The first 3 cards have been announced for new nvidia 30 series. It looks very promising.
Here is the whole show:
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I read that slogan “The Ultimate Play” as “The Ultimate Pay” and thought, Ya that’s about right. 
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I’ve been putting away some money for an upgrade for a while. I hope it’s going to be enough for the 3080.
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Hopefully, tech prices have been silly since the lockdown. If it’s not enough at least you can get a nice car with the money instead!
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From Tom’s Guide:
- The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is a $1,499 monster graphics card able to run games at a ridiculous 8K at 60 frames per second.
- The GeForce RTX 3080 is the top-end Ampere graphics card for people on more realistic budgets, starting at $699 and offering up to two times the performance of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
- For $499, the new GeForce RTX 3070 will offer more performance than an RTX 2080 Ti, yet will be half the price potentially making it a bargain graphics card
Landed costs in SA might push the 3080 a little over the budget, but if the performance and pricing of the 3070 is accurate, I have a feeling they’ll regularly be out of stock all over the world.
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They did catch up, cos no one can afford that
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Evetech is listing some already
https://www.evetech.co.za/PC-Components/buy-nvidia-geforce-gtx-graphics-cards-47.aspx
Edit: Wootware also has them but they don’t have any prices.
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Remember when it was just Workstation cards that cost over R40k… Pepperidge Farms remembers
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I don’t really think the 3090’s are meant for regular users necessarily, but yeah I still remember buying my Voodoo 2 for R2 000 back in the day and thinking how that was considered expensive.
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I’m hearing that Evetech has basically cornered the market for the initial batch of RTX 30-series cards. At least the RTX 3080 and 3090.
Apparently South Africa wasn’t going to get any stock from the first batch of cards, but Evetech managed to get a handful allocated to them.
Disclaimer: This is unverified info from a single industry source.
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That would be a shame if true, I understand Evetech doesn’t have the best after sales service reputation.
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You’ve now piqued my interest. Let’s work that R2,000 forward to today’s money and see how it compares to a shiny new RTX 3080!
South Africa’s CPI history can be found on the Stats SA website: http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1854&PPN=P0141&SCH=7794
The Voodoo2 was released in 1998.
As I started doing this I realised that just looking at inflation wasn’t going to give a complete picture. I needed to look at foreign exchange as well.
So I pulled the spot ZAR-USD exchange rate in the data from the last day available of every year from the Reserve Bank: https://www.resbank.co.za/Research/Rates/Pages/SelectedHistoricalExchangeAndInterestRates.aspx
For the 2020 exchange rate I just grabbed today’s.
| Year | Average inflation | NPV | Forex: R/$ | Forex % change | Forex-adjusted NPV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6.9% | R2,000 | 5.8617 | R2,000 | |
| 1999 | 5.1% | R2,138 | 6.1548 | 5.0% | R2,245 |
| 2000 | 5.3% | R2,247 | 7.5683 | 23.0% | R2,763 |
| 2001 | 5.7% | R2,366 | 12.0862 | 59.7% | R3,779 |
| 2002 | 9.2% | R2,501 | 8.658 | -28.4% | R1,792 |
| 2003 | 5.8% | R2,731 | 6.6558 | -23.1% | R2,100 |
| 2004 | 1.4% | R2,889 | 5.6356 | -15.3% | R2,447 |
| 2005 | 3.4% | R2,930 | 6.3205 | 12.2% | R3,286 |
| 2006 | 4.7% | R3,030 | 6.9737 | 10.3% | R3,343 |
| 2007 | 7.1% | R3,172 | 6.7862 | -2.7% | R3,087 |
| 2008 | 11.5% | R3,397 | 9.3035 | 37.1% | R4,657 |
| 2009 | 7.1% | R3,788 | 7.3721 | -20.8% | R3,001 |
| 2010 | 4.3% | R4,057 | 6.6224 | -10.2% | R3,644 |
| 2011 | 5.0% | R4,231 | 8.1319 | 22.8% | R5,196 |
| 2012 | 5.6% | R4,443 | 8.4838 | 4.3% | R4,635 |
| 2013 | 5.7% | R4,692 | 10.4675 | 23.4% | R5,789 |
| 2014 | 6.1% | R4,959 | 11.5719 | 10.6% | R5,482 |
| 2015 | 4.6% | R5,261 | 15.5742 | 34.6% | R7,081 |
| 2016 | 6.4% | R5,504 | 13.6282 | -12.5% | R4,816 |
| 2017 | 5.3% | R5,856 | 12.294 | -9.8% | R5,282 |
| 2018 | 4.7% | R6,166 | 14.4116 | 17.2% | R7,228 |
| 2019 | 4.1% | R6,456 | 14.0418 | -2.6% | R6,290 |
| 2020 | R6,721 | 16.7588 | 19.3% | R8,021 |
This shows a few things:
- GPUs have got a lot more expensive in real terms.
- Even when factoring in the exchange rate you don’t get close to R20k-R40k for a graphics card, so GPUs have got more expensive since 1998.
Did a quick Google to make sure I’m barking up the right tree here and apparently the Voodoo2 sold for around $300 when it first came out.
Bit of a thumbsuck, but I reckon that puts it more in-line with the RTX 3070 in today’s money than the RTX 3080 or 3090. Even so, Evetech is charging upwards of R15,500 for an RTX 3070 — much higher than inflation and the exchange rate from 1998 would predict.
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Looking at the initially pricing will be keeping the 2080ti for a bit longer. Hopefully the titan ice current pricing is just placeholder. Want a 3090 but not probably not at R40k…
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So, in short, the 3080 is 60% to 90% faster than my current 1080ti. Does that justify a new card? Not for me, not yet.
My problem is new games taking advantage of the 30 series and leaving me behind in a year or 2. But then I will evaluate an upgrade again.
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