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Guru3D.com » News » NVIDIA Officially Apologizes - Underestimated demand for RTX 3080 FE cards

NVIDIA Officially Apologizes - Underestimated demand for RTX 3080 FE cards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/22/2020 08:42 AM | source: nvidia | 112 comment(s)
NVIDIA Officially Apologizes - Underestimated demand for RTX 3080 FE cards

Nvidia has now officially and openly apologized for the RTX 3080 FE graphics cards shortages. Demand for the recently released graphics cards was higher than previously estimated. Nvidia did expect high demand for the RTX 30 range, but it all was 'overwhelming ' with demand 'unprecedented. 

The company says it was not prepared for this level of enthusiasm, and neither were its partners. “We have a great supply, but not for this high demand,” writes Jensen Huang's company. They've posted a QA on the topic.

NVIDIA

Last week's GeForce RTX 3080 launch was simultaneously the best GPU launch ever and the most frustrating. The reception to our NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs has been off the charts and driven interest to heights we’ve never previously experienced. A few examples compared to our previous launch - 4 times the unique visitors to our website, 10 times the peak web requests per second, and more than 15 times the out clicks to partner pages. We expected the best ever demand for the RTX 30-series, but the enthusiasm was overwhelming. We were not prepared for this level, nor were our partners. We apologize for this. Our community has asked questions in the past few days since the launch. Jensen’s personal email has been flooded with requests to help. He wants everyone to know he is working with the team.

What happened? I was really excited for the GeForce RTX 3080, but the launch has made it near impossible to find one and this is really disappointing.
The demand for the GeForce RTX 3080 was truly unprecedented. We and our partners underestimated it. Over 50 major global retailers had inventory on the day of launch. Our retail partners reported record traffic to their sites, in many cases exceeding Black Friday. This caused crashes, delays and other issues for their customers. We knew the GeForce RTX 3080 would be popular, but none of us expected that much traffic on the first day.

What’s the overall GeForce RTX 3080 stock situation?
The GeForce RTX 3080 is in full production. We began shipping GPUs to our partners in August, and have been increasing the supply weekly. Partners are also ramping up capacity to meet the unprecedented demand. We understand that many gamers are unable to buy a GeForce RTX 3080 right now and we are doing everything we can to catch up quickly. Keep checking in with your favorite retailer to be notified of availability. You may use the GeForce RTX 3080 product finder to find available cards at local retailers.

Why does availability start with such low inventory? Why not wait until more cards are produced?
We have great supply - just not for this level of demand. 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 get the new GPUs to the more than 100 million GeForce gamers around the world. Our philosophy has always been to get the latest technology into the hands of gamers as fast as possible. As we race to build more GeForce RTX 3080s, we suggest not buying from opportunistic resellers who are attempting to take advantage of the current situation.

What changes are you making to the NVIDIA Store moving forward?
As with many other etailers, the NVIDIA Store was also overrun with malicious bots and resellers. To combat this challenge we have made the following changes: we moved our NVIDIA Store to a dedicated environment, with increased capacity and more bot protection. We updated the code to be more efficient on the server load. We integrated CAPTCHA to the checkout flow to help offset the use of bots. We implemented additional security protections to the store APIs. And more efforts are underway.

You said the NVIDIA store would have GeForce RTX 3080s at 6 a.m. on September 17th, why did the store immediately go from “notify me” to “out of stock”?
At 6 a.m. pacific we attempted to push the NVIDIA store live. Instantly, the NVIDIA store was inundated with over 10 times the traffic of our previous generation launch, which took our internal systems to a crawl and encountered an error preventing sales from starting properly at 6:00am pacific. We were able to resolve the issues and process orders later than planned.

I saw individuals who use bots/scripts celebrating the purchase of multiple GeForce RTX 3080 GPUs! Did bots get all of the available supply?
No. While individuals using bots may have shown images of email inboxes filled with confirmed orders, NVIDIA has cancelled hundreds of orders manually before they were able to ship.

 







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Error8
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#5833419 Posted on: 09/22/2020 08:33 AM
It just sounds to me like another artificial hype from Nvidia. Let's apologize that our cards are in short supply and oh my, the demand is so great, because the cards are so super great and everyone has to have one first day. Oh please Nvidia, really, that's enough.

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#5833421 Posted on: 09/22/2020 08:41 AM
A ridiculous PR response. Wonder how many months it will be before we have actual stock in stores and normal prices.
Not everyone is living in the US/UK/Germany and in many countries it will take time before we can actual buy them.
Gone are the days when companies built inventory before they launch something.
Now it's all overhype and full marketing way earlier.

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#5833422 Posted on: 09/22/2020 08:43 AM
Apologies only go so far. They need to build and release new stock pretty quickly. Big Navi news comes out in around 5 weeks. So they need to start burning the midnight oil.

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#5833423 Posted on: 09/22/2020 08:43 AM
Just ...makes me dislike Nvidia even more.

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#5833429 Posted on: 09/22/2020 09:01 AM
Demand IS way higher than for the 2080. The question is why?

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