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Saw a lot of that on old Tweets, whoever Florida Man is he sure seems quite active in doing various deeds.
EDIT: Oh that might explain it.
Must make a nice bit of extra income for all the merchandising though.
“We can send you a kit, but unfortunately we haven’t received the second batch from manufacturing yet. ETA is sometime in October.”
I get the impression this is the response you get from NVIDIA for anything hardware-related ATM 
But the good news is, whenever the second batch is manufactured I’m getting one. I expect sometime between now and June 2021 
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Yeah a substantial performance gain over the 1000 series and at a better price than the higher-end 2000 series and then demand world-wide both in the work and gaming segment of the GPU market.
3070’s going to go really fast.
5000 series or what it’ll be named Zen3 info should be starting soon too (Tomorrow the 8th I think it was?) and if they’re close to the early benchmarks it’s going to be a good upgrade for almost anyone other than the upper tier 9000 or 10000 series Intel or the XT series Zen2 perhaps.
Only downside being there’s so far no indication of new motherboards so a USB flash to the new 1.0.11.x series AGESA code or newer is needed for full support first.
(Partial support landed in 1.0.8.x Combo V4 Pi2 however it’s named and before it resets again.)
Second batch and on should over time theoretically also smooth out the binning process.
2020’s Zen2 processors are doing much better and at less voltage though with the Ampere hardware and related there’s not much of a choice but waiting as demand is just so strong currently.
Should go down slightly as shipments arrive during the second and third week of October but I don’t expect them to last much longer either and might be going to current unfilled pre-orders.
Wasn’t aware this also went for the Reflex hardware guessing various tech affiliates and hardware enthusiast sites are also waiting on these new batches then and however many NVIDIA made and shipped for the initial one.
EDIT: So yeah NVIDIA’s press statement could perhaps have sounded a bit better but the demand is quite real having thought a bit about it, 80% desktop GPU market share too and once the affordable but still 2080Ti performance level comes out and then the cheap yet also 2080 class performing 3060 is out those are going to be very popular.
(3070’s quite a high-end model and then the 3080 as the flagship card priced also as such but even that and the 3090 / Ampere Titan are selling the instant new stock becomes available.)
EDIT: Plus the bot network and resale situation, that will be a issue with just about any hardware I suspect and might not have a very good solution.
wow, only game that accomplish this. Game keep CTD without any warning. Already used DDU.
The game is coded to crash if the CRC detection hits anything uncommon but it’s a software crash not a complete kernel and display driver with it crash.
D3D12 can be finicky though since it pushes the GPU harder, Vulkan is up there too but D3D12’s the more commonly reported API.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider, WoW Shadowlands, Borderlands 3 and then Frostbite though this engine can be hardware sensitive even with D3D11
Probably others, Borderlands 3 also has some bugs and overall poorer performance scaling but with a low level API this can introduce other problems.
Monster Hunter World is finicky about available memory too and uses quite a bit for how it loads entire regions and then the high res texture pack increasing it even further.
But it should just crash although it can also induce a Windows Error Report and watchdog event how it’s called but I’ve never had the game take down the Windows Device Display Model or the driver but it certainly crashes very easily even after taking out the CRC32 CPU resource checking.
(Trash thing that hits the CPU constantly sending quite a bit of data as well taking up useful processor resources.)
EDIT: Plugin is this come to think of it I never linked to it.
Wonder what’s bringing down the display driver though, this can help but it’s a software or rather I suppose it’s called a user level issue not a kernel one which is deeper and way more problematic if that’s what’s happening here.
On that note 456.71 is out as a WHQL’d driver now uplifted from the prior hotfix status.
Game Ready for Call of Duty Black Ops (beta) plus Reflex support for this game.
Fixed issues.
[Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition]: Enabling Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling results in lower frame rate. [3129590]
[G-SYNC]: Launching a game in full-screen mode may trigger a black screen on adaptive sync monitors if G-SYNC is enabled. [200660138]
[Fortnite][Notebook]: The game may crash when using in-game RTX Shadows/Reflection on some notebook configurations. [200655541]
Open issues:
Windows 7 Issues
[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]
Windows 10 Issues
[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]
[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]
[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. (200593020)
[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]
[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328] To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.
[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]
You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 21 for more information.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
[G-SYNC]: With G-SYNC enabled on some Freesync displays, half of the screen goes black. [3133895]
[GeForce RTX 3080/3090]: Samsung G9 49” display goes black at 240 Hz. [3129363]
EDIT: Seems this one got dropped from the 456.55 entries in the known issues section otherwise it’s identical.
(Makes sense for that as this is a hotfix for a few specific issues which is the fixed issues listed above.)
[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]
They’re holding the other half of the screen for ransom.
Want your full screen sync’d?
Activate the premium G-Sync shareware episode!
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Any objections if I change the privilege level to send private messages from 2 to 0?
This is mostly a selfish thing – I want users to create forum accounts here and then private message me rather than handing out a direct E-Mail contact for casual private communication. I do not see this change benefitting anyone else.
The forums do not have a setting that would allow level 0 users to PM me and only me, so if I make this change it will mean that anyone capable of creating a forum account could potentially harass anyone else in private. So far simply moving away from Steam has eliminated pretty much all malicious nonsense, so this change mostly has to do with potential spam.
Interestingly, there is a discrepancy in the blog article discussing privs. that suggests lvl 1 allows private messages – that is wrong, it is lvl 2. Aemony may have re-configured this at some point, or the defaults may have changed since that was written (2018).
You can always revert if it became an issue
I`m a ■■■■■■■ idiot, I mess around with my ram OC profile adn forgot about it. Restore it and no more CTDs 
Best memory oc tester I’ve ever used
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Heard good things about Karhu, seems it’s test method is pretty good at finding errors that don’t show up during the general patterns and test cases including things such as gaming which can be very random in how those use RAM thus why some titles are quite robust and others crash from even small changes that would otherwise have been deemedstable.
HDR in Baldur’s Gate III is a weird affair.
The overall calibration procedure and effectiveness on gameplay is quite nice, but it falls flat on its face when it comes to handling the game’s UI in HDR. Open the game’s main menu screen and you can see the mother of all banding artifacts in what’s supposed to be a smooth gradient.
If I can convince them to switch from HDR10 to scRGB that banding will go away. I’ve never successfully convinced another developer to do this though Most take a casual look at the numbers (4x as much memory required for scRGB) and the discussion abruptly ends.
I’m thinking that’ll be my next blog-series, proving scRGB is better than the numbers suggest
I am pretty sure that even with tonemapping screwing things up in this SDR screenshot, you can see the problem. It’s really obnoxious in HDR.
I made the change to 2 shortly after the move to prevent users wanting help to PM you directly and instead force them to post publicly so that others whom would assist could do so.
The change to 0 opens up this sort of behaviour and might put more dependency on you, so you are aware of it.
Lines up I suppose with AMD launching theirs in November which is rumored but remains to be confirmed.
EDIT: Seems Gigabyte also has some new models planned.
Tall one.
And from a few quick checks it seems the next availability date is going to be October 13th including some of these new Aorus models.
I still wonder why this 10 GiB number popped up in the first place? If they planned all along to ship a variant with 2x as much VRAM, then 8 GiB for the base and 16 GiB for the doubled would make more sense.
Contemporary graphics engines don’t even come close to filling all 8 GiB of VRAM, they could probably have left that the normal limit for at least another HW generation and priced things more competitively.
From what I understand GDDR6X is a bit of an issue. It is very power hungry and can run a bit hot. It does stay in the rated operating temperatures, just runs incredibly hot compared to normal GDDR6. They probably wanted to see if they could do something at least about the power draw. Power draw is a huge limiting factor on performance right now, so much so that even rerouting fan power and unhooking LEDs are giving extreme overclockers noticable improvements. They probably wanted to hold off till the memory node could be matured a bit, both in efficiency and yield, and also for when they’d have more supply of the GPUs themselves. Plus the rush to beat AMD. The more I see, the more I think AMD might at least provide at least an “almost” competitor this time around. I doubt they’ll beat a 3080, but I think they’ll at least come close.
That’s fine by me. I think the whole way that promotion between user levels works is too convoluted for this to work the way I want.
I want to be able to point, say, a game developer for an undisclosed publisher over here and give them a way to private message me w/o E-Mail. E-Mail complicates things in a lot of cases, but I still need a communication channel that’s private and doesn’t require a large commitment (i.e. Steam account).
Hate to call it this, but … throw-away account almost seems what I’m looking for
Seems the S versions got delayed or might even be cancelled if these rumors are to be believed possibly a future redesign before next years Hopper or what it was called.
So instead of a Ti / Super variant with double the VRAM now it’s just the higher VRAM model and NVIDIA releasing the 3070 followed by the 3060 models.
Plus yeah going by the chart here only the 3080 and 3090 has GDDR6 X the rest are GDDR6 which I think also differs in configuration like 1, 2 or 4 GB modules instead of just 1 GB modules.
Looks like GDDR6 is also up to a 18 GB/s variant now but GDDR6X is available up to 21 GB/s so there’s some room for future speed gains and maybe better memory density per chip too.
Think there’s been some discussions on the 3080’s 20 GB being clam-shell or not too.
EDIT: Not the best sources though but had some overview of it at least.