Tuesday, December 29th 2020
A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Stock for NVIDIA's latest RTX 30-series graphics cards has been a nightmare for customers across the world, with demand far outstripping supply. This opened up a proverbial can of worms, with scalpers taking to the world wide web, casting their own nets in taking advantage of not only the pandemic (and peoples' refuge in gaming in these uncertain times), but also of said unmet demand. So it has to be nothing short of a Christmas miracle that 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics cards have just been found in an unmarked shipping container in South Korea. The container wasn't registered in the port authority, and was therefore left unopened and unprocessed.
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
Geeknetic.es made this as a part of the Spanish Fool's Day, which is December 28th. However, considering the current state of the RTX (and AMD RX) market, this is a nice satirical gotcha which I'll keep on TPU. Let's laugh at our misery instead of wallowing in it.
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Geeknetic.es
The graphics cards were stored in the container absent of any proper documentation by Samsung, as early as August of this year. Jeff Fisher, vice president of NVIDIA and head of the GeForce division, said in a statement to the company's shareholders that "We've been asking Samsung for this shipment for months. They told us that she had already left the factory, but then they did not present us with any document proving that she had reached her destination". These newfound graphics cards will now be correctly processed and put into the channel.
103 Comments on A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container
Its impossible to fit 500.000 cards in the space of a shipping container mathematics.
And samsung hasnt even made half million 3080 chips yet...
Cya
Using my Zotac 980Ti AMP Omega box, dimensions are 17" x 11.5" x 4" = 782 in³
cubic inches = 1728 in³
cubic foot roughly = .4525ft³
A 40ft ship container has 2,387ft³
If this was a 40ft long ship container and it held my 980Ti that was fully boxed and ready to sell, it would only hold about 5,275 cards; just cards themselves and not including boxes to pack the cards into. A much closer amount would be around 5,000 980Ti cards.
I doubt many more 3080s would fit inside the container.....but we'll make an educated guess on how many just might.
Not having a RTX card to measure the box; going off the RTX 3080 FE size and how the box appears to be in photos....I'd venture to guess a FE box is approximately: 14" wide x 6.5" tall x 6.5" wide = 591.5in³
Each box would be around .3423ft³
Roughly 6973 RTX 3080 FE GPUs would fit in one 40ft container; just the GPU boxes themselves and not packing boxes they'd be put in. Ideally a more realistic number would 6,500 RTX 3080 FE.
its so dumb this even got posted here joke or not its lame
It's a 12M shipping container.
Realistically though, what is it that mandates a new GPU? CP2077 may be the hottest shit to slide off a shovel this year but it will run on an old RX480, GTX1060, entry-level 1650, and plenty of other common GPUs from the last five years.
The 3000-series is fast but if y'all stop getting sucked up in the hype for one hot damn minute you'll realise that there's no killer app. I'm lucky enough to have decent GPUs at home but a game is only as good as its level design, story, and mechanics. Whether you play it at 720p low or 4K ultra is of little consequence; The bugs are still bugs, the story is still the story, and the graphics are still going to get the art style across as long as there are enough pixels to see what you're doing.
If an ancient RX480 can manage 1080p60 low/medium and 1080p30 ultra even during action scenes, it's not exactly a disaster. 4K120 with raytracing is nice if you can dump $3000 on GPUs but those extra pixels really don't make the game itself any better.
It makes you wonder how many shipping containers have been lost by Samsung over the years.
"AMD? Nvidia? GPU's in short supply? Call that lady at Samsung!"Trolls and Frogsharks have a common thing going, they both have weird looking skin. :p :eek:
I've seen estimates of 10k containers lost overboard every year though the shipping industry seems to thing that's too high. Does make one wonder indeed.