Newegg Listings of Custom RTX 4090 Graphics Cards Indicate Pricing-Sanity Slowly Returning

[btarunr]

As with the recent pre-launch listing of 13th Gen Core desktop processors, US retailer Newegg put out listings of various custom-design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics cards, revealing their launch prices. These prices appear close enough to the $1,599 baseline price set by NVIDIA, to conclude that pricing sanity is slowly returning to the graphics card market. A lot will however depend on how the market behaves on October 12, when the RTX 4090 goes on sale; particularly whether scalpers vaporize inventory within minutes. Even if they did, scalpers would only see demand from the niche that actually wants to spend north of $1,600 on a graphics card, there are no crypto-currency miners lining up to buy graphics cards. Especially not after the Ethereum merge.

To illustrate that AIC prices are beginning to appear normal, one needs to look at the pricing of the MSI RTX 4090 SUPRIM Liquid, supposedly MSI's most premium RTX 4090 product, which is priced at $1,749, or just a $150 premium over the NVIDIA baseline. Several cards such as the ASUS TUF Gaming, GIGABYTE WindForce OC, and MSI Gaming (standard), are listed bang on the $1,599 baseline, while their OC siblings are at a small premium. The ASUS ROG Strix O24G is the most expensive card of the lot, priced at $1,999, or a $400 premium.



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[bonehead123]

StFh....

Still..
Too...
Friggin....
HIGH......

Drop or no drop, the prices will have to come down ALOT from these before the average user will buy them, I doubt that even gammrs are that hard up for a new GPU that they would fall for this outrageous scalper mentality nonsense all over again...

I knew that nGreedia would ever consider going back to somewhat "normal" pricing after 2+ years of being able to severely gouge everyone over & over again... lets just hope that AMD can & will put a stop to this BS and release their new cards with moar realistic pricing.... that and the lack of crypto-clugs together might just have a chance of correcting this hellish, greed-rulz-all nightmare

 

[TheEndIsNear]

Yeah there's nothing good about that. Unless Nvidia comes up with a whack ass video card that performs insanely I think I'm done with Nvidia. My 6900xt is awesome and you can get them now for like 599. Nvidia is smoking crack cut with meth.

 

[ZoneDymo]

1600 dollars...sanity? for a gpu? really?

 

[R0H1T]

So up to two grand's sane already?

 

[ir_cow]

Anyone have $1600 I can "barrow"

 

[xtreemchaos]

a kidney wouldnt cover the cheapest, ill never own one the TPD puts me off, how could i face my grandkids but then again i should never say never with fussion just round the corner "i hope" all may be possible ..

 

[Deleted member 177333]

1600 dollars...sanity? for a gpu? really?

My initial thoughts in a nutshell after reading the first few lines of the article, lol.
Sanity? $1600 for a 4090 that has the wrong type of cooler on it? Uh yeah...cut that by about half and then we can have a discussion about sane pricing.

 

[CyberCT]

If the average rasterization performance really is double the 3090ti, I might be interested ... and if there's a good high resolution mini/micro OLED VR headset available at end of year with a FOV that at least matches the Index ... and with pancake / aspheric lenses. The godrays in the fresnel lenses are still annoying.

Highly doubtful the 4090 will even be capable enough to drive the Pimax 12K.

 

[ModEl4]

I wouldn't be so optimistic regarding prices based on the recent AMD street price increase, we may have an agreement regarding price fixing between the 3 vendors, i have a feeling that we're not going to see street pricing below this level this year.
And the rumored upcoming Nvidia models probably won't change much the pricing status:
3060 8GD6 GA106 128bit $279?
3060Ti 8GD6X GA104 256bit $399?
3070Ti 8GD6X GA102 256bit $599?

3090 Ti	$899	6950XT	$749
3090	$849	6900XT	$629
3080 Ti	$719	6800XT	$529
3080 12G	$649	6800	$479
3080 10G	$619	6750XT	$379
3070 Ti	$519	6700XT	$339
3070	$449	6700	$289
3060 Ti	$379	6650XT	$269
3060 12G	$309	6600XT	$259
3050	$239	6600	$219

 

[Batou1986]

While the surcharge for custom top of the line AIB designs may be more sane the price point of the 4090 is not so it doesnt really make a differnce.

 

[Tomgang]

I will just go buying a rtx 4090 for 1599... What the 1599 . Backs away slowly while putting my wallet back in my pocket.

The real name should be RTX 4090 "WALLET RIPPER EDITION".

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I believe Sanity is the wrong word here, try only slightly elevated MSRP.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Yeah there's nothing good about that. Unless Nvidia comes up with a whack ass video card that performs insanely I think I'm done with Nvidia. My 6900xt is awesome and you can get them now for like 599. Nvidia is smoking crack cut with meth.

AMD's store is bundling the 6950XT (and I think the 6750XT as well) with some of the new 7xxx CPUs and some of the 5xxx CPUs and knocking off $200-450 (depending on CPU and GPU bundle you get) on combos.

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us

Could be a helluva deal for someone looking to get a new rig going with a decent GPU and CPU.

As for the Nvidia cards, yeah, I don't care about this gen. They're just priced way too high for my taste. I'm content with what I got. I can wait another 4-5 years before I might even think about getting something new.

 

[ARF]

AMD's store is bundling the 6950XT (and I think the 6750XT as well) with some of the new 7xxx CPUs and some of the 5xxx CPUs and knocking off $200-450 (depending on CPU and GPU bundle you get) on combos.

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us

Their Maths skills are quite low

Radeon RX 6950 XT 999$+ Ryzen 9 5950X 798$ = 1898$ lol

 

[ModEl4]

AMD's store is bundling the 6950XT (and I think the 6750XT as well) with some of the new 7xxx CPUs and some of the 5xxx CPUs and knocking off $200-450 (depending on CPU and GPU bundle you get) on combos.

https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us

Could be a helluva deal for someone looking to get a new rig going with a decent GPU and CPU.

As for the Nvidia cards, yeah, I don't care about this gen. They're just priced way too high for my taste. I'm content with what I got. I can wait another 4-5 years before I might even think about getting something new.

I don't see any offer, only normal pricing.
For example 5800X3D starting at $399 (street price) and 6750XT is starting from $419, so $819 in total and AMD's site is selling them after rebate at $849!

 

[trparky]

Remember when $800 got you a top-of-the-line nVidia card years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[Sisyphus]

Remember when $800 got you a top-of-the-line nVidia card years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

You can still get the top line nVidia cards from years ago for that price.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Remember when $800 got you a top-of-the-line nVidia card years ago?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I remember them being under $500

 

[Aquinus]

The operative word is "slowly."

 

[ARF]

Back in June 2008 nvidia launched the GTX 280 for 650$, in December 2008 nvidia relaunched it as GTX 285 for 360$.
While in April 2009 ATi launched the HD 4890 for 250$, and several months later it was available for less than 200$.

Very great times for GPUs.

 

[TheEndIsNear]

I wouldn't be so optimistic regarding prices based on the recent AMD street price increase, we may have an agreement regarding price fixing between the 3 vendors, i have a feeling that we're not going to see street pricing below this level this year.
And the rumored upcoming Nvidia models probably won't change much the pricing status:
3060 8GD6 GA106 128bit $279?
3060Ti 8GD6X GA104 256bit $399?
3070Ti 8GD6X GA102 256bit $599?

3090 Ti	$899	6950XT	$749
3090	$849	6900XT	$629
3080 Ti	$719	6800XT	$529
3080 12G	$649	6800	$479
3080 10G	$619	6750XT	$379
3070 Ti	$519	6700XT	$339
3070	$449	6700	$289
3060 Ti	$379	6650XT	$269
3060 12G	$309	6600XT	$259
3050	$239	6600	$219

I can't find the 3090ti for less than 1099

 

[Aquinus]

Back in June 2008 nvidia launched the GTX 280 for 650$

Well, if we're going to be realistic here, adjusted for inflation (at least here in the US of A,) that $650 card would be something like $900 today and $360 would be about $500. Definitely cheaper than what we're seeing now, but we do have to keep purchasing power in mind when making these comparisons.

 

[ARF]

Well, if we're going to be realistic here, adjusted for inflation (at least here in the US of A,) that $650 card would be something like $900 today and $360 would be about $500. Definitely cheaper than what we're seeing now, but we do have to keep purchasing power in mind when making these comparisons.

True but the prices should not follow the purchasing power, effectively trying to get all your money...
Actually, now we are in a recession, so the only thing these skyrocketing prices would do is to dramatically shrink the sales and make the market niche.

 

[R-T-B]

Anyone have $1600 I can "barrow"

You mean sorta like wheel-barrow into your vault? The GPU vault?

No.