GTX 1080 Availability thread

[Qwertilot]

That's a nice way to measure it

Its very hard to tell how many they've managed to ship - 5 figures seems certain, not sure if it has hit 6 yet but I'm not sure if that would have really dented the demand.

If we even got this sort of problem with the 970/80 - being produced on a really quite mature node - then it wasn't going to be better this time.

 

[nitromullet]

The other day Newegg offered 100 G1s in a mouse bundle and it sold out almost instantly.

As I explained earlier in this thread, I believe the 100 in newegg's email refers to the number of mice they were giving away, not number of cards. I guess you could argue it either way, but it doesn't make any sense that newegg would disclose the number of cards they received, and it makes perfect sense that they would put a disclaimer on the freebie portion of the promotion. This is especially true if they got more than 100 cards because some people who order a G1 won't get a mouse.

It's not much different than other launches in my opinion. 980 Ti, or AMD 5870 were very difficult to find in stock for around a month.

I got my G1 Gaming for $650 though with a free mouse (worth $40) so pretty much got it close to MSRP

I'm pretty sure the Gigabyte MSRP of the G1 card is actually $649.99, which is inline with what other manufacturers are charging for their mid tier factory overclocked card.

I'm also pretty sure that newegg themselves have not been price gouging these cards. I seem to recall from past launches that NV prevents retailers from price gouging the first few weeks after launch. The only thing that looks like gouging that I've seen on newegg is from their marketplace sellers.

 

[x3sphere]

I'm pretty sure the Gigabyte MSRP of the G1 card is actually $649.99, which is inline with what other manufacturers are charging for their mid tier factory overclocked card.

I'm also pretty sure that newegg themselves have not been price gouging these cards. I seem to recall from past launches that NV prevents retailers from price gouging the first few weeks after launch. The only thing that looks like gouging that I've seen on newegg is from their marketplace sellers.

Yeah you're right, I meant Nvidia's MSRP ($599). But anyway, these cards usually go for $30-50 premium, so it was a really good deal.

EVGA's pricing has been fair too, the base model with their ACX cooler is only $619.

I haven't seen much retailer gouging in the US. The only card that's been priced way higher than expected is the MSI Gaming X ($719). Not sure if that is MSI's doing or Newegg's, haven't seen it listed anywhere else yet.

 

[misuspita]

In my oppinion, Fury was a paper launch as well. But for different reasons.

nVidia chose to hurry the launch date of 1080/70 because of reasons. No stockpiled reasonable quantity means little stock on every store. If they can provide only single digits number of cards even in big retailers every day, it still means it's a paper launch. not per se, but in practice the same.

Had they waited 2-3 months to release with huge numbers it would have been better for the consumer, but worse for nVidia because
1. no more price gouging/FE tax
2. 480 arrival, which (if great perf/&) can ruin the high prices...

 

[Qwertilot]

No. Seriously - its very far from an edifying spectacle but why would it be better for consumers if they waited?

Patient/sane people don't gain much either way - its the wave of early demand that you have to wait out, and that's a roughly fixed number of cards, thus available at nearly the same time whatever they do.

As for the impatient people who must have these now? Well quite a few could do with some more patience, but there are clearly a lot of them out there and they seem to be very definitely happier to have a shot at it now than in three months!

With the retailers don't forget that they'll be clearing through preorders (lots for some sorts of these cards) before logging stuff as in stock.

 

[Ranulf]

I'm not sure how it isn't a form of paper launch. It has been 5 weeks since the "launch" party and they're just now trickling out the custom cards, two weeks after the reference models showed up themselves. 1070 is up on deck next. Two models and only one is available at 5 weeks mark.

Sure wasn't what they did with the 970/980.

 

[DeathReborn]

In my view paper launch means launch date & no cards AT ALL! You can disagree all you like but using the "urban" dictionary for a definition of paper launch is pretty poor.

Novatech in the UK has several models in stock as I type this out. Price be damned, I know 4 people who bought 1080's in the first week and are very happy with them.

 

[Qwertilot]

I'm not sure how it isn't a form of paper launch. It has been 5 weeks since the "launch" party and they're just now trickling out the custom cards, two weeks after the reference models showed up themselves. 1070 is up on deck next. Two models and only one is available at 5 weeks mark.

Sure wasn't what they did with the 970/980.

iirc The staggering was I think newish this time, at least to the extent they did it.

They did say they were doing it though - the custom 1080 cards are about a week into theoretical availability (with back orders to clear out), the 1070 only just launched.

1080FE's do now seem to be staying in stock in the odd UK place.

 

[coercitiv]

No. Seriously - its very far from an edifying spectacle but why would it be better for consumers if they waited?

Maybe they would have caught the thermal imbalance and first day reviews would have been more truthful (and more positive towards the product). Availability problems also create a perception change for consumers, especially for later product releases. Somehow I doubt any of this was in the original plan, they tried to get out there as fast as possible and could not navigate perfectly between unforeseen obstacles. (but did a decent job nonetheless)

 

[misuspita]

No. Seriously - its very far from an edifying spectacle but why would it be better for consumers if they waited?

As it stands now, with few boards every day, that mostly are gone in a matter of minutes, hours tops, how can the consumer benefit?

Being few in numbers the price gouging is in full effect, by nVidia with it's FE tax, by AIBs because they have few boards and make the most of it financially, and by retailers because they are used to push the envelope.

And so, in EU we have reached over 850€ price for a card. And still, it's not in stock. And the people think it's sane to expect this price for a mid-gen chip, that will be 100% superseeded in 6 months by the big'uns, Vega and GP102...

So instead of MSRP , we have +850€ cards out of stock... tell me that is beneficial for the consumer...

If they waited, at least because the huge numbers in stock, the price would have stayed at MSRP at least. Nobody expects everybody to get served in day 1, but come on, it's over 2 weeks and the boards are still missing. The demand can't be that big, because there is a really really small % of population that affords to buy at this price level, so the only reason left is scarcity.

 

[Qwertilot]

The demand is big. I asked earlier iirc someone said 1 million 970/80's sold in the first three months. That was probably again front loaded within those months.

The people benefiting at present are the people who would rather pay a bit more money than wait for a card. You might think they're entirely daft, but they're people and they very clearly exist in very healthy numbers.

Everyone else I think stays neutral.

 

[KyleGates]

The people who would rather pay a bit more money than wait for a card. You might think they're entirely daft, but they're people and they very clearly exist in very healthy numbers.

Man, "daft" is a great word. We need more use of "daft" in everyday conversation. Seriously!

 

[guskline]

I guess I'm daft. Been called worse. My Zotac GTX 1080 FE shipped this afternoon from Newegg and is due to be delivered on Thursday. I already received the EK GTX 1080 Acrylic/Copper full waterblock so after I receive the gpu and put the block on it and leak test, I'll report back some findings. The GTX 1080 will replace the GTX 980TI SC in my 5960x rig below. The GTX 980 TI SC will replace the 2 R9 290s in my 4790k rig below. The 290s will be sold.

Trust me I had a heck of a time snagging a 1080 from Newegg.

 

[xpea]

http://i.imgur.com/03t1XKY.jpg

 

[IEC]

Less than a pallet worth for each country? No wonder they can't meet demand.

 

[96Firebird]

I never really thought about what MSI stood for... Huh.

 

[KyleGates]

I never really thought about what MSI stood for... Huh.

Me neither!!! Odd that that would be the big takeaway from that photo lol.

 

[nerp]

So can we finally conclude that pascal was a paper-launch now ?
No stock to be found.. price gouging in full effect :thumbsdown:

Who would have guessed that o_0

Paper launch implies no hardware to speak of. There is hardware to speak of here. Not as much as demand, but they are pumping cards out the door every day.

 

[nerp]

I never really thought about what MSI stood for... Huh.

They used to spell it out occasionally on some stuff and some bioses. BITD.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

EVGA's pricing has been fair too, the base model with their ACX cooler is only $619.

Their 1070 pricing isn't as good though, they put a $40 premium on the ACX 3.0 card and the SC is only $10 cheaper than Founders.

 

[finbarqs]

Their 1070 pricing isn't as good though, they put a $40 premium on the ACX 3.0 card and the SC is only $10 cheaper than Founders.

I just got my evga gtx 1080 sc. I literally had to unscrew a shitload of screws off the fan casing to take off the plastic. Wtf.

 

[Bryf50]

In stock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-487-244

Not really the model I wanted but I got tired of waiting.

EDIT: And its gone... 6 whole minutes lol

Does anyone know if this card uses a reference PCB?

 

[nitromullet]

Does anyone know if this card uses a reference PCB?

It uses a PCB made by EVGA, but it most likely is identical to the reference PCB. Early (pre-release?) versions of the card actually were just reference NVIDIA PCB's with an ACX 3.0 cooler.

http://hothardware.com/news/evga-ge...ed-avx-30-edition-and-gtx-1080-sli-sneak-peek

 

[Raising]

Got a buyer for my last 980ti for 450€, time to struggle with a HD5850 while I try to find an aftermarket 1080 for sale.. mindfactory has nice prices but they ask 30€ for euro deliveries, is there any other german shop with good prices ?

 

[DeathReborn]

Got a buyer for my last 980ti for 450€, time to struggle with a HD5850 while I try to find an aftermarket 1080 for sale.. mindfactory has nice prices but they ask 30€ for euro deliveries, is there any other german shop with good prices ?

This might help you out: http://geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512&x...=&v=e&hloc=at&hloc=de&plz=&dist=&mail=&sort=p