I just want them to go back to honest, straight releases like we used to get. A typical release would have a high-end, a cut down high-end, and a mid-range to come later. This time they release the high-end at a price that almost no one will pay, a cut down high-end that doesn't have enough ram, but they pretend it's the real high-end, and they have a mid-range coming later, except it also doesn't have enough ram so people expect it to be replaced soon.
This is all garbage. It does nothing but confuse people and make them feel insecure about their purchase. Everyone expects Nvidia to screw them by releasing 20GG or Ti versions soon after release. They should include those in the lineup now so people can make a more wise decision about what they buy. Someone spending $700 on a 10GB card right now might regret it if they only realized Nvidia had a 20GG or a Ti coming soon after. That's an unfair way to treat customers. It's not nice. It just isn't.
You don't have to view it that negative. If you miss releases like we used to get. I would say this release reminds me very much of the Pascal release.
There are 3080 and 3070 which are the actual mainstream releases with reasonable pricing.
3090 is like the Pascal Titan (He equated 3090 and Titan during the reveal). You buy that if you want the utmost performance right now and price isn't that much of a factor for you. Seriously don't buy this if price matters to you.
There may be a 3080 Ti ~6 months after 3090 with better price. Just like ~6 months after Titan Pascal, we got the the 1080 Ti with almost Titan performance for much reduced price.
This wasn't then, and wouldn't now be some kind of nefarious act. This is a at the beginning of a high demand release, early in the GPU run where yields and binning aren't ideal. For and extremely large chip, with most of the functional units enabled, they just aren't going to have a big supply. Tiny expensive supply leads to luxury priced card if want to be in that limited supply of top end chips.
6 months from now when demand cools, and yields are better, and clockspeed bins also improve. They can build a lot more 3080 Ti, maybe with a few less cores enabled and bit higher clocks (better bins then) to come close to 3090 performance at a significantly lower price.
Perfectly reasonable and mirroring Pascal. I think something like that will happen.
As far as memory rumors. They are rumors, and IIRC even in the rumors, NVidia isn't doing 20GB 3080, they are leaving that for AIBs. But expect a hefty price premium if it even happens, because if they do it now, they need to cram 20 VRAM chips on the board.
Either way I don't see the issue. If you
need more than 10GB, you wait for the card that has what you need. If you would just
like it, remember it's going to come at a hefty cost premium and do nothing for games.