Nvidia says the RTX 30 series is their best launch ever, more gamers buying high end GPUs

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Ampere is doing really for Nvidia that even with miners and scalpers snatching up cards a fair amount is still managing to get into the hands of gamers as Ampere now has 2x the user share of Turing on the Steam Hardware Survey 6 months after their respective launch. Makes sense Ampere was the jump in performance that gamers wanted over their Pascal cards.

NVIDIA also shows that Ampere GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards amounted to over twice the share versus Turing in Steam. The results here are obtained for the same time period after launch and gamers are just flocking to get hands-on RTX 30 series graphics cards regardless of the insane price points that retailers have them priced at in the current market situation.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Steam Market Share Comparison:

Graphics Card Name	Architecture	Market Share (March 2021)	Launch Date
GeForce RTX 2060	Turing	5.21%	January 2019
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER	Turing	2.54%	July 2019
GeForce RTX 2070	Turing	1.86%	October 2018
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER	Turing	1.52%	July 2019
GeForce RTX 3070	Ampere	1.33%	October 2020
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER	Turing	0.95%	July 2019
GeForce RTX 2080	Turing	0.88%	September 2018
GeForce RTX 3080	Ampere	0.87%	September 2020
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	Turing	0.82%	September 2018
GeForce RTX 3060	Ampere	0.39%	December 2020
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	Ampere	0.38%	February 2021
GeForce RTX 3090	Ampere	0.34%	September 2020

"Another interesting detail shown by NVIDIA is that more and more gamers are buying up which more or less means that the majority of gamers are now buying high-end graphics cards that cost more than $300 US. The current ASP for Ampere launch averages at $360 and there's also a good reason behind it. The chart is for the first 6 months after launch and NVIDIA initially launched its higher-end GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 & RTX 3070 graphics cards in the market."

I don't see gamers buying the GPUs at inflated prices as a good thing, it tells Nvidia that they can screw us over on pricing with their next generation of cards if people are willing to pay the inflated prices for RTX 30 series cards.

AIB partners are ripping gamers off, not Nvidia.

I am trying to get a 3070 for 3months. Seen only 4 popup in three months and i missed them of course. Do they come in stock in the US? In Canada its a fucking ghost town in here.

Do you also think many people stuck at home throughout 2020 being forced to find things to do at home could be responsible for an increase in sales of computer parts, and more people streaming on Twitch in 2020? Let's be real here, the sales of GPUs and consoles, even if you exclude scalpers is artificially inflated when compared to other launches based on the circumstances.

Force people to stay at home, give them over $3,000 in stimulus money, but don't act surprised when there's a lot of video game and hardware sales.

Best launch ever for scalpers and miners.

Like how on earth am I supposed to get a 3080ti or a 3070ti? Do I need to take a day off just to be able to buy one? Because there will be so many people at home (either working from home, unemployed or in quarantine) who will log in at the time these go live, fighting for the few available ones.

Because that's just not a possibility for me. I simply can't get a day off. It just not a fair game between people with nothing in their way and normal people with 9-5 jobs.

@R4gn4r0k: So few people will be able to get one regardless if you take the day off or not. I was off when the 3080 launched and ready to go on multiple sites. They were instantly scooped up by bots. No chance pretty much. However, I did go to my local computer shop that morning and backordered one. I got it two weeks later, but I was only one of two people that got the Asus TUF on the first order. They got a third card a month later. That is how shit the supply was at launch.

I'm glad I got my 3080 when I did as it only looks like the situation has gotten worse and it doesn't look like that's changing any time soon.

Yup, there are people still waiting on their 3080 order from October/November last year.

Maybe, there is like a tiny chance, that this will go smoother as Nvidia wants to try some hashrate limiter.

I'm planning to keep my eye on two sites that I know had stock and should have stock.

I don't need a new card, I don't need ray tracing. But on the other hand I wouldn't want to miss out on buying new games because I know the game will perform bad.

You must be the luckiest person on Earth because you were able to get both a new RTX card and a new PS5. Or maybe my country's supply chain is just shit.

@R4gn4r0k: I haven't kept up or been following really but people are STILL waiting for their preorders since launch??? That's insane. I know stuff is still hard to snag but waiting on order fulfillment...SHEESH! I got my 3090 1 to 2 weeks after launch for MSRP. It was some late nights but I followed the drops and stock alerts, joined some discussions and learned certain stores availability patterns over the week and pounced at 1AM to snag mine. Kinda a PITA to tell you the truth. Been buying GPUs since the Voodoo days and never experienced this.

I guess this explains why Nvidia is ready to release RTX 3080Ti/3070Ti this June 2021, (as far as we know) knowing it's gonna sell like crack on street. And I'm gonna do whatever the hell it takes to get the 3070Ti and I'm gonna try and be at Micro Center just to play it safe in order to get it...at least I hope.

Anyhow, the jump from Pascal to Ampere was a huge improvements as Nvidia advertise and you can tell Nvidia learned their lesson on overpricing this time around when they launch the 30XX series.

@mobius_basic: Yes, I’ve heard of stores delisting the RtX3080 alltogether because they can’t even fulfill many of the preorders placed last year.

I feel like this PR statement is mocking me. The GPU situation is dire, and only getting worse. RTX 30 cards are hitting myth status in some parts of the world.

As one of the few humans in the world who have a 3070, is it really all that high end? I feel like the 8GB of VRAM will be extremely limiting years down the line.

I managed to get my components back-ordered before the AIBs and such started price-gouging. Paid $730 for my 5900X and launch price on my 3080. Kinda sad that this is the fastest they've sold, and consumers can barely get them.

If Crypto mining is a game, then sure

Nvidia are tone deaf. This just sounds like they're rubbing it in. Pretty sure most have struggled to get a graphics card.

Still can’t get a 3080 at the suggested retail price, but in all honesty I stopped trying..

Isn't it. And Nvidia are like "LOOK... WE'RE SMASHING IT!, HIGH FIVE", "thank you gamers for loving our cards". :-S

Here's a crazy thought: How about nVidia halt the sale of the RTX 30 series to focus on manufacturing? I think having triple the GPUs that they had at launch would be a good time to re-launch the RTX 30 series. Yeah, you'll still have a lot of cards getting snatched up by bots but having a large enough quantity of GPUs would allow human beings to also buy some.

Of course, that won't ever happen because even though the manufacturer gets the smallest slice of the GPU pie, it's still a big enough slice for them to give the rest of the pie to scalpers and miners.