Against the background of the current shortage and endless leaks, no one is surprised by the appearance of processors and video cards on sale long before their official release and the lifting of the sales moratorium. Some sellers are in a hurry to take advantage of the situation and extract as much profit from it as possible. Reddit user Faisal Khatib from the United Arab Emirates posted photos he received from a local retailer offering to buy an RTX 3080 Ti SUPRIM X from MSI for $3,500. Officially, these video cards should appear on sale only at the beginning of June.
This is far from the first time that retailers from the Middle East have listed items weeks before the start of sales. These stores often do not have a name and do not care about being caught violating the embargo. However, happy buyers of exclusives should keep in mind that there are no publicly available drivers for these cards yet. And it is far from the fact that they will be able to use them before the official release.
At the time of this writing, the post on Reddit has already been blocked by NVIDIA moderators.
Recall that the new graphics adapter from NVIDIA will be based on the GA-102 chip and should receive 12 GB of GDDR6X video memory, a 384-bit bus, and a frequency of 1365-1665 MHz.
