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Nvidia's top gaming cards are hard to buy, but now you can rent them

Dow Jones2021-10-21

Service may be best way for gamers to get top performance in time for holidays as high-in-demand cards are either unavailable or at enormous mark-ups

Nvidia Corp. has come up with a way of supplying customers with high-performance gaming cards amid a global chip shortage and supply-chain issues: Sell it as a service.

On Thursday, Nvidia $(NVDA)$ announced that its GeForce Now cloud-gaming platform now delivered similar performance to its RTX 3080-series of gaming cards due to its new SuperPod supercomputer.

The 3080-performance memberships cost $99.99 for six months, while 2080-performance memberships are available for $49.99 for six months. Preorders for the 3080-platform start on Oct. 21 and will be available sometime in November, Nvidia said.

The upgrade comes in advance of the holiday buying season where chip shortages and supply-chain issues have made 3080-cards either hard to come by or available at exorbitant prices well above the starting suggested retail price of $699.99.

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For example, RTX 3080 Ti gaming cards that have a list price starting at $1,199.00 on Best Buy and online retailers like Newegg are listed as being sold out, and were priced up to double the list price when they had been available.

The 3080-service is directed at "core or mainstream gamers," not so much for professional gamers who rely on the fastest possible performance to make a living.

Latency for the cloud-platform service is about 56 milliseconds, while the latency for a physical 3080-card installed directly on a gamer's rig is about half of that, Nvidia said.

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Nvidia first released its 3080-series of gaming chips more than a year ago, and announced a budget version of the 30-series card as well as a new line of gaming laptops with 3080 chips back in January. Even that budget card, the RTX 3060 that Nvidia lists for $329, has limited availability on Amazon but at no price lower than $750.

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  • Alkid
    ·2021-10-22
    Interesting
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  • Sphere
    ·2021-10-22
    Hmm
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  • EHG
    ·2021-10-22
    Like 
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    • EHG
      L ike
      2021-11-02
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    • Sphere
      Hmm
      2021-10-22
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  • Lloydfu
    ·2021-10-22
    Good business coming
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  • Gackky
    ·2021-10-22
    rent the cards to mine the coins[Miser] 
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  • newwen
    ·2021-10-22
    Up
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    • newwen
      😁🥰😌
      2021-10-22
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    • newwen
      😌😄🤣
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      😌😩😁
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  • Hayz
    ·2021-10-22
    Welcome to the era of subscription and rental
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  • HueiKwang
    ·2021-10-22
    Amazing ideas
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  • SPOT_ON
    ·2021-10-22
    NVIDIA AND STARHUB ONLINE CLOUD GAMING PLATFORM BUY STARHUB CHEAP!!$STARHUB LTD(CC3.SI)$👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 
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    • SPOT_ON
      ❤ 😍 💖 ❣ 💕
      2021-10-22
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  • BerySu
    ·2021-10-22
    Woah...
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  • Terc
    ·2021-10-22
    Ok
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    • Terc
      ok
      2021-10-22
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  • aiyoh79
    ·2021-10-22
    Good
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  • PC711
    ·2021-10-22
    Wow
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    • dogeking
      Wow
      2021-10-22
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  • afzaloretro
    ·2021-10-21
    Madness
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    • Alkid
      Yup
      2021-10-22
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    • myLaohor
      Mad but a good news for gamers that dream of playing the games they love using these high end card. I see this vould possibly work.
      2021-10-22
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    • Chimpsey
      ya
      2021-10-21
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  • Anneater
    ·2021-10-21
    Oh
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    • BerySu
      yeah
      2021-10-22
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    ·2021-10-21
    Ok
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    • 458fd99c
      Ok
      2021-10-21
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    ·2021-10-21
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      Like
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    • KailashN
      Done
      2021-10-22
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  • Al3x
    ·2021-10-21
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