Nvidia apologizes for GeForce RTX 3080 mess — here's when more are coming

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Nvidia apologizes for GeForce RTX 3080 mess — here's when more are coming

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Last week'southward launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 was a scrap of a mess. There were no pre-orders and stock for the next-generation graphics menu were snapped up across U.S. and U.K. retailers very fast, with the GPU then popping upwards on eBay for stupidly high prices.

Nvidia realised it dropped the ball on the RTX 3080'due south launch and has posted an apology for the process. It too noted that retailers will get more than stock and to use its "production finder" tool to search for retailers with the RTX 3080 in stock.

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Nosotros've struggled to find any retailers with the RTX 3080 in stock, and then it looks similar you lot'll need to be a scrap patient while stocks are replenished. Or you could go and pre-order the Xbox Series 10 and Series S while you expect.

"The GeForce RTX 3080 is in full production. Nosotros began aircraft GPUs to our partners in August, and have been increasing the supply weekly," Nvidia said. "Partners are also ramping up chapters to encounter the unprecedented demand. Nosotros sympathise that many gamers are unable to purchase a GeForce RTX 3080 correct at present and we are doing everything we can to catch upwards apace.

"We have great supply - but not for this level of need. It is typical for initial demand to exceed supply for our new GPUs. Our global network of partners are ramping as hard as they can to go the new GPUs to the more than 100 meg GeForce gamers around the world."

Nvidia did note that when the RTX 3080 went on sale a lot of bots and resellers jumped on its website snapping upwards the new graphics card before others could. Nvidia moved to abolish these malicious orders and at present has more processes in identify to curtail such dodgy buyers. But bots and resellers aside, Nvidia did note that when sales of the RTX 3080 went alive its ain online store was swamped with more than than x times the traffic of the launch of the GeForce RTX 2000-series graphics cards.

"We expected the all-time ever demand for the [RTX 3000-serial], but the enthusiasm was overwhelming. We were not prepared for this level, nor were our partners. We apologize for this," Nvidia said.

In curt, the RTX 3080 proved to be too popular for its own good. Just at least there's work going on in the background to replenish stock and safeguard it from people trying to grab an RTX 3080 simply to sell it on.

Nvidia's very loftier-end GeForce RTX 3090 is launching on September 24, so Nvidia will need to make sure it gets the launch of this graphics menu correct so information technology doesn't see irritated fans plough to the upcoming AMD Big Navi graphics card instead.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom'south Guide with a focus on news, features and stance articles. He often writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'southward also got an involvement in cars. When not at his desk Roland can be plant wandering around London, often with a look of curiosity on his confront.

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