Until now, NVIDIA has preferred only to talk about how it intends to deal with speculators who tried to “buy up the entire circulation” of the GeForce RTX 3080. A new publication on the company’s official website says that the influx of visitors to sites offering to buy video cards of this model turned out to be unprecedentedly high .
The note on the NVIDIA website has the structure , but in the preface, the reader is prepared to realize how high the interest in GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards was on the first day of sales. The company's branded online store itself faced a tenfold increase in search queries compared to the previous announcement, the number of unique visitors increased fourfold, and fifteen times more customers went to partner sites than during the start of sales of previous NVIDIA products. Third-party online stores experienced an increase in traffic that outpaced seasonal sales.
Directly branded online store in such conditions faced a tenfold increase in load, and therefore quickly lost its efficiency. It was not possible to restore it immediately, so notifications about the availability of video cards for the order began to be sent to subscribers late, and they did not have time to respond in time. NVIDIA drew conclusions from this announcement, now the store's website has been moved to separate server capacities, special attention is paid to protection against automated ordering tools, which speculators mercilessly abused this month. All suspicious orders will be canceled, but in the meantime, NVIDIA urges customers not to encourage speculators who put up for sale GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards at inflated prices.
According to company representatives, NVIDIA partners back in August received enough GPUs needed to produce the GeForce RTX 3080. The problem with this announcement is that both NVIDIA and video card manufacturers could not predict the level of demand for the GeForce RTX 3080, in fact he was much taller. Now everything possible is being done to saturate the market with these video cards in the shortest possible time. More than a hundred million people around the world now own video cards of the GeForce family, NVIDIA is trying to satisfy their requests as quickly as possible.
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