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Anyone know why Anand hasn't reviewed the 3080 yet?

This tweet from their editor-in-chief sheds some light on it:

> Sorry gang, no RTX 3080 review today. The last week and a half has taken an unexpectedly large toll. I'm looking at getting caught up in time for the RTX 3090 launch next week.

https://twitter.com/RyanSmithAT/status/1306197243263737857

Seems that their GPU reviewer lives near the US forest fires. https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1306219044023005185

That might explain it. Those fires seem pretty serious.

Have you seen a 3080 somewhere? Like in a store where you could buy it? :-). Could just be the Bay Area but those things seem to be pretty scarce.

Nvidia seeds review cards to reviewers they care about. It would be shocking if AnandTech weren't on that list. I believe they said their review is delayed for personal reasons; AnandTech is good enough that they don't need to be out there on day 1 grabbing clicks. People will read their reviews even if they're a little out of the hype cycle.

You can't buy a Tiger Lake in a store, either.

Don't disagree, but the GTX3080 is, in theory, shipping. Whereas Tiger Lake is a chip preview without any manufacturers yet announcing product. :-)

Seen a 3090 on eBay, bidding is at $11k. Only promises to ship when released

It has to be some sort of scam bid. You can go out and buy five Titan RTXes (or Quadro equivalent) and get started on your $11k worth of work right now. Or buy GPU time From The Cloud, which sure is pricey, but not $11k-for-a-$1500-graphics-card pricey.

I can definitely see why people want the RTX 3090, it's a pretty good GPU... but I don't think there is any way people could do the cost/benefit analysis and decide that $11k is the right price to pay.

Actually Cloud does cost $11K for a $1500 GPU, due to Nvidia datacenter licensing restrictions.

This mainly applies to people who need to run GPU nearly all the time, not just a couple of hours per day.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpu...

And of course you can't play ultra high end game settings on the cloud.

3090 isn’t officially released yet, this one “fell off the truck” and people are willing to bid it up to be the first one who gets it

Do reviewers not have 3090s yet? They certainly had 3080s well before launch day.

Yes, but review samples are NVIDIA property, you can't (legally) sell them.

No matter how you slice it, this one "fell off the truck" somewhere, it's an unreleased product, you're not supposed to have it yet.

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