In early September, NVIDIA introduced the new GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards, which offer significantly better performance at a lower cost. Jensen Huang, the company’s CEO, remotely sang three melodies to consumers from his kitchen, each a platinum-worthy performance:

1. 3070: 2080 Ti performance 130 in euros
2. 3080: 2x performance compared to 2080
3. 3090: The world’s first 8k game graphics card

Now that the graphics cards have been tested by impartial reviewers, the leather jacket man’s speech has revealed some famous Lapland more. The euro price of RTX 3070 only applied to NVIDIA’s own Founders Edition model , which could not be bought in Finland at all, but the cheapest models at retailers cost about 600 euros. RTX 3080 was advertised to be 2x more powerful than the previous generation 2080, but in reality the improvement came about 60 – %. 8k gaming was just advertising nonsense and RTX 3090 was over 1500 for a big disappointment in terms of its performance, being on average only about fair. %% more efficient than 3080.

While NVIDIA’s promises weren’t quite fulfilled, the new GeForcet are still excellent graphics cards. Thousands of new products have been ordered in Finland alone. Unfortunately, getting graphics cards in the hands of consumers has proven to be challenging, more specifically really challenging.

On the release date, for a few dozen or more recent 3070, a couple hundred lucky ones actually bought the graphics card for themselves. So far, the new RTX 60 series graphics cards have been delivered to Finland with good luck 1000 pieces and queues in the grapple of various resellers in the grapple are still waiting for several thousand eager computer hackers or upgrades.

Many of the waiters have found a new hobby for themselves during the fall in the thread about GeForce RTX on the io-Tech TechBBS discussion forum Series Availability and Order Tracking. More than 6000 messages have already been written to the thread and read 700 000 times. The discussion revolves around the progress of inventory balances and incoming items as well as queuing numbers from different retailers. At times, the chain is buzzing with a feeling of euphoria when someone announces that they have received the tracking code in an email and at the same time several others are disappointed as the queue jerked forward with just a few dozen numbers. There are also horror stories of trucks loading a ditch full of graphics cards, cargo ships stuck in the Panama Canal, and game codes coming as a gift become obsolete or change from flight.

Alongside the difficulties of availability, the price level has also lived its very own life. For example, in the io-Tech test, the Asus 759 TUF Gaming 3080 OC model, which cost itself the choice of delivery, is currently listed on Jimm’s 890 in euros, i.e. 130 euros more expensive than the original. According to rumors, NVIDIA offered video card manufacturers during September 70 a euro rebate for every RTX sold 3080 graphics card to momentarily print the price level as low as possible. After that, combined with the difficulties of availability, the end result has been that prices have bounced upwards of more than for many models. The prices of video cards can be conveniently monitored with the price tracking tool of Hinta.fi, which shows the price history of products from the publication on a store-by-store basis.

At the current pace, the queuing hobby of GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards continues well into the year 2021 if NVIDIA does not get a radically improved delivery of its graphics chips to be able to make more graphics cards. Sales of AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards may also help. Many avid PC players may move from green to red camp for availability if the price level is the same and the performance is at a sufficiently equivalent level.