Most Expensive RTX 4080 Custom Just $50 Shy of the RTX 4090 MSRP: MicroCenter Pricing Leak

[btarunr]

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.



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[Night]

Such an unrealistic price increase from the cheapest $1200 model to $1550, I doubt we'll see such differences.

 

[Pumper]

Lose 30% performance to save 50 bucks? Count me in. /s

 

[Chaitanya]

This whole situation keeps getting worse and it seems like AIBs(same story with motherboard makers) are still stuck in Pandemic days thinking people will buy any turd they make(somehow with stock manipulation wont be surprised to find "low" availability and sheep waiting in lines outside stores).

 

[AnotherReader]

The 4080 is overpriced as is. At $50 less than the 4090, it makes even less sense.

 

[Fatalfury]

and yet again..the Highest priced custom model is from...Asus.
why am i not suprised..

Asus being Asus i Guess..

 

[neatfeatguy]

Seeing the price of $1200 before in postings around the internet seemed stupid. Now that you can see these prices actually going up on sites that are selling the cards, those prices are disgusting and laughable.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

Never understood the logic of getting a lower tier GPU for the same price of the next tier, nothing can justify the loss in performance.

 

[Hxx]

ASUS tuf OC for $1.5k and ASUS tuf (non-OC ) for $1.2k. That $300 premium for some anemic overclock is basically ASUS robbing you

 

[freeagent]

Want to send a message? Don’t buy new hardware until the price is right. They can sell for whatever they want.. but the past has shown people will pay, and nv got that message! Send them another one

 

[Hxx]

Never understood the logic of getting a lower tier GPU for the same price of the next tier, nothing can justify the loss in performance.

Well there’s no logic . It’s basically the vendor taking advantage of the current market .
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

 

[cowcatwithahat]

Why should we encourage this?

 

[phill]

Such value for money I see... Nope, I was lying... Oh Nvidia what are you doing??

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

ASUS tuf OC for $1.5k and ASUS tuf (non-OC ) for $1.2k. That $300 premium for some anemic overclock is basically ASUS robbing you

ASUS is charging for the ASUS brand. PC gaming long ago proved to be less about value and more about bragging rights. Companies are responding correctly to that.

 

[Valantar]

Hardly surprising - overlap between premium AIB models and the next MSRP upwards is normal, even if the price gap here is just about a reasonably priced upper midrange GPU in size. No doubt this is exacerbated by Nvidia demanding very high chip margins too.

 

[Tomgang]

Pricing is completely out of wack for 4080. Also why I choose to just go with a 4090. The price difference is just to little.

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.

 

[Hxx]

ASUS is charging for the ASUS brand. PC gaming long ago proved to be less about value and more about bragging rights. Companies are responding correctly to that.

Well yes but in the instance ASUS does have an “msrp” card so by selling the same TUF card at a premium they’re just taking advantage of those who either 1) don’t know any better and can’t OC themselves or 2) are “forced” to buy it due to lack of any available stock of msrp cards. It’s also most likely not a binning issue as I recall the 3080 tuf non OC was just as good as the OC version

 

[nguyen]

Pricing is completely out of wack for 4080. Also why I choose to just go with a 4090. The price difference is just to little.

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.

I only hear coil whine on the loading screen of PUBG with my 4090 TUF, the rest of the time my PC is quieter than my air purifier LOL

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Want to send a message? Don’t buy new hardware until the price is right. They can sell for whatever they want.. but the past has shown people will pay, and nv got that message! Send them another one

They don't appear to understand middle fingers though.

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.

 

[Tomgang]

I only hear coil whine on the loading screen of PUBG with my 4090 TUF, the rest of the time my PC is quieter than my air purifier LOL

I probably has been unlucky to get a bad card. My card coil whine no matter what. If it's 80 fps or 500 fps in a game. It whines loadly and it's constantly, not just temporary in like loading screens. Even with power target lowered to 200 watt. It's still audible to an unacceptable level. This is the card with the highest coil whine I have owned so far.

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.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Anyone remember the time when you financed cars for 36 months and not graphics cards?

 

[Tomgang]

I only hear coil whine on the loading screen of PUBG with my 4090 TUF, the rest of the time my PC is quieter than my air purifier LOL

In addition to my answer. I found this video and it's pretty much how my card sounds to. Very load coil whine.

 

[Devon68]

Not that I'm even considering a gpu over 500$ but will the 4080's come with the same problematic power plug's the 4090's come with?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Not that I'm even considering a gpu over 500$ but will the 4080's come with the same problematic power plug's the 4090's come with?

I think that's a certainty on the reference cards and most Aibs.

 

[Punkenjoy]

I think Nvidia is very confident with this gen that they will sell even if AMD have better raster than the 4080 at a lower price.

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.