A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container

Caring1 · Dec 29, 2020

Jokes on the Spaniards, April Fools is in APRIL!

windwhirl · Dec 29, 2020

Caring1 said:
Jokes on the Spaniards, April Fools is in APRIL!

Joke's on all of you, I'm on guard both times of the year

Sandbo · Dec 29, 2020

Do they really have to put an Nvidia logo on the box?
Sounds like they are asking for troubles from the shipment.

QUANTUMPHYSICS · Dec 29, 2020

Hopefully we will see fluctuations on the resale market. Microcenter and Best Buy get regular shipments of 3000 series cards weekly, but actually catching them is like finding a needle in a haystack. I managed to get two 3090's , but by the time I got to the store, the 3080's and 3070's were sold out.

I want to see these cards sold DIRECT TO CONSUMER to break the scalper's backs.

ZoneDymo · Dec 29, 2020

could I....could I have one?

pcmasterrace · Dec 29, 2020

Click baited :eek:

Anymal · Dec 29, 2020

On facebook post you mispelled say in third person.

freeagent · Dec 29, 2020

Looks like they could have fit a few more boxes in that sea can.

MDWiley · Dec 29, 2020

Oh TPU, you buncha little scamps!

15th Warlock · Dec 29, 2020

Raevenlord said:
Well, let's just say that things are bad enough in the RTX-30 world that we can all laugh a bit. I still haven't found one on webstores in Portugal (I see them in our Ebay, being scalped out of their living, though).

Dude, RTX 30xx cards are exponentially easier to find than AMD 6x00 cards AND 5x00 CPUs. This dig at Nvidia is getting old and irrelevant, and only shows the bias of some news editors in this website...

How this made it to the front page is beyond me, fail at humor and fail at journalism...

windwhirl · Dec 29, 2020

15th Warlock said:
How this made it to the front page is beyond me, fail at humor and fail at journalism...

Because not everyone is aware that in Spanish-speaking countries the 28th of December is the same as April Fools.

15th Warlock · Dec 29, 2020

windwhirl said:
Because not everyone is aware that in Spanish-speaking countries the 28th of December is the same as April Fools.

I was born and raised in a Spanish speaking country, we called it “dia de los santos inocentes ”, and even to me the joke wasn’t funny, when you have to explain the punchline at the bottom of the article, you know your joke has failed.

To prove that point, that holiday is celebrated in all of Spanish speaking countries on December 28th, not the 29th, you don't see any websites posting April's fools jokes on April 2nd, no one would think that's funny... Any way you cut it, it makes no sense to post this on the front page today...

Not only that, but there are products that are way harder to find now than nvidia 30xx cards, ie. PS5s, Zen 3 processors, AMD 6x00 cards, why continue beating a dead horse when there are far more relevant hot items out there? Evident bias is evident...

MrGRiMv25 · Dec 29, 2020

Hahahahaha..... I wonder how many peoples eye's temporarily widened when seeing it, only to notice the crudely photoshopped logos. :clap:

CarstenM · Dec 29, 2020

It may be in its place and as a reward give mr Choi Min-Sik who spotted The container a new graphic card free of charge.
A founders fee

Legacy-ZA · Dec 29, 2020

dinmaster said:
from samsung... meaning these are just the gpu cores and not full video cards so yea 500,000 would easily fit in the container. picture is random photo lol, added logo's haha

Correct, it's just the GPU chips themselves.

TheUn4seen · Dec 29, 2020

Seems doubtful that half a million would fit into one shipping container, even if we're talking about naked GPUs straight from the fab. And the picture is poorly photoshoppped.

On an unrelated note, today I got an email from "a guy who works in the right place" that the MSI Ventus 3080 I ordered for 125% MSRP will probably arrive tomorrow on my doorstep. I just looked on local ebay-like sites and oh my, people are willing to pay quite the premium on these. I should have bought a whole box of them.

Jism · Dec 29, 2020

Italia1 said:
Someone say it's not real photo. I ask myself: how many video card can they put in a box ? 10 ? So, haw many box are in this image ? Surely not 50.000

I think 8 or 10 in a box. And that container is just very "deep".

Could be very close if not true.

pomme · Dec 29, 2020

Nice one

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/stack-boxes-logistics-container-790501393

GamerGuy · Dec 29, 2020

500k RTX 3080, or 500k USD worth of cards?

windwhirl · Dec 29, 2020

GamerGuy said:
500k RTX 3080, or 500k USD worth of cards?

Neither. This news is a joke, since it was published yesterday, December 28th at its source. Dec 28 is the day of the Holy Innocents, and the same thing as April Fools.

15th Warlock said:
I was born and raised in a Spanish speaking country, we called it “dia de los santos inocentes ”, and even to me the joke wasn’t funny, when you have to explain the punchline at the bottom of the article, you know your joke has failed.

To prove that point, that holiday is celebrated in all of Spanish speaking countries on December 28th, not the 29th, you don't see any websites posting April's fools jokes on April 2nd, no one would think that's funny... Any way you cut it, it makes no sense to post this on the front page today...

Not only that, but there are products that are way harder to find now than nvidia 30xx cards, ie. PS5s, Zen 3 processors, AMD 6x00 cards, why continue beating a dead horse when there are far more relevant hot items out there? Evident bias is evident...

It probably was thought it was actual news, then when the source article was updated with the Dec 28 clarification, the editor realized that it was a joke. Ask Raevenlord about it, since I was not around the site when the news piece was posted.

Bzuco · Dec 29, 2020

Italia1 said:
Someone say it's not real photo. I ask myself: how many video card can they put in a box ? 10 ? So, haw many box are in this image ? Surely not 50.000

Remember, it was just paper launch, so just warranty and other documents in boxes

EarthDog · Dec 29, 2020

Italia1 said:
Someone say it's not real photo. I ask myself: how many video card can they put in a box ? 10 ? So, haw many box are in this image ? Surely not 50.000

GPU dies, not full GPUs with heatsinks. Samsung doesn't make full GPUs.

.......if this was true.

300BaudBob · Dec 29, 2020

Come on people it should be obvious the container is bigger on the inside

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Renald · Dec 29, 2020

Too big to be true, you don't lose 400M$ like unnoticed, I didn't even bother reading the article.
So I'm born on Spanish Fool's day ... Interesting.

Moooooommmm ! We have to talk.

[XC] Oj101 · Dec 29, 2020

15th Warlock said:
Dude, RTX 30xx cards are exponentially easier to find than AMD 6x00 cards AND 5x00 CPUs. This dig at Nvidia is getting old and irrelevant, and only shows the bias of some news editors in this website...

How this made it to the front page is beyond me, fail at humor and fail at journalism...

Really? Ryzen 5000 is WIDELY available in SA. I can get 100+ of any of the four SKUs. My sales have slowed down to almost nothing as this is excess AFTER the market has already been saturated with them :eek:

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A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container

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Sandbo

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ZoneDymo

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Anymal

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MDWiley

15th Warlock

windwhirl

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