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
What is it RTX 3080 12Gb or RTX 3080 TI?
None of them actually came in at the $1200 for an actual, true MSRP. The 3080Ti was a $1100 MSRP and the 3080 12GB was eventually given an official $800 MSRP.
What I think you're misinterpreting as not doing so is the simple resource difference between AMD and Nvidia. Nvidia is many times the size of AMD, has much higher R&D budgets and tons more staff, and AMD thus has to pick their battles and look for alternative approaches - which means they rarely have a 1:1 competitor to every Nvidia option out there, but on the other hand innovate a lot to keep up with less rresources. But in the case of RDNA3, the 7900XTX is definitely going all out. Remember, these chip designs were finalized something like a year ago - and they have to aim for their best guess at what the competition will deliver. There will obviously be differences between flagship SKUs - there are far too many variables in play, and competition planning is essentially blind up until a product is launched.
Sounds like a damned good fairytale doesn't it?! hahaha
If only :(
Diff to real price is at least 350 bucks.
But 4090 is hell of a good card for PUBG at 4K :D
I'm in for a 7900XTX on release to replace my 2080Ti, a nice upgrade without breaking the bank. If I can't get one on release, I'll wait because I don't have a need to pay the bragging rights tax so that I can post on discord/reddit.
I really hope you are not serious. I play competitive CounterStrike with frame caps at 100fps with absolutely no issues what so ever. For me the most important things are a good quality mouse and the ultra wide monitor for extra fov.
Other than that is just fun and fun. But then again, I play other games too, where I always use capped 100fps and G-Sync on. Probably will take another 10 years until I upgrade my PC...
You are doing a disservice to yourself capping FPS to 100 and playing CSGO on an Ultra Wide, but well if you are having fun...
Anyways just have fun with your hardware :laugh:
Best option is to return the card before you're out of the return window. But chances are big that you get the same issues again with a new card of the same type. Before returning the card you could also try to "burn in" the coils. Just run something heavy demanding like Furmark or MSI Kombustor for 24hrs straight. But have an eye on it in case your connector catches fire, lol.
Another option is to try out a different PSU (BeQuiet, Corsair, or something else in the top class). With a PSU that has better ripple you can dramatically reduce coil whine.
Cultists PSU Tier List (also check the annotations *[1][8] for your current PSU, "Phanteks | Revolt X")
Cybenetics PSU Database (detailed reports incl. ripple tests for download)
* [1] Units experiencing tripping issues with high transient power draw GPUs like AMD Vega, 6900 XT and Nvidia RTX3080/3090. Generally fixed in newer batches.
* [8] Seasonic PRIME based units experience shutdowns with RTX3080/3090 (and possibly RX6900 XT) GPUs. The cause is not the OCP tripping but a PSU design flaw as evident by the PSU not latching off on shutdown and 1000W+ models being affected too. Doesn’t manifest in 100% cases as it’s also dependent on motherboard model and GPU OC. Seasonic provides a new 24-pin cable to fix this via support.
There is no other explanation for these kind of price increases.
Anyway I won't be paying $1.2k for a graphics card let alone $1.5k+. I might try to get a bargain on the last gen (6800XT is already within the affordable price range) after both NV and AMD launch their next gen.
I also think that people are simply sick of the market in general whereby you pay high prices for cards that are never available. It's a toxic mix for the consumer and the only recurse, to an extend is AMD, who I hope take some market share.
Yeah micro center/ bestbuy all miss and loved miners :laugh:
Solution: buy a Radeon. I know I will.