Thursday, November 10th 2022
Most Expensive RTX 4080 Custom Just $50 Shy of the RTX 4090 MSRP: MicroCenter Pricing Leak
The most expensive custom-design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 will be priced at $1,550, putting it just $50 short of the $1,600 baseline MSRP of the much faster RTX 4090, according to a pricing leak of custom-design cards on popular PC components retailer MicroCenter. The most interesting takeaway from this leak is that there will actually be RTX 4080 cards at the NVIDIA-set baseline MSRP of $1,200. These include the GIGABYTE Eagle, ZOTAC Trinity, ASUS TUF Gaming, and PNY XLR8 Verto. NVIDIA appears to be telling its partners to sell at least one custom-design RTX 4080 SKU at the baseline price.
Most factory-overclocked custom-design RTX 4080 SKUs are within $125 of the $1,200 baseline, with the GIGABYTE Eagle OC priced at $1,240, GIGABYTE Gaming OC at $1,280, MSI Ventus 3X OC at $1,280, and the premium MSI Gaming X Trio at $1,325. The top-tier custom-design cards start here, with the GIGABYTE AORUS Master priced at $1,350, the MSI SUPRIM X (air-cooled) at $1,400, the ZOTAC AMP Extreme AIRO at $1,400, ASUS TUF Gaming OC at $1,500; and the ASUS ROG Strix OC at $1,550, which is just $50 short of the cheapest RTX 4090 (baseline-spec). Will anyone pick the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 O16G over the cheapest RTX 4090 (assuming availability of both)? That's a social experiment to watch out for.
Sources:
MicroCenter, VideoCardz
Most factory-overclocked custom-design RTX 4080 SKUs are within $125 of the $1,200 baseline, with the GIGABYTE Eagle OC priced at $1,240, GIGABYTE Gaming OC at $1,280, MSI Ventus 3X OC at $1,280, and the premium MSI Gaming X Trio at $1,325. The top-tier custom-design cards start here, with the GIGABYTE AORUS Master priced at $1,350, the MSI SUPRIM X (air-cooled) at $1,400, the ZOTAC AMP Extreme AIRO at $1,400, ASUS TUF Gaming OC at $1,500; and the ASUS ROG Strix OC at $1,550, which is just $50 short of the cheapest RTX 4090 (baseline-spec). Will anyone pick the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 O16G over the cheapest RTX 4090 (assuming availability of both)? That's a social experiment to watch out for.
87 Comments on Most Expensive RTX 4080 Custom Just $50 Shy of the RTX 4090 MSRP: MicroCenter Pricing Leak
why am i not suprised..
Asus being Asus i Guess..
That’s not even the worst part . Expect on launch day to see all these cards on eBay for close to $2k and yes there will be people buying them
And I am actually happy with 4090, if it was not for the awful ciol whine my and others suffers from. So I am waiting for 4090 to be better available and I am going to rma my card. It's really a shame besides the coil whine I am satisfied with my Asus rtx 4090 tuf oc. But the level of coil whine is unacceptable.
No surprises here, exactly as I expected MSRP on 4### is going to be MIA until the 5### are out.
Like you can buy 3### at MSRP now two years after release.
I have had cards before with coil whine, but usually that is temporary in some cases. The card I have now wount shut up at all. So I see no other way than rma it a the another card.
And yes else the fans on the card is very silent, specially in silent bios mode. As said, besides the coil whine, I'm happy with the card.
They know that outside the tech communities, very few people actually buy AMD, they would prefer to buy a lower end Nvidia than AMD.
And i think this is also why AMD do not go all in but just try to make good GPU where they can get good margin while still being competitive.