Popular card in the past, not the lowest price (has been $2499), but seems to be a good deal considering the price of 3080's atm
Galax GeForce RTX 3090 SG Graphics Card $2599 + Delivery @ Shopping Express
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The 3090 was dumb the moment it was announced. But hey, they know some out there will pay double for 10% so let em.
The only minor positive with the 3090 is atleast you can get stock EASIER than the lower tiers.
It was big welcome in AI community, whose the only previous choice was Titan cards. It is a bargain for its capability for neural network training, which has big dependency on vram size and memory bandwidth, with nvidia banning gforce in data centre, this is a great and only affordable choice. But agree on minimal benefit in gaming.
Yeah, I knew some computational scientists who spent a whole lot of money on Titan cards. For the power and the double-precision whatever the technical jargon is, they are value for money.
Oh yeah I'll take back the non gaming side of it, for that it's great.
But it was marketed as a gaming card, 8k rubbish too. Either way it was just a grossly overpriced card for gaming that plenty of people will buy purely to have the best.
But yeah 100%, non gaming, it's great.
@scuderiarmani: This is from NVidia 3090 whitepaper:
The GeForce RTX 3090 is a beast. Like the previous generation TITAN RTX, it ships with 24
GB of memory, allowing data scientists to process large data sets, while gamers can experience
next-generation gaming with ray tracing and DLSS 8K. The RTX 3090 is 1.5x faster than TITAN
RTX and ships with 82 SMs, 10496 CUDA Cores, and 24 GB of GDDR6X memory running at
19.5 Gbps.So true, NVidia advertises the card for data science and gaming. Make the perfect sense for deep learning, much less for gaming.
Just mine some crypto and get you money back… LOL! all the current gen prices for GPU are ridiculous no matter how you cut it… Just under 1k for mid range gpu's is now the norm apparently.. and a "bargain" if its near $900 … my itx build including paying for a 5600X at RRP is at $1500 ($1800 inc 5600XT) … so yeh bargain!
Nice, I'll play one high graphics intensive game and then continue to watch Youtube instead.
run some sick benchmarks
Open a random game, check the frame rate then close and repeat.
Thanks bought 30
Lowest price I’ve seen is $2495 with centrecom. Did include free delivery but now appears to be in store only. https://www.centrecom.com.au/galax-geforce-rtx-3090-sg-1-cli…
Unfortunately, I didn't win the Powerball :(
neither did I :(
I'd at least be able to buy one 3090 with it then.
Served with smashed avo
With a side of smoked salmon and maxed out credit cards.
You can buy lotto at the same time which gives you double chance ;)
Their 3080 prices put scalpers on ebay to shame
wow, they actually have stock though
Sure, in the same way scalpers on eBay and gumtree have stock too ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It was 2499 the day before yesterday, I suspect because they saw the sales on center com, which is also 2495. Then they raise the price back up, when center com sold out.
They, or someone, took down their price history on pcpartspicker.
Their sales rep is so doggy, they take advantage on silicon shortage more than other retailers in Australia.
Bit if u have to buy a 3090, this is a good price. But u shouldn't unless you use it for neural network.
Tip: if u want to see what the GPU price should be, check out PLE, they list their standard price when there is no stock.ple prices are at launch - they have since been upped by all manufactures
IMO when they get some stock in they will be over $1500 for a 3080Tip: if u want to see what the GPU price should be, check out PLE, they list their standard price when there is no stock.
PLE jacked their prices too.
For example, eVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 Black was $1139 at launch and was upped to $1299 some time last month I believe.
But i think that's cos the supplier upper their prices, so they had to pass it on.
yeah. bought 3080 ft3 ultra for 1259, now 1439….
I'm just posting for the inevitable historian who archives this post and uses it in a history unit about the pandemic, and how it and a mining boom created a GPU shortage so bad that normal people actually bought a GPU that cost more than an entire high-end gaming rig. And considered it a bargain, too.
these cards are not for gaming though - anyone that buys it for gaming just has too much cash
this is productivity + gamingim waiting for internet historian to do a video on it
:O
This card is very good for bit coin mining. This can pay off itself in long run.
this is literally the worst current-gen card for mining for a price/value/efficiency ratio and takes double the time of 3080 to pay itself off
also related news: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/
So the 3080 is your recommendation? Problem is the rtx3080 is also very hard to buy without inflated prices
pretty sure 3060ti is currently the best value card for mining but good luck finding supply. I'm not a super technical expert either, so take what I say with a grain of salt =/
upcoming 3060 will be intentionally crippled for mining but I give it 2 days before someone hacks it..
there's also upcoming CMP cards? who knows what the price/power consumption of these cards are… https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/02/18/geforce-cmp/ - you'd have to wait until its released and for people to test/tweak/trial and error it to get the optimal hash rate to get final numbers..
I'd strongly advise against buying a Galax card. Their customer support is patently awful.
I bought this very card at the end of November and submitted my info via the designated web form for the Call of Duty promo, but it took ~30 business days — that's minus weekends and around a week to account for a Christmas/New Year's break — and two follow-up e-mails to two different support addresses for me to receive my code. Honestly, I was expecting a reply to the effect of "Oh, sorry, but we didn't process your details in time, so you're no longer eligible", as by the time I sent the second e-mail, the registration cut-off was mere days away (which has since been extended, presumably because they contacted exactly nobody within the stated "10 business days").
Sure, I did get my code in the end, but the fact they took so long to respond and required the digital equivalent of an arm twist doesn't exactly inspire confidence in terms of warranty. In hindsight, I wish I'd stuck with my PLE pre-order for the EVGA XC3 — it would've cost me more, but at least I'd have access to a functional customer service department.
Avoid.
Edit: Oh, and I should also mention that the customer support contact form on their website has been (or was, at least) broken for months, per the fact it didn't work for me and there was a weeks-old post on one of their Facebook pages from someone who was trying to figure out how to do an RMA.
Thanks very much for the insight. Were there any specific issues with the card itself? Noise levels, performance etc?
Nah, I've no qualms with the card itself. It's nothing special, of course, but considering it's one of the "cheapest" SKUs, you could do worse than average thermals and noise levels. Included in the box is a small clip-on fan that pulls air through the rear end of the heatsink, but it doesn't make any meaningful difference in practice and, IMO, is only worth bothering with if you happen to have a particularly warm case.
Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention in my original post that Galax's warranty period is only two years rather than the standard three. If you're one to upgrade every GPU generation, then that's not going to be an issue, but otherwise it's definitely something you'll want to bear in mind.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with this card. Really helps us considering this card.
Cheers
What is the cheapest anyone has got a 3080 recently?
$2499 last black friday
I'm glad a GPU now can cost more than most (but not all) phones.
I mean, I know that this is an incredibly powerful card, but holy moley is that an eye-watering number, even on sale.