gen Turing flagship, while the RTX 3090 will be the performance king with a massive 24GB GDDR6X memory and 10,000+ CUDA cores, nearly 2,000 more than the 3080.
If you want to be one of the first to test Ampere’s performance for yourself, it seems like you have to be quick. The RTX 3080 is due out on September 17, followed by the RTX 3090 on September 24 and the RTX 3070 sometime in October 2020.
