The Dam has broken

The price and availability of video cards will plummet.

 

Choi Min-Sik, a port employee in South Korea, has unearthed a stray cargo of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 in a container. The employee in question had spotted boxes stamped Nvidia in a container absent from the registers.

https://www.france24.news/en/2020/12/500000-graphics-cards-found-in-an-abandoned-container.html

 

These are probably TRX 3060s, but they may be 3080s.

 

I can imagine a gigantic sale of RTX 3060s for $199.00 starting real soon.

Edited December 29, 2020 by sfojimbo

Unfortunately there is a problem with this story. A single container could only hold about 12,500 cards packed to the gills.

 

This is bogus.

 

Too bad so sad.

When upgrading the computer recently to drive the latest and greatest software, my options to replace the graphics card really came down to availability. Now I know why lol It happens more frequently then not, I ordered a spare battery for my E-Bike in March from China, in June they declared the package lost, value £300.... I received the replacement in August then in November I received an email from a shipping company asking me to confirm the package they found..... I was honest (karma) and told them to contact the seller as they had sent and I had received the replacement....

 

 

I'd say the story seems to be true... it's just not taken up by the main news agencies .....YET

 

 

Standard ISO shipping containers are 8ft (2.43m) wide, 8.5ft (2.59m) high and come in two lengths; 20ft (6.06m) and 40ft (12.2m).

Extra tall shipping containers called high-cube containers are available at 9.5ft (2.89m) high.

Edited December 29, 2020 by daspinall

I am shocked these days by what seems to be out of control marketing departments promising things they must know can not be delivered but moving forward anyways.

 

The Nvidia launch and FS2020 are good examples. At least the sim is available to anyone one who wants it but don't eve get me started on Nvidia. I have lost a lot of trust and respect for them in the past few months to the point that I may just settle for the performance I have now and not even bother with a 30 series upgrade. I kind of feel like they don't deserve my money at this point

It may be that nVidia isn't the best choice for MSFS anyway, given that it's due for release on Xbox next summer and the Xbox Series X has an AMD GPU:

 

Specs according to TechPower

 

"The Xbox Series X GPU is a high-end gaming console graphics solution by AMD, launched in November 2020. Built on the 7 nm process, and based on the Scarlett graphics processor, the device supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. The Scarlett graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 360 mm² and 15,300 million transistors. It features 3328 shading units, 208 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. AMD includes 10 GB GDDR6 memory, which are connected using a 320-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1825 MHz, memory is running at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective).

Its power draw is rated at 200 W maximum. The console's dimensions are 301 mm x 151 mm x 151 mm, and it features a igp cooling solution. Its price at launch was 499 US Dollars."

Edited December 29, 2020 by tiger1962

My cheapie phone calculator says that 'about' 20 RTX 3070s could fit in a cubic foot of space (probably unboxed?). An 8x8.5x40 foot container equals 2720 cubic feet. 2720x20= 54,400 graphics cards MAX might fit in a container, probably more like 50,000 due to boxing and practical space utilization constraints.

 

I 'think' the news article - if even true in the first place - mistakenly added a zero to the number?

Edited December 29, 2020 by chicagorandy

The price and availability of video cards will plummet.

 

Choi Min-Sik, a port employee in South Korea, has unearthed a stray cargo of 500,000 GeForce RTX 3000 in a container. The employee in question had spotted boxes stamped Nvidia in a container absent from the registers.

https://www.france24.news/en/2020/12/500000-graphics-cards-found-in-an-abandoned-container.html

 

These are probably TRX 3060s, but they may be 3080s.

 

I can imagine a gigantic sale of RTX 3060s for $199.00 starting real soon.

 

How does one lose a container full of the some of the most sought after consumer goods on the market today? It's worth a ton of money and the suppliers and vendors would go postal if this would happen.

 

I call BS.

The article sounds like BS to me! Nvidia always makes a small amount of their newly released high end cards available for the first 6 months or so and blames it on other reasons. A great marketing strategy!

 

I do believe that all of their 3000 series cards will be fairly easy to get by the time the 3080 ti's are released.

Edited December 29, 2020 by pugilist2

Sounds like BS to me! Nvidia always makes a small amount of their newly released high end cards available for the first 6 months or so and blames it on other reasons. A great marketing strategy!

 

I do believe that all of their 3000 series cards will be easy to get by the time the 3080 ti's are released.

 

ha I see where you're coming from, a coverup for a screw up ha quite possible...

ha I see where you're coming from, a coverup for a screw up ha quite possible...

 

Or possibly a cover-up for a stockpiling scam to keep prices artificially high?

Just about anything is possible these days, but this is fake news. Why people make this stuff up and end up losing credibility is beyond me!

https://www.pcgamer.com/no-half-a-million-geforce-rtx-30-series-gpus-were-not-lost-in-shipment-and-now-found/

Thanks for the link doering1 - turns out to be story on a Spanish website published on Dec 28, the Spanish equivalent of April Fool's Day. I still think AMD is worth a look over nVidia though...