Player buys RTX 3080 Ti for only 640 euros – experience a nasty surprise when he installs it in his gaming PC

The RTX 3080 Ti is one of the fastest graphics cards you can buy for your gaming PC. The prices are around 1000 euros, which is a lot of money. A user could now get such a graphics card for only 640 euros. But the offer wasn’t that good after all.

With the release of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090, there are new powerful graphics cards on the market again. Some users are trying to get cheaper graphics cards of the current generation, such as an RTX 3080.

A gamer has now had a special coup, because he allegedly bought an RTX 3080 Ti for only 640 euros. You pay at least 1,000 euros or more for them in stores.

For whom an RTX 3080 Ti is really worthwhile, you can read in our purchase advice:

Gamer installed RTX 3080 Ti – GPU is “only” recognized as RTX 3070

What is the problem? The user has himself on reddit complained that the RTX 3080 Ti was only recognized as an RTX 3070 in the system. And that’s a clear difference in price and performance. He has already tried a few things:

• First he updated his graphics card drivers and software.
• Then he checked the graphics card again with GPU Z, a small tool.

However, the graphics card is still displayed as RTX 3070. That’s why he reached out to the community on reddit. And here the first comment (via reddit.com):

Sounds like a scam. Try checking Device Manager and see what it shows.

What’s behind the problem? The annoyance then dissipated fairly quickly. Because the purchased graphics card was actually not an RTX 3080 Ti, but the displayed RTX 3070.

Some users also explained that the supposed errors didn’t look like problems at all, but that the graphics card simply displayed the correct data. Of course, this is still quite annoying for the buyer. Because, as another user explains, you would have sold him an RTX 3070 for the price of an RTX 3080 (via reddit.com).

As a result, the offer doesn’t look quite as great as if he had bought an RTX 3080 Ti for 600 euros. At 640 euros, the price is actually within the range of what you would currently have to pay for an RTX 3070 in specialist shops (like geizhals.de).

However, things turned out well: The user explains in a short update of his thread that he will get his money back from the seller.

Pay attention to what you buy and test used hardware directly

What can you learn from this? Basically, you should always be careful with offers on Amazon or eBay, what is offered to you. Above all, if a deal looks too good, then you should consider whether you really want to buy the product. In many cases, the effort and the associated hassle are not worth it.

In the best case, customer protection programs from eBay or Amazon protect you, so that you can at least get your money refunded in the most annoying cases. You should also always test hardware that you buy used. So you can be sure that everything works and is correct.

Another user had experienced something similar because he was said to have been able to buy an RX 6900 XT for a mere 300 euros. This also turned out to be a scam:

More stories about graphics cards: Another user had also bought an RTX 3080 comparatively cheaply. But he wasn’t very happy with the graphics card either, because he was struggling with a few problems:

Sparfuchs buys the RTX 3080 graphics card at half the price – but he soon loses his joy