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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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