Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU goes on sale October 15, while worries about RTX 3080 stock rumble on - TechRadar

Previously, we knew that the RTX 3070 would be the final Ampere graphics card to emerge of those which were part of Nvidia’s initial reveal (the RTX 3090 is due on September 24), but in terms of release date, all we knew about the 3070 was that it would be out at some point in October.

However, in the GeForce forum post announcing the release date of the RTX 3070, the Nvidia representative clarified that the review embargo has been delayed until September 16.

Nvidia’s community manager gave a reason for the embargo shift on Reddit, which was as follows: “Due to Covid, delayed shipping and other issues, we received many requests from folks asking for more time to finish their review of the RTX 3080 Founders Edition.”.

Of course, September 16 is just a day before release, so that has seen a slight outpouring of irritation and impatience from some members of the PC gaming community who were keen to see the review at the start of next week in order to give them plenty of thinking time before the big day of release.

However, this is such a hot topic that Micro Center has even knocked up a FAQ on stock questions where the US retailer confirms that it won’t be carrying any of the RTX 3080 Founders Edition from Nvidia on release day!

Micro Center does however note that it “anticipates having many third-party cards upon release from vendors such as Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac, EVGA, and MSI.” The retailer further observes: “Stock may vary upon location, you can check our website to see which ones we do have in stock.”.